Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

Tired of digitizing biodiversity data by hand? Consider using large language models to, for example, extract plant functional traits from unstructured texts: See bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... led by @viktordo.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de, @exeter.ac.uk, @ribesresearch.bsky.social

Don't forget to register for this interesting webinar happening tomorrow!

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.

Author-pays model: Check out our recent post at peeer.net/news/ to better understand the growing inequities in global science associated with high Article Processing Charges in Open Access publications. #BetterPublishing #APC #OA

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signed!!

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I will be presenting Perspectives from Early Career Researchers at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” at 4:15 pm in room 516D. Hope to see some of you there! #BetterPublishing @peeer.bsky.social

Join us after lunch at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” 2:30 pm in room 516D. #BetterPublishing peeer.net/events/

Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

Annual spending on APCs went from $910 million (2019) to $2.5 billion (2023) alongside "the strain on scientific publishing." Most of those fees went to for-profit groups. Publish with non-profit societies, save billions, fund science. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551 #OpenAccess #SciPub #AcademicChatter

Plant peeps at #Evol2024, be sure to swing by the Chicago Press exhibit to say hi to @ijpsjournal.bsky.social managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social.

We have an open PhD position at the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group (Wageningen University, Netherlands) in "Climate resilience and conservation of species interactions in a changing world" - please distribute widely and send to possible candidates :) www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Really excited to be hosting the pre-conference Early Career Workshop on Navigating the Publishing System at #Evolution2024 #Evol2024 - a timely topic, and one that disproportionately affects ECRs. Hope to see some of you there! @peeer.bsky.social www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-an...

Come work with us in the Netherlands! Assistant Professor in vegetation-environment interactions (Tenure Track) within the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group, Wageningen University. Please share! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... #ecology #plant #vegetation #ecosystem #professor

To all Island Ecology folks: two months left to send abstracts to the Special Issue on Island plant communities in Journal of Vegetation Science Please help spreading the word. JVS is owned by a society reinvesting all revenue back into the community #BetterPublishing #ecology #island #conservation

A year ago we published our first Ecolclip 🎉 Thanks to all who subscribed and watched 👍 Your support makes Ecolclips possible :) Here the link to the first clip with Rob Kooyman about the Australian rainforests www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tt...

This is brilliant: @WeliMenaCo sings and dances his PhD on behavioural ecology of eastern grey kangaroos, and wins global prize!! 👍🙌 www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Congrats on the nice talk Lirong Cai at the #IBS2024 meeting in Prague. It was nice catching up!

Poster about GIFT, the accompanying R-package and some recent studies using both at #IBS2024 in Prague. Find the paper on GIFT 3.0 and the accompanying R-package for downloading regional plant checklists, traits and environmental information for 3400 regions worldwide 🌍 here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

still my favorite diversity indicator

Been having an absolutely wild and fun time learning more about #Ledebouria in South Africa this week! 3 more days to go!

Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of #bryophytes reveals deep relationships & uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification New #AJB research by Julia Bechteler et al! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #mosses #liverworts #hornwarts

Full day symposium with speakers from the Nordic countries to celebrate the 100 year jubilee of 🇸🇪 phytogeographical society. "Past, present, and future plant ecology and geography in the Nordic region" You can join via Zoom Everyone speaks English 🧪🌍🌱⚒️

New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.

#Fungi flowers! I thought these were stray artificial blooms at first glance but no, they are Amethyst Deceivers looking beautifully frilly and floral! 💜 Laccaria amethystina. 🍄📸

3 days left to apply!

I've just created an account here for AoBP: @aobp.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aobpla In the short term, I'll try to copy posts over from AoBP's Twitter account. Long term we'll try for a more elegant solution.

Would anyone be interested in a plant water-relations workshop? E.g., measuring and analyzing water potential, turgor, hydraulic conductance and vulnerability, etc? I'm thinking about proposing one, since I'm close enough to #Botany2024 to drive with the necessary equipment.

📢 Tenure-track professor position in Conservation Biology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. Great university, vibrant and international city and really nice colleagues! The TT is six years and the position is equivilant to associate to full professor TT. Incredible opportunity!

Don't wait, Symposia and Colloquia proposals are due October 1!

Congratulations Lirong Cai on a superb #PhDThesis defended yesterday at Uni Göttingen including the traditional walk to and kiss of the #Gänseliesel. Very proud of the first PhD student I mainly supervised and happy to be in such a nice group of colleagues...

Very happy to share Rasgos-CL, an open-access database with trait data for 662 woody species in Chile: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...