Ausblick auf 2026: Zwischen Solarparks & Grünland 2025 war für mich vor allem ein Jahr der Photovoltaik: Wie lassen sich Solarparks so gestalten, dass sie nicht nur Energie liefern, sondern auch Lebensräume schaffen? Diese Frage hat mich in Forschung & Wissenschaftskommunikation intensiv begleitet.

🌱 Delve deeper into the ecology of soil with "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", a fascinating new book release from our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett! 🪱 Read more: buff.ly/6A4abeW

#JobOpening: We're seeking a Project Manager Research & Education (80%) for our Center @ethz.ch. A unique role blending research coordination, innovative educational design, facilitating dialogue between science, policy, and practice. 👉 Apply until 20.12.2025: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

New comparative paper using questionnaires and social media images to under public perception of grassland aesthetics. Lead by @valentinecology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AcademicSky #Science #AIinScience

🟥 New paper out 🟥 Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity. With an amazing team: @valentinecology.bsky.social @davide-andreatta.bsky.social @foxnat.bsky.social & Franzi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre ist ein Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie – und steht zunehmend unter Druck. Mit der Kampagne #HochschulenZeigenHaltung und eigenen Initiativen bezieht die RUB Position: für Solidarität, Vielfalt und den Schutz wissenschaftlicher Freiheit. 💪

A great excursion to the Ruhrverband in Essen with our Master's students from the Environmental Conflicts course today! We learned all about reservoir management, stream #restoration and managing #IAS while accounting for other interests - thank you for having us!😊 @valentinecology.bsky.social

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #biology or #EnvironmentalSciences with a background in #microbiology, #genetics or #ecology? Experience with #metabarcoding and #metagenomics🧬? We offer a PostDoc position in #soil #biodiversity: apply.refline.ch/273855/1794/... #bioinformatics #DataAnalysis #ScienceJobs

Soils hold the key to our resilience. Our new Issue Brief shows how soil can: ✅Help tackle climate change ✅Support food security ✅Restore ecosystems #BiodivClim #SoilMicrobiome #CarbonFarming #ClimateAdaptation Explore the science: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/09/25/s... Available in 5 languages.

i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands. apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...

On #mountain slopes, we previously found strong feedbacks between #geomorphic processes, #landforms and #plants. But what about #sediments? Do they matter for #biogeomorphic feedbacks? If yes, which sediment properties should we measure and how? Have a look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌍 Wissenschaft, die in die Tiefe geht: Prof. Dr. Sonia Seneviratne erhält den #uwp25 für ihre Forschung. Sie zeigt, wie eng Boden, Pflanzen und Atmosphäre verbunden sind – und warum Bodenfeuchte über Hitze, Ernte & Klima entscheidet. 👉 www.dbu.de/umweltpreis-...

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

Service-News für alle, die mit dem Bus zur Uni fahren. 👇

🦝🌱Non-native species: misunderstood menace or ecological opportunity? In the latest #InsideBiodiversity episode, iDiv sits down with biologist @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) to unpack the tangled reality of species on the move. 🎧 Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Bei uns auf dem #Campus Bernburg ist der trübe Oktober ganz bunt 🌸🌼 (Einsaat war im Frühjahr - und hat trotzdem super funktioniert 🙂)

Studie zeigt: Große Ackerflächen 🚜 heizen sich an heißen Sommertagen ☀️🌡ähnlich stark auf wie städtische Betonflächen, mit negativen Folgen für den Ertrag und den Boden. "An Hitzetagen gibt es kaum einen Unterschied zwischen Berlin-Mitte und der Feldmark", sagt Pierre Ibisch, Professor für Ökologie.

Morgen um 11 Uhr startet die kostenlose Online-Vortragsreihe des Nationalen Monitoringzentrums im #BfN ins 2. Halbjahr 2025. Thema: „Faktenscheck Artenvielfalt“. Hier direkt anmelden: bfn-event.webex.com/webappng/sit... #onlinevortrag #faktencheck #artenvielfalt #monitoring #biodiversität

🔍 Wir suchen als Verstärkung eine Leitung für unsere Geschäftsstelle in #Berlin! 📍💼 ✍️ Hier bewerben: karriere.leopoldina.org/jobposting/e... #Job #Stellenausschreibung #Stellenangebot #Organisationsentwicklung #Personalführung #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Wissenschaftsmanagement

'Spatial arrangement of action-oriented versus hybrid agri-environmental schemes: implications for the optimisation of grassland ecosystem services' ICYMI: New paper in Agricultural Systems led by Solen Le Clec'h & @valentinecology.bsky.social w @robehube.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

Great PhD defense by Andrea Schneider today. Biodiversity effects of modified grassland maintenance on dykes in urban areas. @merlin-project.bsky.social @valentinecology.bsky.social

📢 #PhD opening at ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)! Join the #VegetationEcology Research Group for a 4-year PhD on anthropogenic biodiversity changes in bryophytes. 📅Review begins Sept 22 Start date: Nov 2025 🔗 Detailed Information: tinyurl.com/3efj542k Apply here: www.zhaw.ch/jobs

Our biodiversity seminar series is back! This Wednesday (10 Sep), Maria J. Santos (UZH) will discuss how social-ecological processes shape biodiversity, and how biodiversity in turn regulates these processes. Join us in-person or online! Everyone is welcome biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Kürzlich war ich an der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de und habe ein Interview mit @valentinecology.bsky.social gemacht. Wir haben uns über urbane #Grünflächen, #Biodiversität sowie den Austausch zwischen #Wissenschaft und #Praxis unterhalten. www.bio-kultur.org/von-urbanen-...

