Extended submission deadline! Spread the good news! And make sure to drop an abstract by 1.3.2026 at www.meb-network.com/meb-2026 ❄️🌡️💧🌱

Pre-defence symposium hosted by @josephinecouet.bsky.social! The Biodiversity Change research group is invited to give a lab talk ☘️🌿🍃 Come see all the cool stuff by PhD researchers Aino-Maija Määttänen, Camilla Reinikainen and Adam Williamson, and postdoc @adm0n.bsky.social ❄️🌡️💧

Ecologists! Give me ideas where to publish a registered report on plant-microclimate experiments :-) It is hard to find OA journals that are society-owned and read by ecologists ☘️💚🌿💚🍃

Ecologists! Give me ideas where to publish beautiful plant functional trait datasets :-) Criteria: OA journals that are society-owned and read by ecologists ☘️💚🌿💚🍃

Registration open! Pack your talks, posters and sunhats for Montpellier, France 🌴🌞🏖️ This is the 3rd edition of the best conference on the planet - and of all time. And yes, I am completely biased as the organiser of the previous edition in Helsinki 😎 meb-network.com/meb-2026/

One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)

Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻‍❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

I made new friends this summer ☘️🌿🍃

New article! To what extent community-level knowledge on species abundances helps in predicting species traits? 🌿☘️🍃 We used joint species-trait distribution modeling to link species abundances to trait variation. By Nerea Abrego, @niittynen.bsky.social, me & Otso Ovaskainen doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

I will be placing my first ever Amazon order next week 🤓

New preprint! How do leaf functional traits vary within a growing season? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks, and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....

Art exhibition: Whose nature? Our artist-scientist group Saxifraga has a collaborative display at Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland 17.5.–7.9.2025. Our work involves over a thousand samples of the beautiful Arctic flora @niittynen.bsky.social 🌿☘️🍃 Welcome! www.jyvaskyla.fi/en/jyvaskyla...

New article! How nutrient inputs from seabird colonies affect plant traits and communities? 🐧 Plants closest to the nesting sites, were taller and had higher resource-acquisitive trait values, such as larger and thicker leaves and higher leaf nutrient contents ☘️🍃🌿 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...