🌱 El pasado jueves, 6 de noviembre, Christian Schöb (@schob.bsky.social ) y José María Iriondo (@txiriondo.bsky.social ), investigadores del IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social , participaron en la Jornada "Extremadura: Parientes silvestres de los cultivos, clave para la agricultura del futuro"... 👇

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

Crop wild relatives for climate change-resilient crops project (COUSIN), an internacional (EU Horizon Europe) project lead by Christian Schöb ( @schob.bsky.social  ), IICG researcher has the following latest publications: 🔹COUSIN is now on the EU CAP Network: https://n9.cl/g3ufy 👇Read more

🚨Today starts the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ organised by #CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Projects 👨‍🔬@schob.bsky.social#CROPDIVA#LEGENDARY researcher at the #IICG, will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’

🚨#CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Proyects welcome guests from all over the world for the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ 🗣️@schob.bsky.social#CROPDIVA#LEGENDARYf the #IICG will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’

🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future! ➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i

🎉Congratulations to the Aprisco Experimental Station!🎉 🙌It has been accepted in the category ‘Research Infrastructures’ as a full member of the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. @schob.bsky.social

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...

One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our work on the #AgroForageTreeProject 🌳🍃🐄 @snsf-ch.bsky.social

A partir del minuto 24:30, Elisa Pizarro explica el trabajo con la conservación de parientes silvestres de los cultivos y el #CropDiversityExperiment, de @schob.bsky.social#CropDiversityExperiment,¡No te lo pierdas! 👇🏽

‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 deadline: september 2025 👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁

Oferta de #trabajo para hacer muestreos de #POLINIZADORES en Madrid. El contrato de mayo a octubre, 20 h semanales y 800 euros mensuales. Posibilidad de hacer el #TFM asociado. Seguro que @abejassilvestres.bsky.social o @buzzy-bee.bsky.social conocen interesados. Link en el siguiente post:

Können geografische Herkunftsbezeichnungen (z.B. AOC) genutzt werden um den Anbau pilzwiderstandsfähiger Rebsorten attraktiver zu machen und Pflanzenschutzmitteleinsatz zu reduzieren? Agrarpolitik-Blog, lead Lucca Zachmann agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/03/13/d... Paper doi.org/10.1002/aepp...

🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination 📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments tinyurl.com/mr2mkjrz

Applications Open for Our Summer School Until 31 March 2025! 🚀 📅 Dates: 4 - 16 August 2025 📍 Base Location: ETH PBLabs 🌿 Field Trips & Excursions 📚 Case Studies 🤝 Discussions with Stakeholders Read more: bit.ly/3EjJFmE #SustainableFoodSystems #SummerSchool #ETHZurich @usyseth.bsky.social

📖Adrián Escudero, director del IICG, acaba de publicar un nuevo libro en @tundraediciones.bsky.social "Biodiversidad. Entre la urgencia por frenar su pérdida y su complejidad". ⚠️Puedes pedirlo ya en preventa👇

@schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #trabajo, de #gestordeproyectos y de #técnicosdecampo para experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO. ℹ️Más información👉[email protected] 🚨Inscríbete👉 www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...

El #biodiverso @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #TRABAJO, 1 como gestor del proyecto #COUSIN a tiempo parcial y 2 de #TécnicoDeCampo para los experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO en Monfragüe. Info: [email protected] Inscripciones: www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...

Great fun hunting crop wild relatives in Taormina at the first annual meeting of the EU #COUSIN project in Sicily.

‚Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms’ Relevant new paper by Wan et al. in Nature Communications „…synthesis shows that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have broad-scale detrimental effects on all groups of non-target organisms tested.…“ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Totally blown away by today's agroecology meeting that multi- species ant interactions work as excellent pest control for coffee too. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sharing a great story on the power of transdisciplinary collaboration 🤝 🏫 The #RUNRES team reports on a successful innovation for improving sanitation systems in South African. 🎥 Check how this transformative journey for the students of Julukandoda Primary School : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVG...

👀Después de la pausa, continuamos con la Mesa redonda sobre Experiencias en el Panel LS8 "Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution", moderada por @schob.bsky.social. Participan @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social, @annatraveset.bsky.social, José M. Gómez y Martí March.

🎉El próximo lunes tendrá lugar la Jornada Informativa sobre las ERC Grants. Vendrán @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social , Ana Traveset, José María Gómez y Martí March, componentes de la mesa redonda "Experiencias Panel LS8 -Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution- ERC", moderada por @schob.bsky.social

Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry

‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’ As Joan Baez put it, "action is the antidote to despair"

Our review on the milpa is out, a multicropping system serving agroecology comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

Farmers are abandoning land worldwide. In Europe, for example, 120 million hectares have been left fallow since 1990. What does and what should happen to it? Insightful new article in Science www.science.org/content/arti...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A new open postdoc position in population genomics! Reposting appreciated. Demography of human beings and crop plants. Attached is a group picture during a lab retreat in Lichtenstein. Job description: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

Happy New Year to my colleagues from the COUSIN consortium and our followers. I am looking forward to the second year of research and innovation with crop wild relatives for a sustainable agriculture with all of you. #cwr @ec.europa.eu @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social

Public-private collaboration to investigate the benefits of mixture ecotypes for cereal-legume mixtures, with @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I published this figure in 2017 showing how herbicide use has increased in maize, soybean, cotton, rice and wheat from 1990 to 2015. www.nature.com/articles/nco...

Scientists as political advocates "[...] as more and more scientists come under political attack, they are realizing that we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The PLANTCOM network led by Fabrice Roux @inrae-france.bsky.social met for two days in Toulouse to talk through latest research on the genetics and a mechanistic understanding of plant-plant interactions. I was happy to contribute with a talk on coadaptation of plants in #intercropping.

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This conference is being organised with effort & care 💜💚 Among all of topics -diversity, ecology, education-, we will discuss how to Ensure the ecological effectiveness of the EU Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 in a session with Mario Díaz, Sonia Roig and myself. 📩 Send your abstract!

ETH Zurich team takes home a quarter million in biodiversity prize

🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you. cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...

Reading: Switzerland establishes center for scientific integrity From 2026, a new competence center will promote academic integrity at Swiss universities and serve as an advice center for misconduct. www.bluewin.ch/en/news/inte...

I am recruiting graduate students this year to join my lab in Tucson! If you are interested in studying the evolution of plant diversity, polypoidy, and chromosomal evolution, please reach out about opportunities in my lab! Details about applying to EEB and our new CAMBIUM NRT in the thread below! 🧪

Joined today! Taking the opportunity to announce a Postdoc position we have open, all about modelling mixed crops: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Question for the science hive: if you didn't have the many constraints (funding requirements, pressure to be "productive" etc.) and could choose more freely about what do, would your research be very different? youtube.com/watch?v=Qtxj...

Agricultural drought affects soil microbes, especially fungi and microbes associated with roots. Although organic and conventional farming systems promote unique microbiomes, both systems may encounter similar challenges during severe drought conditions. doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...