Christian Hof

@christianhof.bsky.social

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Ecologist, biogeographer, professor, ornithologist, father, choir singer, political animal. Head of the Global Change Ecology group at University of Würzburg, Germany.

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Environmental science 70%

Geography 18%

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Sylvia Haider @sylvia-haider.bsky.social · 12d

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴
Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team.
Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

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Daniel Lingenhoehl @lingenhoehl.bsky.social · 13d

Faszinierend, wie viele Menschen Katzen für unschuldig erklären, aber (u.a.) Rabenvögeln die Schuld dafür geben, dass wir keine Singvögel mehr haben (was Ökologen genau umgekehrt sehen). Aber Kommentare und Zuschriften sind erfreulich sachlich www.spektrum.de/kolumne/natu...

Natur: Die traurige Stunde der Gartenvögel

Die Zählung der winterlichen Gartenvögel bringt traurige Daten.

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks for a wonderful inaugural lecture event by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social & Sabine Fischer @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Packed lecture hall indicates the interest in bioinformatics & computational biology. Very happy to have you as colleagues @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

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Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology @cofeuniwue.bsky.social · 16d

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳

The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋

We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩

www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst - Bereich: Waldökologie - in Teilzeit / researcher [...]

Am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist frühestens zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle imWissenschaftlichen Dienstin Teilzeit (65%) befristet für 3...

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 21d

Vielfalt im Dorf, Ödnis auf der Wiese? Bayerische Wiesen sind laut einer neuen Studie der Universität Würzburg die eintönigsten Insekten-Habitate. #Artenvielfalt #Biodiversität 📷 Johannes Uhler
➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/pr...

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Sebastian Seibold @sebseibold.bsky.social · 22d

HIRING! We are looking for a new PhD student to work on insects in deadwood, effects of microclimate and land use. This is part of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social and will use a new experiment using rain-out shelters in different regions of Germany. EU driver´s licence required.

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 22d

Our first🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 seminar of 2026 takes place next Wednesday (Jan 28), at 12 PM CET with guest speaker Elisa Thébault from Sorbonne Université, iEES Paris!

Find our full schedule and zoom link here: www.
yomos.org/lunchbox-models-seminar-series

See you at lunch! 🦊

Image shows a poster for the 'Lunchbox Models' seminar series. It shows a sandwich illustration between green boxes with information regarding the seminar series. The left column has general information and the right side has specific information for the seminar on 26th of January. All the info is given in the main text and and can be found on the webpage of the seminar series (linked in posting text and QR Code in poster). Several other food item illustrations are used as decoration, e.g. onigiri, coffee/tea cups, and pasta on a fork.

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 22d

Very happy to have @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social as a guest at our lab to talk about ongoing & new collaborations. Thanks for a fantastic talk in the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter colloquium about his work that integrates biophysical modelling with macroecology to better understand diversity variation.

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Jan 11

TIBS 2026 conference was a great opportunity to keep disseminating the @peeer.bsky.social initiative and to present the field's New, Diamond 💎 Open Access journal @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social

Grateful to Michael N. Dawson for the leadership and trust to co-lead this new endeavour

#TIBS2026

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · Jan 10

I was delighted to receive a best poster award at the closing ceremony yesterday! Had a great time at #TIBS2026 and look forward to seeing all the wonderful biogeographers again in the future 🌍🌎🌏 @biogeography.bsky.social

Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congratulations to our @esme-ashe.bsky.social for winning one of the @biogeography.bsky.social poster award at #TIBS2026. Well deserved! 🎉

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 9

A wonderful #TIBS2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social conference has ended. Thanks to the @au.dk team for organizing! And thanks to our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social team for the great company! We now look forward to #TIBS2028 im Beijing!

Reposted by Alejandro Ordóñez, Christian Hof, Esme Ashe‐Jepson

Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congratulations to our @esme-ashe.bsky.social for winning one of the @biogeography.bsky.social poster award at #TIBS2026. Well deserved! 🎉

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Jan 9

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️

❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️

biogeography.pensoft.net

#tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Frontiers of Biogeography

 Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 9

The @globalchangeeco.bsky.social team (@christianhof.bsky.social, @esme-ashe.bsky.social, @nicolas-willems.bsky.social, @christianzehner.bsky.social & Lars Landgraf) at #TIBS2026 - we really enjoyed great #biogeography science & the exchange with wonderful colleagues from all over the world.

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 9

Great talk at #TIBS2026 by @dirknkarger.bsky.social on how adapting land use to climate change may mitigate global biodiversity decline. Along these lines: check out our new paper on land use and climate change impacts on global biodiversity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 9

Unfortunately our MSc student Mara @markusch.bsky.social couldn’t make it #TIBS2026, but her wonderful poster on grasshopper thermoregulation along an elevational gradient made it, and @esme-ashe.bsky.social did a great job presenting and explaining it.

Reposted by Christian Hof, Esme Ashe‐Jepson

Nicolas @nicolas-willems.bsky.social · Jan 8

I had the opportunity to present the first results of my Master’s thesis at #TIBS2026
My work focuses on grasshopper colouration along an elevational gradient. Great discussions and valuable feedback! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! 🦗⛰️

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 8

Dark matters! Our MSc student @nicolas-willems.bsky.social presents first results from his studies on colour variation in grasshoppers along an elevational gradient on his poster at #TIBS2026

Reposted by Christian Hof, Esme Ashe‐Jepson

Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Jan 8

How has landscape heterogeneity changed and how did this influence biodiversity trends? Our MSc student Lars Landgraf presented first results on his poster at #TIBS2026.

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 8

@ferransayol.bsky.social presents exciting results on the loss of functional diversity of birds on islands via extinctions. Check out their amazing Avotrex database on extinct birds and their traits datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... #TIBS2026

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thank you to those who spoke with me at my poster yesterday! The poster is still up for the rest of the #TIBS2026 conference so please come find me or email me if you want to chat

A photo of Esme standing with her poster

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 8

Holger Kreft @biogeokreft.bsky.social (replacing @nathalygr.bsky.social) presents their great work on plant functional island biogeography. Check out their gift database gift.uni-goettingen.de #TIBS2026

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 8

Now at #TIBS2026: the functional island biogeography symposium, with a nice intro by @biogeokreft.bsky.social. For some background on functional traits, check out our paper in @ecography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 8

Great talk by Barnabas Daru, @biogeography.bsky.social‘s MacArthur&Wilson awardee, on global plant biodiversity. Well deserved! #TIBS2026

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 7

Amazing talk at #TIBS2026 by @katschiff.bsky.social from @zurelllab.bsky.social on the drivers of bird occupancy trends in North America. Climate change appears to be more important than land-use change, at least for the last 30years.

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 7

„Explore the anomalies!“ - important conclusion of a great talk by Mark Lomolino - the 2nd awardee of the @biogeography.bsky.social‘s Alfred Russell Wallace Award at #TIBS2026

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Jan 7

With the first Alfred Russell Wallace awardee, Michael Donoghue, #TIBS2026 has started, celebrating 25 years of the Society @biogeography.bsky.social. Looking forward to three days of inspiring exchange as well as meeting old friends of the #biogeography family

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · Jan 7

Very excited to be sharing my recent paper on microclimate performance during heatwaves at #TIBS2026 today! Come along to poster 2023 to find out more about how insects experience extreme heat 🦋🐜🪲🔥☀️ @biogeography.bsky.social

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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · Jan 5

Tomorrow #TIBS2026 is starting! 🌐 We can't wait for the first workshops to begin!

📌To register, please join us at our Welcome Reception: you will be able to follow guided tours to better navigate #TIBS2026 venue 🗺️ get the program booklet 📖 personalize your name badges and meet colleagues !

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Jonathan Lenoir, Christian Hof

Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · Dec 22

Did we rewrite the laws of physics - or did our ML model predict things that are physically impossible?

Tomas Uxa just published a Commentary on our 'Global maps of soil temp', arguing the latter

I break down the what, the how, and the what next here 👇
the3dlab.org/2025/12/22/d...

Don’t mess with physics

Gather ‘round, my friends, because this one is important! A few years ago, we released our Global maps of soil temperature – a project that brought climate data much closer to the conditions …

the3dlab.org

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