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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 5d

The newest episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out now!

Guest Helmut Hillebrand talks about tipping points and planetary boundaries.

💬 “If you only retrospectively can say, ‘Oh, now we have crossed it,’ then of course it’s rather useless.”

Listen and subscribe now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 9d

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 13d

On a busy day I had a TED talk published. This talk is about the energy flows of the living world, and how we need to centre this vibrancy as a core value when thinking about working with nature for climate change and other challenges

www.ted.com/talks/yadvin...

How to measure the planet’s heartbeat

Ecosystem scientist Yadvinder Malhi takes us on a jaw-dropping journey through the hidden flows of energy that make life on Earth tick. From sun-soaked forests to tropical islands, he shows how his te...

www.ted.com

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 12d

🎧 David Storch z @cts.cuni.cz v podcastu Pavla Mirovského
O změnách přírody kolem nás, návratu velkých zvířat, problémech ochrany přírody, evoluci i antropocénu.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2T_...

David Storch: Green Deal, Evoluce, Darwin, Člověk, Zvíře #84

YouTube video by Pavel Mirovský

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28d

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 29d

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #35 Oct 06-13, 32 posts!

✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share

👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...

DM if you want to receive the link weekly

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #35

Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

globalecologybs.github.io

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Oct 10

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 · Sep 25

📖 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 · Sep 19

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 · Sep 22

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 · Sep 21

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 · Sep 19

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 · Sep 19

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 · Sep 18

📢 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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