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Esther Dale
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Kiwi interested in grassland biodiversity, plant evolutionary ecology, biogeography & all things botanical. I also hike & sew. Currently a postdoc at @wslresearch.bsky.social
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In the last two weeks, our G4B project (www.grass4b.com) had wide coverage (8! presentations) at two important events: the IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress and Forum Carpaticum 2025.
@euracalpenv.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu 👇
September 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Our Research Unit “Biodiversity and Conservation Biology” is looking for a “Head of Research”.
#Sciencejob Alert! Excellent Publications in #Biodiversity #Research, #Leadership Experience & #International Network? The #WSL Directorate is looking for a "Head of Research Unit Biodiversity and #Conservation #Biology” as of Nov 1st 2025. 🌳🐝 apply.refline.ch/273855/1714/...
March 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A bit more context on the two professorships that we are currently advertising:
- Human Geography and Global Transitions
- Geography of Global Environmental Change

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
Stellenausschreibungen
Hier finden Sie die laufenden Stellenausschreibungen der Personalabteilung
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de
March 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Deadline abstract submission: March 14, 2025

Join us at IALE 2025 iale2025.sav.sk within two sessions closely related to our G4B project:
S3G–Interdisciplinary Responses: Perspectives for Grassland Research and Conservation Projects
S4G–Remote Sensing of the Grassland-Dominated Landscapes
March 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This #InternationalWomensDay we spoke to Senior Editor @loraxcate.bsky.social about her research, her inspirations, and how we can help to #AccelerateAction towards gender equality within ecology 🌲 🌎 🧪

Read more here 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/03/04/i...
March 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Don't forget to vote for your favourite Bug of the Year, which is of course pepeke nguturoa (giraffe weevil).

bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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It's amazing to see how much landscapes changed. In the G4B project, we strongly believe that the biodiversity of grasslands depends on the past legacies of land-use management.
We look at historical maps, satellites & aerial imagery, landscape changes 🗺️, and relate them to grassland diversity.
February 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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There are still a few spots open on this course for anyone interested!
We’re holding an #interdisciplinary PhD course on ‘science of #conservation’ in South Africa this March.

It involves a range of lectures, group-work activities and a mini-project applying social and ecological tools in N Drakensberg.

Apply here (only a few spots left):
www.pe-rc.nl/TheScienceof...
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Niche packing, but not niche expansion, explains the co-occurrence of hummingbirds-visited plants | de Oliveira et al., Ecography, 2/2025

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Niche packing, but not niche expansion, explains the co‐occurrence of hummingbirds‐visited plants
Tropical mountains often harbour high species richness. Yet the mechanisms behind such high richness remain poorly understood. One prominent hypothesis for high species richness is niche partitioning....
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Laboratory of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the ETH Zurich is looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral position as part of the fully funded SNSF Consolidator project “Burgeon”.

Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Tectono-Geomorphic Processes and Mountain Biodiversity
jobs.ethz.ch
February 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Productive discussions on G4B grassland habitat and diversity remote sensing and protection with our partners at Humboldt University today. #G4B @g4biodiv.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @biodiversaplus.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Speaking about the grassland diversity, how it really looks like? This timelapse gives some insights from a hotspot in the Carpathians. (author V. Sifra). Few more timelapses at our G4B project website: www.grass4b.com @wslresearch.bsky.social @biodiversaplus.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A new paper, also based on data collected within the G4B project, co-authored by Erich Tasser, describes the complex shifts in the species composition of grassland ecosystems in European mountain areas over 70 years as a result of climate and land-use change. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
January 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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#Sciencejob Alert! Doktorabschluss #Umweltwissenschaften o.ä., wissenschaftliche Kompetenzen im Bereich #Bodenfunktionen und #Statistik sowie Flair für Kommunikation- und Teamarbeit? Wir bieten eine #Tenure Track Stelle in der Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeit! apply.refline.ch/273855/1681/...
December 13, 2024 at 10:34 AM
I'm a month behind on hearing about it, but Germany is convicted by European Court of Justice of inadequate protection of species-rich meadows
Deutschland wird vor Europäischem Gerichtshof verurteilt - NABU
In den deutschen Schutzgebieten sind 18.000 Hektar Mähwiesen verschwunden. Für den ungenügenden Schutz wurde Deutschland nun vom Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) verurteilt. Das Verfahren geht auf eine...
www.nabu.de
December 13, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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Hey look! The City University of New York (@cuny.bsky.social) is hiring a tenure-track quantitative ecologist.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... 🧪 #EcoECRcareer #NYC
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
December 2, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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#PostDoc Alert! Interested in tree-associated #fungi and being part of a team in #Switzerland and #Azerbaijan? Experience in #mycology & molecular techniques & good knowledge of #bioinformatics? Our #Phytopathology Group is offering a #PostDocPosition: apply.refline.ch/273855/1679/... #ciencejobs #R
November 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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We are looking for a post-doc in genomics and hybridization in white oaks! See here, I am collaborator in the project:

www.bfw.gv.at/wp-content/u...
www.bfw.gv.at
November 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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The Phytopathology group at @wslresearch.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc with experience in metabarcoding of fungi from the environment.
More info: apply.refline.ch/273855/1679/...
Post-Doktorand/in für Biodiversitätsstudie zu baumassoziierten Pilzen 80-100% (w/m/d)
Die Forschungseinheit Waldgesundheit und biotische Interaktionen untersucht den Einfluss biotischer Faktoren auf die Waldgesundheit und erarbeitet die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für den Schutz der ...
apply.refline.ch
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Wanted: an enthusiastic team member who is an experienced laboratory #technician, skilled in a variety of molecular biology techniques, to join our team.

Find out more: https://buff.ly/3V6u53a

Please only apply if you are eligible to work in NZ

#SciJobs
November 25, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA.
#sediments #aDNA #eDNA

For further details, please see:
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
November 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM