Are you interested in flowering plants, pollinators or Alps? Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich is looking for a PhD student! I can warmly recommend the group! The meadows of the study area are simply amazing to anyone interested in biodiversity! Application DL 30.6. @ethz.ch @usyseth.bsky.social

There is a LOT of attention for soil health, especially in agricultural systems, but there is very little awareness of the value of intact, undisturbed, native soils. Here, I argue that applying the old-growth concept to soils will help their protection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two reviewers emailed me because they couldn't see the response to their previous comments. I had checked it, it's even aptly named "response to referees letter". It turns out the authors uploaded it as a cover letter (only shown to editors). One more detail to worry about from now on, great...

Excited to announce a 4-year PhD position at @niooknaw.bsky.social investigating the island biogeography of plant-associated fungi in the giant daisy radiation on the Galapagos. Please apply, share, and reach out with any questions! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...

Don't miss the wealth of multimedia with this manuscript!

🌍🔥🦋 Global collaboration: Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits! We're bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. If you work on #insects #fertility, we'd love for you to join us. www.thermalecologyalliance.org #scicommUU26

If this proposal goes through, Donald Trump personally will decide which scientists get grants and what science is funded. Want to cure cancer? Not unless—and I quote—it 'advances the president’s policy priorities'. There's a word for this: dictatorship www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Field study on shallow coral reefs in Australia and Hawaiʻi shows that more complex habitat structure begets greater reef productivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out the publication in @natecoevo.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #insects #landuse #climate #timeseries #lepidoptera #coleoptera @agroscope.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @unibas.ch @usyseth.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Funding-guaranteed PhD position in plant ecosphysiology and macroecology: data synthesis and tropical fieldwork opportunities. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thought provoking science commentary: "AI models assume that relationships remain stable over time, that training data are representative of future conditions, and that observations are independent. These assumptions are routinely violated in ecological systems." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ICYMI: Lage-scale analysis shows the importance of freshwater insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies for riparian avian communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇

Many eukaryotes are osmotrophic. Ocaña-Pallarès and colleagues show that this was made possible by horizontal gene transfer and the co-option of ancestrally acquired bacterial genes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The golden jackal is expanding into Europe, facilitated by the wolf's decline and avoidance of humans. Read the paper for more. The reviewers described it as "interesting" and "very impressive", the editors as "neat" and "cool"; the editors' cats were unresponsive. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2 X Scholarships in microbial ecology, soil health and crop disease management are available in our lab @uwanews The University of Western Australia. Both domestic and international candidates can apply More details & how to apply - visit web-link below researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...

Just reading: Comment in Nature The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New work testing how far we can go with sectoral partial equilibrium models in the forest sector 🌳🌲 We show economic costs of global forest protection may be overstated due to a lack of market feedbacks doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Looks like a fantastic postdoc...deadline soon 'Greenland Institute of Natural Resources seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in vegetation mapping and herbivory' Drones, traits and Greenland #PostDocJobs naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/... 🧪🌐🌾

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Ethiopia’s protected areas are working — and that is worth celebrating. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com looks at what Ethiopia’s experience can teach us about the challenges in turning global conservation targets into effective and equitable national action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An exciting day today. Our work, co-led by @mhanusch.bsky.social and @thomasdussarrat.bsky.social was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In this review, we explore the concept of chemodiversity and what role it could play for ecological functions at landscape-level. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐

Our May issue features a Focus on "Impacts of extreme events on biodiversity" www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Including research on: ☀️Effects of the 2021 North American 'heat dome' 🐟Heatwave impacts on fish biomass 🌳Forest resilience after extreme drought Cover image from Baum et al rdcu.be/fikFt

📢Our latest paper, with contributions from Thom Kuyper and Mirjam Pulleman, uncovers how political drivers and persistent social‑ecological lock‑ins shape the future of forest transitions in Latin America 🌳. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology. go.nature.com/4uASGMU 🌍🧪

Mini-thread: Today I have two manuscripts on global RF-based maps that don't mention any kind of validation. I know that experts may disagree on how to validate these model-based maps (for example www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but *some* form of validation surely must be reported, right? (1/3)

We are looking for Ecological Statistician to work on long-term biodiversity and ecosystem functioning data jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Why is the old debate about whether smoking causes cancer relevant to settling the controversy surrounding over-crediting in forest carbon offsets? Read our paper in natureecoevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how this tension would increase under a moratorium on deep-sea mining 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This might be the coolest plant phenology paper I've handled in some time

Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!

Next week I will be attending #EGU26. Anyone interested in chatting about publishing at @natcomms.nature.com or #climate research in general, drop me a line!

There's one quote from her that someday I might print out and put the wall next to my bookcase: "I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes."

We currently are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (3 years with possibility to extend) with experience in community ecology, and ideally a good match with our group profile; biodiversity, land use change and urban ecology. Please share for max reach www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

The geography tells a stark story: capitalised cattle concentrate on the most productive land; pastoralists & smallholders hold on in the driest, most marginal areas. Both resilience and dispossession — and it matters for where land policy lands in these regions. 🌳 doi.org/10.1016/j.gl... #newpaper

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

Climate change could make trees more vulnerable to natural enemies. Here the authors analyse forest damage caused by key pest species in N America in relation to climate, geography & biotic context, finding evidence that climate change tends to exacerbate pest damage 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪

Visiting Vancouver for work, I got a chance to see some cool wildlife. A family of orcas, a grey whale, two species of sea lions, bald eagles, seals, an otter, etc., but the real highlight of course had to be the purple sea star. One doesn't pause being an ecologist just because it's the weekend.

Emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds. Turns out freshwater restoration and conservation can help terrestrial ecosystems! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Christian Schürings and @oldenfish.bsky.social

Right on time for #GSB2026, soil fauna made it to the cover of Nat Eco Evo (great shot by frankashwood.bsky.social). Attendees who have questions on the journal or papers to pitch, feel free to chat to me at the conference. @thegsbi.bsky.social

People who have read the excellent sci-fi novel Children of Time may not be surprised

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.