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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Sep 2

PhD opportunity: Study how climate variability shapes species’ ranges in mountain ecosystems worldwide via data analysis 🌍 Fully funded 3-yr. Deadline Oct 06 2025. bit.ly/465taot #PhD #GlobalChangeEcology

PhD scholarship within Macroecology and Global Change Ecology (285996) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Job title: PhD scholarship within Macroecology and Global Change Ecology (285996), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Monday, October 6, 2025

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Jun 2

Many downscaled #paleoclimate datasets aren’t suited for capturing #temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum in #mountains. Resolution too coarse for complex terrain. Use with caution ⚠️
📝 New paper out : doi.org/10.21425/fob...
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@elinerentier.bsky.social

#LGM #science #reasearch

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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...

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · May 23

Join us for our ECR seminar about Functional Traits and Species Interactions. Sign up here ->
forms.gle/VPrdCNGXPHwT...

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · Apr 30

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

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Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

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Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social · Apr 3

@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social is opening a new grant to attract researchers from outside Europe to come to Sweden! The call opens in mid-April but some details are already online: www.vr.se/english/just...

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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · Feb 11

📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment!
Key take-homes🧵
1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Jan 8

Super excited to chat about the challenges of working with trait data 🍃 on Jan 14 at the ECR seminar, hosted by @dittemch.bsky.social & @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social . Presenting along @bjenquist.bsky.social & @nanitundra.bsky.social . Join us🌿! bit.ly/3Pqingy

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Nov 16

Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...

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Anne Bjorkman @annebeejay.bsky.social · Nov 28

Postdoc position in Arctic carbon cycling here at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 with my very awesome 😎 colleague Mats Björkman: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #Arctic #postdoc #job

Postdoc position in biogeochemistry focusing on the Arctic carbon balance in a warmer climate

Biogeochemistry with focus on carbon dynamics, climate change ecology, remote sensing, quantitative ecology. At the Department of

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 20

I appreciated the @nordicoikos.bsky.social -funded lunch seminar on #Arctic and #alpine plant #traits🌿 Thanks to Ragnhild for organizing this !!
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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Sep 18

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,439,730!

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Sep 18

One week of field work in the Arctic almost done! Learning so much about these incredible plants🌱❄️ #FieldWork #ArcticResearch #Botany

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Apr 18

📢Second chapter of my PhD thesis is out. We assessed whether we can use species occurrence 🌍 to study community responses to climate change 🌡️ Check it out to see if it actually works! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#GBIF
@suzetteflantua.bsky.social

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Mar 11

Diving deep into my research: scholargoggler.com/%F0%9F%98%80 #ResearchLife #Exploring #Ecology

Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Jan 16

🌐 #ibsprague2024 has concluded, organized by @Biogeography! 🌿 Exciting talks and top-notch research filled the event. Did you miss my posters or presentation on Thermal Lags, Presence-only data and Communicating Ecology to Kids? Find them at 👉 linktr.ee/lacapary.

Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Jan 16

🌍 Exciting last week at #ibsprague2024! Presented my PhD work through a talk and two posters 📊. Met incredible women driving groundbreaking research 🚀. Thrilled to connect with fellow Colombians shaping the future of biogeography 🇨🇴.

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 29

New paper out! Our paper explores the hidden world of #belowground niche partitioning in wild plants! Turns out, even underground, plants have their own hangout spots during extreme drought conditions. A collaborative paper with SophieWeides #Soil #isotopes #Ecology

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 29

Day 2 at BECC meeting was fantastic! Engaging with brilliant researchers, learning about their impactful work on biodiversity and climate change . Such a warm welcome to Sweden – first impressions couldn't be better! Exciting times ahead. #ResearchCommunity #SwedenExperience

Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 29

First day of the BECC meeting on pushing the research frontier Exciting strides in research, collaboration and Interdisciplinarity #ClimateChange #research

Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 21

Writing for young minds is a challenge, but totally worth it! here's a burning question: Can plants move fast enough to escape climate change? kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #ClimateChange #education & #outreach

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 21

Yay! I'm so excited that the first paper of my Ph.D. is now online! Lags in the response of plant assemblages to global warming depend on temperature-change velocity
@suzetteflantua.bsky.social
#PhD #research #academic

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thrilled to announce the publication of our collaborative paper with Henriikka Salminen. Our findings shed light on the fascinating connection between #geodiversity and #biodiversity in #mountain heaths and #tundra landscapes. rdcu.be/deSaa #Research

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Camila Pacheco-Riaño, PhD @lacapary.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our paper reveals the thermal lag of plant assemblages is growing due to global warming surpassing thermophilization responses . The lag has increased steadily, driven by temperature-change velocity doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #ClimateChange #BiodiversityImpact

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