*Job alert* We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us! Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5 Please share!

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology! 📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men 📉 Non-native English speakers: –35% 📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70% 🌍 Language & equity matter in science! 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

📢 Virginia Tech is hiring! 📢 Please reshare and promote! We are seeking an economist for a research & teaching position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in applied economics with a focus on #invasive species. For more info & to apply ➡️ careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

🚨 New paper published! We introduce herbariodigital.cl, evaluate our specimen-based taxonomic index against global references, and outline a participatory framework to achieve Chile’s National Species Inventory. @iebchile.bsky.social

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

NEW: EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks As carbon emissions from forest fires spike in Europe, experts warn that wildfires pose a growing threat to national efforts to meet climate goals www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/26/e...

🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥 Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural. Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural. 💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0

Good news!🌏🧪 @unep.org Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social  has announced that Dr. Luthando Dziba of South Africa has been appointed to the role of IPBES Executive Secretary effective 1 Oct. Read more: https://www.ipbes.net/node/88606

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

New blog post! @martin-nunez.bsky.social , Senior Editor for the journal, tells us about his latest book which aims to help students overcome writing and publishing barriers ✍️🌏 Read more below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/08/18/n...

📣 A global assessment of the status, trends and gaps of #non-native (alien, partly #invasive) #species A new #publication with 65 authors from all continents (except Antarctica), 42 article pages and >500 references. doi.org/10.1111/brv.... 🌐 #ecology #globalchange

"UN talks on creating a global pact to stem plastic pollution collapsed ... w/ no agreement or clear way forward after a chaotic night of negotiations failed to break a deadlock over whether to include measures aimed at curbing runaway plastic production" www.climatechangenews.com/2025/08/15/p...

Thank you for a great meeting, #ESA2025 attendees! We hope to see you at #ESA2026 next year in Salt Lake City, July 26-31.

Not sure what this means, but it is exciting anyway! We are #1 New Release in one of the Amazon's indexing categories #⃣1⃣ 🌎🌐🧪

Read our latest paper on the trends and statuses of #biologicalinvasions worldwide. Led by @hannoseebens.bsky.social , L Meyerson, P Pyšek and D Richardson and ~60 other coauthors, and based on Chap2 of the #IAS #IPBES Report, it has all the basic info you need! A MUST READ! doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Next in our August issue: A Journal Club from Peter Doll, "Addressing disparities in global biodiversity data" Web link: https://bit.ly/46YENzO

From the Montreal Protocol on Ozone to the Paris Agreement on climate, and to the Minamata Convention on mercury, multilateral agreements unite countries to protect people and planet. Now, #INC5 aims to add another milestone: a #PlasticsTreaty. Explore more: www.unep.org/multilateral...

Europe’s moss species are in trouble - but scientists have developed a new tool that identifies species at risk. The tool is freely accessible and can serve as a guide for moss conservation measures across Europe 🌍 #BiodiversityAction #LowerPlants #Mosses www.wsl.ch/en/news/the-...

📢Breaking ! We are pleased to announce that Nick Otienoh Oguge, Becky Chaplin-Kramer @beckyck.bsky.social , and Zhi Lü have been selected to lead the @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2 as Co-chairs. Congratulations! 👉 Read more: www.ipbes.net/media-releas...

Este articulo nuevo tiene Acceso Libre (Open Access) en este link: doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Otra colaboración exitosa entre colegas expertos en invasiones biológicas de todos los continentes, uniendo esfuerzos. A tomar aire y meterle una leída. .. en Ingles. 😉

Just got the final proofs of my book💓 Available on Amazon worldwide next week Very exciting! I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

🔹 Strategies & Challenges in Managing Invasive Plants 🌱 Linking experiences from 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇺🇾 Moderated by A. Guido, V. Aschero & me, with talks by @anibalpauchard.bsky.social, Rafa García, Pri Powell & Carolina Toranza. Lessons, obstacles & cross-border collaboration ahead! #RAE2025

🌿 Excited to share that at this year’s Reunión Trinacional de Ecología in Mendoza, Argentina, I’ll be co-moderating two roundtables on key issues in ecology. A quick thread on what’s coming 👇 #RAE2025

No child dreams of playing on hot asphalt. And yet, more than 2.5 million K-12 students in California attend schools with less than 5 percent tree canopy in their play areas. We asked students: what does your dream schoolyard look like? youtu.be/_ddepdbqB50?...

