We started the mark recapture project of florivores in Latnjajaure. Bombus lapponicus is so far the most common and truly beautiful but a species which previously was really rare at this elevation.
Wilhelm Osterman
@wilosterman.bsky.social
Ecologist, entomologist and botanist. Ph.D student at Gothenburg university
This must stop! We need a full arms embargo and sanctions now, so this killing with impunity ends. Our new Canadian govt and PM need to speak up! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel accused of ethnic cleansing after more than 140 killed in Gaza in 24 hours
Israel says intensified bombings are part of campaign expansion to ‘achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’
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RESEARCH PAPER 🔬 „Given the similar #insect #biomass and #abundance between the two habitat types, #Natura 2000 areas do not seem to broadly benefit flower visitors more than #urban wastelands.“ - Theodorou et al. (2025) @wilosterman.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
Uni Halle@unihalle.bsky.social · last yr.Insekten-Oasen in der Stadt: Auf urbanen Brachflächen gibt es genauso viele Insekten wie in Naturschutzgebieten. 🐞🐝🪰 Bei Wildbienen sind sie sogar beliebter als die Schutzgebiete. Das zeigt eine neue Studie der Uni Halle. Die Ergebnisse liefern wichtige Hinweise für den #Artenschutz. mlu.de/2ewg5
Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
📢 New study: Insect Biomasse & abundance were similar in protected areas & urban wastelands, but 🐝wild bee diversity was higher in urban areas! Protected areas (Natura 2000) may need targeted management to support pollinators. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @wilosterman.bsky.social
Our study is finally out on the conservation of pollinators 🐝🦋: Protected areas (Natura2000) do not outperform urban wastelands in support pollinators and pollination in central Germany. 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
Ice crystals today in the forest around Gothenburg in Sweden. How cool aren’t they?!
How cool arent these Vaccinium trees and their blueberry-flowers in Canary Islands? Canary island strawberry tree ☀️ Arbutus canariensis
A friend mentioned honey bee waggle dance to me recently and I had to tell them the bad news about that literature: numerous key papers appear to be fraud. So here is me sharing the bad news with you too. Extensive blog post by the hero sleuth, Laura Luebbert, and @lpachter.bsky.social:
The Journal of Scientific Integrity
by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. I was assi…
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After taking the course Statisticaö rethinking, it would be really interesting to know what Richard McElreath thinks about this paper about replications in experiments 🙏. @rmcelreath.bsky.social
Dustin Marshall@djmmeeg.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A special moment was spotting one of the rarest plants in Sweden ”Gentiana purpurea”. One single population in the country with 5-20 individuals flowering per year. Would be great to know more about the pollination of the species - at this time a single individual flowered
Pollination by wolves 😳😳😳
FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬@flowerlab.bsky.social · 2y agoThe video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺 Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @pollinet.bsky.social
Join us in a couple of hours if you want to discuss some fun topics on polyploid genome evolution!
Mike Barker@barkerms.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us on Wednesday, November 6, at 11 AM PST for the the next #PolyploidyWebinar! Sylvia Kinosian and Tamsen Dunn will present. The zoom link will be emailed out before the talks - sign up here if you have not signed up before! www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
#OpenAccess in #AJB! #SocietyJournal #LeafShape #Climate #HerbariumSpecimens
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y ago#Herbarium specimens reveal links between leaf shape of Capsella bursa-pastoris & climate New #AJB research by Asia Hightower, Daniel Chitwood & Emily Josephs doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #evolution
My first Ph.D paper is out on polyploidy and evolution of sexual systems in angiosperm plants!
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2y ago🌱 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🌱 Rethinking pathways to the dioecy–polyploidy association: Genera with many dioecious species have fewer polyploids By @wilosterman.bsky.social, A. Hill, J. Hagan, J. Whitton, C. Bacon & A. Bjorkman doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
📢Second chapter of my PhD thesis is out. We assessed whether we can use species occurrence 🌍 to study community responses to climate change 🌡️ Check it out to see if it actually works! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GBIF @suzetteflantua.bsky.social
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🚨Yet again we use the incredible #ITEX experiment to increase knowledge about warming effects on tundra ecosystems. Despite a moderate 1.4 °C increase in air temperature, we see a persistent increase ecosystem respiration (CO2) by 30%. Read the full story here: disq.us/t/4o1y0d1
Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra - Nature
Datasets from in situ warming experiments across 28 arctic and alpine tundra sites covering a span of less than 1 year up to 25 years show the importance of local soil conditions and warming-induced ...
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Please share! Three-year postdoc in #plant #ecology & ecological #synthesis in the EDGE lab @goteborgsuni 🇸🇪 Love plants and data? Please apply! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…
Yay! I'm so excited that the first paper of my Ph.D. is now online! Lags in the response of plant assemblages to global warming depend on temperature-change velocity @suzetteflantua.bsky.social #PhD #research #academic
Open PhD position on grassland global change ecology in my new group at Uni Würzburg land use climate change aboveground belowground multitrophic interactions Gut content metabarcoding Field work GCEF Great collaborators Apply by October 29th www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/gce/aktuelle...
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. www.wired.com/story/x-isra...
The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
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