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...

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

Tutkijat irtisanoutuivat ministeriön tilaamasta luontoraportista. He kokivat, että poliittisen ohjauksen sotkemalla raportilla voi olla ikäviä seurauksia luonnolle ja tieteen uskottavuudelle. Piia Elonen @hs.fi www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...

Empseb is simply the best. If you're a PhD student of evolutionary biology, do go there!

Kiitos @bsag.fi upeasta #MaaRatkaisee -tilaisuudesta, oli hienoa pysähtyä hetkeksi katsomaan, miten pitkälle ollaan jo edetty yhdessä 🌱✨! Työ jatkuu uudistavan viljelyn, hiilensidonnan ja biodiversiteetin parissa. Tallenne löytyy täältä, lämmin suositus: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Happy to see our analysis on scaling up temperature x nutrient interactions from populations to communities published in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social! 📈

PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Always nice to welcome new professors, and glad we are able to create FOMO to get former members to return to @helsinki.fi and bring their international experience with them

It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!

🌱 Monimuotoinen luonto on viljelijän arvokas liittolainen. Uusi opas Biodiversiteetti viljelijän apuna: näin luonnon monimuotoisuus voi vahvistaa tilan tuotantoa, vähentää riskejä ja lisätä peltoympäristön vakautta. @sitra.fi https://www.bsag.fi/biodiversiteetti-viljelijan-apuna/

Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!

Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

We are organising an AMR meeting next spring in Helsinki. Meeting includes evolution of AMR and environmental AMR sessions. Please submit your abstract now! Deadline Dec 1st.

Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th! Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

🌾 Overall, cover crop choice matters: diverse cover crop maximize ecosystem benefits, while herbicide-based management reduces them. 🏞️ Surrounding semi-natural habitats (grasslands, woodlots) amplify positive effects of local mgmt especially for natural pest control (Photo: S. Richart-Cervera)

New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑! Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

#Ecology at @helsinki.fi just jumped to #8 in the world in the 2025 Shanghai rankings and is the highest ranking discipline in Finland 🥳🥳🥳. So proud of my community 💚 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...

In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat

Posti toi tällaisen muiston menneisyydestä. Akateemikko Ilkka Hanskin sitaatti @yliopistolehti.bsky.social ”Kaikilla elävillä on oikeus olemassaoloon”. Kiitos lähettäjälle 💚 #biodiversiteetti @helsinki.fi

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU

Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals! In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi. esa.org/blog/2025/11...

Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe Relevant new paper by Schreefel et al in npj Sustainable Agriculture www.nature.com/articles/s44...