Other types of A.I. to invest in this week: Artificial Isopods Antagonistic Insects Amblyomma Infestations Accessorized Isoptera Apterygota Identification

New @enricounigoe.bsky.social research @jappliedecology.bsky.social, led by Sara Piccini: impacts of non-native trees on biodiversity depend on the vertical stratum, with commonly investigated ground-dwelling communities NOT reflecting (negative) effects in higher strata 🪲🌲 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Same forest, different story: Beetle community responses to non‐native tree species depend on the vertical stratum

Our findings emphasize the importance of integrating vertical stratification into biodiversity monitoring for a comprehensive understanding of the ecological impacts of climate-adapted forest managem...

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Nature has an amazing way of creating diversity: more species create opportunities for even more species🌴🐛🦟. But can this continue forever? Our research suggests there are limits. We found parasite diversity constrained by survival in landscapes. Preprint: tinyurl.com/mskh4nf3

Sorting season is on!🪲🐞 Last week, I collected the first stem emergence trap samples from Hainich and we immediately started sorting. Also: the first vial of beetles which will count towards my PhD. Milestone!😍

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Had a great time (and grilled cheese) at the stakeholder event for BEClimWood in Hainich. 🪵🌲🌳 Thanks to everyone who participated and the local management team for organising this event! #BEClimWood

One billion more people face at least one day of extreme heat stress each year compared with the 1970s, according to a paper in Nature Climate Change. The findings show that global heat stress is intensifying across events during the day, night, and during both the day and night. 🌎🧪

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population - Nature Climate Change

The authors assess global changes in heat stress since 1950, considering daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound day–night events. They show multidimensional intensification, with an increased frequency of extremes and expanded spatial and temporal footprints of heat stress on humans.

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🪲 In case you were wondering what BEClimwood-Bugs is all about: The project description is online, you can learn more about the project here: @bexplo.bsky.social @uniulm.bsky.social www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/projects/...

Effects of climate and land use on arthropod biodiversity in deadwood – Biodiversity Exploratories

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Macromonday! Came across a stinging nettle that was full of Chrysomelids... #macromonday #insects #photography

I. Love. This. At Station Linne, on Oland, Sweden for #BIOCOREFlies26 fly course. A fab way to spend #InsectWeek They understood the assignment…

Cantharis cleaning its antennae for this #macromonday #photography #insects

Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

3 weeks of field work in 3 different regions: DONE!✅ Thank you, Jana, Vanessa and Dominik, you were a great help! The tree trunk eclectors for BEClimWood-Bugs are now set up and insects will be sampled every 4 weeks until autumn. @bexplo.bsky.social

Today is the day! 🎉 I defended my MSc. thesis about in situ manipulation of whole Drosophila-parasitoid webs at the University of South Bohemia. 🪰 Thank you for everything, Fly Lab and @janhrcek.bsky.social! Now comes the next fun part: turning the thesis into a publishable manuscript - stay tuned

@annestte.bsky.social look! Some nice fungal activity on our BEClimWood logs!

Field update: Back in Hainich-Dün to set up and activate the stem eclector traps for BEClimWood-Bugs. 🪲 @bexplo.bsky.social @sebseibold.bsky.social @uniulm.bsky.social

Instead of macro-monday, let's do mountain monday. Yesterday's last ski-tour of the season! 😊 #skimountaineering

Over the next few years, this experiment will investigate how summer droughts (precipitation exclusion via roofs) and microclimatic variability (altered soil contact) affect deadwood-inhabiting diversity, associated processes, under different forest management regimes across different regions

Let's go!

Daniel Rieker@dan-rie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just yesterday, we completed the setup of the final rain-out shelter for the BEClimWood experiment in Schorfheide-Chorin, completing the set up in all three regions of the @bexplo.bsky.social 🥳 Huge thanks to the amazing team @sebseibold.bsky.social @stellawimmer.bsky.social @annestte.bsky.social 🙌

Happy #macromonday after a long hiatus. Ran into this Carabus at Schwäbische Alb. #macrophotography

Attacked by a w... uuuh no, wait, Plagionotus while sitting under an oak. What a nice case of Batesian mimicry!

#Biodiversity🦜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can recover 📈 if conditions are suitable - in #nature #reserve protected by NGO @jocotoco.bsky.social --> Cover story in @nature.com 📔 Featured by many media e.g. @nytimes.com and (links)... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor... www.nature.com/nature/volum...

First week of fieldwork this year successfully completed! We've been extremely lucky with this nice spring weather while taking the first samples from the new BEClimWood experiment in Hainich at the @bexplo.bsky.social Big thanks again to this great team! First 🌷 were also popping up everywhere

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

We had fun building the rainout shelters for BeClimWood (which is also what my PhD project will be about, more info coming soon! 🪲💚) in Hainich. Thanks @annestte.bsky.social , @dan-rie.bsky.social and of course @bexplo.bsky.social

Anne Stettnisch@annestte.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Building rain shelters for the new BEClimWood experiment in Hainich. Pretty exhausted but super happy with the work we did! The ground covered in wild garlic and wood anemone, birds chirping everywhere. Can't wait sampling for DeMoLD, investigating deadwood degradation dynamics! @bexplo.bsky.social

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

🐘🌳Pre-Print of our work in Kenya: Habitat heterogeneity responds to megaherbivores in East African coastal forests, but vegetation composition remains constrained by land-use history @mhanusch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Abstract Call! 🎓 Our annual #StudentForum is back and coming to @newcastleuni.bsky.social on 30–31 March! Submit your abstracts to share your research & be part of the programme 💡 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb 👉 buff.ly/yQsZcMK #Entomology #StudentScience

Call for Abstracts!

Share your research at the Student Forum 2026 - Deadline 28 Feb

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Warming weakens natural enemies of insects. We found that higher temperatures strongly reduce the success of parasitoids – tiny wasps that help regulate insect populations in nature - and narrows their diet. Published in Ecology Letters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

#TigerBeetles — the #Christmas lights of the #insect world! #biodiversity (Fig. 1 from Duran et al. 2020) doi.org/10.3390/genes1…