New ANDIV paper published! 🐝🧬🧪What determines the insect microbiome along a tropical elevation gradient? Exciting study led by Andrea Pinos and Alexander Keller from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

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...

First day at #gfoe2025 was a great experience with a very exciting session on climate change effects on biodiversity, which Hendrik Mohr and I have the pleasure to chair. Looking forward to hearing more in the coming days! 🌎 📈 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social

You're attending #gfoe2025? Want to hear what animals do when the tropical rainforest is suddenly freezing? 🥶 I will talk about this on Monday afternoon @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Heute im Interview mit SWR! Es geht um spannende Feldarbeit in den Tropen, Biodiversität, und unvergessliche Momente 🌄 www.swr.de/swrkultur/wi... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Congratulations to our colleague @sabinenooten.bsky.social from the Chemical Ecology group at @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social on receiving the Marcella Boveri Prize of the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter, and on her great presentation of her work on insect #ecology and #biogeography

Check out this new, exciting opportunity, allowing you to specialize on a very "hot topic" and receive a prestigious MSc double degree. I loved my masters program, but this would've been such a perfect match considering my research focus nowadays!

Next one added to the reading list 📚 sounds super interesting and nicely written!

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring. careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

I vividly remember this field work day. Exhausted and sweaty, carrying heavy gear through the tropical rainforest, the appearance of this tree full of monkeys feeding on its flowers made all our effort worth it again! And now this beautiful moment made it on the cover of the Bulletin, thanks! 🐒

Please share widely! We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social went for a little walk again, together with over 1000 other participants! 100 km in <24 hours while enjoying beautiful landscapes, from sunset to sunrise again. The next field work season can come, we're ready to walk! 🐝🪲🪰🐜🦗

Have you ever wondered what happens when you put 400g of cow dung in the Bavarian Forest? - A feast! 🪲🪲 @betafor.bsky.social

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

🧬 Another exciting opportunity at SMNS—this time in our Zoology Department! 🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology. 🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged! 🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology

Uppsala University seeks a PhD student for climate-change adaptation and speciation research on flycatchers. Applicants must hold a Master's degree in biology. More info: https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/animal-ecology/qvarnstrom-lab. Apply by March 18, 2025. #phd

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

Check out the new honey bee paper of our PhD student @giuliamai.bsky.social! 🐝

Today is BioBlitz! Come along to Campus Hubland from 12pm today to explore nature, enjoy some fun activities, and see what research on our local wildlife looks like 💚🌱🦋🐝🐞

Insects are struggling with major global change drivers, like climate change and habitat loss. Researchers from @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social have now investigated, how these threats interact. The results show that bees suffer in particular. 🐝☀️🏙️ ➡️ go.uniwue.de/beesheatland...

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Exciting news: Our Global Change Ecology Double Degree Program with Norway is OFFICIAL! #JMU #UiB. This programme provides advanced training in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Global Change Biology. We welcome all students in Bioscience to join us here in Würzburg and Bergen!✊

Snowy Carpathian #mountains and fresh brown bear tracks 🐻 #romania

🔎👀 TropEco Lab is hiring, please share! 🚨 🌍🌴 Position: Senior Research Associate / Research Associate in Field and Molecular Ecology. 🪲🐝🦋 Task: You will use iDNA & eDNA to build bee-plant and dung beetle-mammal networks in the Brazilian Amazonia, Ghana, & Malaysia. Further details -> bit.ly/4lurR9z

From high Andean peaks to the Amazonian lowland. Stunning landscapes and an immense biodiversity fascinated us during fieldwork! Here a little attempt to show at least a tiny part of it: doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

Second PhD paper published! Curious about mammal diversity patterns and their drivers along a tropical elevation gradient? 🐆🌳 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵1

From squeezing through small tunnels to climbing sharp rocks in complete darkness: around a year ago I started a new hobby - #cave research. And this weekend will be our last #bat survey for this season. Counting them during hibernation makes it much easier to get comparable numbers across seasons 🦇

Have you ever heard of #cold waves in the tropical #Amazon #rainforest? Our researchers have witnessed them - and immediately investigated how wild animals react to the cold. Results in Biology Letters! @kimholzmann.bsky.social, @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

It's published! The first paper of my PhD: the effect of Amazonian #coldwaves on #insects and wild #mammals ❄️🌴 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧵1/6

Are you curious what happens to animals if an extreme cold wave ("Friaje") hits the Amazon rainforest? Check out my talk at the Ecology and Evolution seminars @cassyni.bsky.social from @rsocpublishing.bsky.social doi.org/10.52843/cas...

Drawing insect icons for an upcoming paper... Perfect activity for a rainy, grey Sunday afternoon

Join us on Friday as John Payne talks about the recovery of iconic large mammals in SE Asia. In-person & online, followed by a drinks reception, everyone's welcome Register here: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

PostDocs take note! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Great researcher/lecturer position available in our lab for 2 years (and potentially longer). You study #biodiversity of #animal or #plant communities? You are experienced in multivariate statistics etc.? Welcome to apply here: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU...

Tropical ecologists on Bluesky - where are you? Let's network. go.bsky.app/5B14mCT There's one by Emilio on plants too: go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

Tried something new 🎨 Scientific illustration using aquarelle? Might give posters a nice individual touch...

Making our research publicly accessible - atwe want to encourage people, and kids especially, to value the beauty and importance of nature. My first little children's book is based on my research in Arizona and educates about climate change 🔥🦎 imun-ev.de

Intense and incredible week! #Glacier course in the #Alps, learning high alpine mountaineering and (ice) climbing techniques, equipment, safety/rescue training etc. Hopefully this new knowledge will be useful for future fieldwork one day! 🏔️

Norway 🇳🇴 Challenging but absolutely beautiful 14-day hike through the wild mountains. Couldn't imagine a better summer holiday!

All insect samples (almost 10,000!) collected along the tropical gradient @ANDIV1234 in Peru within a year of intense fieldwork are now on their way to the genetic lab for DNA #barcoding. Probably many of our samples will be new to the database. I'm very excited for the results!

The fun part of my current manuscript on #mammals: trying to get some cute screenshots for a figure. Also very dangerous (!), got sucked into re-watching all the amazing camera trap videos until late night... 🐆

Our research on climate change driven extinctions featured in the US news: cbsnews.com/news/lizard-po…

Only 3 months ago this was what my daily life looked like. Data analysis is exciting, but so was the Peruvian jungle!

New perspective on #tarantula feet! Does anyone know the purpose of those iridescent plates on this Avicularia sp. from the Peruvian Amazon?

#gtoe2024 started today 🎉 Looking forward to an exciting week full of talks and posters! If you want to chat about dung beetle-mammal interactions, or biodiversity gradients in general, please come visit me at my poster S11 P02 🪲🐆

Sorted my last pitfall trap of this 12 month long fieldwork @ANDIV1234 today, unbelievable how fast time flies by!