Some weeks ago I submitted my first own research proposal. And now it got accepted! 😍 This means, @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social will go underground and start investigating the evolution of cave arthropods. So excited for this new chapter! 🦇 🪲🕷️ @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @merge-master.bsky.social

There will also be opportunities for thesis projects during 2026, and for the final large-scale project (starting approx. 2027) a PhD position. Contact me if interested!

University administration sent me an email yesterday, inviting me to come to the office today to finalize everything. Now they just cancelled the appointment and told me they can't employ me anymore. Who treats people like this?? #IchBinHanna

New paper alert! Microclimate temperatures are more extreme than we previously thought! Near-ground temperatures are amplified in hot weather, cool refugia is lost and replaced with heat traps ☀️🔥🥵 escape from heat will be very hard for small ground-dwelling organisms doi.org/10.21425/fob...

❗New paper alert❗ The 2nd publication from Poppy Romera's Masters is just out in @natcomms.nature.com We find that adherence of 180 soil food webs to the energy equivalence rule strongly depends on the measure of energy use, trophic level, and food web structure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👏 New timelapse inspired by “healthy soils for healthy cities” illustrating why you should be careful not to include plastic or cigarette butts in your vermicompost bin 🪱 🪱 by Wim van Egmond, with Gerlinde De Deyn, Ingrid Lubbers&Jan Willem van Groenigen from SBL and SGL! Here: lnkd.in/enbjVE95

Prof Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social is currently offering two 3-year positions in arthropod 🪲🕷️🦗 ecology in the @bexplo.bsky.social framework (apply until January 14th): PhD (65%): www.leuphana.de/en/universit... Research associate (50% ): www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So grateful for this fantastic group of collaborators! Truly, a team effort, thrilled to see it out!

Great team led by expert leaders, @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social and Olivier Dezerald (www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliv...). Such a nice outcome and more to come ;) Thanks @idiv-research.bsky.social #sDiv for the support!

🧵1/5 🌍🔬 Our new paper is out! We identify the global mechanisms shaping the elemental composition of organisms — and the results overturn long-standing assumptions in ecology. 👇 Thread ↓ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

What are the mechanisms behind terrestrial arthropod declines? @bmwildermuth.bsky.social and colleagues have some answers www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bexplo.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @jena-experiment.bsky.social

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Seid ihr auf der Suche nach Informationen über Bodenbiodiversität? 🌐🪱 Unsere Artikelsammlung über das Leben im Boden und Übersetzungen in 30 Sprachen findet ihr hier: idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min... HEUTE IST WELTBODENTAG @uni-wuerzburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social @soilbiocomm.bsky.social

Interested in the world under our feet and desperate to find cool and engaging reading material? Check out our Soil Biodiversity articles for kids, available in more than 30 languages: 🪱🌐 idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min... HAPPY WORLD SOIL DAY @uni-wuerzburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

Large terrestrial omnivores (bears) shift to carnivory in unproductive ecosystems and at short growing seasons and to herbivory in more productive systems and when seasons are longer. Interesting results in new study @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our editorial board! ⏲️deadline for submissions: 23 February 2026, 23:59 GMT (UTC+0) 📎read more and apply at the link below: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Over 90% of local insect biomass decline in German grasslands is explained by species loss. “By the end of the study period, species loss, regardless of rarity or size, had become the main driver of decline”, says @bmwildermuth.bsky.social of #iDiv and @uni-jena.de www.idiv.de/majority-of-...

Registration for the #BE20Conference is now open. We’re celebrating 20 years of the Biodiversity Exploratories with our first international conference. ✨ We appreciate when the news circulates in the community. www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/ See you there. 🙂 @dfg.de @sgn.one

📣Applications are now open! Find out more about how to apply 👇

🚨 Do you have a manuscript to submit? Please let us know by Nov 30.

