Billur Bektaş 🍃
@billurbektas.bsky.social
Ecologist (PhD) | experimental ecology | ecological forecasting | alpine plants | steering committee member @ https://euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/
Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
Jane Goodall has been a role model for generations of women scientists and ecologists. She taught us that we can follow our passion beyond the roles society assigns us — that we can be compassionate while still being ambitious. She opened the path and paved the way with elegance. Forever grateful!
October 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Jane Goodall has been a role model for generations of women scientists and ecologists. She taught us that we can follow our passion beyond the roles society assigns us — that we can be compassionate while still being ambitious. She opened the path and paved the way with elegance. Forever grateful!
AI to impact panel discussion on! 🔥
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
AI to impact panel discussion on! 🔥
Fun fact: When applying to @newphyt.bsky.social NGS meeting, I mistakenly made a poster-style graphical abstract - I misunderstood the instructions 🤭 And, I got a talk so never used the poster—and now the same paper is accepted to the journal! Here’s that poster, paper out soon!
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Fun fact: When applying to @newphyt.bsky.social NGS meeting, I mistakenly made a poster-style graphical abstract - I misunderstood the instructions 🤭 And, I got a talk so never used the poster—and now the same paper is accepted to the journal! Here’s that poster, paper out soon!
Just not accepting that sumemer is over.
August 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Just not accepting that sumemer is over.
Super thanks to @lilianmelo.bsky.social for taking a photo during my presentation at NGS @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱
Now I have evidence 🤭
Now I have evidence 🤭
August 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Super thanks to @lilianmelo.bsky.social for taking a photo during my presentation at NGS @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱
Now I have evidence 🤭
Now I have evidence 🤭
So excited to be part of @newphyt.bsky.social NGS conference! It will be 3 days full of plant science from every possible facet🌱 I am truly grateful for this opportunity ✨
August 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
So excited to be part of @newphyt.bsky.social NGS conference! It will be 3 days full of plant science from every possible facet🌱 I am truly grateful for this opportunity ✨
Our legacy continues! Each time I see since 2019, when we established it, Autumn School of LECA grows even stronger, I have tears in my eyes. It is an awesome opportunity: leca.osug.fr/Autumn-Schoo...
July 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Our legacy continues! Each time I see since 2019, when we established it, Autumn School of LECA grows even stronger, I have tears in my eyes. It is an awesome opportunity: leca.osug.fr/Autumn-Schoo...
🌱 Thrilled to announce that my project “Back to the Future: Unlocking Herbaria with AI and Spectrometry to Understand Plant Range Shifts Under Climate Change” has been awarded the ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant! 🥳
In collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg, Maria Santos & Tiziana Koch.
In collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg, Maria Santos & Tiziana Koch.
June 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🌱 Thrilled to announce that my project “Back to the Future: Unlocking Herbaria with AI and Spectrometry to Understand Plant Range Shifts Under Climate Change” has been awarded the ETH Zürich Career Seed Grant! 🥳
In collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg, Maria Santos & Tiziana Koch.
In collaboration with Alessia Guggisberg, Maria Santos & Tiziana Koch.
@agostinatorres.bsky.social just converted me as well 😋 I am looking forward to buying my first mate😋
June 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@agostinatorres.bsky.social just converted me as well 😋 I am looking forward to buying my first mate😋
The challenge continues!
May 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The challenge continues!
