I spend my days studying nature — and still, moments like this take my breath away. Gold larches. Green Swiss stone pine. White snow. Grey rock. Perfect silence... #Morteratsch Glacier forefield #Switzerland

Great PhD position available at University of Stirling, with some field work also in the Swiss Alps 🏔️ If you are interested in soil biodiversity and functioning have a look 👇

Coming to the #WorldbiodiversityForum in Davos in June 2026? We welcome abstracts for our session on Undestanding, mitigating and reversing insect biodiversity loss: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... @cscherber.bsky.social & Eric Allan

🔋🌿For our session at the #WorldBiodiversityForum, we welcome abstracts on the interface of #RenewableEnergy and #Biodiversity — from ecological impacts to societal dimensions. 📍 June 2026 | Davos, CH meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... @annekempel.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

So happy to see the first BugNet paper published 🥳! Thanks to all our collaborators, without you this would not have been possible! 👇

🌳 #JobAlert! Förster/-in oder Forstingenieur/in? Erfahrung in Stichprobenaufnahmen und sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse? Für die jährliche #Feldarbeit zum Landesforstinventar (LFI) suchen wir ab März 2026 für 8-9 Monate Unterstützung: apply.refline.ch/273855/1774/... #Forst #Wald

Jahrelange Vorbereitungen zur Pflanzung von 92'000 Bäumen: Warum dies gemacht wurde kannst du morgen Samstag, 13.9.2025 am Tag der offenen Forschungsfläche Stillberg in Davos erleben. Im Video: Aufnahmen von #SLF und #WSL aus den Jahren zwischen 1968 bis 1987. Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...

50 years of treeline- and ecological research at our @slfdavos.bsky.social research site at Stillberg in Davos. Great fun to present some findings together with @annekempel.bsky.social to a super interested audience and some junior scientists.

#Climatechange is causing #marmots to move, but not far: this is the conclusion of a recent study by #SLF biologist @annekempel.bsky.social. She investigated the altitude at which most marmots currently live and compared her findings with data from 1982. More information: www.slf.ch/en/news/clim...

🦫 Climate change has had only a minor impact on marmots near Davos – for now! Using a 40-year-old dataset, we resurveyed marmots along an altitudinal gradient. They now live ~86 m higher, but range margins are unchanged. More here: www.slf.ch/de/news/klim... @slfdavos.bsky.social #AlpineEcology

Driving up the mountain by car!!! today to install an insect trap at the @slfdavos.bsky.social research station Weissfluhjoch in Davos. What can you do if the cable car is not working? 😅 @wslresearch.bsky.social #INSECT

Das Buch "Wandern, wo andere forschen" begleitet euch auf acht teils hochalpinen Wanderungen in die #Bergwelt rund um #Davos und zu Orten, wo das #SLF forscht. Und eine App ergänzt den Wanderführer mit umfangreichen Zusatzinformationen. Mehr Infos und Bestellung: www.haupt.ch/.../wandern-... #CERC

Job alert! Open Research position in our group on "Tree line ecology in mountain regions" at @slfdavos.bsky.social Apply and become my colleague 😊 apply.refline.ch/273855/1731/...

New data paper @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology: 9 ecological traits for 1374 grassland arthropod species, collected over 10 years 🪲🐝🕷️ The traits cover feeding ecology, habitat requirements, flight capability and size.📏 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Our paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE! I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓 Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇

Just came back after a week of great discussions on biodiversity, disease and herbivory with wonderfull people. Thanks #sDiv #idiv for letting us think for a week and providing us with everything we needed! 👇

What does the lack of snow in the Alps has to do with self made blueberry- cake? My colleage @christianrixen.bsky.social explains this here 👇

#Sciencejob Alert! Top-Publikationen in der #Biodiversitätsforschung, Führungserfahrung & internationales Netzwerk? Die #Direktion der #WSL sucht per 1. Nov 25: Eine Forschungseinheits-Leitung #Biodiversität und #Naturschutzbiologie. 🌳🐝 apply.refline.ch/273855/1714/...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FrauenInderWissenschaft #FrauenInMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

