Rhodobryum huillense (Welw. & Duby) Touw Venezuela, Andes, Merida, surrounding Laguna Coromoto, Upper cloud forest, on rotten stump, 2550 m, leg M. Lüth 3313 Looks a bit like R. grandifolium, but plants and leaves are much smaller.

As promised - here is more information on our Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social - please share. lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

That must be this „bubble“ thing we are all part of

Forests are reorganizing in their composition and structure in response to climate change - will they be able to maintain their carbon? Turns out: yes - they even sequestered more carbon than resilient forests! New paper out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 🔄💎 @agu.org dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as I’ve been considering) dyed its hair black like it’s 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!

In our last ecology colloquium for this semester, today 4:15 pm @mhanusch.bsky.social provides "Insights into community assembly and biotic interactions". Feel free to join this presentation via Zoom: uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/6193370953...

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴 Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team. Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx #Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

Grimmia austrofunalis Müll. Hal. Andes, Merida, sourrounding of Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg 2001 M. Lüth 3302 Stem without central strand, costal cells mostly uniform, hydroids lacking, big and somewhat glossy plants

Tell me five classes you took in college: - Sociology - Classical archeology - Underwater ecology - Bat bioacoustics - Geology and geomorphology I was fortunate to study at universities that allowed students to individually craft their own curricula with few constraints or mandatory courses

My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...

Töröööö 🐘🌳

Does greater biodiversity always increase ecosystem functioning? I used to think so, but now I'm not so sure.

Bird Landscape https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483165

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

New study by Medina-van Berkum et al. in @pnas.org Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels 🌱🌼🌿 -> "At the community level, plant species richness directly enhanced VOC emission and increased VOC richness" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Out now 🥳 our study led by @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social! With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Space-for-time substitution approaches in ecology do work! (at least in temperate grasslands) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please contact me if you want to be nominated for a postdoc via this scheme - you need to live outside of Canada and I need to do so by 9 Feb (and need to start by March 2027) - www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-... (I think you do need to have a competitive CV etc) Please email me if you are interested

Three funded PhD positions on Geo-Biosphere Interactions in the South African Fynbos biome @terra-cluster.org 🪴⛰️ Please RT and forward to suitable candidates. Link: bwsyncandshare.kit.edu/s/67A6Kx7MLf...

Accidentally cosplaying the Holy Roman Empire tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

You can be forgiven when you overlook moss as a clue to solve a crime. Over the last 150 years researchers found only elven in the scientific literature reported cases. But these tiny plants can give you important clues about where somebody or somewhat has been. 🧵1/5 Image credit: Field Museum

Some positive news for the New Year: Year‐Round Grazing Promotes Species‐Rich Grasslands in Natura 2000 Sites 🐂 🌼 🐎 🌸See our new study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #grazing #yearroundgrazing #helårsgræsning #plantdiversity #biodiversity

Biodiversity loss in sub-Saharan Africa has been estimated using the expertise of 200 local specialists. go.nature.com/3YjVwYD

Today, Bulgaria adopts the euro as its currency. This strengthens the bond with Europe. Travel, work, and business will become easier and more connected. Bulgaria, you’ve opened a new chapter in your story.

Look at the fancy pants (spore capsule coverings) on these Mannia sp #liverworts! Northwest Territories, Canada. #bryophyte #botany #fungifriends

Merry Christmas moss to you and yours.

O algal bloom, o algal bloom, how green thy chloroplasts are🎄 Merry Christmas from the microscopic world!🔬 #microalgae #microscope #microbiology #microscopic #biology #christmas

The weekly #EcologyColloquium continues today with a talk by Huan Liang from @idiv-research.bsky.social on Plant–pollinator interactions in natural and urban ecosystems Curious? Then join via Zoom: uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/6193370953... Or in person: LectureHall 4 (Hohenheim Castle) 16:15.

This lovely Oystercatcher is our Sunday-bird of the week. Have a nice Sunday! And, as always, don't forget to check out birdingplaces.com whenever you are planning a birding trip. Made by and for birders to enjoy birds. Photo uploaded to Birdingplaces by Dave Soons

It’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄

Schizymenium campylocarpum (Hook. & Arnott) Shaw Venezuela, Andes, Merida, Pico el Aquila, N-exp. slope at roadside, 3900 m, leg. 2001 M. Lüth 3238, det A. Schäfer-Verwimp

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

The Current Biology™ Prize for this week's best journal cover goes to: 🥁🥁🥁

Dionysia esfandiarii Primulaceae Endemic of Iran Fars province, Iran April 2024 Elevation: 3060 m #Primulaceae #botany #ecology

How to measure seed longevity in storage when comparing accessions or species? We looked in detail at the most widely used measure (p50) and found out that it is... suboptimal at best. We highlight alternatives. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

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...

#hiring again! We are looking for the Technical Assistant to make our field experiment of the #Diversitorium running. Located at #IhingerHof at the @unihohenheim.bsky.social you can take the chance to join #TeamTERRA!

🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Schenkt Euren Kindern Print-Abos (egal was)! Dadurch sind sie weniger am Handy, werden von Fragenden zu Erklärenden. Und Ihr habt auch etwas davon. Sebastian Wolff trifft @kicker.de #HSV-Trainer Merlin Polzin.

#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

#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Is this a thing? hadley.github.io/genzplyr/