In this week’s REC Seminar, doctoral researcher Jasmi Näsäkkälä presented her talk: “Effect of drought and host population size on the rhizosphere microbiome of Plantago lanceolata” 🌱🦠 There is still much to uncover about microbial life in the rhizosphere!

Very excited to share this theme issue on Wild Plant Pathosystems 🌱🦠🌳, published today in #PhilTransB @royalsocietypublishing.org. Co-edited with @rstam.bsky.social @fletcher-h.bsky.social & @ebruns.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... Even better: it's all open access!

Let's prioritize installing solar panels on structures like car parks and building rooftops instead of agricultural land, as this approach embodies sustainable development.

Uusi taloustiedettä, ekologiaa ja tilastotiedettä yhdistävä hanke alkaa. Suuri kiitos Jane ja Aatos Erkon säätiölle rahoituksesta, ja odotan innolla yhteistyötä @annaliisalaine.bsky.social ja muiden kanssa🙏

We are so excited to receive funding from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation for our new interdisciplinary project bringing together ecology, economics, and statistics to better integrate biodiversity into societal decision-making 🌿 www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

The role of response diversity in promoting community stability depends on disturbance regimes and is shaped by species interactions. Stability following pulse disturbances was highest when multiple interacting species uniformly exhibited strong resistance or fast recovery

There are still a couple of days left to apply for a position as an Ecological Statistician in @rececochange.bsky.social!!

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

🌱🐝 New paper out!! Can flower-rich gardens buffer #pollination services in densifying cities like #Zurich? We find the answer is #trait dependent: no one-size-fits-all. #Urban green spaces need local floral richness and landscape-scale measures to support #pollinators doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Our new meta-analysis on effects of restoration practices on biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests led by @malintalle.bsky.social is out in Conservation Biology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...

We have a new preprint out!

We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

📣 Two weeks into hosting @evoldir.bsky.social and all is well! 📥 Original subscribers please check your inboxes and complete the opt-in process if you have not already done so 📆 EvolDir updates are temporarily being emailed twice weekly. Daily updates will resume ASAP! Thanks to all 🙏

In this week's REC Seminar, Nourhan Shafik gave a talk titled "Exploring the Interplay of Environmental Factors and Traits in Moth Communities and Species in Finland." 🦋 #envstat Nourhan is a postdoctoral researcher working with the EnvStat group lead by @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social.

Luonto muuttuu nopeasti. Mutta mitä tuore tutkimus oikeasti kertoo siitä? 🌱🦋🌍 Tule Tiedekulmaan 22.5.2026 Luonnon monimuotoisuuden päivänä - luvassa tutkittua tietoa, keskustelua ja toivottavasti myös oivalluksia! tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6... @rececochange.bsky.social

Missed the deadline? We’ve got good news! The abstract submission deadline for this year’s NSO-GfÖ Conference has been extended until 30th April! Join us at one of Europe’s largest ecology conferences—submit your abstract by 30 April 2026 here: 👉 vist.ly/4z76b #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

In today's REC Seminar, postdoc Joris Wiethase presented his talk titled "From drivers to gap-filling: modeling intraspecific trait variation with HMSC." Joris is a recent addition to the group of @annaliisalaine.bsky.social and the REC Team! 🥳

Only one week left to apply for the full professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research at our institute @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Please re-post.

@luke.fi is hiring! A position for Research Professor in Agro-Ecosystem Modelling is to be filled from November '26 onwards. Professor positions are filled for five years, with expectation of extension after positive evaluation. Apply before 5 May 2026 here: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

Advances in #mycorrhizal symbiosis research, including highlights from ##iMMM2025 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Viewpoint by Dallaire and Kameoka @alexdallaire.bsky.social

Come to work with us! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Eaten alive: how plants cope with sequential herbivory 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on this article by Delamore et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

Our paper with @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social out now in @oikosjournal.bsky.social 🥳 In the picture we are hard at work collecting data on Mount Calanda 🗻

Our Editorial in @embojournal.org ‘EMBO Press co-evolves with molecular ecology and evolutionary biology’ is available online now doi.org/10.1038/s443...

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target. rdcu.be/e6zB7

AI has huge promise for genomics -- but it has consistently failed at microbiome-based prediction. My new post on why simple models keep winning, where deep learning actually earns its place, and where the field is headed blekhman.substack.com/p/ai-keeps-f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A throwback to the REC Seminar a couple of weeks ago 📸—coordinator and science communicator Pinja Kettunen sharing her best tips for making scientific presentations more visually effective.

Two more days to apply for a postdoctoral position in Biodiversity Economics! DL 18.2. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision. See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#TansleyReview: Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Crawford et al. @kerricrawford.bsky.social @collingdice.bsky.social Figure created in biorender.com/iwso49n.

Very nice commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on our recent meta-analysis in @newphyt.bsky.social on plant responses to sequential herbivory. Thank you, Robin!

🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!

A unique postdoc opportunity to combine math, ecology and economics. Super interesting.

Open Postdoctoral Researcher position in Biodiversity Economics for a new collaboration between @rececochange.bsky.social and Environmental and resource economics group @helsinki.fi DL 18 February jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Do agricultural diversification practices pay off in the long run? Our new paper synthesizes 100+ years of evidence showing that diversification practices become more profitable over time and delivers growing benefits for soils, biodiversity, and carbon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does local adaptation shape community assembly? Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠 doi.org/10.32942/X2G... @erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social

A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant performance and the suppression of antagonists 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

REC:n johtaja @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kertoo BEF-hankkeesta, joka selvittää, miten biodiversiteetti ja ihmistoiminta säätelevät luonnon elintärkeitä ekosysteemitoimintoja. Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin. Subtitles also in english!

Meta-analysis is ubiquitous in ecology, but it is poor at determining which conservation interventions work in which contexts That’s why we’ve developed Precision Ecology, using methods developed in, eg, medicine to inform precise, data-informed conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22 subalpine meadows, 1 177 396 flowers from 163 taxa, 9707 insect pollinators. The results of this extraordinary effort are now published! 🐝🌷

Sustainable land management practices, such as carbon farming, offer promising alternatives to intensive agriculture. Carbon farming practices can support biodiversity when tailored to species group and context.

New paper led by @hannasusi.bsky.social shows biodiversity responses to carbon farming are highly context-dependent—varying by management, index and taxa 🌱🪱🐞🐦. Abundance is the most sensitive early indicator for detecting biodiversity impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New World Economic Forum Global Risks data provides a stark warning: While short-term crises dominate headlines, "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse" jumps to the 2nd highest risk over the 10-year horizon. The long term is sooner than we think. Science-based policies via IPBES are crucial.🌍

Out now 🥳 our study led by @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social! With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New online! Why 50-year studies are needed in a 3-year-grant world

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

I’m excited to share with you the first @rececochange.bsky.social newsletter, highlighting recent research on biodiversity change, policy-relevant insights and news from across the REC community 💚🌍 Read it here 👉 mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...