Oliver Bossdorf
@bossdorf.bsky.social
Plant evolutionary ecologist @ Uni Tübingen. Genetic diversity, rapid evolution, invasions, herbaria. No expert on anything. Trying to be more human. https://uni-tuebingen.de/plantevoeco. https://uni-tuebingen.de/herbarium.
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Of the 8000 plant species introduced to cities around the world, about 300 are in cities on every continent and about 90 are basically in every city. Urbanization has selected for a common set of species that are the fingerprint of our activity: The urban florome.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Of the 8000 plant species introduced to cities around the world, about 300 are in cities on every continent and about 90 are basically in every city. Urbanization has selected for a common set of species that are the fingerprint of our activity: The urban florome.
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Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange
September 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange
So good to read these news! Keep waking up, USA, and show other countries how to get rid of a right-wing authoritarian mob.
What we know, 10:20pm
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
So good to read these news! Keep waking up, USA, and show other countries how to get rid of a right-wing authoritarian mob.
Wow this looks amazing. "A scientific critical thinking course". I want to take a break and do this now. sensibility.berkeley.edu/index.php?ti...
Sense & Sensibility & Science
sensibility.berkeley.edu
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Wow this looks amazing. "A scientific critical thinking course". I want to take a break and do this now. sensibility.berkeley.edu/index.php?ti...
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I spend my days studying nature — and still, moments like this take my breath away. Gold larches. Green Swiss stone pine. White snow. Grey rock. Perfect silence...
#Morteratsch Glacier forefield #Switzerland
#Morteratsch Glacier forefield #Switzerland
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I spend my days studying nature — and still, moments like this take my breath away. Gold larches. Green Swiss stone pine. White snow. Grey rock. Perfect silence...
#Morteratsch Glacier forefield #Switzerland
#Morteratsch Glacier forefield #Switzerland
Ok plant ecologists: best job ever!
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳
Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland
Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Ok plant ecologists: best job ever!
Now that's a field station!
Amazing profile of the new facilities at @ksrjokershill.bsky.social designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects.
azuremagazine.com/article/koff...
azuremagazine.com/article/koff...
Outside Toronto, the Koffler Scientific Reserve Finds True North
Montgomery Sisam’s Koffler Scientific Reserve is a surprisingly intimate marriage of building science and agrarian vernacular.
azuremagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Now that's a field station!
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!
Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social
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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
See you on 14-17 Sep 2026!
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#NSO2026 #gfoe2026
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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
See you on 14-17 Sep 2026!
nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...
#NSO2026 #gfoe2026
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Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hanusch et al.
@WileyPlantSci @mhanusch.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hanusch et al.
@WileyPlantSci @mhanusch.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hanusch et al.
@WileyPlantSci @mhanusch.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hanusch et al.
@WileyPlantSci @mhanusch.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social
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🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
...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!
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!
October 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
...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!
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,...
October 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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,...
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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
- 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
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
- 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
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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
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
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
Please repost!
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
Please repost!
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
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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
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
October 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
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
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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September 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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!
Please repost!
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!
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...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
September 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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!
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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....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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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...
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...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...