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Christian Schöb
@schob.bsky.social
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Plant community ecologist with particular interests in crops. Head of the Agricultural Ecology group at IICG-URJC and co-founder of Agroecology Solutions

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Peter Dietrich @drpeterdietrich.bsky.social · Dec 7
Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · May 20
🚨Today starts the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ organised by #CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Projects

👨‍🔬@schob.bsky.social , researcher at the #IICG, will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · May 17
🚨#CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Proyects welcome guests from all over the world for the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’

🗣️@schob.bsky.social of the #IICG will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
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Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · May 7
🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future!

➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i
Climate change: Children suffer the most
Millions of children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy ...
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Apr 28
🎉Congratulations to the Aprisco Experimental Station!🎉
🙌It has been accepted in the category ‘Research Infrastructures’ as a full member of the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures.
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Apr 24
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 14
One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Apr 10
A partir del minuto 24:30, Elisa Pizarro explica el trabajo con la conservación de parientes silvestres de los cultivos y el #CropDiversityExperiment, de @schob.bsky.social
¡No te lo pierdas! 👇🏽
La vuelta a la España digital - Episodio 9: Agromatch. Extremadura
Emisión del programa La vuelta a la España digital titulado Agromatch. Extremadura. Todos los contenidos de TVE los tienes aquí, en RTVE Play
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Agroscope @agroscope.bsky.social · Apr 10
Summer droughts reduce #grassland yields and forage quality. More drought-resistant than herbaceous species, certain #trees can provide supplementary #forage of good nutritional value in summer. #ClimateChange
➡️ www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/04/f...
Fodder Trees: a Supplementary Forage Resource for Livestock - Agrarforschung Schweiz
Sommerliche Trockenperioden verringern den Ertrag und die Futterqualität von Grünland. Gewisse Baumarten sind widerstandsfähiger gegen Trockenheit als Gräser und können im Sommer zusätzliches Futter m...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Apr 9
‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · Mar 24
Oferta de #trabajo para hacer muestreos de #POLINIZADORES en Madrid. El contrato de mayo a octubre, 20 h semanales y 800 euros mensuales.
Posibilidad de hacer el #TFM asociado. Seguro que @abejassilvestres.bsky.social o @buzzy-bee.bsky.social conocen interesados. Link en el siguiente post:
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Mar 17
Können geografische Herkunftsbezeichnungen (z.B. AOC) genutzt werden um den Anbau pilzwiderstandsfähiger Rebsorten attraktiver zu machen und Pflanzenschutzmitteleinsatz zu reduzieren?

Agrarpolitik-Blog, lead Lucca Zachmann

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Paper doi.org/10.1002/aepp...
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Mar 10
🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination

📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments
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Capitula of the 15 species of summer-flowering Asteraceae, tribe Cardueae, from the southern Iberian Peninsula considered in this study. In parentheses following species names are average dry mass of individual capitula, and abbreviations for the study site(s) where each species was investigated (SC, Sierra de Cazorla; SM, Sierra Morena; LG, lowlands of Guadalquivir River valley): 1, Carduus granatensis (2.68 g, SC); 2, Carlina gummifera (6.20 g, LG); 3, Carlina hispanica (0.52 g, SC, SM); 4, Carlina racemosa (0.26 g, SC, SM); 5, Carlina vulgaris (0.54 g, SC); 6, Carthamus lanatus (0.70 g, SC); 7, Centaurea calcitrapa (0.18 g, SC); 8, Centaurea ornata (0.45 g, SM); 9, Cirsium acaule (0.33 g, SC); 10, Cirsium odontolepis (5.98 g, SC); 11, Cirsium pyrenaicum (0.11 g, SC); 12, Cirsium vulgare (1.07 g, SC); 13, Mantisalca salmantica (0.10 g, SC); 14, Picnomon acarna (0.29 g, SC); 15, Ptilostemon hispanicus (1.23 g, SC). Species are depicted at different scales, black bar = 10 mm
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World Food System Center, ETH Zurich @ethzwfsc.bsky.social · Mar 4
Applications Open for Our Summer School Until 31 March 2025! 🚀