📢We are hiring! If you are experienced in financial matters and want to support iDiv's financing department as a parental leave cover, apply by 26 Nov! www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

During our GCERetreat2025 Ayushi, PhD student in @maltejochum.bsky.social‘s Above-belowground interaction ecology group presented an update about her PhD work on energy fluxes in ecological communities.

Hendrik Mohr, also PhD student with @maltejochum.bsky.social, gave us at the GCERetreat2025 some insights into his impressive review work on the multiple global change impacts on above-belowground interactions

Check out our brand-new preprint on how #earthworm 🪱 #invasion alters forest #multidiversity and #multifunctionality. Very rewarding collaboration with Olga Ferlian @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

#PhD position! I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany). Join our team - please RT! Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9 #Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring

At our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social retreat to Austria, we are both taking in the beautiful surrounding landscape and discussing the latest research advancements of the team members. Here, Rasmus Dam Jensen presents our #MultiCrossBEF project as part of @bexplo.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Retreat time! In the great setting of the Austrian Alps we just started our group retreat to discuss science, new ideas & how to further develop our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social ecosystem. Here @christianzehner.bsky.social is kicking off the program with his project on occurrence sampling biases.

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Lars Landgraf presents his ideas and first analyses for his thesis project on how landscape heterogeneity influences distribution and trends of biodiversity in Bavaria

Earthworm invasion reduces above-belowground biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686452v1

Earthworm invasion reduces above-belowground biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686452v1

Check out our brand-new preprint on how #earthworm 🪱 #invasion alters forest #multidiversity and #multifunctionality. Very rewarding collaboration with Olga Ferlian @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

We’re excited to announce the next confirmed keynote speaker: Tim Newbold (@tnewbold31.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk ) He researches global biodiversity patterns and the effects of climate and land-use change on ecosystems.🌍🐝 Stay tuned for more #BE20conference Keynote Speakers. #bexplo #conservation

Deer browsing limits forest diversity – even in the light. New study in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Würzburg ecologists and others: Even sunny canopy gaps cannot offset the impact of roe deer on forest regeneration. 🦌🌳☀️ ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

#BE20Conference first confirmed keynotes! Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Borer (USA) Borer will share insights on ecological diversity & sustainable landscapes 🌱 Over the next weeks, we’ll introduce BE20 keynote speakers. 📅 June 8–12, 2025, Berlin — celebrating 20 years of Biodiversity Exploratories #bexplo

🕷️🪨Predator density outweighs experimental warming effects on short-term carbon and nitrogen loss from arctic shrub litter 📷 © Amanda Koltz vist.ly/4cb82 #ClimateChange #Decomposition #NutrientCycling #ShrubExpansion #TrophicCascade #WolfSpiders

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show: - ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%. - The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Damn - this is really good. Modeling plant communities with Dirichlet regression. I use beta and ordered beta (thanks, @rmkubinec.bsky.social!) a lot, but this is very cool. Something I'd normally use gllvm for, but maybe... ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...

Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850 just out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Looking for a PhD / researcher position on #arthropods in #urban green spaces? Our colleague @nadja-simons.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de has a 3 year position advertised here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

To minimise risk of infection, carpenter #ants resort to drastic measures: they amputate injured legs immediately. “Better safe than sorry” – the pragmatic approach proved effective, with survival rates of injured workers more than doubling. Study by @etf1989.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org

Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :) iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

...offener Brief an die europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs von mehr als 2000 europäischen Wissenschaftler:innen, darunter knapp 50 aus Deutschland: »Die politische Diskussion bewegt sich von den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen weg«

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

🔔 Reminder: #BE20Conference 2026 🔔 Here’s the latest news! 📅 Registration and Call for Abstracts open this November – mark your calendars! ✨Some keynote speakers are already confirmed – check them out on our website: www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/ 📢 Please help spread the news!

New paper from our JenaTron facility: Bröcher et al. show that reciprocal effects between plants and invertebrate herbivores vary with plant species richness, plant history and soil history. Herbivores want nutritious plants with soil history, while they reduce plant height in monocultures 🐛🌱

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