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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 4h

New preprint!

“Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics”

Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 15d

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS).

An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today.

🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · 20d

New review out: how humans have shaped ecosystems for millenia. Greatful to all co-authors!! ⭐️⭐️ rdcu.be/eG8Ai

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 18d

We’ve wrapped up our on-site week in Prague and now move into the final online phase of the micro-credential “Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in Transdisciplinary Perspective.” Closing block = 3 sessions + mentor-led groups leading to final projects. 🚀
🔗 www.anthropocene.cz/en/

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 18d

Cool! I would be curious to see where non-native and low-income men are on the graph!

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 21d

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 20d

Our recent paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
resulted from a wonderful workhop in Sevilla in 2023. You can now watch all the presentations from this workshop here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#envhist #histecol

SOURCES 2023 - YouTube

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 21d

📢 Horizons: Conference in Honour of Petr Vopěnka
🗓️ Oct 24–25, 2025 | Prague, Czech Rep.

On the 10th anniversary of his passing, leading scholars will discuss Vopěnka’s legacy. The event also celebrates the 35th anniversary of @cts.cuni.cz

🔗 Program & registration: www.cts.cuni.cz/index.php?m=...

Centrum pro teoretická studia

www.cts.cuni.cz

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Jul 25

📢 Postdoc opening at the @cts.cuni.cz
Open to researchers interested in any field developed at CTS, with a strong interest in transdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities
📄 Details: cuni.cz/UKEN-1304-ve...
🗓️ Start: Jan 2026| Apply by: Sept 30, 2025

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Sep 8

Today marks the start of the main (in-person) part of our summer school on the topic of the Anthropocene: The Contemporary World from a Transdisciplinary Perspective. This time, it will be held entirely in English. #ctssummerschool

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · Sep 4

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · Sep 4

Warm congratulations @elbohdalkova.bsky.social on her well-deserved PhD achievement!

Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Sep 4

🎉Congratulations to @elbohdalkova.bsky.social from @cts.cuni.cz on the successful defense of her PhD thesis yesterday:
“Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: Components and Consequences”

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · Aug 12

AI reviewers prefer AI-written papers

Jan Kulveit @kulveit.bsky.social · Aug 8

Being human in an economy populated by AI agents would suck. Our new study in @pnas.org finds that AI assistants—used for everything from shopping to reviewing academic papers—show a consistent, implicit bias for other AIs: "AI-AI bias". You may be affected

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

www.nature.com

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Jan Turek @janturek.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just excavating Late Neolithic or Late Bronze Age barrow with a ring ditch in Račiněves, nést The mythical Mount Říp. To be continued…🤎

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · Jul 25

Join us at @cts.cuni.cz if you have a recent PhD or expect to finish by the end of the year.
Two years of academic freedom in highly inspiring environment!

Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Jul 25

📢 Postdoc opening at the @cts.cuni.cz
Open to researchers interested in any field developed at CTS, with a strong interest in transdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities
📄 Details: cuni.cz/UKEN-1304-ve...
🗓️ Start: Jan 2026| Apply by: Sept 30, 2025

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David Zelený @zdealveindy.bsky.social · Jul 21

Want to do vegetation ecology in Taiwan? I am still searching for postdocs, so if interested, check the ad below and apply!

We focus on ecological drivers of cloud & monsoon forests in mountains and how to explain them using plant functional traits.

davidzeleny.net/veglab/

David Zelený @zdealveindy.bsky.social · Jul 11

I am searching for 1-2 postdocs to join our research team at the Vegetation Ecology Lab, IEEB, National Taiwan University, from August 2025 for one to three years.

Details: davidzeleny.net/veglab/lib/e...

davidzeleny.net/veglab

#postdocjobs #vegetation #TaiwanIsaCountry

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jul 9

Explore how PCI is spotlighted in this Le Monde piece, which outlines the challenges in academic publishing and discusses alternative paths. The full article (for subscribers): buff.ly/sGnBWp8. #ScholarlyPublishing #LeMonde

Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie

Plus de trois millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est…

www.lemonde.fr

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌐 #macroecology

Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Jul 7

🌍 New in Science: Consistent energy–diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates
Co-authored by @elbohdalkova.bsky.social & David Storch from @cts.cuni.cz
📌 Temperature drives richness in ectotherms (metabolic theory) and has indirect effects in endotherms
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Consistent energy-diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates

Ecologists have long proposed that environments providing more energy can support more species, yet empirical evidence frequently contradicts this expectation. We argue that such inconsistencies resul...

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · Jul 1

Our colleague Marek Hudík is one of the coauthors of this newly published paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The limited role of prosocial behavior in preventing others from being dishonest

Honest individuals can strategically assume positions of power to prevent dishonest individuals from taking these positions. We conducted a laboratory…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Jun 21

Our new article “Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene” let by Joachim Paul Töpper just out at Ecological Solutions and Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene

General ecosystem models (GEMs) have been framed as the ‘climate model’ equivalents for nature, but while the latter have been continuously improved and diversified for several decades already, the f...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 17

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Eline Rentier @elinerentier.bsky.social · May 29

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research?

In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵

➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains

Downscaled paleoclimate datasets are widely used in biogeographical research, aiding our understanding of past environmental shifts and species’ responses to climate change. Numerous datasets exist, v...

doi.org

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