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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 1d

🏔️Glaciers are retreating fast. But what happens to the tiny food webs in the ponds they leave behind? This Greenlandic fieldwork (avoiding polar bear encounters!) sheds light

📷 © 1,2 Mariana Meerhoff 3 Thomas A. Davidson

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symposiumbes.bsky.social @symposiumbes.bsky.social · 2d

Aprendimos sobre biodiversidad en lagos con Zeynep Ersoy: “Unravelling food web topology in high mountain
lakes along environmental and anthropogenic gradients”

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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 4d

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

doi.org

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 3d

🏔️ Zeynep Ersoy, Javier Sánchez Hernández, Ignasi Arranz Urgell y Guillermo García Gómez, investigadores del #IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social muestreando en lagos de montaña. ¡Excelente trabajo! 🙌

Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 4d

My first sampling experience this year in mountain lakes was tough but magnificent 🤩 thanks to the team, Javi Sánchez Hernández @ignasiarranz.bsky.social @guillegargomez.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social

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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 4d

My first sampling experience this year in mountain lakes was tough but magnificent 🤩 thanks to the team, Javi Sánchez Hernández @ignasiarranz.bsky.social @guillegargomez.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social

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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 19d

Looking for openly available:
- before-after data in space
- with a restoration measure inbetween (e.g. dam/invasive spec. removal, urban green space creation...)
- min. 10 sites (quadrats / random places along a stream / ponds...)
- species data, env. data of some sort, GPS coordinates

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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 5d

Great fieldwork at Laguna Grande de Peñalara ⛰️

Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · 9d

Os dejamos unas imágenes de los muestreos en lagunas de montaña (Peñalara en este caso) que están realizando varios #biodiversos y #biodiversas y miembros del @iicg-urjc.bsky.social en el marco de los proyectos FreshRestore, FRESCO, MicroScale y UNRAVEL.

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 14d

📢La URJC publica el posicionamiento del #IICG sobre el Pacto de Estado frente a la emergencia climática...

👉Lee la noticia aquí: www.urjc.es/todas-las-no...
@urjc.bsky.social

🙌...¡y los medios comienzan a hacerse eco!

👀 Échale un ojo: iymagazine.es/noticia/1609...

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Diogo Veríssimo @diogoverissimo.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!

📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%

🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 21d

I will present sneak peek of my project this year 🤘 Looking forward to interesting talks from collegues

symposiumbes.bsky.social @symposiumbes.bsky.social · 21d

Buenos días!☀️

Presentamos la programación de la BES.
Recordando de nuevo que será del 7 al 9 de Octubre 🗓️

Os esperamos con ganas!

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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 23d

Testing my admin skills today 🫠 not there yet...

a screenshot of a video game with mario and yoshi

ALT: a screenshot of a video game with mario and yoshi

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EFYR-EFFS @effs-efyr.bsky.social · 23d

1/4 🔬💧 Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its water pollution rules.
📢 Freshwater ecosystems are collapsing - and outdated policies aren't keeping up.
#WaterPollution #EUEnvironment

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Alvaro Fueyo @alvarofueyo.bsky.social · 23d

Our new paper shows how a small Iberian stream, dry for 50 years, bounced back to good ecological status in <2 years after environmental flows were restored. 🌊🪱
👉 doi.org/10.1111/rec.70198

#RiverRestoration #EnvironmentalFlows #FreshwaterEcology

Back to life after 50 years: effects of environmental flow restoration on macroinvertebrate biodiversity and river ecological status. A case study of the Valseco stream, Spain

The construction of dams and reservoirs to meet increasing water and electricity demands has significantly altered many natural river flows, posing threats to the ecological integrity of freshwater e...

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Onur Doğan @onurdogan.bsky.social · 23d

🧬🪸🪼 Join our 12-month funded undergrad fellowship in environmental DNA #eDNA, remote (within Türkiye) or on-site! Improve wet/dry lab skills and contribute to biodiversity research.

Lab: Molecular Evolution & DNA Barcoding, Boğaziçi University

📩 [email protected]

Araştırma | Çevre Bilimleri Enstitüsü

arastirma.bogazici.edu.tr

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT

We got a new paper finally published @funecology.bsky.social, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, and presenting Share Trait platform for interoperable and reusable use of individual-level trait data in ectotherms.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · 24d

#NotíciaIRBioUB
🔬 Descobreixen 3 noves espècies de diatomees en basses temporals de la Península Ibèrica!
🌍 Biodiversitat en ambients efímers: Sellaphora temporalis, S. catalonica i Nitzschia curvirecta.
🔗 shorturl.at/cWbYf
📷Guillermo Quevedo-Ortiz
#Biodiversitat #Diatomees #FEHMLab

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Ecotoxicology lab RC One Health Ruhr @ecotox.bsky.social · Sep 2

New database on thermal tolerance on freshwater invertebrates and fish - major effort by Helena Bayat and many collaborators. Freely available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Anna Equisuany @anna-equisuany.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉

We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds.

Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻

📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

@iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

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Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL) @aillimnologia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Don´t miss the new #ALQUIBLA, Remember, in it you will find published works, job opportunities, conferences, courses, awards, divulgation of activities etc. www.limnetica.net/en/alquibla-...

Alquibla bulletin | Asociación Ibérica de Limnología (AIL)

www.limnetica.net

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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 #ArticleIRBio: Dr. Camille Minaudo (IRBio–UB) publish OLIGOTREND: a global database with 4.3M water quality & chlorophyll a records 🌍💧
🔗 doi.org/10.5194/essd...
Web IRBio: shorturl.at/YESFZ
#AquaticEcology #RecercaUB
🗺️ Map: 1894 sampling stations worldwide!

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Franck Courchamp @franckcourchamp.bsky.social · Sep 1

You are an Early Career Researcher? You work on ecological impacts of biological invasions? You love data?
We have a few places left for our InvaPact III workshop (Girona, Spain; Nov. 1–7, 2025). Please find the main infos 👇, and the full description 👉 www.biodiversitydynamics.fr/invapact3/

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BioM - InvaPact3

This is a short presentation of the InvaPact III workshop. Please contact me if you are interested or if you have further questions. Please do not hesitate to forward to likely candidates. A brief his...

www.biodiversitydynamics.fr

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Andy J. Green @drandygreen.bsky.social · Aug 28

PhD position available on climate change, cyanobacterial blooms, and human health @ebdonana.bsky.social We are looking for interested candidates, details attached. Please share.. @sibecol.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @aillimnologia.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social

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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · Aug 27

The day has come 💫 I will soon open up a 4-year PhD position @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social .

We'll be studying how global change impacts high-mountain lake food webs ⛰️. Details to follow. DM me if you're interested, and please share!

#PhDPosition #Ecology #ClimateChange #Limnology

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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions

Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...

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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hi #freshwater scientists! The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are advertising for a senior freshwater ecologist...could this be you?

ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #job #science #ecology

💦🦦🦠🐟🚣‍♂️🚣‍♀️🧪

Senior Freshwater Ecologist

Salary - £48,414 - £51,377 Hybrid working (50/50) Permanent We reserve the right to close this advert early if we find the right candidate, so we encourage you to apply early. We are seeking a highly ...

ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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