Thanks for a great talk on her PhD project by @anamaria-bu.bsky.social in our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social seminar. Check out her recent paper on the influence of island isolation on dispersal traits of bird communities on #islands globally: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Energiewende zwischen Kontinuität und Neustart - freue mich auf interessante Perspektiven und interdisziplinären Austausch aus Recht, Ökonomie und Politik zu einem Schlüsselbereich des globalen Wandels bei der Tagung der Stiftung Umweltenergierecht stiftung-umweltenergierecht.de

Unsere Mitglieder Sanja Bauer Mikulović und Niki Kilbertus und haben einen ERC Starting Grant gewonnen! 🧠💥 Wir gratulieren herzlich zu diesem großartigen Erfolg! 👏 🔗 erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-2025-starting-grants-results #ERC #Wissenschaft #Forschung

🔍 Wir suchen als Verstärkung eine Leitung für unsere Geschäftsstelle in #Berlin! 📍💼 ✍️ Hier bewerben: karriere.leopoldina.org/jobposting/e... #Job #Stellenausschreibung #Stellenangebot #Organisationsentwicklung #Personalführung #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Wissenschaftsmanagement

Thanks to our @christianzehner.bsky.social for presenting his PhD plans and first results at #gfoe2025. Exciting work ahead - great to have you on board!

Last week, EORC staff participated in and co-organized the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) Annual Symposium 2025, this year hosted at University of Würzburg. The symposium, attended by more than 600 people, covered a wide range of topics in ecology research with a focus…

I’ve had a wonderful week infiltrating the ranks of meteorologists! I’m always excited to share my own research, and I’ve learnt a lot about climatology, a subject with so much collaborative potential with ecology 🌦️🌱🦋🌍

Interested in #Macroecology? Join our (Special Interest group Macroecology of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social - see also here www.gfoe.org/en/specialis...) 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 to get few mails per month on relevant jobs, courses & meetings. Send me a PM or email with your email address!

I’m very excited to be sharing some of my work on quantifying microclimates and their performance during heatwaves at this years European Meteorological Society conference! I’m very much outside my comfort zone and looking forward to learning lots about climatology across scales 🕵️‍♀️🌍🔍

On the last day of #gfoe2025 our postdoc @esme-ashe.bsky.social emphasized the importance of written #biodiversity records for enhancing our understanding of biodiversity change.

🌟 We are beyond excited to present the GFÖ 2025 Honorary Medal to Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm! 🎉 His outstanding and future-oriented research in ecological modelling has paved the way for deeper insights into how ecological systems work 🌍✨ @ufz.de www.ufz.de/index.php?de... #gfoe2025

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Christin Wimmler, winner of the Horst-Wiehe Prize 2025 for best PhD thesis! Her work ‘Integrating Natural Root Grafting into Vegetation Dynamic Models’ advances ecological modelling and deepens understanding of plant interactions. 🌱 @tudresden.bsky.social #gfoe2025

1️⃣❓️How to get published in ecology❓️ A great direct way to learn & ask questions about/to journals (i.e. some of their editors) @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 2️⃣❓️Should we do a gofundme page for @uni-wuerzburg.de to get functional microphones?🤭❓️ Great activity!

Amazing keynote by Zuzana Burivalova at #gfoe2025 on soundscapes, African tropical forests, and conservation. www.soundforestlab.org/soundscapeba...

A pleasure to be (co-)supervising these young folks @globalchangeeco.bsky.social, together with @esme-ashe.bsky.social and @christianzehner.bsky.social

We are happy and proud about our MSc students Lars Landgraf and Karl Gehrig presenting posters on their thesis on landscape heterogeneity and thermal butterfly behaviour yesterday at #gfoe2025

Our PhD student @funbirdeco.bsky.social presented his recent work on the global variation of phylogenetic and functional bird diversity on islands at #gfoe2025 Thanks, Jan, for a great talk!

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 gfoe.org/en/specialis... If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

Great talk in the #macroecology session at #gfoe2025 by @pro-pink.bsky.social on global hotspots of butterfly diversity. Check out their recent paper in @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @bugecology.bsky.social for a fantastic #gfoe2025 keynote on „Living on the edge - what determines species range limits“!

Super happy to hear @bugecology.bsky.social as keynote on @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 talking about species range dynamics A topic he's also working on w sDiv support @idiv-research.bsky.social Check www.idiv.de/sred

We’re thrilled to announce that the GfÖ Annual Conference 2026 will be a joint event with the Nordic Society OIKOS (NSO), taking place in Odense, Denmark! 🇩🇰✨ See you on 14-17 Sep 2026! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic... #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

Congratulations to Volker Grimm on receiving the @gfoesoc.bsky.social Honorary Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology! So well deserved! #gfoe2025

Our postdoc Roberto Novella Fernandez presented his new work on phenological variation of functional traits in butterflies. #gfoe2025 Check out his paper on dragonflies @natcomms.nature.com, also highlighting the phenological dimension of functional diversity variation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A truly amazing highlight of #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de yesterday evening: Jan Haft and members of the Orchestras of Change with their „Climate and Wilderness show“

Very important & cool project on mobilizing historic bird monitoring data & analysing older trend baselines then by @kampjohannes.bsky.social #gfoe2025 If you know someone who might has old bird data from Germany, get in touch w Johannes See also here www.dda-web.de/monitoring/h...