Plant-disease interaction postdoc alert! Fletcher is a great scientist and super nice person - check it out 👇👇

Check out what our @bugnet.bsky.social PhD student Julien Bota is doing at our experimental sites in Davos! @slfdavos.bsky.social

We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇

This is why I love BugNet - discussing science with so many people around the world is so inspiring! Thanks for joining today! 👇👇

Our network is growing! In BugNet we investigate the impact of different plant consumer groups on plant communities. Check it out 👇👇

📄🚨 Want to know about #Collembola feeding traits and how they relate to plant community composition? Exciting preprint from #PaNDiv available now! 🧪🌍 Led by Thu Zar Nwe, with @annekempel.bsky.social and many others not on 🦋 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Here is a starter pack for #ExperimentalEcology ! I am surprised that my list is very short. Let’s grow it 🕸️ go.bsky.app/FNJ38h

Winter is coming! Love the view from our balcony when its all white and sunny 🗻❄️☃️🌨🥰

Great list of biodiversity-researchers @wslresearch.bsky.social

Still a few spots left on the Early Career Ecologists starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in! www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

Starter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/4JR67t6

Surely a great talk about why biodiversity matters, and probably a great example of how to do talks about biodiversity and outreach!

Want to see our BugNet sites in Davos? @bota-jb.bsky.social explains our transplant experiment to test how novel plant-consumer interactions affect plant fitness, nicely featured by @slfdavos.bsky.social! Check it out 👇

Take home 3 - Even if all populations are protected now, genetic diversity will continue dramatically declining for decades centuries. We need restoration. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.

#SLF -Wissenschaftlerin @annekempel.bsky.social und ihr Team haben im Sommer 2024 in #Davos Insektenkameras aufgestellt. Diese fotografieren automatisch die #Insekten, wenn sie sich auf dem leuchtgelben Schild befinden. Mehr dazu im Video: youtu.be/omFmS3aAu3c #CERC #Biodiversität

Thanks to @annekempel.bsky.social our @bugnet.bsky.social data collection workflow is now fully digitised which saves an incredible amount of time! Also, with access to our database in the field, we have all relevant information at hand… 🐛

Time to set up the almost highest insect trap in the Alps at the @slfdavos.bsky.social site Weissfluhjoch! WSL researchers investigate trends in insect biomass and diversity over the last 23 years. Curious to see what we catch this year! 🐝🪰🪲

Perfect day for fieldwork at our @bugnet.bsky.social site @slfdavos.bsky.social

Very nice public lecture by @annekempel.bsky.social about Biodiversity (and why it’s important for our beer) @ the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos! Btw: the economic value that pollinators bring to humanity is equivalent to the annual revenue from beer consumption worldwide! #WBF2024

BugNet family meeting at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos with @annekempel.bsky.social, Eric Allan, Jana Stewart, Sergio Rasmann and @bota-jb.bsky.social #WBF2024 🌱🐛🐌

Lots of fun and very useful information at the @slfdavos.bsky.social Mountain safety course today. Fieldwork can come - we are prepared! 💪

So great to get some helping hands with our @bugnet.bsky.social experiments from our intern Léon over the summer! Welcome to the 🐛🐌🦠team!

🫖 Teatime in @BugNet_research! Lots of green an roibos tea is packed and shipped to our collaborators to test the importance of aboveground insect🐛 , fungal pathogens🦠 and molluscs🐌 for decomposition 🍵

Are you interested in insect monitoring using cameras and AI and looking for a paid intern in the Swiss Alps? I am looking for a motivated candidate who helps installing Diopsis Cameras along elevational gradients, and advance the image analysis @slfdavos.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1630/...

Interested in doibg a master project with us @slfdavos.bsky.social ?👇👇

Wanna be part of the @bugnet.bsky.social project and investigate plant-herbivore interactions in a changing world? Join @annekempel.bsky.social and me @slfdavos.bsky.social and apply for this very cool paid 4 months internship during summer: m.refline.ch/273855/1613/...