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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations on this conceptual development, @saismit.bsky.social ! It was wonderful to meet you at ESEB- look forward to reading this in depth.

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · 28d

I am also very excited!!

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · 28d

🌍 Species on the Move 2026 #SOTM2026 will come to Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan! 🤩This is an amazing conference with themes from ecological mechanisms to social adaptation + great atmosphere + birding, hiking, and hot springs!
👉 www.speciesonthemove.com
✨Abstracts due November 10, 2025 – don’t miss it!

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 28d

📢 Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026

@smbe-idea.bsky.social invites all SMBE members to propose initiatives for 2025/2026 to reduce inequities in our field.

Categories:

💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

Deadline: Oct. 10 2025

More info: smbe.org/idea-initiatives

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 4

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 25

Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts

This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts, and finds support that biotic resistance may create a life-stage...

doi.org

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 16

What an amazing culmination of knowledge on Andean pollination biology, and a great team effort, led by the incredible @cristinaruedau.bsky.social

Eloisa Lasso De Paulis, PhD @elolasso.bsky.social · Jul 16

Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nate Sanders @natejsanders.bsky.social · Jun 30

It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jun 30

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 5

Read our editorial here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our Special Feature with @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social is now available to read! 🌎🧪

This collection aims to combine the latest insights and provide an integrated road map for ecologically optimal decisions on the energy transition 🛰️

Check it out 👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 2

@jappliedecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social

Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 2

Take home message 📝: there is no free lunch, so we need to plan wisely ⚖️

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 2

Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

The Global Energy Transition: Ecological Impact, Mitigation and Restoration

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · Jun 27

🔉Happy to share our new publication and global data compilation #GenDivRange covering population genetic diversity of 19,173 geo-referenced populations and 1,109 species. A big thank to Katalin Csilléry, who initiated and led this project, and to all colleagues. (1/2)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges

www.nature.com

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

BioTIME 2.0 - the largest biodiversity time-series database - now spans 12 million records from 553,000 locations, tracking ecosystem changes since 1874! 📊

www.idiv.de/major-update...

@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @jon-chase03.bsky.social

Major update to BioTIME 2.0, world’s largest biodiversity time-series database

BioTIME 2.0 is the largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet and gives unprecedented insight into global biodiversity.

www.idiv.de

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jun 7

Deadline tomorrow!

Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · May 30

The #BioTIME 2.0 database offers unprecedented insight into how #biodiversity is changing through time across the globe, spanning nearly 150 years of #ecological records from 1874 – 2023 🌍

#EcologyData #Metrics #GlobalData

news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-...

Biodiversity time-series database gives unprecedented insight into global change | University of St Andrews news

news.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to share our new paper led by Tsinghua Uni ECR Zhang Han: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... New model based on eco-evolutionary optimality explains observed seasonal and spatial trends in stem respiration, implies stem CO2 efflux down by >25% by 2100, reducing land carbon emissions.

Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback

The efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from woody stems, a proxy for stem respiration, is a critical carbon flux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, which increases with temperature on short timescales. Ho...

www.science.org

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · May 29

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)

100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49

shorturl.at

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

I’m a nutshell:

help expand our global synthesis (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)

AND

tropical fieldwork in Brazil 🇧🇷

Global variation in the thermal tolerances of plants | PNAS

Thermal macrophysiology is an established research field that has led to well-described patterns in the global structuring of climate adaptation an...

www.pnas.org

Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · May 16

📣 🥳 🧑‍💻 Our department is hiring:

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark

Deadline June 1st

Thanks for sharing!

mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University

mbg.au.dk

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 1

Check out our symposium on time dependent evolutionary rates! (near the bottom of the list 😂) @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Apr 30

Almost 1,000 abstracts have already been submitted for hashtag#ESEB2025: and we want to hear your voice too! 🌍
We are excited to bring together a diverse, global community of evolutionary biologists this summer in Barcelona.
📅 Submit your abstract now:https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️

Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK

Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology – AC2503NK, School of Mathematics and Statistics Salary: By negotiation* Start Date: 1 August 2025 or as soon thereafter Full time: 36.25hrs per week, <p style="tex...

www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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