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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 2d

...then two days of discussions about designing our new long-term #geodiversity field experiment, with the help of some wonderful expert colleagues. Intense, but very useful!

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 3d

Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 2d

Last week was full of workshops related to our new @terra-cluster.org: first two intense days with colleagues from @unihohenheim.bsky.social and Senckenberg @sgn.one, to come up with collaborative research projects,...

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 5d

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 7d

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 7d

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 20d

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Bioinformatician / NGS Specialist (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 20d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 21d

Very interesting! I think of nature vs. nurture. And lots of debates in population and community ecology about relative importance of different processes.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 22d

Three dream jobs jobs for postdocs interested in community ecology or functional biodiversity! Synthesis postdocs in the the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social or @reassemblynet.bsky.social. Amazing data and networks of researchers, and wonderful colleages to work with!

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 24d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 25d

Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Experimental approaches and key outcomes supporting the Allelopathy Postulates relevant to competitive interactions and the novel weapons hypothesis (NWH). Numbers in red correspond to the 11 postulates summarized in Table 1. The full experimental framework comprises five sequential steps: (a) assess the natural concentrations of a potential allelopathic compound; (b) demonstrate its ability to suppress native vegetation; releasing resources that enhance growth and reproduction of the invader (e.g. light, nutrients, water); (c) confirm that the compound has limited autotoxicity to the invading species; (d) investigate the biogeographical basis of the allelopathic compound as a ‘novel weapon’ by demonstrating that native communities coevolving with the invader in its home range are significantly more resistant to the allelopathic compound compared to those in the introduced (away) range; (e) confirm that genotypes producing higher concentrations of the allelopathic compounds experience a fitness cost in the context of intraspecific competition but gain a fitness advantage under interspecific competition. Investigating the role of soil-mediated interactions (11) is transversal across different components of the framework

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Pierre Baduel @pierrebaduel.bsky.social · 25d

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

doi.org

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rrjunker.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social · 26d

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

www.pnas.org

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Sep 12

The excellence cluster Ocean floor @marumunibremen.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.de opens two strategic positions at the University of Oldenburg. Please distribute widely
Scientific Coordinator: uol.de/job723en
Data Steward: uol.de/job724en

Data Steward within the Excellence Cluster OCEAN FLOOR – Earth´s Uncharted Interface // University of Oldenburg

uol.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10

I forgot the link: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

W3-Professorship in Functional Ecology (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10

sorry, I did not see that

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10

what about this link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Catalogue and identification key of the bee genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from the Palaearctic region

PDF | Available information about bees of the genus Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Palaearctic region is summarized. Forty-eight species are... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

www.researchgate.net

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well yes but that seems rather little compared to what the non-organic movement/Pharma did (see Nuremberg trials).

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 22

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Aug 20

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments.

scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

How I am thinking about GenAI in the classroom

Student use of GenAI is not the problem, it's a symptom of bigger problems.

scienceforeveryone.science

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 19

@gfoesoc.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social @plantecology.bsky.social @sgn.one @idiv-research.bsky.social @kombiota.bsky.social @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social @feda.bio

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 19

All positions are for 7 years. All are paid at E13 level (similar to postdoc). Except for 100% data manager, all positions are 50%. Part-time positions may be combined. Come and help us build this project, and become part of a large amazing network! More jobs/adverts will follow.