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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 1d

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Employment | New York Botanical Garden

Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

www.nybg.org

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 7d

Desde el Gobierno de España se habilitado una consulta abierta a la ciudadanía sobre los puntos principales a incluir en un futuro Pacto de Estado frente a la Emergencia Climática.

Enlace a la consulta (abierta hasta el 15 de octubre):
forma.administracionelectronica.gob.es/form/open/co...

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 29d

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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CREAF @creaf.cat · Sep 5

Hi ha massa #bosc a Catalunya?

El nostre director Joan Pino adverteix que és una qüestió més complexa del que sembla 🌳

Parlem-ne:

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Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) @ceabcsic.bsky.social · Sep 5

🦟 After 20 years of monitoring, we present the first municipal map of #invasivemosquito distribution in Spain.🔍 A collective effort: scientific teams + citizens via @mosquitoalert.bsky.social All the info here 🔽 https://www.ceab.csic.es/es/

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Guille Peguero @guillepeguero.bsky.social · Sep 5

With the new academic year just starting I guess it’s a matter of bad timing too. I finished a review this week but declined another request today. So much class prep work and master thesis defences in the coming weeks…

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 28

Convocatoria para PhD en New York Botanical Garden. Ayúdenme a compartir! Proyecto estudiando filogeografía de plantas de rio y modelos de conección de ríos luego del levantamiento del Istmo de Panama.
Interesados en evolución de plantas Neotropicales💦👇
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Opportunities

GRADUATE STUDENTS I will be recruiting a PhD student for Fall of 2026. This position is under an NSF funded grant for research in Panama, Costa Rica, and Colombia, aiming to investigate the timing...

anamariabedoya.weebly.com

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Employment | New York Botanical Garden

Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

www.nybg.org

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Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture?

We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.

(Please share with #eDNA folks!)

www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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CREAF @creaf.cat · Jul 31

💡 New study out in @nature.com

🌲European forests are losing their ability to capture carbon🌲

A trend confirmed by new research led by the Join Research Center with the participation of Josep Peñuelas from CREAF and @csic.es

🧑‍🔬 @globalecounit.bsky.social

Learn more ⤵️

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CREAF @creaf.cat · Jul 22

💥 Guess what? 💥 In ecology, small details like #micronutrients can have large effects. Actually, they can profoundly IMPACT the #biodiversity beneath our feet.

How?

CREAF carried out a new studi un Frech Guaiana to study how micronutrients effects soil biodiversity.

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David García Callejas @callejas.bsky.social · Jul 12

Desde el grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET hemos creado un punto de encuentro para las personas que trabajamos con el medio natural y usamos herramientas computacionales - únete a la comunidad respondiendo a este mensaje o contactándome por privado!

go.bsky.app/FWR2yEM

🌱🐻💚🖥️

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Jul 11

Rethinking #overpopulation: why Malthus was wrong about global resources?
On #WorldPopulationDay, it’s worth rethinking the idea of overpopulation. The issue isn't the number of people - it's how our systems manage #resources and inequality.
👉Check out our latest #GeoLog to read more: egu.eu/0H223O

Image description: A view of packed buildings. With text reading: "World Population Day. New blog post Read Now!."

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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · Jul 6

You would not judge a hammer by how well it drives a screw; likewise, do not blame a spread metric for failing a richness test. Functional diversity is multifaceted and needs a toolbox, not a universal index.

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Jul 5

Rethinking Ecological Measures Of Functional Diversity

'none of the widely used metrics satisfy the requirements. Critical flaws leave them blind to the very biodiversity loss they're intended to detect. There's urgent need to develop new generation of FD metrics'

arxiv.org/abs/2506.17839 #ecopubs

Understanding functional diversity, the range and variability of species' roles and actions within their communities, is key to predicting and preserving the functions that sustain both nature and human well-being. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on functional diversity measurement. We begin by consolidating essential criteria that effective measures of functional diversity should meet. We then evaluate fifteen widely used functional diversity metrics against these criteria and assess their performance across six synthetic ecosystem scenarios where optimal behavior is known. Surprisingly, our analysis reveals that none of the widely used metrics fully satisfy all the established requirements, and all fail in at least one ecosystem scenario. In particular, we find that almost all metrics flagrantly violate set monotonicity and distance monotonicity, requirements that adding a novel species should increase diversity, and that the magnitude of that increase should grow with trait dissimilarity. We also find that metrics fail to decline when rare, functionally extreme species are lost, and even increase when a perfectly redundant species is added. These critical flaws leave them blind to the very biodiversity loss that functional diversity measures are intended to detect. Our findings underscore the urgent need to develop a new generation of functional diversity metrics that more accurately reflect ecological realities.

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Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · Jun 23

See you in Oaxaca next week for the 61ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC). Check out our symposium on nutrient addition experiments across tropical forestshttps://www.atbc2025.org/symposia/s-75 @kmander7.bsky.social

Nutrient addition EXperiments in TROPICal Forests (NEXTropics): Synthesizing nutrient limitations across the tropics | ATBC2025

www.atbc2025.org

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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · Jun 25

🌱🦗 Les comunitats d’insectes del sòl a les selves tropicals són de les més riques del planeta, però... què les estructura realment? 🤔

shorturl.at/BQ9WP

📷Valentine Alt

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Pablo García-Palacios @pablogarciapal.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you are interested in working with us on climate change effects on soil/microbial/ecosystem ecology, please DM. We work on a range of systems from agricultural, natural and urban environments.

www.garcia-palacios.com

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Pablo García-Palacios @pablogarciapal.bsky.social · Jun 17

‪3 months to apply for a #MarieCurieFellowships!

Fantastic oppotunity to lead your own research project

#PhDs from all over the world can apply marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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Guille Peguero @guillepeguero.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ooops! The pictures were not uploaded. Here on our way to plot p23. An extraordinary P-rich plot over tue Chagres river. Super shallow and rocky soils but such magnificent giant trees!

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Guille Peguero @guillepeguero.bsky.social · Jun 14

How nice it feels to be back in Panama investigating how these green giants deal with nutrient scarcity and how tiny animals help them breaking down leaf litter and boosting nutrient cycling

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · May 29

Apply for a postdoctoral position in Plant Chemical Ecology at the Czech Academy of Science, focusing on phytochemical diversity and plant-insect interactions. Deadline: June 25, 2025. More info: https://www.volflab.com/ #postdoc

VOLF LAB

Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology has a broad conceptual focus on trying to understand how extant diversity has been driven through ecological interactions over evolutionary time.

www.volflab.com

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Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · Jun 5

#UniBarcelona | ⛏️ Els deganats dels centres on s’imparteix Geologia, com @cienciesterraub.bsky.social, juntament amb diferents entitats, denuncien la pràctica desaparició de la Geologia a la LOMLOE.

🪨 Defensen que la cultura geològica salva vides, protegeix propietats i estalvia impostos.

La recessió de la Geologia

web.ub.edu

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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro @borjajimalf.bsky.social · Jun 3

We offer a postdoc position for developing global analyses on seed germination data using SEEDARC. See the job alert on our website and contact us!
www.jimenezalfaro.net

VEGETATION & BIODIVERSITY LAB

Vegetation & Biodiversity Lab

www.jimenezalfaro.net

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