Next week in the EU-Parliament (11.11.2025, 13:30-15), we will discuss the future of sustainable farming in Europe and the alignment or non-alignment of the CAP with sustainability criteria, based on @agtransect.bsky.social and #CAP4GI.

Berater von Bundesagrarminister Alois Rainer fordern den CSU-Politiker auf, mehr gegen Risiken durch den Einsatz von Pestiziden zu unternehmen. Doch Rainer beendet ein Programm genau dafür. taz.de/Forderung-vo... #Landwirtschaft #Pestizide

🌐Geographic isolation doesn’t limit #dragonflies and damselflies in the #Alps. Local #habitat, not distance, shapes communities, suggesting odonates disperse freely across mountain landscapes. ⛰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

We need a culture and systematic infrastructures to encourage raw data publication (not only in soil ecology).

Some really good videos on the Oder fishkill provided by @igb-berlin.de youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I rarely go to ResearchGate and then I immediately close.

Unser Artikel zur Regionalen Biodiversitätsstrategie Ruhrgebiet in "Natur und Landschaft" ist nun open access verfügbar: bfn.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/in...

Even in these most challenging times river restoration in Ukraine is ongoing: freshwaterblog.net/2025/11/04/u...

Retreat of our working group in the new field station of Cologne University in Bienen.

The Freshwater Blog has featured another MERLIN product describing how grants are used for restoration. Timely topic, as the future of major EU restoration grants is uncertain: LIFE+ might be cancelled, the second GAP pillar is shaking... private investments in restoration will gain relevance.

Proof that climate change is real and horrible: www.bbc.com/news/article...

For all forest enthusiasts: This webinar will explore different drivers of forest degradation and restoration approaches, and discuss key success factors for forest restoration like inclusive governance forms and participatory approaches. 🔗 Register here: efi.int/policysuppor...

This week in Munich 🇩🇪: The DANUBElifelines team gathers at TUM to harmonize sampling methods across demo sites. Because better data = better restoration decisions. And it’s always great when the team meets face to face - ideas flow. #DANUBElifelines #MissionOcean #RiverRestoration #HorizonEU

Ich hab's mir heute in der Mittagspause angesehen. Was für ein grandioses Interview!

Ich habe nichts damit zu tun! www.spiegel.de/panorama/deu...

🌍 Where in Europe are peatlands used for agriculture? Just look at this 🗺️👉 greifswaldmoor.de/files/images... 🔗 Understanding where and how peatlands are used is key to understand opportunities for land use change and wet alternatives like paludiculture 🌱💧

Effective restoration of freshwater and wetland ecosystems requires collaboration, good governance, and integration of Nature-based Solutions into mainstream planning. 🔗 Do you want to learn how this is done? Check our Module 2 in the 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆: merlinacademy.thinkific.com

Die Erde hat jetzt ihren ersten Klimakipppunkt überschritten: bei den Warmwasser-Korallen. Das zeigt der Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Auch weitere Kipppunkte rücken bedrohlich näher. Was sonst so im Bericht steht, hab ich hier zusammengefasst: www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-kipppu...

When the water gets warmer, life gets out of balance. Researchers at the #UDE have published #ThermoFresh, the world's largest freely accessible data collection on the heat tolerance of freshwater species. 📸 UDE/Sebastian Prati 👉 https://www.uni-due.de/2025-10-07-thermofresh-heat-check

Der/die Nutzer(in) mit dem Namen Akrotelm ist auf einer Mission: die großflächige Entwässerung der Landschaft zurückzudrehen. Es wird noch ein bisschen dauern, aber die Erkenntnis wird sich durchsetzen.

Es gibt auch noch Lackpoliturmilch, Bitumenmilch, Farbenmilch, Wolfsmilch, Milchglas, Zementmilch und Waschmilch.

Funding opportunity for young scientists who have worked in Germany before & now want to return & start their group in NRW. Focus of this year's call is, broadly, biosciences. Competitive. Please share. www.mkw.nrw/themen/wisse...

Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart,& Maria Ressa discuss the good life in difficult times. If you don't have the time to read the whole piece, read at least the last two paragraphs. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

This is one of the worst news for Europe's nature in recent decades. #LIFE+ projects have been among the most successful instruments of the EU, and the only one fully dedicated to nature conservation and recovery. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

Field trip to the Scheld flooplain restoration during a BioAgora workshop.

💧 Maria Warter is launching her project ‘Water-conscious cities of the future’. Her junior research group wants to investigate how urban waters respond to human intervention and how restoration measures improve biodiversity, water quality and urban life. 🌿 More: www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/bode...

Fair Rules for Sharing Sequence Data - new paper in Nature Microbiology by @probstlab.bsky.social @alexjprobst.bsky.social, associated to @crc-resist.bsky.social. www.uni-due.de/2025-09-26-f...

