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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · 1d

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · 1d

Take and read :)

Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 3d

Our recent paper looks at location-scale interfaces in comparative data. But predicting variance in variance extends much further - if you still have not have a look here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (another recent paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social). We show how extending the idea

Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity

Meta-analyses are widely used to understand how species and ecosystems respond to global change, but most assume that variability among studies is constant. This assumption can hide important biologi....

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · 20d

Zapraszamy!

Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Sep 5

praca.bip.uj.edu.pl/documents/14...

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Sep 5

JOB alert!

We are seeking candidates for the position of Research Assistant within the project “Understanding pesticide-Pollinator interactions to support EU Environmental Risk Assessment and policy”. Link and details below.

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Junchen Deng! Fantastic PhD defence!
Congratulation also to the supervisor form our Institute @sympiotr.bsky.social

Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tropical Ecology Field Course :)

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 26

The spores fall on other insects, thus spreading a “massive zombie attack”. So far, the fungus has not been observed to turn course participants into zombies, but who knows ...

Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 26

Once infected, it takes over the behaviour of the victim, forcing it to bite into a leaf. It then devours the immobilised victim from the inside, and scatters spores from the threadlike mycelium protruding outwards.

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 26

In addition to a similar climate (rain, humidity and heat) and type of environment (rainforest), in all these places our students may encounter an unusual “zombie” fungus that attacks insects.

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 26

For almost 20 years, the Jagiellonian University has been organising a tropical ecology field course for its students. We started in Venezuela and now the courses take place alternately in Borneo and Costa Rica.

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Piotr Lukasik @sympiotr.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new paper by our team @ioes-ju.bsky.social just published in J Invert Pathol @jinvertpathol.bsky.social!

In Diptera-#Entomophthora system, we show how simultaneously #sequencing #insect, #fungal #pathogen, and bacterial marker genes can aid biodiversity and biological interaction discovery.

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 25

and several posters

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 25

Julia Morales García: Polymorphic inversions distort selection scans: selection inference in the extremely complex genomic landscape of the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus)

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 25

They presented two talks:
@szymekdr.bsky.social : The variance world: the era of location-scale models in evolutionary meta-science

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's been a busy summer for our scientists. Several of them attended the #ESEB2025 conference in Barcelona.

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Jul 11

It is a huge enterprise that combines data from private databases, published articles, so-called grey literature, and biodiversity databases. This online dataset is a real treasure trove for future research on: biodiversity, biogeography and conservation of these extremely important organisms.

Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Jul 11

Anna Maria Łabęcka, together with numerous European freshwater bivalve researchers, has developed a comprehensive atlas of freshwater bivalve distribution in the Western Palearctic!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Jul 11

Praca przygotowana pod kierunkiem Prof. Dr hab. Wiesława Babika w Instytucie Nauk o Środowisku WB UJ. Teraz planuje kontynuować naukę za granicą na kierunku biologia molekularna.

Trzymamy kciuki za dalsze sukcesy!

Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Jul 11

Krystian Budzik studiował Biologię - PERSPEKTYWicznY kierunek!
Krystian właśnie obronił pracę licencjacką pt. “Identification, ontogenetic and tissue expression profile of Toll-like receptors (TLR) in the Iberian ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl)”

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Institute of Environmental Sciences JU @ioes-ju.bsky.social · Jul 3

The "Mayday, plastic threat!" project implemented by the Socio-Environmental Research Team is coming to an end, so below we present you the latest posters produced as part of the project.

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · Jun 20

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🐝🌱 #PollinatorWeek continues!
Today we’re heading to @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @ioes-ju.bsky.social , where @michalfilipiak.bsky.social & @filipiakzuza.bsky.social are looking at bees through a different lens — not just pollination, but nutrient cycling. ♻️🌍

#PollinatorsWeaveConnections

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Ewa Chrostek @ewachrostek.bsky.social · Jul 1

The very first paper from my lab in Krakow is now available here: DOI: 10.3791/68207 Yes, it is a protocol, BUT it is also a GREAT protocol! Congrats to the first author @navinafrancis.bsky.social! Stay tuned, an update on the clones is coming soon!

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