⛰️ The December issue is out now! 👉 buff.ly/afZRMKl 🌿 The cover image shows wind-driven heather spatial patterns on Bynack More, Cairngorms, Scotland. Image credit: Angeles G. Mayor. Read more: buff.ly/Igbst0s

New map of Stanford University visualizes NCPs

Interactive map shows nature’s contributions to people https://news.stanford.edu/2019/10/10/interactive-map-shows-natures-contributions-people/

Meet our delegation of YESS-members at the #IPBES12 Plenary. Looking forward to meeting many new and old faces! #ECR #ECS #Youth

Join our Young Ecosystem Services Specialists starter pack, if you are an #ECR in the field of Ecosystem Services and Nature-based Solutions! Lets make those faces behind our network visible, and create a space for new connections! #EarlyCareerResearchers #networking #ESP2026Europe

Call for Abstracts! The #ESP2026Europe is coming up and we will have a dedicated Early Career Perspectives Session (E4). So dont hesitate to submit your work, experiences, and challenges in #EcosystemServices research, #NbS, or come network with us! @kienpham.bsky.social @imsieber.bsky.social #ECR

Our next webinar! 🌎 ESP 11 World Conference pre-event webinar: ES mapping: state-of-the-art data, methods, and tools on various spatio-temporal scales. 📅 April 3, 15:00 CET 🔗https://registration.yess-network.org/mappingES #academic #modeling #ecosystem #ESPConference #Research #mapping

IPBES Nature Futures Framework webinar on 3/21! Learn about NFF for scenarios & planning with our moderators - Nita Shashidharan, Sakshi Rana, & Dr. Thomas Schmitt. Details & registration: registration.yess-network.org/NatureFuture #IPBES #NFF #Webinar

🌎 ESP 11 World Conference pre-event webinar: Nature Future Framework (NFF) for scenario building. 📅 March 21, 10:00 CET. 🔗 Register: registration.yess-network.org/NatureFuture #NFF #IPBES #ESPConference #Research

🚀 SELINA is joining new, bluer skies! 🦋 We are happy to share that our #ecosystemservices journey is now part of BlueSky! 🌱 We are excited to grow our community here ✨ Join us in our new path and share our experience by following us here 👉 @selinaproject.bsky.social #SELINA #ExpandingNetwork

🌍📢 Call for Abstracts! From Interaction to Restoration. Explore how Cultural Ecosystem Services and Soil Organic Carbon can enhance nature-based solutions in restoration practices. Share innovative ideas on integrating ecological, cultural, and community values in restoration. 🌱 #ESPConference

🌿Cities thrive when nature’s values align with citizens’ needs. Our new #CitiesWithNature GUIDE helps you: ✅ Understand & measure nature’s diverse values ✅ Embed values for transformative change Inspired by @IPBES, tailored for cities. Explore now: citieswithnature.org/tools-and-re...

Join our Nature-Positive Movement 📅 Mar 1 – May 31, 2025 ✅ Set commitments (we’ll guide you!) ✅ Take action & share your impact ✅ Celebrate your impact at the closing ceremony! 🎉 📲 Sign up: answer.moaform.com/answers/E6jn40 📩: [email protected] #Resolutions4Nature #NaturePositive

Call for Fellows! 🚨 @ipbes.net is seeking #EarlyCareer experts to join the #GlobalAssessment2. Contribute to assessing progress towards achieving the goals of sustainability! 🌍🧪 🗓 Apply by 28 March 2025 🔗 More info: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...

Are you coming to the ESP World Conference this year? We invite early-career and experienced researchers to join our O3 session to inspire the next generation of scientists and build our community! All sessions at ESP 11: www.espconference.org/esp11/sessio... #ECRs #ESP #ecosytemservice #NBS #yess

#Job alert: PostDoc position on Spatio-temporal dynamics of social-ecological systems at the @tumuenchen.bsky.social (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Deadline: February 21 2025! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Fair, open access publishing is becoming common. Many alternatives to the big publishers are arising, such as the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographic Society - where many (former) YESSERs can be found. Take a look and consider for your next publication! jbgs.arphahub.com

We are seeking a PhD student with a background in marine ecosystems management to join our multidisciplinary team. You will explore adaptation of marine social-ecological systems to climate change, with a strong emphasis on coastal communities adaptive capacities(1/3)

If you are looking for inspiring scientists and a stellar Starter pack on Biodiversity and the Science-Policy Interface - this might be it!

Another big and important journal making its move to the Blue - Welcome @esandpeople.bsky.social!

To all scientists who work with Vegetation and Ecosystems in various parts of Africa - this special issue with @pensoft.net might be interesting for you to consider!