Could all the media and social media writers, just for a day or a week or so, please stop to write anything about Trump? Just to please me. Thank you very much.

Exciting collaboration with colleagues from the US and Frederik de Laender - lead by S. Rumschlag and Mike Mahon - on how climate change has lead to alterations in US fish diversity over the last decades. Paper just out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Die Emschergenossenschaft, vielleicht der Wasserverband in Deutschland mit den herausforderndsten Renaturierungsmaßnahmen, sucht eine/n Gruppenleiter/in für Gewässerentwicklung und Lanschaftspflege. recruitingapp-5115.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/12...

Interesting opportunity to gain funding (up to 100 kEuro) for #damremoval or other river restoration acitvities in the Danube River Basin.

More dam removals done in @merlin-project.bsky.social!

Friedhofsrasen mit erstaunlicher Pflanzenvielfalt, darunter viele Relikte extensiver Landwirtschaft und von Sandheiden. www.tuexenia.de/publikatione...

How can agricultural policies support the uptake of water resilient farming practices? Policy brief by @merlin-project.bsky.social project-merlin.eu/files/merlin...

Obwohl ich es ja weiß, bin ich immer wieder schockiert, dass wirklich fast alle verdammten Senken in der Agrarlandschaft an die #Entwässerung angeschlossen sind. Hier 👇 n Beispiel. (und das sind nur die gewidmeten Gräben & Rohrleitungen, d.h. die ungewidmeten + Drainagen sind da nicht mal drin.😐)

Null results matter, but too often, they never see the light of day. When journals only publish splashy findings, we lose valuable science. That's why I'm excited about 2-pagers at @StacksJournal.bsky.social. Streamlined publishing for results that deserve to be shared. 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

Conference dinner of this year's meeting of the German Limnological Society in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum.

Great PhD defense by Andrea Schneider today. Biodiversity effects of modified grassland maintenance on dykes in urban areas. @merlin-project.bsky.social @valentinecology.bsky.social

Past to future 1/2 🌍 Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com perspective shows how archives, maps, art, oral histories & palaeo-records can enrich #biodiversity science—helping set baselines, track change & inform #conservation. 🔗 rdcu.be/eEcIt #history #ecology #baselines

💧 Wie können wir Binnengewässer und Auen wieder in einen guten ökologischen Zustand bringen? 📚Das Video ist Teil des interaktiven Lehr- und Lernmaterials auf Basis von #FaktencheckArtenvielfalt. 👉 Alle Materialien unter www.feda.bio/artenvielfalt-lernen

The Open Rivers Programme is seeking expressions of interest for a study collecting primary data on the ecological impact of small barrier removal projects: openrivers.eu/news/eoi-pri...

Über die Kriterien lässt sich streiten und genauere Kontrolle der Rechtschreibung wäre schön gewesen - dennoch ein lesenswertes Ranking mit (für mich) überraschendem Ergebnis. www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm...

Seit letzter Woche ist mein neues Lehrbuch „Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU - Vergangenheit, Reformen und Gegenwart“ bei Springer zum Download verfügbar. 400 Seiten Geschichte, Statistiken u Analyse der GAP bis heute sind hoffentlich ihre 40 € im Print wert 😊 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🚨 Call to scientists, research groups, and universities across Europe! The EC is considering “simplifying” core EU environmental laws — incl. Nature Restoration Regulation, Water Framework Directive, Birds & Habitats Directives etc. Submit your input & share: 🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

"Nach einer erfolgreichen Pilotphase mit 100.000 Exemplaren hat der #OTTO-Versand angekündigt, bis Ende 2027 alle eigenen Versandkartons 📦 auf einen höchstmöglichen Anteil an #Paludikultur -Biomasse 🌾umzustellen." /1/

another interesting paper from @crc-resist.bsky.social

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🌟 Module 2 of the 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 is live! In this Module you will learn about stakeholder engagement, partnership working and governance to support upscaling of Nature-based Solutions and freshwater and wetland restoration. Enroll for free: merlinacademy.thinkific.com/courses/modu...

US research groups are often named McMurphy lab or O’Brien lab. But if we do this in Germany, it reminds me in ‘Organisation Todt’, ‘Kampfbrigade Dirlewanger’ or ‘Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht’. And ‘Hering lab’ sounds like lukewarm convenience food. I prefer lab names that describe research topics.

🌟 New paper out, together with our team from @boku-ihg.bsky.social @boku-ilen.bsky.social and Hochschule Trier/Stoll lab. Take a look here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #UrbanEcology #ProtectedAreas #AutomatedClassification #InstagramResearch #ViennaStudy #Teamwork