Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics

Please forward and share, specifically across East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia), where we specifically search for candidates #PhDPositions, #PhDOpportunity, #AcademicJobs, #Scholarship, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #CallForApplications, #HigherEducation, #ResearchOpportunity, #GraduateResearch

#JobAlert: Only 3 days left! @terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are: the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!

Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!

Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

🌳🐦‍⬛ Der neue Leiter der Forschungseinheit Wald- und Bodenökologie der WSL ist Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social. Mit seiner Arbeit möchte er verstehen, wie Wälder auf Umweltveränderungen wie Hitze und #Trockenheit reagieren. Wir gratulieren! www.wsl.ch/de/news/neue... #wald #waldökologie

2/ We produced the transgenic birch lines 20 years ago, nurtured & propagated them; until now. It shows: #TreeResearch takes time. It also takes time to ask new questions, such as chemical communication #VOCs Great work by #PeiyuanZhu for his PhD with @andrea.Ghirardo.BSky.social #PlantScience

Now, terra-cluster.org is online 😀. Keep in mind: only 2 weeks left till application deadline: Job details at tinyurl.com/5bbk4m29: you can apply for two 50% positions, if matching profiles. We look forward to your docs. Repost appreciated: #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #FacultyJobs #Hiring

Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/

#China knackt als erstes Land 1000 GW #Solarleistung – mehr als doppelt so viel wie alle EU-Staaten zusammen! 2025 erzeugt Chinas #Solarstrom fast so viel wie die #Atomkraft der halben Welt. Und Deutschland? Will bei der #Energiewende wieder bremsen.

🌾New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how adjusting the proportion of tropical legumes in C4-grass pastures can optimize radiation-use efficiency. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/p2kh #PlantScience

Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of a Subalpine Spruce Forest in Switzerland Over 26 Years: Effects of Phenology and Contributions of Abiotic Drivers at Daily Time Scales

1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that. What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward. (D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

From Jan 2026, @unituebingen.bsky.social will host a new @dfg.de cluster of excellence #TERRA to study geosphere-biosphere interactions, together with Uni Hohenheim and Senckenberg. There will be many opportunities, incl. several professorships. Stay tuned, and follow this account!

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

White House faith adviser Paula White says those who give her $1,000 or more before Easter will receive “seven supernatural blessings”: “He [God] will take sickness away from you. He will give you long life."

Sehr sehenswert: Monitor zum Kampf der neuen US-Regierung gegen die Wissenschaft, besonders Medizin- und Klimaforschung. Vizepräsident Vance: “Die Professoren sind der Feind.” www1.wdr.de/daserste/mon...

🌍🎥New film out! Discover how @econovoau.bsky.social tackles the ongoing transformation of the #biosphere & rise of novel ecosystems, shaping #biodiversity & #climatechange resilience for the future ⛈️🍂🌳💦🔥🌳🦬Watch here👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... 🌍🎥 #ecology #GlobalChange #rewilding #restoration

🌱🌞 #Landwirtschaft trifft Energie: Besucht uns vom 17. bis 26. Januar auf der Grünen Woche 2025 in Halle 23a, Messestand A11.2! Entdeckt die Möglichkeiten der Agri-Photovoltaik mit unserem interaktiven Simulator! 🎮 #AgriPV #Energiewende #GrüneWoche2025 www.zalf.de/de/aktue...

So viel Strom aus Erneuerbaren wie noch nie#Stromerzeugung#ErneuerbareEnergien

Check our two open PhD positions in #ecology at @econovoau.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... (note - as always in #Denmark - these positions come w/ full academic salaries) 🐎🍃🌎🌤️ #megafauna #vegetation #wildhorse #modelling

Nach Wahlwerbung für AfD: Elon Musk stellt neuen Sprung vor

🌿 Save the Date! 🌿 Mark your calendars: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (#GFÖ2025) will take place 1–5 September 2025 at the University of Würzburg. 📅 Stay tuned for more details! #Ecology #ScienceConference #Würzburg

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New paper in Bioscience: "Drought as an emergent driver of ecological transformation in the twenty-first century". Check it out 🧪🌏

Europa ist der sich am schnellsten erhitzende Kontinent in der #Klimakrise. Im Worstcase droht uns eine katastrophale Erwärmung von 7°C bis 2100. Europa ist auf Klimarisken, z.B. durch Dürren, Überflutungen, Hitze extrem schlecht vorbereitet. www.eea.europa.eu/de/highlight...

Job alert: 2 days left to apply for our technical research assistant position as data manager & IT specialist @ University of Würzburg. Cool job in our new team! www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/gce/aktuelle... #sciencejobs

Während die deutsche Polizei Wohnungen von Klimaaktivsten durchsucht, um dort gefährlichen Kartoffelpüree und orangene Farbe sicherzustellen, hissen „Demonstranten“ in unseren Metropolen unbehelligt verbotene Fahnen, glorifizieren Terror und wünschen Israel den Tod. Prioritäten.

WHO soll wegen Klimakrise Gesundheitsnotstand ausrufen

„Alle #Imker sind ein bisschen verrückt.“🐝 #Humboldtian Kirsten Traynor erzählt im Deutschlandfunk, wie sie von der Literaturwissenschaftlerin zur Imkerin und Bienenforscherin wurde und was sie an den Tieren besonders fasziniert. #ChancellorFellow #AcademicSky www.deutschlandfunk.de/bienenforsch...

Some autumn colors presented by insects 🥰