Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

3 weeks of field work in 3 different regions: DONE!✅ Thank you, Jana, Vanessa and Dominik, you were a great help! The tree trunk eclectors for BEClimWood-Bugs are now set up and insects will be sampled every 4 weeks until autumn. @bexplo.bsky.social

Today is the day! 🎉 I defended my MSc. thesis about in situ manipulation of whole Drosophila-parasitoid webs at the University of South Bohemia. 🪰 Thank you for everything, Fly Lab and @janhrcek.bsky.social! Now comes the next fun part: turning the thesis into a publishable manuscript - stay tuned

@annestte.bsky.social look! Some nice fungal activity on our BEClimWood logs!

Field update: Back in Hainich-Dün to set up and activate the stem eclector traps for BEClimWood-Bugs. 🪲 @bexplo.bsky.social @sebseibold.bsky.social @uniulm.bsky.social

Instead of macro-monday, let's do mountain monday. Yesterday's last ski-tour of the season! 😊 #skimountaineering

Over the next few years, this experiment will investigate how summer droughts (precipitation exclusion via roofs) and microclimatic variability (altered soil contact) affect deadwood-inhabiting diversity, associated processes, under different forest management regimes across different regions

Let's go!

Happy #macromonday after a long hiatus. Ran into this Carabus at Schwäbische Alb. #macrophotography

Attacked by a w... uuuh no, wait, Plagionotus while sitting under an oak. What a nice case of Batesian mimicry!

#Biodiversity🦜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can recover 📈 if conditions are suitable - in #nature #reserve protected by NGO @jocotoco.bsky.social --> Cover story in @nature.com 📔 Featured by many media e.g. @nytimes.com and (links)... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor... www.nature.com/nature/volum...

First week of fieldwork this year successfully completed! We've been extremely lucky with this nice spring weather while taking the first samples from the new BEClimWood experiment in Hainich at the @bexplo.bsky.social Big thanks again to this great team! First 🌷 were also popping up everywhere

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

We had fun building the rainout shelters for BeClimWood (which is also what my PhD project will be about, more info coming soon! 🪲💚) in Hainich. Thanks @annestte.bsky.social , @dan-rie.bsky.social and of course @bexplo.bsky.social

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

🐘🌳Pre-Print of our work in Kenya: Habitat heterogeneity responds to megaherbivores in East African coastal forests, but vegetation composition remains constrained by land-use history @mhanusch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 Abstract Call! 🎓 Our annual #StudentForum is back and coming to @newcastleuni.bsky.social on 30–31 March! Submit your abstracts to share your research & be part of the programme 💡 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb 👉 buff.ly/yQsZcMK #Entomology #StudentScience

Warming weakens natural enemies of insects. We found that higher temperatures strongly reduce the success of parasitoids – tiny wasps that help regulate insect populations in nature - and narrows their diet. Published in Ecology Letters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

#TigerBeetles — the #Christmas lights of the #insect world! #biodiversity (Fig. 1 from Duran et al. 2020) doi.org/10.3390/genes1…

This semester, our university was visited by incoming students for @plantecolcb.bsky.social's Quantitative Ecology Module. We had such a nice and vibrant community, interesting courses, seminars, excursions plus even some paper-writing in action. A big thank you to Šuspa and all organisers.

Hi! We have 1 wish for Christmas! That in '26 we reach 100,000 followers on @bsky.app Please help us by RTing your endorsement! Follow us! Birds of the World is a groundbreaking resource where you can find deep ornithological content on birds, stunning multimedia, and range maps for every bird!

📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences. Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective! ✅ Register Now! buff.ly/mwhmV9s @unisalzburg.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @fwf-at.bsky.social

Recently, Storygraph has been suggested to me a lot, so I made an account: stella_wimmer Is Storygraph a thing yet in the scientific community? I'm always looking for reading inspiration. 📚

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

Happy #macromonday! Some Physcia and Xanthoria growing on a tree. This November I am challenging myself to take photos of organisms I wouldn't immediately think of. I'm liking it so far. #photography #lichen

Painted Lady passing on by...

Today's #macromonday is a #mossmonday as well! I don't know much about them, but they're very aesthetic.

Join us TOMORROW when @julespretty.bsky.social will be leading an important discussion on 'How Story Creates Agency for the Nature and Climate Crises'. Register to attend online or in-person, followed by a drinks reception. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...

Project update & cool little milestone captured: After all the field and lab work, I am finally holding the first photo of "visible results" in my hands. These are the first gels of a PCR to detect parasitoids. 🪰

I used my time in Vienna to visit the Natural History Museum with a friend. 3 hours only got us through the mineral collection and a few fossils. Very aesthetically pleasing ones: #naturhistorischesmuseum #wien

More moments from the Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿 Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform. #ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking

It was a pleasure to participate in this workshop - heard interesting talks about current topics in Community Ecology, had nice discussions and presented about my current project. :-) Thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social and everybody involved in organising!

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Physicists have long been enamored with “beautiful” models—but this seems to have changed in high-energy physics. In his new paper, Martin King argues that experimental contexts strongly determine the pursuitworthiness of “ugly models” 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #HPS

Weekend activities: Colchicum autumnale - spotting in Slovenia. 🌱

Our faculty’s Ecology Seminar Series is starting again next week. Yann Hautier will be here in České Budějovice for the first one.

Our 4yo wants to keep some of our kitchen’s fruit flies as pets. Feels like I’m already l losing him to popgen.

Guess who graduated! (Spoiler alert: it’s not me 😄) So congratulations to my sister for finishing her degree in physiotherapy. 😊🙌🏻 #graduation #ceremony

It’s been a while since the last #macromonday. Here are some spiders we found during this semester’s first excursion. #photography #spiders

A paper in Nature Climate Change reports that there’s a bias in climate change health impact attribution towards direct heat effects and extreme weather in high-income countries, highlighting the lack of global representation in current efforts. go.nature.com/3KgMkQZ #medsky 🧪

Thesis update: I can’t believe it, my field work is officially DONE! From January until now I’ve collected and processed thousands of flies (and hopefully some parasitoids).🪰 Next step: DNA! 🧬 🧪

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution! We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata. Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress. Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #sexualSelectio

Buckle up buttercups...

Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪

Hooray! 🎉 Today marks THE LAST FIELD DAY (!) for the ERC-project of the Hrček lab and Higgie lab, as well as the last Australian field day for my thesis. Now all that’s left ito do is pack everything up and ship samples to CZ. Exciting times!

Had an amazing time spotlighting at Davies Creek. It was so nice to see my friends up in Kuranda again before I leave! And: we found Litoria nannotis!!

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