New paper published as a result of another great #sDiv working group: sTraitChange 💚

Registration is now open! 📢 Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium — a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries. 📍 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig 📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd #Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity

Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk. This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.

@carlyziter.bsky.social in our @idiv-research.bsky.social seminar. Carly was part of the #sDiv #synthesis group www.idiv.de/surbio2050 & is now as sabbatical here @ufz.de, one of our main partners. ‼️That's what iDiv is great at...‼️ ⏩️Excellent & integrated science facilitated by diff approaches⏪️

Here is a snippet of a song Feel free to follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/waltheband #tibs2026 #indierock #rockmusic #music #alternativrock

A big thank you to the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Aarhus, and to the judges for the poster prize, supported by the @newphyt.bsky.social foundation.

Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 ‼️ Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done! Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumni😍 Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).

Heja #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social , if you need good Indie music for your hopefully successful but surely long trip home, I recommend (my band): WAL (German for whale) - atmospheric,epic & powerful IndieRock We're on all platforms: Http://wal.band open.spotify.com/artist/6HFBs...

⏩️❓️‼️ 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

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

I’m currently in Aarhus 🇩🇰 for the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting for the first time something I’ve been working on for the past year. Come by to the auditorium 3 for the session on “Spatio-temporal modelling” #TIBS2026 #biogeography

⏩️ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species ⏪️ -> rewriting classical Floristik biogeography #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social In case you missed the talk by Lirong Cai (now new postdoc in Copenhagen w Carsten Rahbek) here is the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The German research foundation @dfg.de allows AI assisting its review processes. Another way of reducing the massive unpaid workload in these processes is to decrease the length of proposal to focus on the most important parts (e.g. 5 (?) pages of state of the art isn't important).

⏩️"It is not that there is life on the surface of earth. Life is THE surface of earth!"⏪️ #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social with a.very interesting symposium on co-evolution of landscape & life

📸 Today at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, Robert Whittaker talked about the island species-area relationship for plants globally. Robert is also the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of #Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net, the journal of @biogeography.bsky.social we are happy to publish! #TIBS2026

Now at #TIBS2026: the functional island biogeography symposium, with a nice intro by @biogeokreft.bsky.social. For some background on functional traits, check out our paper in @ecography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Lets see how often we see Darwin & Humboldt in intro slides #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social I've Darwin in a talk given by Darwin Storch

Heja #tibs2026 How is "ecometric" different to aspects of functional/traits diversity?

With the first Alfred Russell Wallace awardee, Michael Donoghue, #TIBS2026 has started, celebrating 25 years of the Society @biogeography.bsky.social. Looking forward to three days of inspiring exchange as well as meeting old friends of the #biogeography family

Heja @ondrejmottl.bsky.social , if you could think about a synthesis question you would like to approach lets talk about #sDiv synthesis centre @idiv-research.bsky.social opportunities I'm in Aarhus too...

#Fossilpol a great resource for pollen analyses (synthesis) ondrejmottl.github.io/projects/FOS... @ondrejmottl.bsky.social #tibs2026 @biogeography.bsky.social on exciting paleo pollen research

Participating the #tibs26 biogeography conference in Aarhus while trying to not fly in Europe & starting in Germany: Complete train chaos & very likely missing the reception... German train @deutschebahn.com is unreliable as review quality in MDPI journals😱😭🤏 @deutschebahn.com is unreliable ‼️

The GloNAF database was initiated by iDiv's @smartenwinter.bsky.social together with an international team of researchers and is constantly curated & updated.

How do alien plants spread - and which ones thrive?🌱GloNAF is the most comprehensive open‐access database on regional inventories of naturalized alien plants. It includes 16,429 (sub-)species across >1,300 regions. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

▶️‼️𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐍𝐀𝐅, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰‼️◀️ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1️⃣ it now contains 16,429 plant taxa 2️⃣ removal of outdated data & errors 3️⃣ 117,229 new records 4️⃣ 31% increase in the number of geographic regions

🌿 In this episode of #InsideBiodiversity, @smartenwinter.bsky.social unpacks the curious logic behind how scientists classify species — and the consequences that follow. 🌍 What does “non-native” really mean in a world shaped by movement? 🎧 Listen in: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

💬This month @smartenwinter.bsky.social joins idiv's #InsideBiodiversity to explore how non-native species challenge assumptions about nature, balance, and biodiversity. Dive into the grey areas of conservation, where values, data, and definitions collide. 🎧 Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🌳 Neue Studie in Science zeigt: Die meisten REDD+-Projekte überschätzen ihren Beitrag zum Klimaschutz. 🗣️ „Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass das Problem echt ist – aber nicht unlösbar“, sagt iDiv-Mitautor @jon-chase03.bsky.social (@unihalle.bsky.social). 🔗 www.idiv.de/de/erheblich...

