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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · 23h

"A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact often by a factor of five to ten or more. "
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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 4d

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share

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Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology

The Faculty of Science is looking for a full professor or assistant/associate professor (tenure track) in Plant Ecology. The aim of the professorship is to strengthen scientific research and education...

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 5d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

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The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 8d

New online! Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00091-4Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem services and their trade-offs and synergies with biodiversity at the landscape scale, explores traditional, contemporary and emerging land-use systems, and highlights strategies and challenges to achieve multifunctionality in conservation and restoration.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 8d

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 8d

Careful, buddy!

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 9d

⛓️‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential ➡️ buff.ly/oKfcOPd

By mapping system depth & identify leverage points, we reveal pathways to shift from unsustainable states to sustainable futures.

#Sustainability #LeveragePoints

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Demand4Restoration Madagascar @demand4restoration.bsky.social · 15d

🌳Since June 2025, #D4R teams have been travelling across SAVA, Boeny and soon Anosy.
🌱They are assessing the fauna, flora, soils and socio-economic impacts of reforestation to understand its successes and limitations.
👉In the long run, the objective is to develop a national restoration guide.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 15d

"Our findings demonstrate a gap between governments’ expected reliance on land and the role that land can realistically play in climate mitigation."

Offsetting failed, climate targets have massive amounts of CDR, and now some want to modify the atmosphere directly.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges - Nature Communications

Achieving net-zero climate targets requires substantial land for carbon dioxide removal. This paper quantifies the land area in countries’ climate pledges at approximately 1 billion hectares, often in...

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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · Sep 4

🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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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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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 20d

Putting medium-sized farmers on the map to move beyond the agribusiness vs. smallholder dichotomy. New paper led by Melina Faingerch & Matias Mastrangelo out in Ecology & Society identifying key groups of land-use actors in the Chaco 👉 ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Ecology & Society: Capturing the multidimensionality of land-use agents in a deforestation hotspot

Given increasing recognition that strategies to transition to sustainable land use should be context specific, structuring the diversity of land-use agents is important. This is particularly so for th...

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 23d

The @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a #PhD position in collections-based taxonomic or similar research, ideally focused on 'dark taxa' occurring in Denmark. The call is a broad one. Get in touch with a relevant curator if you're interested! 🧪🐝🪰💐🪱
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PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research

Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll

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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 23d

The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨Big news🚨

A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉

This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published

I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

cover of a "pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Centre for Development and Environment CDE, University of Bern @cdeunibe.bsky.social · 21d

🌱 In Savannakhet, Laos, CDE scientists mapped ecosystem services with surveys + spatial modelling. Their findings:
🔹Forests & shifting cultivation areas supply the most ecosystem services
🔹Diverse, multifunctional landscapes balance food security, biodiversity & cultural values👉 t.ly/ovuuG
#research

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trees are great, but we can't plant our way out of the climate crisis

There just isn't enough suitable land

Trees alone won’t save us: new study says forestation has less potential to fix the climate than hoped

Governments have pledged vast areas for new forests, but much of this land may be unsuitable.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Amazing! Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Sep 3

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Sep 2

Half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in Liberia, but in 2024, it lost more than 94,000 acres of humid primary forest, according to Global Forest Watch.

A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and…

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
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ATBC Code of Conduct

Click on the article title to read more.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 1

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Aug 28

Come work with us!

Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social

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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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