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Justin Maxwell @l-tulipifera.bsky.social · 4d

We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636

Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Carbon

We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...

indiana.peopleadmin.com

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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 5d

On Oct 24 @ 7pm ET, Cary scientist Amy Zanne, in conversation with Cary President Josh Ginsberg, will bring guests into the rich and often unseen world of dead trees. For more information + to register: caryinstitute.org/events

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 15d

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪

A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Sep 7

After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

How bison boost the nitrogen cycle—and create healthier plants

The large herbivores stimulate plant growth by cycling carbon and nitrogen in the soils of Yellowstone National Park, showing benefits of free-roaming wildlife

cen.acs.org

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Baptiste Wijas @bapswijas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great PhD Opportunity based at UNSW Sydney to do work in Australia's beautiful aridlands. Studying all things from bugs to mammals that live out there. Opportunity to learn transferable skills such as remote sensing and DNA metabarcoding.
Contact Mike Letnic: [email protected] if interested.

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Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social · Jul 8

🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology

Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions

Climate change is expected to drive species uphill, poleward or into deeper waters. Yet many are shifting in toward the equator, downhill or to shallower waters, which is opposite to the expected dir...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Jul 8

A long-term experiment highlights the potency of top-down forcing in African savannas, suggesting impressive robustness to drought, and underscoring the value of multi-decadal experiments for disentangling interactions among multiple drivers of ecosystem dynamics. 🌍 buff.ly/7dVuVQS

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thrilled to announce our webinar series:

🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱

We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.

Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · Jun 24

Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…

Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · Jun 24

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:

"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"

Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

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Baptiste Wijas @bapswijas.bsky.social · Jun 16

Termites and dinosaurs once roamed together, now only termites are left! Amazing little creatures which have been around forever

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Jun 16

One fossilised log from southern Australia has spilled the dirt on termites’ very cold and very ancient past.

Ancient termite poo reveals 120 million-year-old secrets of Australia’s polar forests

theconversation.com

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jun 11

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jun 11

infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists

In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social ‬& @willcornwell.bsky.social ‬

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social

Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio

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John Dwyer @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congratulations to @jradford-smith.bsky.social for making the cover of @ecography.bsky.social with his stunning photo of subtropical #rainforest at Mt Glorious, less than an hour from Brisbane in beautiful Queensland (1 of 2).

Rainforest with buttressed trees, palms and a strangler fig in a shaded understory.

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Shinichi Nakagawa @itchyshin.bsky.social · May 29

The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857

With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell

We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · May 13

🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB

Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland shrubs?

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Tom Le Breton @tomlebreton.bsky.social · May 12

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Baptiste Wijas @bapswijas.bsky.social · May 6

Check out our new study looking at the recovery of termites' and fungis' role as deadwood decomposers! We found that termites did not recover their full decomposer roles after 12 years of rainforest recovery. Should we transplant termite mounds into regenerating rainforests?? doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Zoe Xirocostas @zoexiro.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hey y'all! I have a few ecology honours projects available in Sydney starting either in Spring 2025 or Autumn 2026.

Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼

Research

Available Honours Projects Exploring the reproductive ecology and cross-compatibility of two colour variants of Lantana camara Supervisor/s: Dr Zoe Xirocostas & Dr Yvonne Davila Lantana camara,…

zoexiro.com

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Angélica L. González @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social · Apr 3

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content

www.nature.com

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Baptiste Wijas @bapswijas.bsky.social · Mar 27

Glad my rusty iPad can be of service for the greater good!

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John Dwyer @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social · Mar 27

I’m back in the beautiful Bunya Mountains, this time with @lilydun.bsky.social on the lookout for amazing #trees to capture with #lidar. The stylish ☂️ keeps your 2010 iPad dry @bapswijas.bsky.social 😭😭😭

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Mar 24

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Mar 24

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:

A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology

Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59

For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Mar 21

New research shows how important ecosystem engineers (termites!) are affected by fire management 🔥 🧪

By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · Mar 20

'Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence' by @tomlebreton.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, @saltandbrine.bsky.social & @markooiecol.bsky.social

Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:

www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020

#AusJBotany

A close up of two mites on a bee larva inside the cell of a brood comb. A caption reads: "Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence. Read the open access article in Australian Journal of Botany. Photo: xiSerge from pixabay".

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John Dwyer @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social · Mar 21

The next exciting instalment from @jradford-smith.bsky.social on how climate filters rainforest tree strategies in the Australian subtropics. Now available in early view at @ecography.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

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