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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Aug 26

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · Jun 6

Tired of digitizing biodiversity data by hand? Consider using large language models to, for example, extract plant functional traits from unstructured texts: See bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... led by @viktordo.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de, @exeter.ac.uk, @ribesresearch.bsky.social

Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text

Premise Functional plant ecology seeks to understand how functional traits govern species distributions, community assembly, and ecosystem functions. While global trait datasets have advanced the fi...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jun 10

Don't forget to register for this interesting webinar happening tomorrow!

Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jun 2

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jun 2

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · May 29

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)

100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49

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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

www.wur.nl

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Feb 26

Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jan 22

Would love to also join if there is space - thank you!

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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · Dec 2

Author-pays model: Check out our recent post at peeer.net/news/ to better understand the growing inequities in global science associated with high Article Processing Charges in Open Access publications. #BetterPublishing #APC #OA

News

Author-pays model and growing inequities in global science (Dec’24) Scientific publishing, in a form similar to what we know today, has existed for hundreds of years. However, in recent times…

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · Dec 1

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

I would also love to be added to this starter pack 🙏

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

Signed!!

Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · Nov 17

Scientists:
Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal.
Link to the letter here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Link to sign can be found therein.
Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap.
Thanks!

EU post elections should revive the Green Deal 27.9.2024

Scientists urge EU policymakers to reinstate the Green Deal Laura Bosco1, E.R. Jasper Wubs2, Guy Pe’er3,4, Kris Decleer5, Marie Vandewalle3, Stephen Venn6, Volker Mauerhofer7, Róbert Gallé8, Vasilik...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

If there is still space could you also please add me :) thanks you!

Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

Been waiting for such a starter pack! Could you please add me as well? Thanks!

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

Could you please add me to this list if there is also space 🙏

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Nov 20

If there is still space I would also like to be added to the list please 🙏

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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT):

APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻

APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬

More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Application deadline: 1 March 2025

Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · Nov 12

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)

at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of

su.varbi.com

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jul 30

I will be presenting Perspectives from Early Career Researchers at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” at 4:15 pm in room 516D. Hope to see some of you there! #BetterPublishing

@peeer.bsky.social

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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join us after lunch at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” 2:30 pm in room 516D. #BetterPublishing peeer.net/events/

Events

3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology link 26 June 2024: NAVIGATING SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING (GLOBAL EDITION)Workshop description: Current changes in scientific publishing are among the most radical...

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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 29

Annual spending on APCs went from $910 million (2019) to $2.5 billion (2023) alongside "the strain on scientific publishing." Most of those fees went to for-profit groups.

Publish with non-profit societies, save billions, fund science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551
#OpenAccess #SciPub #AcademicChatter

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · Jul 27

Plant peeps at #Evol2024, be sure to swing by the Chicago Press exhibit to say hi to @ijpsjournal.bsky.social managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social.

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jul 23

We have an open PhD position at the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group (Wageningen University, Netherlands) in "Climate resilience and conservation of species interactions in a changing world" - please distribute widely and send to possible candidates :) www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jul 22

Really excited to be hosting the pre-conference Early Career Workshop on Navigating the Publishing System at #Evolution2024 #Evol2024 - a timely topic, and one that disproportionately affects ECRs. Hope to see some of you there! @peeer.bsky.social www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-an...

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