Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪 Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

As extinction accelerates, scientists race to decode the DNA of life - unlocking secrets that could help save our planet’s biodiversity. Join Mark Blaxter, leader of the Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life programme, as he explains the genome sequencing of biodiversity. 📆 Nov 27 6pm buff.ly/nq2Gf04

PhD up for grabs in applied ecology focusing on species traits and ecological processes, supervised by @jmbecologist.bsky.social @orlyrazgour.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock, and me. Worth a look!

We are looking for a new colleague and department head for #Horticulture and Landscape #Architecture at #Colorado State #University! #highered #academicsky #agsky #Agriculture. Apply by December 31! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/169...

🚨Extended deadline for our plant identification tool survey!🚨 World Flora Online is planning plant identification features that could be incorporated into the WFO platform and we want to hear from you to guide our priorities. 🧵

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you! tinyurl.com/v2eces3s I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

Come join us in beautiful Western Norway! Ping co-supervisor team: @janhackel.bsky.social @vorontsovams.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Piper dispersed from South America first to Southern Africa, then on to South East Asia, where it spread across the Wallace & Lydekker's lines several times! Intrigued? The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/botl... (2/2) @linneansociety.bsky.social

Cool #Traits stuff from #SeasonallyDryTropicalForests in Colombia 🧮

Join us for our last @biogeography.bsky.social Funk seminar of 2025! This month, we will be meeting on Nov 19, 4pm UTC. Dr. Laura Pollock will tackle the issue of the Wallacean gap!

Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

Begonia is now up to 2200 accepted species! padme.rbge.org.uk/Begonia/

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Important new review paper about the polyploid "continuum"

Autumn colour gently touching oak savanna in Forest Park. Amazing that this is in the heart of a major US urban area. But perhaps not surprising as St Louis is aiming to be a 21st century Nature City... strategicplan.artsci.wustl.edu/making-saint... @livingearthcollab.bsky.social

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward. @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

How soil and climate interact to control biomass in #Brasil's #Caatinga, the largest dry tropical forest in the Americas. Congratulations to Alexandre Brunello, Tomas Domingues and colleagues for this tour-de-force. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

Are you planning on coming to @biogeography.bsky.social conference in Aarhus in January, 2026? Consider signing up for one of several great workshops being offered.

Here's just one example of a wonderful workshop to be offered by @billurbektas.bsky.social and colleagues during @biogeography.bsky.social conference. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from the experts in the field!

Jose Luis Marcello (U Jaén, Peru) está liderando los estudios de la dinámica y el impacto del cambio climático en los bosques secos en el Peru - un trabajo muy importante, y con coordinación con ForestPlots.net Descubre mas aqui: fb.watch/CjP0DvNbL0/

📢📢📢 #YSF2025 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES THIS SATURDAY OCT 25TH 11:59PM GMT+1 📢📢📢 If you are a student or early career researcher working on phylogenetics/taxonomy/systematics, join us online on Nov 14th for this year's (free!) Young Systematists' Forum! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

Just over three weeks left if you are thinking of applying for this amazing job!

Deadlines for travel awards to TIBS 2026 biannual meeting in Aarhus have been extended till Oct 31. If you're an early-career researcher, consider applying!

Just a week left to register for this month's Funk lecture. This time we will hear from Dr. Brett Scheffers. Register and tune in!

Deadlines for the Maria Sibylla Merian and Vicki Funk travel awards have been extended to 31 October. We highly encourage early-career researchers from the Global South and all doctoral students to apply! conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

doi.org/10.1126/scie... #speciation #hybridization #ornithology

Important new empirical paper on long distance dispersal in plant biogeography: "Our findings challenge the uncritical assumption that classical dispersal syndromes reliably predict the movement mechanisms driving dispersal" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌱 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)

Only 4 days left to register for virtual participation at "Understanding Life: Using Large-scale Biodiversity Reference Genomes" 27-29 Oct. 4 half-days full of talks and discussions on biodiversity genomics: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/unders... @eventswcs.bsky.social

Congratulations to our amazing colleagues in Peru! They just published several lifetimes of work: 236 new plant species collected from Oxapampa Asháninka Yánesha Biosphere Reserve. revistas.unsaac.edu.pe/index.php/RQ... If we are to avoid a 6th mass extinction we have to stop it in the Andes.

Don't forget to register for this month's Funk lecture! Click here to learn more: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

Functional traits can efficiently characterize and distinguish the complex communities where South America's largest biomes meet. Congratulations to Wesley Jonatar Alves da Cruz for his tremendous work untangling this critical transition zone! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Amazon #Cerrado

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Our friends at the World Flora Online need your help! They are asking all (potential) users to help them shape a useful plant identification feature to be added to WFO by answering a survey. Please use the QR codes in the image below to access the survey.

Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us! If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference! Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1 REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving our October Funk lecture! If you are interested in how micro-scale variation in climate and habitat interact to shape biogeographic patterns, you won't want to miss this talk! Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Happy World Coffee Day from the WFO! We are looking for a coffee expert, and we don’t mean your local barista. We want to form a Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for Rubiaceae, the coffee and quinine family. Swipe through to learn more about TENS, and send your favorite rubiaceae experts our way!

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics. Abstract submission closes Oct 25th! REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc systass.org/young-system...

"¿Bom Futuro" para Bolivia? El gigante de la soya brasileña deja en vilo a INPA, una isla de bosque de 30.019 hectáreas en la Chiquita revistanomadas.com/bom-futuro-e...

We have NEWS😱! Various members of @integradiv.bsky.social will participate in @britishecologicalsociety.org BES2025 and @biogeography.bsky.social TIBS2026. Want to know who and what we are presenting? Here you have all the information👇

Watch this if you can! It was a fantastically insightful lecture about what determines species distributions and patterns of abundance within them.

Help us spread the word! PhD offer @creaf.cat #islands #fossil 🏝️