🚨New paper out🚨 Grazing improves immune parameters and complete blood count in calves ☘️🐮🌿 www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/12/g... Published just before Christmas 🎄🎁 🧪

Two advertisements for PhD projects in our group at @uni-konstanz.de, including one in my recently funded project on the role of soil biodiversity in plant responses to drought. Deadline on January 12th. Sharing would be appreciated! More info here: www.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/kleunen/news...

Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @usyseth.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Je fais des recherches pour une chronique sur la détox à la rentrée, c’est quoi les dernières pratiques qui tournent dans votre entourage ? Toujours citron, artichaut, jeûne ou bien y a de la nouveauté ?

📢 Do you want to do a #PhD using #hyperspectral satellite data to observe climate influences on tundra vegetation in Sweden? With me and @robertgbjork.bsky.social at U of Gothenburg. Apply by 19 Jan 2026. bit.ly/44duvJI

The December issue is now complete and fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

#voxprimato #bourses Yes! La SFDP s’associe au congrès de @efp2026.bsky.social et offre ses propres bourses mobilité pour y aller! 🤩

If Swiss dairy relied mostly on grassland (little concentrate feed), we could feed 1M more people. Production would drop 15%, matching current surpluses. Cutting maize would feed 500K more. But small amounts of concentrate and maize help balance diets. www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/12/h...

Delighted to have been a co-leader of this research in Science Plant diversity in multispecies grassland mixtures outyields conventional management. Press release: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing. One of the world’s 15 most-publishing journals has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin english.elpais.com/science-tech...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar this week! Prof. Dr. Teja Tscharntke will share new insights on biodiversity-friendly farming without yield loss. 📅 Wed 3. Dec. at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social

🐄🌿 The #CallforSessions for the International Grassland Congress #IGC2027 (13-18 June 2027 in Leipzig) starts today on 28 November 2025! 📢 @zalf.bsky.social, @jki-research.bsky.social & @thuenen.de invite you to submit proposals. Info: www.igc2027.org#CallforSessions#IGC2027#Grassland #Research

Did you know that you may be able to publish your paper in our open access journals at no cost? At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research. buff.ly/irQPJaP

🚨 Our review on agroforestry and livestock production is now available in English! 🥳 Originally published in French, the editor selected it for a more international audience, and it's open access: productions-animales.org/article/view... 🎉 My 1st last-author paper! 🎉 #agroforestry #organicFarming 🧪

🟥 New paper out 🟥 Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity. With an amazing team: @valentinecology.bsky.social @davide-andreatta.bsky.social @foxnat.bsky.social & Franzi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Would you like to study #functional trait diversity and biogeochemical dynamics in rapidly changing #tundra ecosystems? Then this #PhD is for you! 👇 You will do fieldwork in #Alaska, #Svalbard and #Italy and work with amazing Matteo Petit Bon. Apply by Dec 19 herbivory.lbhi.is/2025/11/19/p...

L’agroécologie, une alliée pour la biodiversité et le climat Deux médias reprennent les résultats de notre étude qui montre que les fermes agroécologiques favorisent la biodiversité, le stockage du C, & réduisent les émissions de N2O ✅ www.geo.fr/environnemen... ✴️ up-magazine.info/lagroecologi...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰 @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

⚠️ Postdoc position on the #AgroForageTreeProject Economic assessment of inovative grassland-based livestock production #economist #agriculture #postdoc #agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: [email protected]

This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT. Why are we on repeat here? share.google/tX0kljiyYfOn...

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

I have a new role with J Zool 🔽, as Reviews Editor, along with Prof. Richelle Tanner. Please get in touch if you have any questions or ideas for a potential Review or "Perspective" article: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

⚠️ New paper out! Impact of Highland cattle #grazing on shrub #encroachment and plant #diversity in alpine grasslands. @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch #OpenAccess

Ce matin j'ai eu l'honneur d'être l'invitée de l'émission CQFD sur RTS la 1ère ! C'est génial d'avoir eu une longue interview où j'ai eu le temps de développer, nuancer, et raconter des anecdotes ! Merci à Cécile Guerin et l'équipe @armorique.ici.fr ! www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

⚠️ 🐬 New scientific critique of the Faroe Island pilot whale hunt: Our new welfare assessment published in Biology Letters highlights the negative impacts on pilot whales hunted in the #FaroeIslands & disproves claims that the hunt is swift and efficient. 1/3

🌳 Ever wondered how culture and nature evolve together? Our latest paper in People and Nature explores Eastern Europe’s ancient wood pastures—their ecology, heritage & resilience. A milestone from the IfaS & Babeș-Bolyai team of the Transylvanian Wood Pasture project 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

🇫🇷 Webinaire - L'agroforesterie en France - 06.11.2025 🇫🇷 Présentation des expériences acquises en France, où de nombreuses installations agroforestières sont déjà bien établies. Intervenant.e.s : Fabien Liagre (AGROOF), Sterenn le Guernic (FiBL), Martin Trouillard (FiBL) ▶️ shorturl.at/758Xw

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

‼️ Call for papers! We're looking forward to your submissions to our Special Feature on “Scaling laws in (vegetation) ecology” 🌿First deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2025 🌿Second deadline: Spring 2026 🌿Last deadline: Summer 2026

Annual #Agroecology Public Lecture Series is back! 🌾 Join experts in science, policy & food system transformation. 📅 Tuesdays, 16:15 CET 🗓️ Nov 4, 11, 18 💻 Zoom Learn how #Agroecology is key to a resilient future. 🔗 bit.ly/4hqQH8J #FoodSystems #Sustainability

Exciting ASAB news: increased grant money 💰💰 😍😍

I have learned to always question "veg data" taken by wildlife folks. Sorry, not sorry.

🌿 Meet the Partner: FiBL 🔬Led by Veronika Maurer, FiBL drives the science behind SCALE-it testing sustainable alternatives to copper, fertilizers, antibiotics, and more. A global leader in organic farming, FiBL turns research into solutions for resilient agriculture. 💚 #SCALE_it #HorizonEurope

The October issue is now fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

Professorship for Co-development of livestock-based mixed cropping systems 🐄🌾 ZALF + Universität Kassel Lead a research group at ZALF 🌍 | Teach in Witzenhausen 🎓 🌱 Want to co-design circular #organic #farming systems? #Agroecology #Sustainability #JobAlert #Agriculture stellen.uni-kassel.d...

Snow leopards have the lowest genetic diversity of all big cats due to persistently small population sizes throughout their evolutionary history, which may make recovery from human hunting and habitat loss challenging. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HM3350XeeBY

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

Interested in community-scale trait environment relationships? Check out commecometrics R package by Maria Aleja Materon Hurtado and A. Michelle Lawing! @tamueccb.bsky.social Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...

Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk. "Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands" All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

Join us on 20 October in Zurich for a panel discussion entitled 'Who Gets to Eat? Navigating Trade-offs in Sustainable Food Systems', co-organised by the World Food System Centre Part of UN-ETH Forum "Science and Policy in Turbulent Times" Details & registration un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...

Sex and body condition had limited impact on endoparasite infection and mostly impacted nematode infections. Provisioning and herd size were important risk factors, showing contrasting impacts on endoparasite infections at genus level. 3/4

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/ #RStats bookmark from old twitter

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...