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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2d

📖Published📖

The fluxible #rstats package provides tools to process #ecosystem gas fluxes in a fully #reproducible workflow, while offering full flexibility to the user 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 2d

@hanifkawousi.bsky.social, PhD student in the ECOBUDGETS project, spent this summer registering (plant)biodiversity and carbon storage in #Bergen. How that looked? What is he finding? Read about it here!

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Han sjekker naturen i Bergen

Det har gitt noen overraskelser.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 7d

Last chance, deadline TODAY!
#hiring #PhDposition #alpineecology #globalchangeecology
@vvandvik.bsky.social

Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 21d

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.

Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

@vvandvik.bsky.social

PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 13d

My first PhD paper is out!
It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way.

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fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way

Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 21d

The Centre for Mountains in Transition (CMT) is dedicated to understanding and addressing the impacts of climate and environmental change in mountain regions by bringing together climate science, ecology, hydrology, geoscience, and social sciences.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 21d

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.

Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

@vvandvik.bsky.social

PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 21d

🫐🍂 New blog about our DURIN adventures is up!
Read all about what our dwarf shrub team got up to during the autumn sampling campaign here:
betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-du...

Mika Kirkhus taking soil and root samples for fungal belowground analysis.

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · Aug 26

fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo!
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#rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes
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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also, our MSc student Elias wrote a blog post about his #fieldwork experience this summer! 🫐🧪🌐🏔️https://betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-blog-my-trip-around-norway/

Fieldwork blog: My trip around Norway – Between the Fjords

Picture from front left to right: Kristine Birkeli, Viljar Storvik, Vendula Spackova, Elias Skaslien

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our own Vigdis Vandvik will be Coordinating Lead Author on the upcoming seventh #IPCC report, co-leading the chapter on climate change, #biodiversity, #ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. A big, challenging, and very exciting task! @vvandvik.bsky.social

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 24

Temperature and Precipitation Jointly Shape the Plant Microbiome by Regulating the Start of the Growing Season

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@dina-intzandt.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @vvandvik.bsky.social

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Aug 25

#fieldwork is a key component of our research @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social - here’s a shoutout to all great colleagues & students who made it all happen this year! 🌐 🧪🏔️🫐 betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/field-season...

Field season 2025: it’s (almost) a wrap! – Between the Fjords

Whilst most of Norway calms down when the summer approaches; in our discipline of field ecology the months of June, July and August are the highlight of the action. This summer has seen yet again a great amount of project planning, data collection, identifying sedges without flowers, cooking leaves, and hiking across Bergen municipality.

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CeSAM @cesam-uib.bsky.social · Jun 27

Paradisets Bakside / On the Flip Side of Paradise: How our gardens are linked to the Anthopocene. An amazing documentary informed by @unibergen.bsky.social project 'Gardening the Globe'!

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On the Flip Side of Paradise

How is your garden related to the Anthropocene? This rather large question is the be starting point for the documentary “Paradisets bakside”, now available with both Norwegian and English subtitles on...

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Hanif Kawousi @hanifkawousi.bsky.social · Jun 21

The great advantage of having QGIS take care of creating randomly distributed sites for fieldwork. don’t think I could have picked a better spot myself to investigate the crossover from human made construction and nature! #Ecobudgets @uibcet.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social

In the perfect cross section between anthropogenic constructions and nature, we mapped the vegetation. One of the more unique compositions of species so far in #Ecobudgets.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 26

First round of germination recordings, and @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social and I were thrilled (& a bit relieved) to find hundreds of seedlings. Out experiment works! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 25

The #DURIN #fieldseson is ramping up - we are collecting plant growth, biodiversity, biomass, soil, and thermal tolerance data from #dwarfshrubs across gradients to understand their responses and ecosystem roles under a changing #climate. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social 🍃🏔️🌐🧪🪏📏

Two scientists in heavy-duty raingear, smiling, sitting amongst blueberry plants with a lot of sampling gear and data sheets. Fieldwork!

A person looking up at us over some blueberry bushes - smiling, wearing a moskito net

A student analysing a vegetation plot for bryophyte biodiversity. Surrounded by forest. His pro tip: laminated cards with samples of the most common species and their characteristic traits to help him keep on top of the ID-ing during long and sometimes wet field days.