Another reason why it is a challenge to work with alpine plants🤓 They are too small to fill the spectroradiometer measurement area🤭 So I have been doing a lot of patchwork🌱
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Another reason why it is a challenge to work with alpine plants🤓 They are too small to fill the spectroradiometer measurement area🤭 So I have been doing a lot of patchwork🌱
Starting a new project on measuring leaf reflectance on samples from 100 species along the Calanda elevational gradient🗻🌱 It is always so refreshing to enter in unknown realms especially if you receive a lot of help🫶🏽 (Thanks to Tiziana Koch and Maria Santos at UZH)
May 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Starting a new project on measuring leaf reflectance on samples from 100 species along the Calanda elevational gradient🗻🌱 It is always so refreshing to enter in unknown realms especially if you receive a lot of help🫶🏽 (Thanks to Tiziana Koch and Maria Santos at UZH)
First bird watching since many years! Lucky to have a great naturalist as a colleague to remind you the beauty of making new acquaintances in nature 🐣
@mikkotiusanen.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social
@mikkotiusanen.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
First bird watching since many years! Lucky to have a great naturalist as a colleague to remind you the beauty of making new acquaintances in nature 🐣
@mikkotiusanen.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social
@mikkotiusanen.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social
Today @ Harnessing Machine Learning for Breakthroughs in Plant and Environmental Sciences Symposium @ethzurich.bsky.social 🌱💻🧮 So much inspiration so many new ideas💡
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today @ Harnessing Machine Learning for Breakthroughs in Plant and Environmental Sciences Symposium @ethzurich.bsky.social 🌱💻🧮 So much inspiration so many new ideas💡
Today at BioSpace25 organized by European Space Agency with @paniw.bsky.social @patriciasingh.bsky.social 🌿 We represent European Chapter of @ecoforecast.bsky.social and showcase an application of iterative near-term ecological forecasting for Donana National Park shrublands 🌿
February 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today at BioSpace25 organized by European Space Agency with @paniw.bsky.social @patriciasingh.bsky.social 🌿 We represent European Chapter of @ecoforecast.bsky.social and showcase an application of iterative near-term ecological forecasting for Donana National Park shrublands 🌿
Last week I had the most amazing experience at Zürich Wine Academy and completed the first module of WSET to increase my knowledge in wine making and tasting. I finally decided to be a sommelier when I grow up 😋
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Last week I had the most amazing experience at Zürich Wine Academy and completed the first module of WSET to increase my knowledge in wine making and tasting. I finally decided to be a sommelier when I grow up 😋
Ecological Forecasting Initiative is here! 🦋 Follow them!
@ecoforecast.bsky.social
Also the starter pack: go.bsky.app/Qk9PfFw
@ecoforecast.bsky.social
Also the starter pack: go.bsky.app/Qk9PfFw
December 20, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Ecological Forecasting Initiative is here! 🦋 Follow them!
@ecoforecast.bsky.social
Also the starter pack: go.bsky.app/Qk9PfFw
@ecoforecast.bsky.social
Also the starter pack: go.bsky.app/Qk9PfFw
Today, I felt I am on the right track when the first student I supervised alone showed up with a beautifully written Christmas card. No achievement gave me such a feeling of fulfilment!
December 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Today, I felt I am on the right track when the first student I supervised alone showed up with a beautifully written Christmas card. No achievement gave me such a feeling of fulfilment!
Did you know that the seminars of the European Chapter of Ecological Forecasting Initiative are recorded? You can watch them later if you miss them!
euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
December 11, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Did you know that the seminars of the European Chapter of Ecological Forecasting Initiative are recorded? You can watch them later if you miss them!
euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
Ecological Forecasting Initiative newsletter is out today!
Find the EFI schedule at AGU, a celebration of new publications, notifications about upcoming seminars and updates from the international chapters and working groups!
myemail.constantcontact.com/Ecological-F...
Find the EFI schedule at AGU, a celebration of new publications, notifications about upcoming seminars and updates from the international chapters and working groups!
myemail.constantcontact.com/Ecological-F...
December 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Ecological Forecasting Initiative newsletter is out today!
Find the EFI schedule at AGU, a celebration of new publications, notifications about upcoming seminars and updates from the international chapters and working groups!
myemail.constantcontact.com/Ecological-F...
Find the EFI schedule at AGU, a celebration of new publications, notifications about upcoming seminars and updates from the international chapters and working groups!
myemail.constantcontact.com/Ecological-F...
Now, by studying the linear relationship between spatial and functional distance, we can detect signals from different assembly processes and have a proxy for their strength.
December 1, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Now, by studying the linear relationship between spatial and functional distance, we can detect signals from different assembly processes and have a proxy for their strength.