Just 5 days left to apply for our open PhD and postdoc positions in bee ecology!

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...

New opening for a postdoctoral researcher in PhenoBees project (Finnish Museum of Natural History) jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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!

📰Published📰Hotspots on cold mountains: hot flowers as pollinator refuges in mountain ecosystems⛰️ buff.ly/hN4jSFd 🧪🌍️

Uusi tutkimus @utu.fi #thermacell myrkystä: "Jo lyhyt altistuminen hyönteiskarkotteissa käytetylle myrkylle voi heikentää merkittävästi kimalaisten kykyä löytää takaisin pesälleen. Kimalaisten kyky suunnistaa takaisin pesälleen on koko yhdyskunnan elinehto." www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

Deadlines approaching. NHM Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social in Copenhagen seeks 3 new Tenure Track Assistant Professor & Curator's to help develop our 14 million global collections dating back 400 years. Lepidoptera 22/3 lnkd.in/eTUk9iA5 Bryophytes 23/3 lnkd.in/eEaXnNnb Mollusca 30/3 lnkd.in/eScSZYBq

I use LLMs every day but it never crossed my mind to replace a student with it. I felt very disturbed by this essay at so many levels. Though I often think how I can use it more responsibly and how I can teach about responsible usage of it. www.science.org/content/arti...

Abstract submission is now open for the Nordic-Oikos-GfÖ conference taking place 14-17 September 2026 and bringing together +1200 ecologists! 👉 Submit your abstract here: vist.ly/4uzt9 We look very much forward to receiving your contribution!

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 new review is finally out! 🌿 I’m especially excited because this is the first chapter of my PhD! Have a read to see what shapes the range limits of alpine plants besides freezing temperatures ❄️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This gallery of almost all EU bee species high quality photos is quite impressive: pollinatoracademy.eu/images

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!

Bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across 3 continents shows that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats negatively affected wild bee abundance and species richness in crop fields, while pesticides reduce functional diversity🧪🐝 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud friend moment ❤️ @agostinatorres.bsky.social The fact that I am not in BES does not mean I can be proud virtually 🤓 Thanks to onsite photo providers 😜 @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social

So happy to be back at the BES this year for #BES2025! I had a lot of nice discussions today already, and I'll be looking forward to the poster session this evening! Feel free to pass by poster nr: A-4.95 if you want to discuss species coexistence and higher-order interactions! 🌱🌿🌱

Welcome to BES2025! 💫  Today, we are so excited to welcome ecologists from 58 countries, encouraging innovative research and practice in ecology.  We have exciting talks and sessions ahead in the next days from agriculture, human's place in nature, AI to green finance and much more.

Announcement: I will start as an assistant professor of ecohydrology at the University of Oulu starting from January. Snow, microclimate and Arctic-alpine ecosystems still on focus. Stay tuned for soon-to-be-opened Postdoc and PhD positions! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I am absolutely thrilled to share my first chapter, published today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Results are summarised in the thread below, or you can read it OA here doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 1/7 🧪

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

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....

🐝 Pollinators are worth billions. A new study from the FLOWer Lab shows they secure over €2B/year for PT agriculture, with €1.1B coming from wild pollinators. Protecting them is essential for our food, economy and future. Read it: link.springer.com/article/10.1... News: www.uc.pt/fctuc/notici...

Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe? We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential. Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.

Another amazing paper from Tara Christensen - with a surprising result that nectar generalists (butterflies) are declining more than specialists. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change. ⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.

🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd @blancaac.bsky.social

I have a PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at @rhulbiology.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social to research the effect of forest diversification on understory forage provision for pollinators in an experimental mixed forest in Finland. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff... please share

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉 BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part: 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share ats.talentadore.com/apply/kasvie...

Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...

Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441... From the bird-feeding section of @helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social A short thread: 1/8

🧪🌍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....

Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10! ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...

Interested in Arctic research? Apply for a PhD position at Aarhus University, Denmark, to study #carbon dynamics in undisturbed high-Arctic ecosystems at Zackenberg Research Station, NE Greenland. Application deadline is 25 March 2025. #ICOS phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year! doi.org/10.26786/192...

Please share. I'm recruiting up to 2 grad students to join my lab this fall and work on litter inverts or mosquitoes in Puerto Rico (summer start date possible). I am NOT taking non-U.S. students. Either student should have interests and background in ecology of insects. Details in ad.🦟🐜🪳🇵🇷🌴

To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....

[new paper] Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development rdcu.be/d39od We believe that perennial crops are an overlooked player in food production & sustainability. Here we explain opportunities and risks, led by @cmarnu.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

Floral nectar: Fifty years of new ecological perspectives beyond pollinator reward. Nice article from #MartaBarberis and #MassimoNepi on ecological function of nectar chemistry although overlooks the role of nectar metabolites in mitigating disease in bees. usiena-air.unisi.it/retrieve/e5b...

The latest volume N°37 of JPE is now just published including four excellent articles, two short communications and a historical note (orbituary). Find it here: pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

Tiedotimme ilotulitusten haitallisista vaikutuksista vesilinnuille. Asiaa seurattiin viime talvena myös Helsingissä, ja vaikutukset olivat selviä. Lue lisää 👇

#Internship available! BSc or MSc in #biology, #environmental #sciences or related field, strong interest in #insects, fit for outdoor #fieldwork and fluency in #German or #English? Our #forest #entomology group is looking for an intern.🪳💡🐝https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1693/pub/1/index.html

A new position has been created at the Novo Nordisk Foundation- Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science. This is a great opportunity to shape the future research support for the discipline. Please apply. 🌐 apply.workable.com/novonordiskf...

Fly pollinators are even more vulnerable to rising global temperatures than bees. 🌍🐝🐞 Protecting all pollinators is essential for our ecosystems and food security." www.psu.edu/news/researc...

If you still don’t have an Xmas gift for that someone special, it’s hard to go wrong with a Malaise trap #entomology