The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

Seriously @globalchangebio.bsky.social & @wiley.com ?! 😡🧪🌍

Are you at @ESA2025 today? Come see my poster (263) about small consumer impacts on plant litter impacts on decomposition!

Our new global study led by @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social is now out in @pnas.org. TLDR: Certain spore traits were linked to climate AND species range sizes! YES we can use traits to gain insight into env adaptations for microbes. #mycorrhizas #spores #NSFfunded www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🚨📃🧪 New paper out: "Impacts of diverse undersown cover crops on seasonal soil microbial properties". Rashmi Shrestha used the #TWINWIN experiment to show that undersowing crops with diverse plant mixtures, particularly including legumes has beneficial effects on soil microbial life and function 1/6

#Sciencejob Alert! Scientific career, experience in leading #research projects & international network? Strong expertise in #forest #ecology and/or #soil #processes and/or #tree functions? 🌳 We are looking for a new head of the forest and soil ecology research unit: apply.refline.ch/273855/1726/...

The blog about our Harper Prize-shortlisted paper is now up @journalofecology.bsky.social! Read on for a summary of what we found, and what got me into (and keeps me in) ecology! jecologyblog.com/2025/03/26/j...

‪🧪🌍 🚨📄published *Consumers Modulate Effects of Plant Diversity on Community Stability* 🪲🐛🍄🌱 led by Maowei Liang, with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and David Tilman. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⬇️Short summary in thread below🧵⬇️

🧪🌍A little cheer up between a lot of negative news: Our paper about the importance of food-web complexity 🌱🐛🪲🍄 for ecosystem stability has just been accepted! Great lead by Maowei Liang, together with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and Dave Tilman. Preprint: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

🥼 🖥️ #PhDalert! MSc in #environmental #science or related, experience with #field #data collection & strong background in #statistical #analysis? The Biogeochemistry research group is looking for a #PhD student in #Plant #Water #Relations. 🌊🌱 apply.refline.ch/273855/1709/...

Check out what our @bugnet.bsky.social PhD student Julien Bota is doing at our experimental sites in Davos! @slfdavos.bsky.social

Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...

📄🚨 Want to know about #Collembola feeding traits and how they relate to plant community composition? Exciting preprint from #PaNDiv available now! 🧪🌍 Led by Thu Zar Nwe, with @annekempel.bsky.social and many others not on 🦋 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

I am very much looking forward to reading and citing Michael Giolais newly published article "A trade-off between investment in molecular defense repertoires and growth in plants." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yesterday an Extreme Climatic Event hit Spain. It rained >400 l/m2 in Valencia in a single day. These kinds of events are increasing worldwide due to climate change. How do we force politicians to abandon fossil fuels before its too late?

DHARMa v0.4.7 #rstats package for #glmm residual diagnostics now available on #CRAN. Among other things, this version includes a new residual test for #phylogenetic correlation, as well as support for the #phylolm package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🚜Seraina Cappelli discusses the role of diversity in agriculture, the value of interdisciplinary research platforms and the importance of supportive colleagues for a successful career in science🤝 Read it here👇 buff.ly/4h7Il5i 🌍🧪

📄🚨Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils. New #TwinWin paper out in Nature Communications! Great lead by Luiz Domeignoz www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After a lot of office work, I finally got to the field again: disease survey at beautiful #cedarcreek 😃

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. Now featuring both faculty and postdoc positions. 🌍🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

What a beautiful plenary by Rodolfo Dirzo at #esa2024 about how great mentorship has led to insights into how interactions between hosts and their consumers are changing in the anthropocene

🧪🌏Now in @funecology.bsky.social: The effects of undersowing on barley disease. 1st results from #TwinWin Experiment. With L. Domeignoz Horta, S. Gerin, J. Heinosalo, A. Lohila, K. Raveala, B. Schmid, R. Shrestha, @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social , P. Thitz and A.-L. Laine doi.org/10.1111/1365...

"The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops" Details ⬇️ just forgot the 🧪and 🌏 for appearing in the right feeds 😅

"The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops" 📄soon to be published in @funecology.bsky.social Good news: single species can be used to suppress early season disease of barley, if these species are at sufficient abundance!

Are you interested in insect monitoring using cameras and AI and looking for a paid intern in the Swiss Alps? I am looking for a motivated candidate who helps installing Diopsis Cameras along elevational gradients, and advance the image analysis @slfdavos.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1630/...

My new video addresses an important topic that is rarely talked about: taking breaks (and taking the right ones for you). Please let me know what you think; how you worked this out for yourself, and whatever else you would like to add. #mentalhealth #AcademicSky youtu.be/iOx29TNWvQs?...

First field work day of the season! And there were so many oil beetles on the move!

Can complex interactions between trees and their natural enemies shape latitudinal tree diversity patterns in forests? Our article in Nature delves into this question by comprehensively testing the Janzen-Connell hypothesis using tree mortality data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint! Covering the bases: population genomic structure of Lemna minor and the cryptic species L. japonica in Switzerland. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A slow-fast trait continuum exists also at ecosystem level! I have seen Margot present this work at a conference and I am very excited to see this published now 😃

Today we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 📢📢🌏🧪 A good chance to read what our @ipbes.bsky.social experts have to say on women's participation & recognition in #STEM fields. ⬇️⬇️ #WomenInScience #BiodiversityConservation

Please spread this great PhD offer 🪲🕷️🐝 1. It's about temporal analyses of arthropod communities & their functions - a hot topic. 2. It's within one of the biggest diversity experiments out there - awesome PhD chapters guaranteed. 3. It's offered for 4 (!!) years. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/5...

Check out our latest blog post, written by Associate Editor mentee Karen Castillioni ✨ Karen reflects on her experience as a first-time attendee at the 2023 BES Annual Meeting, sharing highlights and photos from her time in Belfast 🌱 Read the post here 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/02/01/m...

Welcome to our brand new BugNet-Bluesky account! @annekempel.bsky.social @suzeveringham.bsky.social and @bota-jb.bsky.social are skeeting here about latest news from the BugNet research network 🐛🌱🦠🐌

The @slfdavos.bsky.social @bugnet.bsky.social team well represented #Biology24Zurich. Come to the poster of our master student Trix Junghardt to learn about first insights about drivers of herbivore and pathogen damage in alpine plant communities! -with @annekempel.bsky.social

A well-argued case from Peter Adler that showing up to events like seminars and department socials is likely an investment that pays off: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/s...

New paper out: Combined application of up to ten pesticides decreases key soil processes | Environmental Science and Pollution Research 🧪🌱🦠 link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-024-31836-x

🧪  Paper alert: *Nitrogen availability and plant functional composition modify #biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships* After four years and six journals this wonderful piece led by Noémie Pichon is finally out. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/6)

Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We had our first bison meat from North Star bison today. Some of North Stars bisons help maintaining the Cedar Creek prairies right next to the experiment where I am studying the role of trophic interactions. I guess I am now an apex predator in my study ecosystem.

#Biodiversity–#ecosystem #functioning (#BEF) relationships are well-established at the (plant) community level. In a #Oikos Forum led by Sarah Mayor, we argue for diversity effects at hierarchies beyond this classic levels of organization. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 1/3