🌟 I’ve recently moved to The University of Manchester! I'm advertising several PhD projects on plant–microbe interactions 🌱🦠🪲 🧪🖥️ Projects span experimental to computational. Diverse supervisory teams, collaborating across the UK Plant Microbiome community. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫 The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD Competition funded (worldwide) Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH @manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

I saw that this MacArthur and Levins classic was hurting in the Altmetrics, so I thought I should bluesky it. The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species | The American Naturalist: Vol 101, No 921 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I was recently on this cool youtube series that focuses on conservation across different aspects of society (e.g., management, academia, etc.) called Conservation Conversations. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXM...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... For an overview of all available positions, see: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio... @vvandvik.bsky.social

Come work with us! In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research! Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q @nordicoikos.bsky.social

If you squint, you can see Manchester!

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage? We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd! Please RT or forward! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

"Adversarial collaboration" is a great idea. There are a few hypotheses I've worked on that could benefit from this form of collaboration. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like that @britishecologicalsociety.org is creative with their "page not found" error message. Are they working with a Hutchinsonian, Grinnellian, or Eltonian niche concept?

I am honoured to be given platform to present our work on FOSSILPOL!🫶 Come join the seminar(!) but The slides and recording will be publicly available😉 Also checkout the website of the project 🔗https://bit.ly/FOSSILPOL!

We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Going to @nordicoikos.bsky.social #OikosNorway2025? We have great signup for our #workshop on how & why #ecologists could & should engage in #science-policy and #scicom, but can fit more, so pls consider joining us! @ipbes.net @vkm.no #artsdatabanken nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/oikos-...

@mikekaspari.bsky.social and Ellen Welti recently wrote an excellent piece on how rising carbon dioxide and other global changes are driving plants to become larger and more carbon-rich at the expense of their relative nutrient content - coined Nutrient Dilution (ND). doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Online now: Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution

Seeking a leader to support Nature-Based Solutions. Key research areas: ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change (past/present), sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation; ecosystem resilience; and the role of biotic interactions in biogeochemical cycles.

Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!

Destroyer is back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWM...

PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch [email protected]

I went to this back in 2019 in Dublin. Great opportunity!

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in applied ecology to devellop #climate and #nature budgeting approaches to support knowledge-based decision-making a the municipailty level. 🧪🗺️🌿🍄🐜 @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿 Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology. 📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15 Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...

New PhD opportunity available! Come work with Filipa Cox (primary advisor) and me on plant-fungal functioning in response to global change! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@russellgarwood.bsky.social and I have a funded PhD opportunity open using computer models to explore extinction dynamics with environmental stress. Please distribute and contact Russell or me for more information! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What can 44 whole-community transplant experiments from 22 mountain ranges tell us about mountain plant biodiversity? 🌿🏔️ Our first paper from the TransPlant Network is published today in @ecography.bsky.social ! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally getting around to an introduction post... My name is Josh and I'm a Lecturer in global change ecology at The University of Manchester. I mostly work with plants. My research interests revolve around the controls of species distributions and their responses to climate change,...