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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 1d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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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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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2d

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology

The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

www.evolbio.mpg.de

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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

ats.talentadore.com/apply/kasvie...

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...

ats.talentadore.com

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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!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

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

web103.reachmee.com

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Frederik Bak @fredebak.bsky.social · 6d

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.

See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.

Please share the ad.

Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics

employment.ku.dk

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Johanna Mappes @jmappes.bsky.social · 12d

🚂 🚂 whoop whoop! Meillä @helsinki.fi #Viikki on yliopistonlehtorin pesti auki! Vastuullasi on kehittää ja opettaa tulevaisuuden ympäristöongelmien ja luontokadon ratkaisijoita.
Saa kernaasti jakaa!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Yliopistonlehtori, opetus- ja tutkimusalana ympäristöbiologia

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 7d

This workshop is tomorrow, don’t miss your chance to register!

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 12d

❗️Our next workshop will be on October 2nd, 6 pm CEST, on Effective and Useful Feature engineering by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 8d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

duunitori.fi

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 10d

The #IPCC is now hireing ‘chapter scientists’ to support the author teams for the upcoming IPCC Report.

If you are an early career scientist with strong synthesis and organisational skills, and from a developing country or a country in transition, do check this out!

www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...

www.ictp.it

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Laura van Galen @laura-vangalen.bsky.social · 11d

If you are in need of soil microbial data relating to PLFAs or enzyme activities, check out our latest paper that provides an open-access global database of data form around the world. Thanks very much to the long list of collaborators who made this happen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities

www.nature.com

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Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · 12d

Last chance to register - registration open still on Monday 29.9.! Come learn R from scratch - no previous coding experience expected. 🧑‍💻

Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Researchers in Finland: Would you like to analyse and visualise data with R but don't know where to begin? Or want to brush up the basics? Join our introductory course ’Data Analysis with R’ on-site in Espoo or online on 6-7 October 2025!

Register by 28.9. here: csc.fi/en/training-...

Data Analysis with R - CSC

R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing data. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve...

csc.fi

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 14d

Use your chance to join the #TERRA team @unituebingen.bsky.social: 7-year position waiting for sbd. to advance #bioinformatic analysis in the context of bio-geo-diversity relations. Tübingen itself is a convincing reason, but our amazing #cluster team even more. We look forward to your application!

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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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 28d

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

Experimental:
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem

Modelling:
🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

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Roey Angel @roeyangel.bsky.social · 15d

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

SEM images of the three newly cultured methanogens
from desert biocrusts. Methanobacterium sp. (A) with a long rod shape, Methanosarcina sp. (B)
with aggregated, coccoid cell clusters, and likely Methanocella sp.

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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 15d

Kiinnostaako suomalainen tutkimus ihan oikeasti. Tässä ketjussa neljä erinomaista palvelua, joiden kautta siihen voi tutustua. 1/

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Sami Nyyssölä @designyyssola.bsky.social · 16d

Tein tällasen täsmäohjeen Windowsin hylkäämien läppärien omistajille!

Tätä ohjetta saa Linux-henkeen käyttää ja jakaa ihan vapaasti miten haluaa :D
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 17d

While Positron is a great product, one of the most reassuring things I heard from posit::conf (that I know will reassure others as well) is that if you are solely an R user a) you don't really *need* to switch to Positron and b) RStudio is not going anywhere! Posit will continue to support it.

Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 17d

Deleted RStudio. Decided it's time to go all in on Positron.

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ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · 20d

Two weeks left for students and postdocs to apply to receive support for international research, training, or lab visits.
Submit your application by 1 October 2025!
Learn more and apply:
isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes

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Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · 20d

Still time to register! Researchers from any field interested in getting started with R warmly welcome. New PhD students, postdocs with fresh data, experienced researchers wanting to start the autumn with new skills and moving to command line work - start your R journey here. 🧑‍💻

Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Researchers in Finland: Would you like to analyse and visualise data with R but don't know where to begin? Or want to brush up the basics? Join our introductory course ’Data Analysis with R’ on-site in Espoo or online on 6-7 October 2025!

Register by 28.9. here: csc.fi/en/training-...

Data Analysis with R - CSC

R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing data. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve...

csc.fi

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 23d

📢 PLEASE RT!
❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere
🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database
🖥️ Build HMM profiles
🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs

☀️ Marseille, France
Apply by 15 Oct

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Research Centre For Ecological Change @rececochange.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 Post doc! Want to join our team?

We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!

Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!

DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki

3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Researchers in Finland: Would you like to analyse and visualise data with R but don't know where to begin? Or want to brush up the basics? Join our introductory course ’Data Analysis with R’ on-site in Espoo or online on 6-7 October 2025!

Register by 28.9. here: csc.fi/en/training-...

Data Analysis with R - CSC

R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing data. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve...

csc.fi

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Heli Juottonen @helijuottonen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Researchers in Finland: Would you like to analyse and visualise data with R but don't know where to begin? Or want to brush up the basics? Join our introductory course ’Data Analysis with R’ on-site in Espoo or online on 6-7 October 2025!

Register by 28.9. here: csc.fi/en/training-...

Data Analysis with R - CSC

R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing data. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve...

csc.fi

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