Lo and behold this snake DID eat a deer mouse we tagged two days ago. We know bc our scanner found the mouse’s microchip in the snake’s belly. With enough similar data, we can ask about food preferences for snakes and/or if there are any mammal traits that make them more likely to be prey! 🧪

Today, looking for Sphagnum moss in the Alt Pirineu (high Pyrenees) natural park. At least two species found, plus many others mosses and liverworts. #bryophytes #mosses

A nice patch of Herbertus aduncus subsp. hutchinsiae (Juniper Prongwort) on Craig Cywarch 12.6.26 ,the only patch i came across ,still good tp see it another north wales site 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Day 4 took us across Oberschwaben to study how the landscape surrounding white stork nests shapes their breeding success. Road trip, birdwatching, and spatial analysis in R 🗺️💻🐥 What more do you need for a successful field-course day?

Thanks to all the speakers and participants in the "Plant Robustness from molecules to ecosystems" session at the #SEB2026 conference! Exciting science and great discussions sponsored by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and our Excellence Cluster @greenrobust.de 🌱 with @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social

📞 I'll never forget the call telling us our @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Challenge proposal had been funded! 🎉 We're incredibly grateful for €10M to study how biodiversity shapes soil health and resilience across Finland, Sweden & Denmark. 🌱🪱🦠 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life... @helsinki.fi

Check out our newly published opinion paper on emergent functions in microbial communities. Grateful to have been part of this.

How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Final push! The deadline for applications is in two days. Apply if you want to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

A short time ago, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social presented TERRA, who we are, what we do, snd what we stand for, at the Geosymposium at the GUZ (@unituebingen.bsky.social).

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Jonas Trepel shares the role of large herbivores as key ecological players, the thorny side of fieldwork, and the importance of doing work that truly interests you🦏 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/pN9WIUX 🧪🌍️ @jonastrepel.bsky.social

On day 2 of our Landscape Ecology course, students modeled allometric relationships in meadowsweet using data they collected themselves. We ended the day with an evening excursion to a peatland forest 🌳🌼

Our paper on how understorey vegetation responds to enhanced forest structure was just published @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We found an increase in alpha- and gamma-diversity driven by heterogeneity in light conditions at the landscape-scale 🌱🌳🥬 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👇 Advertised as BSc thesis, but with possibility to be extended to a MSc thesis if interested 🪲🕷️🪰🐛🪵

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

In the afternoon our students started an experiment using peanut baits to estimate seed predation rates at different distances from hedgerows 🐭🥜

Day 1 of our Landscape Ecology Masters course at the Federsee was already very rewarding. We spotted Bearded Reedlings, Bluethroat and a fluffy Common Tern fledgling 🐥

Marchantia clearly knows where the good spots are! 😊 Thanks a lot for a fantastic week in the field. Doing and discussing science with you and the incredibly skilled students from @terra-cluster.org is a true pleasure

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Research / PostDoc position (m/f/d) Natural products involved in the communication between individuals of the same or different species @Uni Bielefeld in @chemecolcm.bsky.social 's lab. #PlantSci www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

After 20+ years studying ecology, I've realised the it's about much more than plants and animals. It's really about understanding how complex systems work and change. 10 ecological ideas that changed how I see the world 🧵

What a fascinating modern age we live in www.nature.com/articles/s41...

During my lifetime, these butterflies have dropped by half. 🫣

Really interesting take on the future of ecology in an AI world. The take home: experiments and long-term studies will have increasing value. @jdrakephd.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I do not have a camera, but even with a mobile phone it is simple to take a picture of these 5 long-eared owls in my neighbours garden. (The top one is adult, the others juvenile.)

Come join us on the editorial board of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We're looking for a Commissioning Editor to seek Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives and Policy Directions. The role comes with a small stipend. Please share! apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

Do you plan a research career, e.g., at the intersection of #plantgenetics, #plantbreeding, #biodiversity or #agriculture? Then check out the NextGen Scientists Symposium at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart. Application deadline: 2 August 2026 www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/hohenheim...

📢 The new @iavs5.bsky.social Bulletin is out! Inside: a tribute to Prof. Ioannis Tsiripidis, highlights of newly defended PhD theses, insights from the IAVS historical archive, and a thought-provoking piece on the accuracy of vegetation cover estimates to help investigate observer bias.

What can the concept of " #Nativeness" reveal about our understanding of the world? Erick Lundgren poses this intriguing question and suggests that focusing on #attributes —and perhaps emphasizing #hyperdominance —might offer a more insightful approach.

Dankeschön @dorobaer.bsky.social

📢 New press release: Our new publication on “Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape” led by @mhanusch.bsky.social, @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social and @robinheinennl.bsky.social is now featured in a press release 🔗 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2026/06/16/i...

Becky Chaplin-Cramer during her introductory key note presentation at #wbf2026 called for providing solutions to the biodiversity crisis rather than being accountants of the decline. #xp #biodiversity

Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is this lovely Lapwing in a field of flowers for #LivingLandscape

W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Apply if you’d like to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

New Preprint out. Great collaboration with colleagues from @awi.de, @GFZ.bsky.social, agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social, and @ufz.de Herzschuh et al.: Earth-positive futures: adaptive steering of trajectories for Earth-system functions at the wicked intermediate scale. [1/2]

3 weeks of field work in 3 different regions: DONE!✅ Thank you, Jana, Vanessa and Dominik, you were a great help! The tree trunk eclectors for BEClimWood-Bugs are now set up and insects will be sampled every 4 weeks until autumn. @bexplo.bsky.social

We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social

Do you want to use your experience with AI to help ecological research? The Netherlands Institute of Ecology is looking for an AI engineer in ecology. Interested? Or know someone who is? Apply to the vacancy by 14 June: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳 The aim of the project is to analyse the influence of canopy openings and deadwood management on insect communities. 🪲🦋 We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Plakman & Bokhorst show bryophytes strongly shape seed germination and early vascular plant growth in sub-Arctic habitats. Effects depend on bryophyte species via microclimate, pH, moisture and surface structure, influencing plant establishment.

🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇

WIR STELLEN EIN: Stabsstelle #Exzellenzstrategie an der #UniversitätHeidelberg Referent*in, 100% E13, entfristet, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt Gerne weiterverteilen! #Heidelberg #Stellenausschreibung adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

2026. Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

A GreenRobust-associated project on the cover of Genome Biology and Evolution!

When vacuuming spiders makes sense: Ongoing since 2010, our first of three annual arthropod samplings is done 🪲🕷️🐝 160 bags are stored away in the freezer, waiting for identification 📏

Joint experiments with a large number of different plant genotypes and multiple treatments (here herbivory and moderate drought) require a large number of motivated partners to be in time, accurate and comparable in handling. Not to forget that science can also be a lot of fun😀

The experiments were a joint effort of @chemodiversity.bsky.social Plants were grown in the facilities of @jpschnitzler.net who also had a watchful eye on the root washing process :D @marvin-hildebrandt.bsky.social @robinheinennl.bsky.social

Hedwigia Stellata (Starry Hoar-moss) looking rather fine in its golden hydrated state,on the lower Crags of Craig Rennet in Corrie fee 4.5.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Gemeinsam mit der @unihohenheim.bsky.social  feiern wir 5 Jahre @kombiota.bsky.social , das Kompetenzzentrum für #Biodiversität und #Artenvielfalt. Wie #KomBioTa entstand und was die Mitglieder antreibt, erzählen sie im Video: