Anna-Liisa Laine
@annaliisalaine.bsky.social
Professor of Plant Biodiversity at University of Helsinki interested in • Host-pathogen interactions • Biodiversity in a changing world • Plant-microbe interactions 📷 M. Kytöharju
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The original article with @michaelgiolai.bsky.social: A trade-off between investment in molecular defense repertoires and growth in plants
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
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Always nice to welcome new professors, and glad we are able to create FOMO to get former members to return to @helsinki.fi and bring their international experience with them
Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Always nice to welcome new professors, and glad we are able to create FOMO to get former members to return to @helsinki.fi and bring their international experience with them
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It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!
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🌱 Monimuotoinen luonto on viljelijän arvokas liittolainen. Uusi opas Biodiversiteetti viljelijän apuna: näin luonnon monimuotoisuus voi vahvistaa tilan tuotantoa, vähentää riskejä ja lisätä peltoympäristön vakautta. @sitra.fi
https://www.bsag.fi/biodiversiteetti-viljelijan-apuna/
https://www.bsag.fi/biodiversiteetti-viljelijan-apuna/
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🌱 Monimuotoinen luonto on viljelijän arvokas liittolainen. Uusi opas Biodiversiteetti viljelijän apuna: näin luonnon monimuotoisuus voi vahvistaa tilan tuotantoa, vähentää riskejä ja lisätä peltoympäristön vakautta. @sitra.fi
https://www.bsag.fi/biodiversiteetti-viljelijan-apuna/
https://www.bsag.fi/biodiversiteetti-viljelijan-apuna/
Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
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Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!
Kuinka paljon hyönteisiä maailmassa on? | Minna Pyykön maailma
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? ja miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? Minna Pyykkö kävi Viikissä metsäretkellä terrestrisen ekosysteemiekologian professor...
areena.yle.fi
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!
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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
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We are organising an AMR meeting next spring in Helsinki. Meeting includes evolution of AMR and environmental AMR sessions. Please submit your abstract now! Deadline Dec 1st.
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We are organising an AMR meeting next spring in Helsinki. Meeting includes evolution of AMR and environmental AMR sessions. Please submit your abstract now! Deadline Dec 1st.
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Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!
Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!
Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
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🌾 Overall, cover crop choice matters: diverse cover crop maximize ecosystem benefits, while herbicide-based management reduces them. 🏞️ Surrounding semi-natural habitats (grasslands, woodlots) amplify positive effects of local mgmt especially for natural pest control (Photo: S. Richart-Cervera)
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🌾 Overall, cover crop choice matters: diverse cover crop maximize ecosystem benefits, while herbicide-based management reduces them. 🏞️ Surrounding semi-natural habitats (grasslands, woodlots) amplify positive effects of local mgmt especially for natural pest control (Photo: S. Richart-Cervera)
New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑!
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Herbivory Modifies the Role of Spatial Processes in a Grassland Plant Metacommunity
We empirically examined how mammalian herbivory interacts with habitat size and connectivity to affect plant diversity in a natural grassland metacommunity. We found that herbivory increased plant di...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑!
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#Ecology at @helsinki.fi just jumped to #8 in the world in the 2025 Shanghai rankings and is the highest ranking discipline in Finland 🥳🥳🥳. So proud of my community 💚
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
ShanghaiRanking: University of Helsinki ranks 8th in the world in ecology, and the 1st in Nordic countries | University of Helsinki
According to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in 2025, ecology is the most successful discipline at the University of Helsinki.
www.helsinki.fi
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#Ecology at @helsinki.fi just jumped to #8 in the world in the 2025 Shanghai rankings and is the highest ranking discipline in Finland 🥳🥳🥳. So proud of my community 💚
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sust...
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In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat
Posti toi tällaisen muiston menneisyydestä. Akateemikko Ilkka Hanskin sitaatti @yliopistolehti.bsky.social ”Kaikilla elävillä on oikeus olemassaoloon”. Kiitos lähettäjälle 💚
#biodiversiteetti
@helsinki.fi
#biodiversiteetti
@helsinki.fi
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Posti toi tällaisen muiston menneisyydestä. Akateemikko Ilkka Hanskin sitaatti @yliopistolehti.bsky.social ”Kaikilla elävillä on oikeus olemassaoloon”. Kiitos lähettäjälle 💚
#biodiversiteetti
@helsinki.fi
#biodiversiteetti
@helsinki.fi
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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
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Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
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The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals!
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
esa.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals!
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
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Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe
Relevant new paper by Schreefel et al in npj Sustainable Agriculture
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Relevant new paper by Schreefel et al in npj Sustainable Agriculture
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Beyond the buzz: analyzing actors promoting regenerative agriculture in Europe
Relevant new paper by Schreefel et al in npj Sustainable Agriculture
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Relevant new paper by Schreefel et al in npj Sustainable Agriculture
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward.
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient
Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. O....
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward.
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!
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!
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Only few days left to apply for the full professorship in Functional Ecology at @unituebingen.bsky.social. We are looking for a female colleague to join our institute. Come and join us! Lots of opportunities for collaboration in a beautiful work place!
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Are you an early career plant scientist with 3-5 years' post-PhD experience?
Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!
Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025.
Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
#PlantScience
Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!
Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025.
Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
#PlantScience
October 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Are you an early career plant scientist with 3-5 years' post-PhD experience?
Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!
Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025.
Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
#PlantScience
Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!
Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025.
Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...
#PlantScience
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📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳
🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange
📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...
❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025
🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange
📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...
❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025
PhD Seasonal Timing of Egg Overwintering Insects under Climate Change - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen
PhD Seasonal Timing of Egg Overwintering Insects under Climate Change - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen
vacatures.knaw.nl
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳
🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange
📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...
❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025
🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange
📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...
❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025
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#Talvilintulaskennat alkavat marraskuun alussa. Perusta uusi reitti tai elvytä vanha reitti henkiin. Vuosittainen kirje talvilintulaskennoista kiinnostuneille löytyy linkistä 👇
tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseu...
Tervetuloa mukaan!
@birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social
tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseu...
Tervetuloa mukaan!
@birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
#Talvilintulaskennat alkavat marraskuun alussa. Perusta uusi reitti tai elvytä vanha reitti henkiin. Vuosittainen kirje talvilintulaskennoista kiinnostuneille löytyy linkistä 👇
tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseu...
Tervetuloa mukaan!
@birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social
tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseu...
Tervetuloa mukaan!
@birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social
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Online now: Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data
Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data
Biodiversity loss due to agricultural expansion and intensification is well documented. Accordingly, the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for transforming agroecosystems towards sustainable management. Yet, cultivated land remains a blind spot in global, open-access biodiversity data, creating knowledge gaps and reporting biases. Overcoming this requires tailored incentives, data integration, and farmer agency.
dlvr.it
October 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Online now: Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data