Just two weeks left to apply for this #PhD position!

Come join the Ecospat Lab! We are accepting applications for a PhD position that will focus on modeling distributions of newcomer species (species that will enter Switzerland and Europe under climate change). Apply here: bit.ly/docFGSE Application deadline Aug 15!

👏 Congratulations to @antoineguisan.bsky.social for being awarded the Jürg Tschopp Basic Life Sciences Award for his outstanding local and international contributions to understanding and predicting species distributions and communities, and the global impact of climate change on biodiversity!

Check out the latest Grime Reviews series in the @journalofecology.bsky.social, all about SDMs! Two papers were published from lab members: Guisan et al. 2025 about niche truncation (doi.org/10.1111/1365...) and Riva et al. 2024 about effects of habitat patches in SDMs (doi.org/10.1111/1365...).

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social! 🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play. Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🆕New paper: Predicting current and future spatial patterns of nature’s contributions to people from species distribution models, by Dr. Pierre-Louis Rey and colleagues (many who are current or former ECOSPAT lab members!) doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

🆕New paper: A model of mountain social-ecological systems to catalyze multi-actor collaborations toward sustainability, by Dr. Cristofari and colleagues.

Dès le 25 fév. 10 cours gratuits ouverts au public porteront sur le thème "Politique et environnement: entre information et désinformation". Rejoignez-nous pour comprendre les mécanismes d'information qui influencent les individus, les sociétés et les institutions. Infos👇 www.unil.ch/gse/fr/home/...

🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess

🆕 New paper: "Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands" @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Matheus Neves et al. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Looking forward to the @biology25.bsky.social conference next week in Lausanne @unil.bsky.social! Find the updated schedule below, and note that we can still accept late registrations to attend. Contact sdm-ch[@]unil.ch for more information.

Reminder that there is one week left to submit an abstract to present at the SDM-CH session at Biology25!

Check out some work from a former Marie-Curie fellow at Ecospat, Federico Riva, and his project "Protect butterflies across Europe through climate refugia": tinyurl.com/3jkukuvk 🦋

We are looking for more presenters for our SDM-CH satellite session at @biology25.bsky.social! There are opportunities for 15-minute presentations, 3-minute flash talks, and posters. Please email sdm-ch[@]unil.ch to apply and include a 200-word abstract. Deadline for abstract submission is Jan 15!

ICYMI: "Accelerating renewable energy development while enhancing biodiversity protection in Switzerland" white paper (doi.org/10.5075/epfl...). Thanks to CLIMACT, the Center for Climate Impact and Action of UNIL & EPFL, for funding this work!

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

ECOSPAT is proud to have been involved in a new paper in @ecography.bsky.social through two of its members, Olivier Broennimann and @antoineguisan.bsky.social, led by Jamie Kass. Listen to the podcast below to learn more. We hope this work will be useful to many !

Work from some current and past Ecospat Lab members:

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Gonna repost this every so often until it's full: If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies. bsky.app/starter-pack...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

Join us in Lausanne for our session, "SDM-CH: Modelling species distributions in Switzerland for science and practice", on February 12, 2025! This session is a satellite event to @biology25.bsky.social, the largest conference in ecology and evolution in Switzerland. Register now at biology25.ch!

Welcome to the Ecospat lab on #Bluesky! Thanks for joining us over here