📖 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!

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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

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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

Reduced carrying capacity—not climate—possibly drives bird population losses #anthropocene 🌐

🌿Just published in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social! 🎉 Using long-term removal experiments, we empirically tested how redundancy and complementarity among plant species shape seasonal #carbon dynamics in a natural grassland 🌐 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #Biodiversity 🌿 #CarbonCycle 🔁 #Grasslands 🌾

New on the blog: Loss of rare plants and its effect on soil plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/l...

Last chance to apply for the #Anthropocene summer school at @charlesuni.cuni.cz. Anyone interested in an interdisciplinary approach: MA & PhD students and practitioners from NGOs, public admin, and education are welcome.

Just a few days left to apply to our third (and last) summer school on blue-green biodiversity! If you’re a PhD or MSc student interested in terrestrial AND aquatic ecosystems, don’t miss this chance. @wslresearch.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social

Why do Albanian brothers so often build whole rows of identical houses? What’s the point of a house if no one lives in it? Behind all this is their owners' desperate effort to bridge globalization's deep contradictions, says anthropologist R. Haluzík from @cts.cuni.cz 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0888...

Don’t miss your chance to register for the #Anthropocene course at @cts.cuni.cz, offered through @charlesuni.cuni.cz 🌍 open to MA & PhD students and practitioners from NGOs, public admin, education & beyond—anyone curious about the Anthropocene!

Kolega David Storch jako předseda České společnosti pro ekologii podepsal prohlášení k chystané novele zákona o ochraně přírody a krajiny. Rádi šíříme dál. www.cspe.cz/expertni-cin...

Cyril Höschl byl s @cts.cuni.cz dlouhodobě spjatý, do poslední chvíle byl čestným členem naší vědecké rady. Bude nám velmi chybět.

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kolega Jan Kulveit (@kulveit.bsky.social) mluví o rizicích, která jsou spojena s tzv. umělou inteligencí. plus.rozhlas.cz/nejvic-pokro...

CTS invites you to the workshop Spatialization of Memory in Traumatized Regions 📍 May 16, 2025, AKC Prague 📑 Details in attached programme 📚 EN + CZ 💰 Funded by OP JAK

Don’t miss your chance to register for the #Anthropocene course at @cts.cuni.cz, offered through @charlesuni.cuni.cz 🌍 open to MA & PhD students and practitioners from NGOs, public admin, education & beyond—anyone curious about the Anthropocene!

Na #ctvrtkycts zítra vystoupí Václav Hrnčíř (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) na téma "Propít se k civilizaci: Alkohol, káva a vzestup komplexních společností". Takže 10.4. 10-12h v seminárce CTS nebo online na cesnet.zoom.us/j/99768251595.

📚 New Book Release! Our colleague @janturek.bsky.social just published "The Tombs of Forefathers"—a deep dive into the ritual landscape and Neolithic long barrows as tombs and ancestral shrines. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Tombs-of...

@graceridder.bsky.social from @cts.cuni.cz in the spotlight ! Great to give platform to talented ECR like Grace!

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am looking for a Research Manager to help us prepare a topic on the processes and dynamics of the Earth surface system, its ecosystems, and biodiversity for the next Helmholtz Programme. The position is from 7/2025-6/2027, up to 100%. Details recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...

Kolega David Storch komentuje český překlad knihy Petera Turchina: Dynamika moci a konec politiky. Lze rozpad společnosti předpovědět matematickými modely? denikn.cz/1677179/dyna...

🧪🇨🇿 A reminder: there’s a starter pack with Czech science institutions and research labs. A bunch of new ones have joined Bluesky lately -- and some, like Charles University (@charlesuni.cuni.cz), have fully made the move here from the other place.

Na #ctvrtkycts tentokrát jubilejní 10. sebereferenční seminář Petra Turečka (CTS): "Proc jsou aprílové semináře vtipné?". Zítra od 10 do 12 v seminárce CTS nebo online na cesnet.zoom.us/j/99768251595

Bluesky and Fediverse can be bridged, as you probably know :-) Since yesterday, I have been following my first contact from Mastodon :-) It is actually quite straightforward - you just need to follow @ap.brid.gy and then search for the contact among people. It is described here: fed.brid.gy/docs.