Postdoctoral Position – University of Basel, Switzerland Project: Global status, trends, drivers & impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems Eligibility: PhD in related fields Deadline: 13 Oct 2025 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Ecology @unibas.ch

🎙️Now live: #InsideBiodiversity with @smartenwinter.bsky.social explores how complex and controversial non-native species, like racoons, can be. 🦝 💡Listen to hear what can realistically be done to protect ecosystems and how values shape conservation decisions. insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

🦝🌱Non-native species: misunderstood menace or ecological opportunity? In the latest #InsideBiodiversity episode, iDiv sits down with biologist @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) to unpack the tangled reality of species on the move. 🎧 Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

The iDiv Podcast on interesting aspects of biological invasions w yours truly😎👇😍

🎙️🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out today! Guest @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) explores the impact of invasive species diving into some of ecology's most-debated questions! ▶️ Listen & subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

The iDiv Podcast on interesting aspects of biological invasions w yours truly😎👇😍

🌿 Day 1 of #iDivConference2025 at @unihalle.bsky.social brought blue skies, warm connections and a keynote by @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social on modelling biodiversity under climate change. 📍Tomorrow's keynote by Meredith C. Schuman is on genetic and functional diversity. More to come! ☀️

🎉 iDiv feierte heute: 13 Jahre Förderung durch die DFG enden im Dezember – Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und Sachsen übernehmen dann Gros der Grundfinanzierung. Die Ministerpräsidenten der 3 Länder bekennen sich zur Förderung von iDiv über das Jahr 2030 hinaus. 🌱 www.idiv.de/de/neues-kap...

#iDiv sabbatical @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social kicks of the annual conference of @idiv-research.bsky.social w an intro into modelling under #climatechange & a very interesting intro how to incorporate network properties into it #iDivconference2025

I had the pleasure to talk in @idiv-research.bsky.social podcast about biological invasions👇

📢 @ecologybasel.bsky.social at @unibas.ch is hiring a 5-yr Postdoc (70–90%) for an ERC project on global plant invasions in mountain ecosystems! 🌍🌱 Join fieldwork in the Alps + global #macroecology research! See this job + more on the MRI website ➡️ buff.ly/PWTUag1 #OurChangingMountains

Great job opportunities 👇👇

New study in @natcomms.nature.com co-authored by iDiv's @smartenwinter.bsky.social indicates that it could be the same characteristics that make plants successful both in their homelands and in foreign regions.⬇️

This paper is new ground for me but I'm extremely happy that it happened. A story about ▶️the environmental crises in Chile & how this affects #indigenous people - the Machi ▶️co-writing a scientific paper with them - giving them an international voice & your ears. PLEASE READ & distribute!

Interested in #Macroecology? Join our (Special Interest group Macroecology of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social - see also here www.gfoe.org/en/specialis...) 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 to get few mails per month on relevant jobs, courses & meetings. Send me a PM or email with your email address!

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

Thanks the whole @uni-wuerzburg.de @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 Team for yet another lovely, inspiring conference full of great science & exchanges. I can only advertise becoming a member. Its a great society w its iwn great journal. See und next year or @idiv-research.bsky.social 🫶

1️⃣❓️How to get published in ecology❓️ A great direct way to learn & ask questions about/to journals (i.e. some of their editors) @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 2️⃣❓️Should we do a gofundme page for @uni-wuerzburg.de to get functional microphones?🤭❓️ Great activity!

Zuzana Burivalova @uwmadison.bsky.social about how to use soundscapes for monitoring & conservation management in the Old World Tropics @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 Inspiring & creative & effective! PS: I'm volunteering to be a field assistant 😍🌳

Zuzana Burivalova @uwmadison.bsky.social about how to use soundscapes for monitoring & conservation management in the Old World Tropics @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe202 Inspiring & creative & effective! PS: I'm volunteering to be a field assistant 😍🌳

„2024 kamen 441 Fahrradfahrer:innen und 402 Fußgänger:innen im Straßenverkehr ums Leben. 843 Menschen, deren Leben jäh, brutal und vor aller Augen beendet wird.“ Wir brauchen endlich eine konsequenten #Verkehrswende damit die #VisionZero Realität werden kann! utopia.de/843-vermeidb...