🆕 The “African #Vegetation Studies” collection in the #Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) #journal presents exemplary #classification studies. 🌍 #Data availability, data access, language barriers, low funding & political stability remain a challenge to #scientific work in the region. ℹ️👇

Where are the young #ECR researchers on ecosystems and their services out there? Lets connect and thrive through a strong #Youth network. Follow us for workshops, #PhD and PostDoc job opportunities and Info on Nature-based Solutions, Ecology, Environmental Sciences and more go.bsky.app/4V13U6S

The @ipbes.bsky.social call for fellows, #ECR and young scholars is still open - an excellent opportunity to contribute your knowledge while learning how IPBES works. Apply now! www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and build resilience[..]. NbS must benefit biodiversity and support the delivery of ecosystem services- European Commission oppla.eu/product/27060

The 11th global #ESP Conference in Darwin, Australia is coming up. Session submission is still open. www.espconference.org/esp11/homepage

PhD Position at the @leed-greifswald.bsky.social in Greifswald, Germany in rewetting effects on tree growth and peatlands - deadline Jan 15th

Happy New Year to all of you! Take a look at our newsletter for the second half of 2024: news.yess-network.org/20242 We look forward to your continued participation and support for YESS activities in 2025. On behalf of the YESS Executive Committee, we wish you a fantastic start to 2025!

The University of Reading in the UK gives out #stipends for funding #PhD programmes that span the food chain from farm to fork - deadline is 3 February 2025. research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...

How are biodiversity, water, food, health & climate linked? This is explored by the latest @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment. The Summary for policy makers is out now, after endless work, numerous meetings and hundreds of scholars coming together. Don't miss this important work!

A special issue coming up on tree regeneration for maintaining mountain forest ecosystem services with the @journalofecology.bsky.social Deadline for manuscripts: 17th of Feb 2025!

Are you an academic in fields related to biodiversity, ecosystem services, or sustainability? Help us out and join our #survey: What motivated you to pursue a research career? What roles do you as a researcher play regarding transformative change? What enables or hinders you to fulfil these roles?

Interesting read on forest restoration methods and long-term ecological trajectories

#Job Opportunity for those looking for science and a postdoc - on social-ecological modelling with CzechGlobe Check out the details: www.czechglobe.cz/en/postdocto...

Call for Participation: Young Scholars’ Conference: "Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice", taking place from 8–10 October 2025 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Key issues in environmental justice, related to temporality and social-ecological #sustainability.

Make sure to have a look at these @ipbes.bsky.social scientists, stakeholders and organisations working for #biodiversity, conservation, and more!

Art and nature, and research combined - what an expression of youth voices and images at the IPBES #Youth4Nature Workshop. we love it!

Job Alert: a PostDoc on Hydroclimatic Ecosystem Services of Wetlandscapes in Sweden, anyone? Deadline is coming up on 10th of Jan!

#Youth matters in the discourse on biodiversity - important highlights from the @ipbes.bsky.social Youth Workshop ⬇️

Still looking for a favourite environmental conservation podcast? Then search no more, here it might be 👇

#jobopportunity: fully funded PhD position at the University of York on palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science 🔬

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with me and some great people at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York, UK! Please share! 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New report on #NbS! Discover critical insights for #COP16 and beyond in the #NbSConferenceOxford 2024 Report: Read the report and watch the recordings www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/nbs-con...

Urban nature needs a better environment. A new @natureportfolio.bsky.social study finds, urban trees, #NbS and providers of numerous #Ecosystemservices, are not enough. Goal here: the 3-30-300 rule: a view of 3 trees, neighbourhoods with >30% tree canopy cover and 300 m walking distance to a park.

very interesting!

🌎 #Plants are at the heart of nature-based solutions. 🌱 This Special Feature covers #grasslands to #mangroves & from #agro-#ecosystems to #urban #forests that illustrate how we can improve & scale up NbS by incorporating cutting-edge theory & techniques: jecologyblog.com/2024/11/28/%...

🌿 Curious about the hidden splendors of #nature? 🌍🧪 From the mysteries of genetic diversity to why 'ugly' species matter, @ipbes.bsky.social Podcast "Nature Insight" Season 4 explores it all. 🎙️ Join our hosts & expert guests for unique insights into the values of nature. natureinsight.podbean.com

Frequent misunderstanding: economic valuation of the environment aims to estimate values for (public) goods that don't have prices *because* they aren't marketable - *not* the other way around. Assigning prices to them doesn't make them marketable.

"By glorifying pristine landscapes, which exist only in the imagination of romantics, Western conservationists divert attention from the places where people live and the choices they make every day that do true damage to the natural world of which they are part."

Eklipse has an open TARGETED CALL FOR EXPERTS (CfE 2/2024) on “Cumulative impacts of offshore wind farms expansions: consequences & solutions for achieving GES across European marine waters” - relevant for some of our #ECR working on marine biodiversity and #ecosystemservices eklipse.eu/calls/