Postdoc Job offer for Arthropod Ecologists 🪲🕷️

Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social offers a 3 year postdoc starting in October latest.
Arthropod diversity, interactions & functions in different research programs, e.g. @bexplo.bsky.social

Apply by June 19th

www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Same book, but this guy seems to be sufficiently big for deserving the proper number of limbs

New entry to my popular series "Kids, bees have four legs and two wings"

Reassuring to see this in a job offer. A step in the right direction

Don't wanna be that "uh, I actually know how a bee looks like" guy, but this one makes me nervous.

Turns out my Christmas mug is indeed an exotic fish species. 🧑‍🎄🐟Thankfully, seek @inaturalist.bsky.social reacted so quickly and locked in the ID 🙃

New publications from the EnriCo RTG framework
Canopy structure explains arthropod #diversity better than tree species identity
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Admixing non-native conifers to native forests does not reduce canopy beetle #diversity
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Mixed forests mitigate ↘️ effects of non-native trees on arthropods, with structure & prey abundance as important drivers of taxonomic, functional & isotopic diversity
All 🪰🕷️🪲: doi.org/10.1002/eap.2921
Spiders & isotopes: doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05447-1
Isotopes: doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02105-1