Two scientists in the lab preparing samples fir thermal tolerance measurements.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · Jun 16

Reminding people that we are always open for new collaborations in our field sites and set-ups!
For more information, check out our website 😊
betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/collaboration/

#researchfunding #mariecuriefellowship

The photo shows two scientists in a forest bent over a metal frame, working on a vegetation inventory.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · Jun 12

In new project 'Ecobudgets' @hanifkawousi.bsky.social maps the biodiversity in Bergen municipality. We inventory in random spots, today high up on the hills over Svartediket.

Great day being out with @vvandvik.bsky.social & @dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social!
@uibcet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · Jun 8

#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations.
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife

GitHub - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox: Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto

Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 7

New project! @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social to map biodiversity and ecosystems in #Bergen. Very first randomly located plot in Hanif Kawousi’s #PhD is in Nygårdsparken! @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social #EcoBudgets #DarkDiv #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

#Fieldworkselfie - four scientists and a vegetation plot, demarcated by a mental frame. This plot is part of a random sample of 200 sick plots in Bergen Municipality. And this particular one ended up on a roadside in Nygårdsparken!

First day of field work! PhD student Hanif Kawousi starting his field work by sampliing a vegetation plot in an urban park. In this picture he is standing, smiling, with a tablet and weseing a yellow rainjacket and a blue hat. In the background, a water fountain… that’s urban ecology for you!

PhD student Hanif Kawousi and lab manager Dagmar Egelkraut eagerly messuring traits of plants …. sitting on a lawn in a park roadside curb,…

PhD student Hanif Kawousi talking to a passer-by on a paved park path. When doing urban ecology, remember to factir in some time talking to strangers :-) …for this plot alone, we had 8 people ask questions… #outreach

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 7

Update! @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social have now set up plots & OTCs, prepared and sowed seeds of 8 lowland species into the alpine, with/without warming & neighbours. Excited to see results over the summer!! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

Open top chambers (OTCs) are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally assess climate change impacts. In this picture we see a bunch of them newly set up in a mountain grassland

An Open Top Chamber (OTC( in a grassland, seen from above, with some plots inside. The plots are 50% vegetarion, 50% bare soil.

OTCs are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally Assessment climate change impacts.

Msc student Silje Steine has her ducks in a row! 😉. She is sitting at a table sorting many many little bags into neat stacks, in a candle-lit mountain cabin. The bags contain seeds to be sown as part of a field experiment.

MSc Student Silje Steine sitting in a meadow, bent over a vegetation plot, sowing some seeds. Lots of bags, equipment, recording sheets in the foreground.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 7

#FieldSeason update! The #DURIN project keeps @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social busy - this year we’ll be doing vegetation analyses & with @nibiolandskap.bsky.social #NINA and #NMBU we’be been out to prepare and discuss protocols. @droughtnet.bsky.social #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

A group of scientists sitting around a metal vegetation plot in a heathland - discussing protocols.

MSc student Viljar Storhaug in the field, looking through a hsnd-lens at a bryophyte he is learning to identify. Two supervisors, Mari Jokerud and Vigdis Vandvik, looking at him, smiling, a drought experiment in the background

Attila Nemes from NMBU sitting in the field, demonstrativt soil water measurement equipment

Researcher Liv Guri Velle with a vegetation plot

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Jun 4

The plots will indeed fit comfortably! #fieldseason #protip: try out new experimental setups in the office before heading out, to avoid unnecessary hiccups in the field! #ProfLife #PhD 🍃🌐🏔️🪏📏@dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

Two happy scientists, an open top chamber with three mock ‘plots’ made of paper, a meter stick, and a lot of general fieldwork mess in a university hallway

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · May 22

This spring's Student Poster Symposium at the Faculty of Science and Technology was a great success! It is so inspiring to see the great work students do, and have them gain experience in science outreach and communication.
@unibergen.bsky.social
Read more: www.uib.no/nt/178184/pr...

Prisvinnende læringsarena vokser videre

Torsdag 15. mai ble Student Poster Symposium arrangert for 13. gang – denne gangen med rekordmange deltakende emner og en tydelig ambisjon om videre vekst.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · May 19

Why being outside helps us learn better: a walk in the forest and excellent talk by @ragnhildgya.bsky.social at @pintsworld.bsky.social 🌿👩‍🏫

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