🚨Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are still OPEN. 👉Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via forms.gle/R1pTxmmxKwf2.... ✅ More at: www.sortee.org/upcoming

📢How do supervisory behaviours impact early-career researchers? Our preprint explores how scientific supervisors shape the wellbeing of ECRs. We analysed 2604 anonymous responses from ECRs across 65 countries🌍 to understand the impact of mentorship. This is what we found👇

Introducing * READMEBuilder * A shiny app that helps users build a high quality README to upload along with their data and code. Just install the package and run the build_readme() function to launch the app! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Comments and suggestions welcome!

Don't miss the chance to enroll! Application deadline extended until May 7 at 3 PM (UTC-3) Não perca a chance de se inscrever! O prazo para inscrições foi prorrogado até 7 de maio, às 15h (UTC-3)

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/postdo... #movingtonewzealand #movingtonz

#GoBelowground is going international again! 🇧🇷 This time we go to Brazil. #Functional #morphology #course Go Belowground! will bring students together to explore #storage organs, #clonal plants, and the hidden half of #plant life. #ExFuMo #ecology @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Today, we are sharing our newest report, "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data", which extends the open data practices originally designed for climate data in our 2023 report "Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data" to other disciplines. buff.ly/mkmMe2S

Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience #SORTEE

📢 First time in Brazil 🇧🇷 / Pela primeira vez no Brasil 🇧🇷 Special Topics: Go Belowground! Tópicos Especiais: Go Belowground! 18–22 May 2026, in person / presencial Apply 16–30 Apr / Inscrições 16–30 abr 20 spots/vagas Motivation letter in English.

🚨 🎉 Our CONSENSUS VIEW, “An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research,” is now out in @plosbiology.org 🎉 🚨 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Want to learn more about ecological stability with a hands-on approach? Join us in the next cycle of free webinars! On April 24, Jules Segrestin will talk about drivers of stability in time series. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and consider becoming an IAVS member!

On my latest #MeetPlantScientist interview for @botany.one, Dr Jason Cantley talked about his origins and interests, and about his commitment to mentoring the next generation of plant scientists! One of my favourite interviews so far! #Botany #PlantScience #SciComm 🧪 www.botany.one/jason-cantle...

New blog post!🚨 The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/PZcecxJ

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Get ready for the second webinar about open vegetation data, co-hosted with EVS! On March 27, Martin Večeřa, Salza Palpurina, and Ilona Knollová will show us how to get from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset. Join the meeting at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Help us spread the word about the #IAVS Early Career #Supporting Grant! Share this post so the news about the #OPENCALL can reach as many people as possible! 🔴 The deadline is March 30th, 2026 For more information, visit our website! 👇 iavs.org/page/YSCareerS…

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

New on the Belowground blog: What function? What type of organ? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/w...

The IAVS ESC Grant is now open❗ The application form is available on our website — don’t miss out on this chance! 🔴 Deadline: March 30th Make sure to apply in time! Let your career in vegetation science grow and bloom with us! Apply Here 👇 www.iavs.org/page/YSCaree...

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course

🔥 Postdoctoral Opportunity | Fire, Seeds & the Cerrado 🌱 The Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (UNESP, Brazil) is offering a postdoc position to study how fire regimes and climate warming shape seed traits and germination in Cerrado species. 👉 Learn more: tinyurl.com/hf9yd98f #Ecology #Traits

Pós-Doc | Postdoc position 🇧🇷 Modelos ecológicos de vegetação e dinâmica para risco de incêndio e manejo 🇺🇸 Ecological and dynamic vegetation models for fire risk and management 🗓️ Aplique até/Deadline: 25/01/2026 ➡️ Início/Start: 10/03/2026 📍 USP, São Paulo, Brasil 🔗 fapesp.br/oportunidade...

Back to work, this time, after sorting seeds, it's time to count the viable ones that already germinated. And the results is these little cuties 🤏🏻🌱❤️

New paper out. Check it at #AJB!

Seed sorting of native Cerrado species 🌱 #seedscience #seedecology #seeds

🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP) 3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology. Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional. 📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25 🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade... #Postdoc #FireEcology

🌱 New framework in plant ecology! Researchers propose 6 Belowground Persistence Types (BPTs) — classifying plants by woodiness, clonality, and resprouting ability. This whole-plant view reveals how species persist after disturbance and could reshape how we study resilience. 🔗 buff.ly/LgaPglR (MK)

🔥New review in WIREs Climate Change Proud to highlight the participation of Dr. Davi Rossatto, PI of the Biota-Cerrado on Fire Project (FAPESP 2023/16620-0). 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wcc.... #Cerrado #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Savanna

Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱

Smoke experiments going on in our lab! #SeedEcology #FireEcology #Seeds

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥 Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural. Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural. 💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0

What a week! In the last feel days LEVeg attend the 67th IAVS Symposium in Greeley, Colorado. Amazing experience — hope to see you all next year in Gijón! @iavs5.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social

And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Check out the new paper by our PhD student @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social (EN) Important implications for ecosystem functioning in fire-prone and disturbance-driven systems🔥 (PT) Novo artigo do aluno de doutorado do LEVeg: ecossistemas expostos ao fogo e a distúrbios🔥 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.pp...

Going to the field with @fealvarez.bsky.social to see the post-fire flowering plants - we found this cute one (Stenandrium irwinii)

Dr. Aline Bombo (@alinebombo.bsky.social), post doc in our lab, is now an affiliated professor in the Plant Biology postgrad program at UNICAMP! She’s advising MSc and PhD students, for more details check out the pictures . 📩 Contact: [email protected] 🔗 CV (Lattes): lnkd.in/d8xuQbQb

Calliandra dysantha a Cigana do Cerrado encantando o Cerrado

(EN) Exciting new publication with the participation of @alefidelis.bsky.social. Don’t miss it! (PT) Nova publicação com a participação de @alefidelis.bsky.social. Não perca!