📅 Dates: 4 - 16 August 2025
📍 Base Location: ETH PBLabs

🌿 Field Trips & Excursions 📚 Case Studies 🤝 Discussions with Stakeholders

Read more: bit.ly/3EjJFmE

#SustainableFoodSystems #SummerSchool #ETHZurich

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Summer Schools
The call for applications for the 2025 Summer School
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Mar 3
📖Adrián Escudero, director del IICG, acaba de publicar un nuevo libro en @tundraediciones.bsky.social "Biodiversidad. Entre la urgencia por frenar su pérdida y su complejidad".
⚠️Puedes pedirlo ya en preventa👇
Bienvenido a Tundra Ediciones
Web de Tundra Ediciones
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Feb 27
@schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #trabajo, de #gestordeproyectos y de #técnicosdecampo para experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO.
ℹ️Más información👉[email protected]
🚨Inscríbete👉 www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...
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Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · Feb 27
El #biodiverso @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #TRABAJO, 1 como gestor del proyecto #COUSIN a tiempo parcial y 2 de #TécnicoDeCampo para los experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO en Monfragüe. Info: [email protected]
Inscripciones:
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louisad3.bsky.social @louisad3.bsky.social · Feb 20
Great fun hunting crop wild relatives in Taormina at the first annual meeting of the EU #COUSIN project in Sicily.
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Feb 14
‚Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms’

Relevant new paper by Wan et al. in Nature Communications

„…synthesis shows that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have broad-scale detrimental effects on all groups of non-target organisms tested.…“

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ole Seehausen @oleseehausen.bsky.social · Dec 28
Please circulate widely:

We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology

We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education

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Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social · Feb 8
Soil community ecology, i.e. how different soil organisms (in particular microbes) interact with each other, influence community composition and ecosystem functioning. How does the ecological interaction network in soils look like?
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Laura R. @lauratheexplorer.bsky.social · Feb 8
Totally blown away by today's agroecology meeting that multi- species ant interactions work as excellent pest control for coffee too. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Interactions between seed‐dispersing ant species affect plant community composition in field mesocosms
There is recent appreciation that interactions among mutualist species within functional guilds influence interactions with partner species in generalized mutualisms. Understanding the complexities o....
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Feb 3
👀Después de la pausa, continuamos con la Mesa redonda sobre Experiencias en el Panel LS8 "Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution", moderada por @schob.bsky.social. Participan @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social, @annatraveset.bsky.social, José M. Gómez y Martí March.
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · Jan 31
🎉El próximo lunes tendrá lugar la Jornada Informativa sobre las ERC Grants. Vendrán @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social , Ana Traveset, José María Gómez y Martí March, componentes de la mesa redonda "Experiencias Panel LS8 -Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution- ERC", moderada por @schob.bsky.social
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Sustainable Agroecosystems Group, ETH Zürich @saegroupethz.bsky.social · Jan 22
Sharing a great story on the power of transdisciplinary collaboration 🤝
🏫 The #RUNRES team reports on a successful innovation for improving sanitation systems in South African.
🎥 Check how this transformative journey for the students of Julukandoda Primary School : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVG...
Transforming Lives: Sustainable Sanitation at Julukandoda Primary School - RUNRES project 🌍💧🌱
YouTube video by SAE ETH Zürich
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jan 13
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’

As Joan Baez put it, "action is the antidote to despair"
I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Jan 5
Farmers are abandoning land worldwide. In Europe, for example, 120 million hectares have been left fallow since 1990.

What does and what should happen to it? Insightful new article in Science

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jan 4
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

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Kentaro K. Shimizu @kkshimizu1.bsky.social · Jan 1
A new open postdoc position in population genomics! Reposting appreciated. Demography of human beings and crop plants. Attached is a group picture during a lab retreat in Lichtenstein. Job description:
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Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social · Jan 1
Happy New Year to my colleagues from the COUSIN consortium and our followers. I am looking forward to the second year of research and innovation with crop wild relatives for a sustainable agriculture with all of you.
#cwr @ec.europa.eu @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social
on-farm trial of a barley population stemming from a cross between a modern cultivar and Hordeum spontaneum, a wild relative of barley. The population was provided by FIBL and the field trial conducted by APRISCO.
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