'One Health' is a strategic approach to protect the health of people, animals & ecosystems by considering their interconnections. 'Biosecurity' refers to the management of nonnative pests and pathogens that pose risks to human & animal health. It is essential for these concepts to be integrated.

One Biosecurity is essential to implement One Health url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Quote: "It is time to include invasive fungi in the global conversation about invasive species and examine their role as a cause of biodiversity loss." theconversation.com/the-golden-o...

"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)" @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🌱Alien #plants are reshaping the #tropics -our review @ninadm.bsky.social et al explores how they interact w land-use & #climatechange driving novel ecosystems🌴We call for nuanced adaptive strategies incl nature-based solutions to navigate tropical futures 🔗Free access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📚🌿 El pasado jueves, fuimos parte del lanzamiento del libro “Flora de la región del Biobío”, una obra que refleja décadas de investigación botánica y rinde homenaje al legado científico del #HerbarioCONC.

This new paper by Abatzoglou et al. gives a global confirmation of what we have seen in Chile: extreme events are causing mega fires. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Our paper here:

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Added to the global changes driving the emergence of pandemics (biodiversity loss, climate change, land use) is biological invasion - the spread of species into regions beyond their natural evolutionary range, where they may act as potential reservoirs of pathogens. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The IPBES (2023) report synthesized info from 13,000 scientific papers in 15 languages as well as Indigenous knowledge on all taxa, ecosystems & regions across the globe. Roy et al (2024) summarize evidence of the growing threat of invasive species. Read here: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ro...

As we observe #WorldZoonosesDay today, we revisit a study highlighting the potential for some of the most important zoonotic diseases to spread to humans as a result of the legal and illegal wildlife trade. Learn more about the findings here: tinyurl.com/5fecssuu

‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉 The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis. Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🟢A story on citizen involvement from @undp.org Nature Hub According to a recent study, half of the data needed to track progress towards achieving the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (#KMGBF) can come from citizens: 🔗 www.undp.org/nature/news/...

The Belgian king - and our @uantwerpen.be rector - visited Chile! As the universities' longest collaboration with Chile, we (and especially @anibalpauchard.bsky.social got to highlight our long-standing collaboration with @iebchile.bsky.social on (micro)climate, invasive species, and biodiversity!

Since my PhD in 2013, we’ve worked closely together on MIREN (mountaininvasions.org), MEB (meb-network.com) & GUBIC (cubes-labs.com/gubic). The Europe–Chile comparison has been instrumental in understanding plant invasions, biodiversity change & the roles of disturbance and microclimate.

🌟🌏🦘 IEB presente en COCE 2025 Nuestra directora de comunicaciones, #NélidaPohl, participó en la 18ª Conferencia Bienal sobre Comunicación y Medio Ambiente #COCE, que se efectuó en Hobart, Tasmania, del 23 al 27 de junio.

A new study finds that regional plastic bag bans in the U.S. significantly reduce coastal plastic bag litter compared with areas without policies. Single-use plastic bags are rarely recycled and degrade quickly into microplastics. To tackle the problem, municipalities have turned to regulation.

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs. More than anything #climate and #biodiversity crises make me angry. As few people are largely responsible, while all pay the price, mostly those least responsible. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great and long-standing collaborations with our partners in Belgium at the @uantwerpen.be have made this possible. Thanks @jlembrechts.bsky.social, Ann Milbau and Ivan Nijs. Our networks on mountain invasions MIREN and microclimate MEB are critical parts of this work.