#gfoe2025 has started, whohoo! Just enjoyed 2 great talks by @kampjohannes.bsky.social & @felixneff.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of considering longer time periods than just the last 2 decades to understand #biodiversity trends

One of the stars of the last few weeks has been the lovely water ringlet (Erebia pronoe), who have stunning markings and vivid colours when fresh. 🤩 They’re quite friendly really, if you don’t mind the tickling!

And that’s a wrap! Today I finished my butterfly sampling in the Alps, with a final visit to my highest elevation site (and probably my favourite). I caught my 606th butterfly of the month, and it’s time to head home 🦋🗻

Can we harness the knowledge of local or amateur entomologists to investigate long-term change? 🤔 I’ll be demonstrating how observations of the natural world can be translated into meaningful data and trends at @gfoesoc.bsky.social Thurs 12:15pm 0.001 📚🏫

All set! ✨ Würzburg is ready to welcome you to #Gfoe2025 next week! 🎉 Thanks to our amazing helper team for all their work in preparing the venue 💚🌍 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

Stay tuned for more updates and make sure to tag us with #gfoe2025 so we can feature your insights of the conference. We are looking forward to see you next week! @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Great! Ranked 3rd in Bavaria, 15th in Germany. 🥳And we are among the top 220 universities worldwide. That's what an internal analysis of the 2025 #Shanghai #Ranking #ARWU says about us! ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Ein kürzlich erschienener Fernsehbeitrag gibt Rückblicke auf das Anlegen unserer Experimentierflächen im Uniwald 🌳🍁 @uni-wuerzburg.de, Einblicke in die spannende Methodenvielfalt, die in unserem Projekt zum Einsatz kommt 🎤🎵📸🔬 und beleuchtet erste Ergebnisse. 🦉🐞🐝🦌 #BETAFOR #biodiversity

Forest bird communities 🦜recover -- and their choires captured by sound recorders 🎤🎶-- but biodiversity recovery is hampered in agricultural landscapes where tropical forests disappeared! New study led by @cofeuniwue.bsky.social published in Conservation Letters www.reassembly.de/news/impover...

Hibernate until April? No way! Here are the coolest events and festivals happening during winter semester 2025/26 in Würzburg ❄️ #biologieuniwue #wuerzburg #events #wuerzburgerleben #wuerzburglieben #studentlife #wintermagic #glühwein #music #festivities

After a rainy few days we’re been back in the field! After a slobbery encounter with some cows, we had a good day sampling. The encounter of the day was this stunning spurge hawk-moth larva (Hyles euphorbiae) 🐛 it was huge, the size of a finger!!

Today was one of the hottest days we’ve gone out sampling, reaching nearly 30C here in the mountains ☀️🔥 Many butterflies seemed to be hugging the shade today. One of my students spotted this lovely garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) similarly hiding in the shadows

Another sunny day at our highest elevation plot! Some nice finds today, lots of yellow-spotted ringlets (Erebia manto), and my first ever mountain clouded yellows (Colias phicomone) (sadly no good photos)! So many species out flying, it’s always a pleasure to visit (…except for the climb)

Another day out sampling butterflies! Many silver-spotted skippers (Hesperia comma) buzzing about, they’re in good numbers here! Otherwise had the pleasure of sharing a peaceful moment with this painted lady (Vanessa cardui), who seemed reluctant to leave after I interrupted their nectaring 🌸🦋

Yesterday wasn’t as successful in the field, cows on the sites makes sampling tougher, but highlight of the day was seeing the food chain in action with this small spider munching on a much larger Erebia butterfly. What a feast that must be, and incredible grip to hold them both on such a small stem

Today we visited two higher elevation sites, and made the most of the sunshine! ☀️ Highlights include this silver-spotted skipper (Hesperia comma) who seemed comfortable on my insect pot for just long enough to get a quick photo

Another sunny day out sampling butterflies in the Alps! Today we came across a site rich in silver-spotted skippers (Hesperia comma), but in the heat of the sun they were incredibly fast and restless, very hard to catch! 🦋💨☀️ luckily Erebia rarely seem to be in a hurry, so the sampling was still good

New Masters launching! 🤩 A 2 year program in Germany and Norway, all courses held in English. Amazing opportunity to learn about some of the most critical challenges the natural world is facing from leading scientists working in this field 🌍🌱

Some species can be challenging to ID, particularly if their traits are variable or similar to other species. So I was extremely excited to catch this lovely female Pieris mannii with textbooks traits! My first confident ID of this species, and first record of this species on campus 🤩✨🦋

Favourite catch so far was this lovely female brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni), which adorably tucked its head and legs away to do its best leaf impression when caught. I’ve not seen this behaviour up close before, and solidifies this species as my favourite 🥰

As of yesterday I’m back in the Alps investigating thermoregulation and thermal tolerance of butterflies, and joined by two masters students working on Orthopterans. 🗻🦗🦋☀️ So far the weathers been quite changeable, hopefully improving over the next few days

Another successful day in the field, lots of Argynnis species out in the sunshine. It was a particular pleasure to enjoy the view with this high brown fritillary (Argynnis adippe)

Thanks for a gorgeous works outing which we enjoyed recently in the „Frankonian Switzerland“ - on the river Wiesent and in the „Devils cave“ in Pottenstein. It‘s wonderful to work with such a great team!

Congratulations to our colleague @sabinenooten.bsky.social from the Chemical Ecology group at @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social on receiving the Marcella Boveri Prize of the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter, and on her great presentation of her work on insect #ecology and #biogeography