How reliable are model-based blacklists of invasive plant species if occurrence & environmental data are limited & under different model choices? New paper by PhD researcher Valén Holle @jappliedecology.bsky.social #SDM #invasive #plants #Pacific besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re back. Our first seminar of the 2025-2026 season today Thursday 11 of September at 13:00 CEST #EBDseminars @ebdonana.bsky.social Youtube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfde...

Last day for applications!

go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV Great resource to connect early career folks with more senior scientists looking to hire postdocs! 🧪

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

PhD student Gabriel Sabino presenting our findings on island rule of plants on a Marine inselberg from Brazil! #ATBC2025

I am speaking at 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC2025). Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #ATBC2025 #OaxacaATBC2025 #TropicalConservation #TropicalBiology

Looking forward to seeing the people on this starter pack at #ATBC2025 If you want to be added to this list, please let me know. 🧪 in 🇲🇽 go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

Waiting my delayed flight from Cancun to Oaxaca for the #ATBC2025! Hopefully I get on time for the ice breaker! Excited about new developments on forest and epiphyte modelling!

We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!

Missing a few people in the picture, but my Bonner lab is taking form! All that in the beautiful botanical Gardens of @unibonn.bsky.social

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Funding opportunity for subsaharan researchers and professors to come for a 3-months visit to Germany in 2026! Deadline very soon (19th May), twas.org/opportunity/...

“Scientists need to step up to the plate” Former Government Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King to massed scientists outside Parliament yesterday As scientists we need to hold Government to account #BringScienceToPolitics @sciencetopolitics.bsky.social

📢 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠! We’re offering 𝟓 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 in each of our key research areas ... namely also in 🧬 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. ℹ️ 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 🔗 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/research/... 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🔗 Apply via: spp.uni-potsdam.de/karriere

Deadline tomorrow 12th of May 👇👇👇

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

📢 Are you ready for the next cycle of Cutting vEdge Tools? The first webinar is in just a week, March 21st at 14:00 CET: Florian Jansen will show how to handle species concepts when dealing with databases! 📝Join for free at forms.gle/mrjs8gpEy6ih... only 100 places so don't miss your chance!

Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!

Alfred Russel Wallace seminar on March 19 5pm CET Luís Valente from @naturalis.bsky.social and @unigroningen.bsky.social speaks about: Trouble in evolutionary paradise: diversification and anthropogenic extinction on islands Register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... @islandbiology.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Jana Blechschmidt for the succesful defense. Very proud of the new modelling offspring of the Ecological Modelling group! Time to celebrate! @cctb-wue.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! We joined here to advertise our upcoming #workshop for #Young #Modellers in #Ecology from 19th to 23rd of May in #Ilmenau, Thüringen. Learn more and apply on our website! -> www.yomos.org/next-workshop #science #ecoloogy #phdlife #phdchat #community

3-5 Sept 2025: 5th International Conference on Community Ecology is coming to Budapest, Hungary! www.akcongress.com/comec/

I'm happy to share that I will soon be starting a new position as junior professor of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems at the @uni-freiburg.de I'm excited to start some new research on the interactions between forests and people, and will be hiring two PhD students...

Excited to share new preprint by PhD candidate Anna Rönnfeldt „Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants depends on introduction history and biogeographic context“ highlighting context dependency in climate niche shifts of species introduced in multiple world regions doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Back to Germany! Thrilled to start my first day at the new position @UniBonn, right in the Botanical Gardens. Stay tuned for upcoming technician and postdoc calls!

I’ll be giving a public lecture at the Linnean Society in April on how conservation needs to adapt to meet the challenges of the climate emergency Book tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1220841863...

If you're interested in Ecology at larger scales, here's the second volume of the Global Ecology starter pack! go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

literally, greenwashing: fake carbon credits, illegal timber, and cattle laundering: news.mongabay.com/2024/12/ille...

Big shout-out to PhD candidate Valén Holle for her new #preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... assessing #uncertainty in SDM-based #blacklists of #invasive species related to #species & environmental data & #SDM algorithm. #Pacific #plants 1/2

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

HI old friends! Finally took the leap here to say I have several open positions going in my lab at the moment (and more to come). 1) PhD studentship in collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society (genomics) 2) Biochemistry Postdoc to understand how Starships move Check out the links below!

Led by Stefan Fallert, our metabolismus-based metapopulation range for simulating species range dynamics is online at MEE. It is a framework in which you can build your own model structure or use our functions, including biotic interactions: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....