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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 2d

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 2d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 14d

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Bioinformatician / NGS Specialist (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 14d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 16d

Very interesting! I think of nature vs. nurture. And lots of debates in population and community ecology about relative importance of different processes.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 16d

Three dream jobs jobs for postdocs interested in community ecology or functional biodiversity! Synthesis postdocs in the the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social or @reassemblynet.bsky.social. Amazing data and networks of researchers, and wonderful colleages to work with!

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 20d

Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Experimental approaches and key outcomes supporting the Allelopathy Postulates relevant to competitive interactions and the novel weapons hypothesis (NWH). Numbers in red correspond to the 11 postulates summarized in Table 1. The full experimental framework comprises five sequential steps: (a) assess the natural concentrations of a potential allelopathic compound; (b) demonstrate its ability to suppress native vegetation; releasing resources that enhance growth and reproduction of the invader (e.g. light, nutrients, water); (c) confirm that the compound has limited autotoxicity to the invading species; (d) investigate the biogeographical basis of the allelopathic compound as a ‘novel weapon’ by demonstrating that native communities coevolving with the invader in its home range are significantly more resistant to the allelopathic compound compared to those in the introduced (away) range; (e) confirm that genotypes producing higher concentrations of the allelopathic compounds experience a fitness cost in the context of intraspecific competition but gain a fitness advantage under interspecific competition. Investigating the role of soil-mediated interactions (11) is transversal across different components of the framework

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Pierre Baduel @pierrebaduel.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

doi.org

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rrjunker.bsky.social @rrjunker.bsky.social · 21d

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services! We propose a conceptual framework and a roadmap for microbial conservation: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

www.pnas.org

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 26d

The excellence cluster Ocean floor @marumunibremen.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.de opens two strategic positions at the University of Oldenburg. Please distribute widely
Scientific Coordinator: uol.de/job723en
Data Steward: uol.de/job724en

Data Steward within the Excellence Cluster OCEAN FLOOR – Earth´s Uncharted Interface // University of Oldenburg

uol.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

I forgot the link: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

W3-Professorship in Functional Ecology (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

sorry, I did not see that

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

what about this link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Catalogue and identification key of the bee genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from the Palaearctic region

PDF | Available information about bees of the genus Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Palaearctic region is summarized. Forty-eight species are... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

www.researchgate.net

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well yes but that seems rather little compared to what the non-organic movement/Pharma did (see Nuremberg trials).

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 22

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Aug 20

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments.

scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

How I am thinking about GenAI in the classroom

Student use of GenAI is not the problem, it's a symptom of bigger problems.

scienceforeveryone.science

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 19

@gfoesoc.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social @plantecology.bsky.social @sgn.one @idiv-research.bsky.social @kombiota.bsky.social @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social @feda.bio

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 19

All positions are for 7 years. All are paid at E13 level (similar to postdoc). Except for 100% data manager, all positions are 50%. Part-time positions may be combined. Come and help us build this project, and become part of a large amazing network! More jobs/adverts will follow.

Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Please re-post: JOB ALERT! Five open positions in our amazing new @dfg.de cluster of excellence TERRA @terra-cluster.org on biosphere-geosphere interactions: (1) a coordinator, (2) a PR officer, (3) a science-dialog manager, (4) a training coordinator, (5) a data manager/scientist.

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · Aug 12

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 17

I have the impression that many colleagues sailed through higher education without these distractions, and certainly today's students. But maybe I am wrong, or it is just Tübingen? Or I was just too stupid to get a scholarship?

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Aug 17

Before I became a full-time academic, I worked in an electronics factory, a bakery, an auction house, a wholesale market (for years), as a first-aid instructor, in disability care, in nature conservation administration, and as a bar pianist. I wouldn't have wanted to miss these experiences.

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