Happy to see our new paper out! In short: "Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization" Find the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... Thanks to Solen and @robertfinger.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @usyseth.bsky.social

Bravo @fornalab.bsky.social colleague @ellendevrieze.bsky.social with her talk “European cities manage their green space for people and biodiversity: a chance for urban (or ecosystem) restoration?” - collaboration with @valentinecology.bsky.social et al

Great retreat with my group over two days. Very productive exchange about ecological research, career perspectives, funding and group life. Thanks to @jhthoppenreijs.bsky.social and @simonmoesch.bsky.social for making this possible! 😀😀😀

Zwei starke Ideen für mehr #Umweltschutz durch Technik & ausgezeichnet mit dem #DBU-Sonderpreis bei #JugendForscht 🤖 Leonel (15): Feldroboter jätet Unkraut ohne Chemie – mit KI. 💻 Tobias (18): Software zur Analyse & Sanierung schadstoffbelasteter Böden. 👉 kurzlinks.de/3pv7

☘️🐛🐦‍⬛Sterben häufige Arten aus, können Nahrungsnetze instabil werden. Insbesondere wenn Feuchtgebietsarten betroffen sind, hat dies weitreichende Folgen: www.wsl.ch/de/news/vers... #Artensterben #Nahrungsnetze #Feuchtgebiete #Biodiversität @merinrejichacko.bsky.social @loicpellissier.bsky.social

The Emscher river restoration featured in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... - with some @crc-resist.bsky.social results.

🌦️🌳🖥️ #PostDoc Alert! #PhD in #climatology or #EnvironmentalScience? Expertise in climate modeling and #Python? Our #Research Group Dynamic Macroecology is looking for a PostDoc in regional climate downscaling! apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/... #ClimateModels #ScienceJobs

On the wet side of research? Very happy to announce registration is open for our WATER RESEARCH HORIZON CONFERENCE 2025 here in Bochum, Germany. This year focus is on Urban Water Systems. www.watersciencealliance.org/wrhc-abstracts.html

On the wet side of research? Very happy to announce registration is open for our WATER RESEARCH HORIZON CONFERENCE 2025 here in Bochum, Germany. This year focus is on Urban Water Systems. www.watersciencealliance.org/wrhc-abstracts.html

Super Blühwiesen-Projekt auf Friedhof! Herzlichen Dank an die BUND Ortsgruppe Essen, die uns im Master-Kurs Ihre urbanen Wiesen vorgestellt hat! 😀@bundnrw.bsky.social Schönes Bespiel für eine geglückte Wiesenanlage. Mehr davon! @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ‪@simonmoesch.bsky.social

Super Blühwiesen-Projekt auf Friedhof! Herzlichen Dank an die BUND Ortsgruppe Essen, die uns im Master-Kurs Ihre urbanen Wiesen vorgestellt hat! 😀@bundnrw.bsky.social Schönes Bespiel für eine geglückte Wiesenanlage. Mehr davon! @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ‪@simonmoesch.bsky.social

Delighted to share our recent open access work: The EU Nature Restoration Law widely ignores the biodiversity of urban green spaces, although these are crucial for truly sustainable cities. Countries must now define ambitious biodiversity targets for urban ecosystems. doi.org/10.1038/s429...

Die Restemissionen müssen durch Senkenleistung des Sektors Landnutzung #LULUCF und technische Senken ausgeglichen werden. Der Sektor LULUCF wird jedoch nicht mehr als THG-Senke, sondern als Quelle ausgewiesen. Der Grund: der schlechte Zustand des Waldes.

🤝🏻 Data Stewardship in Tandem In the Grassland Sciences group, Sabina Keller and Lukas Hörtnagl show how a collaborative model can not only ease the workload but also enhance the quality and transparency of research data management. Read more: go.ethz.ch/2j

Delighted to share our recent open access work: The EU Nature Restoration Law widely ignores the biodiversity of urban green spaces, although these are crucial for truly sustainable cities. Countries must now define ambitious biodiversity targets for urban ecosystems. doi.org/10.1038/s429...

We are excited to offer interesting talks in the upcoming summer semester #EcologySeminar on different species groups, services, methods & else! 🐝🦋🌳🐦 Check out the program and send us a DM if you like to join online! 🥳Kick off is this week! @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social

📢Upcoming #EcologySeminar This week Dr. Friederike Riesch talks about "Zoogeochemical effects of wild red deer and behavioural responses to recolonizing wolves " 📅 Join us Wed (07.05.) at 10:15 AM 📩DM for webinar link! @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social

Out now by Liu et al in Nature Communications: 'Multiple targeted grassland restoration interventions enhance ecosystem service multifunctionality' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨🚨 New Paper Out Its raining seeds! Oh yes, it really does. For example in a grassland: See our new open-access paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Luckily no coconuts but mainly grass seeds ...

Had such a great time at Ruhr University Bochum - big thanks to the colleagues at RUB, and in particular to @valentinecology.bsky.social , @jhthoppenreijs.bsky.social , and @simonmoesch.bsky.social for the warm welcome! 🙏 Loved the urban ecology trip 🌼 💚 @fornalab.bsky.social

More than 70 participants visited the Research Communication Day on 7 April @ruhr-uni-bochum.de to discuss which communication strategies and modes they could like to use for their own research. 🙌 Read our report on the event 👉 www.research-school.rub.de/about/news/d...