The new year of biogeography is off to a strong start! Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto will present our next Funk lecture on January 28 at 1:00PM UTC. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ja...

Cool work, thanks, @ondrejmottl.bsky.social for leading this!

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Day One of #TIBS2026 ends with a big poster session! Four poster rooms, loads of posters, buzzing discussions, and outstanding science — don’t miss one of the most interactive sessions of the conference. #biogeography #macroecology

The impressive @isimova.bsky.social expanding our previous exploration of #diversity #energy dynamics, highlighting the contrasting relationships between arboreal and non-arboreal environments. see our past work here ⏩ doi.org/10.1111/geb....

"Jestli chceme zachovat přírodní rozmanitost světa, nezbývá než mít nějaká území nějak chráněna. Vtip je v tom, že mohou být chráněna velmi různě," říká kolega David Storch v rozhovoru pro Seznam Zprávy. #mediacts www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domac...

Sad news … we lost a visionary scientist. His work and writing changed my understanding of the rules of ecological systems and evolutionary history

I finally published my last dissertation chapter. In many ways, this was the most complicated one. I am very grateful to the team of scientists who went through the 10+ years of grant writing, data collection, analysis and writing with me. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 Prof. Marten Scheffer on #InsideBiodiversity: protecting nature isn’t only about avoiding tipping points. It’s an ethical duty. 🎙️With iDiv, he discusses: Precaution in complex systems Lessons from past extinctions Positive tipping points toward sustainability 🔗More: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Arnošt Šizling from @cts.cuni.cz and colleagues just published (online) a paper in Ecography showing that all pairwise community indices can be classified into only three meaningful families, and that the popular partitioning into nestedness and turnover makes no sense. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Congratulations to our colleagues on their newly awarded #GAČR grants! 🎉 • @kulveit.bsky.social — Bounded Rationality in Human–AI Systems • @cerezer.bsky.social — Macro-eco-evolutionary crossroads: traits, climate variation & speciation rates

An interesting ecological analysis of wood-pasture paintings link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌐🧪🌍

🌐🧪🌍

The newest episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out now! Guest Helmut Hillebrand talks about tipping points and planetary boundaries. 💬 “If you only retrospectively can say, ‘Oh, now we have crossed it,’ then of course it’s rather useless.” Listen and subscribe now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

On a busy day I had a TED talk published. This talk is about the energy flows of the living world, and how we need to centre this vibrancy as a core value when thinking about working with nature for climate change and other challenges www.ted.com/talks/yadvin...

🎧 David Storch z @cts.cuni.cz v podcastu Pavla Mirovského O změnách přírody kolem nás, návratu velkých zvířat, problémech ochrany přírody, evoluci i antropocénu. 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2T_...

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #35 Oct 06-13, 32 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

New preprint! “Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics” Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS). An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today. 🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

New review out: how humans have shaped ecosystems for millenia. Greatful to all co-authors!! ⭐️⭐️ rdcu.be/eG8Ai

We’ve wrapped up our on-site week in Prague and now move into the final online phase of the micro-credential “Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in Transdisciplinary Perspective.” Closing block = 3 sessions + mentor-led groups leading to final projects. 🚀 🔗 www.anthropocene.cz/en/

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity doi.org/10.1038/s443... resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #envhist #histecol

📢 Horizons: Conference in Honour of Petr Vopěnka 🗓️ Oct 24–25, 2025 | Prague, Czech Rep. On the 10th anniversary of his passing, leading scholars will discuss Vopěnka’s legacy. The event also celebrates the 35th anniversary of @cts.cuni.cz 🔗 Program & registration: www.cts.cuni.cz/index.php?m=...

📢 Postdoc opening at the @cts.cuni.cz Open to researchers interested in any field developed at CTS, with a strong interest in transdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities 📄 Details: cuni.cz/UKEN-1304-ve... 🗓️ Start: Jan 2026| Apply by: Sept 30, 2025

Today marks the start of the main (in-person) part of our summer school on the topic of the Anthropocene: The Contemporary World from a Transdisciplinary Perspective. This time, it will be held entirely in English. #ctssummerschool

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Warm congratulations @elbohdalkova.bsky.social on her well-deserved PhD achievement!

AI reviewers prefer AI-written papers

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just excavating Late Neolithic or Late Bronze Age barrow with a ring ditch in Račiněves, nést The mythical Mount Říp. To be continued…🤎

Join us at @cts.cuni.cz if you have a recent PhD or expect to finish by the end of the year. Two years of academic freedom in highly inspiring environment!

Want to do vegetation ecology in Taiwan? I am still searching for postdocs, so if interested, check the ad below and apply! We focus on ecological drivers of cloud & monsoon forests in mountains and how to explain them using plant functional traits. davidzeleny.net/veglab/

Explore how PCI is spotlighted in this Le Monde piece, which outlines the challenges in academic publishing and discusses alternative paths. The full article (for subscribers): buff.ly/sGnBWp8. #ScholarlyPublishing #LeMonde

🌐 #macroecology

Our colleague Marek Hudík is one of the coauthors of this newly published paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new article “Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene” let by Joachim Paul Töpper just out at Ecological Solutions and Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research? In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵 ➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

“Science,” he once said, “starts with seeing.” news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

📚 You’ll want to check out this new book by @janturek.bsky.social from @cts.cuni.cz on Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia, set in the ritual landscape around the mythical Mount Říp. Original post with full details and link to Oxbow Books below 👇 #archaeology

Náš kolega @marekhudik.bsky.social o rozporu mezi dnešním konzervatismem a jeho tradiční podobou. denikn.cz/1739131/od-l...

Job Opportunity: Lecturer in Ecology and Global Change at University of Leeds. We welcome dynamic applicants from across the world to join our team of tropical ecology and global change scientists. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Our colleague @kulveit.bsky.social cautions that the real threat of AI lies not in dramatic extinction scenarios, but in the gradual loss of human agency. As AI systems quietly outperform us, we may lose control without even noticing. 👉 gradual-disempowerment.ai 👉 Guardian coverage: rb.gy/rsgiph