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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 2d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 3d

New study 🎓 by @robinheinennl.bsky.social

Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓

Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar predation in an urban environment

Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) is changing our nocturnal landscape. Recent research reveals the negative impacts on biodiversity, including individu…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Intraspecific Chemodiversity of Plants - Research Unit @chemodiversity.bsky.social · 9d

Monday morning throwback to our wonderful meeting on #chemodiversity in Großbeeren – hosted by @nmvandam.bsky.social. Again a big thank you to Matthias Erb, Karin Gorzolka, @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social, Stefan Dötterl, Eva Castells, John D'Auria and Kirsten Leiss for their enlightening contributions.

Group picture of the RU workshop in Großbeeren showing all participants

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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 9d

Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 10d

Tree inside tree.

I don't know the origin of this photo, I saw it via Forest Machine Magazine. It shows a cut log with internal scarring and heartwood discolouration creating the shape of a tree within the trunk.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 13d

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 14d

Morgen (am 25.9.25) erscheint mein Buch "Mutter Erde", geschrieben gemeinsam mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Jörg Blech. Im Buch schildere ich auch den wissenschaftlichen Prozess der Erforschung des Bodens und seiner Ökologie.

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 23d

"Moss meets laser on a mountain" may sound like cheap clickbait, but is actually the topic of my recent paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!

Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 23d

🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
buff.ly/bYgl6LD

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for setting up this platform, Ingolf and colleagues. Exciting times ahead for glacier forefield research :)

Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social · 23d

I am happy to share our new paper, introducing our glacier forefield study platform in the Dachstein and Berchtesgaden Mountains

https://we.copernicus.org/articles/25/157/2025/

#newpaper #glacierforefields #alps
And by coincidence just in time for the #imc2025
(Edited 10:17 via @skeetsapp.com)

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 23d

"Moss meets laser on a mountain" may sound like cheap clickbait, but is actually the topic of my recent paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!

Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 23d

🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
buff.ly/bYgl6LD

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for setting up this platform, Ingolf and colleagues. Exciting times ahead for glacier forefield research :)

Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social · 23d

I am happy to share our new paper, introducing our glacier forefield study platform in the Dachstein and Berchtesgaden Mountains

https://we.copernicus.org/articles/25/157/2025/

#newpaper #glacierforefields #alps
And by coincidence just in time for the #imc2025
(Edited 10:17 via @skeetsapp.com)

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 29d

As always, the new episode of the #InsideBiodiversity podcast is well worth listening to

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 29d

Emma Marris on this month's #InsideBiodiversity: “I think that the word wilderness is probably too tangled up with sort of colonial ideas about pristine states of nature.” 🍃

She suggests using terms like autonomy instead.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Johannes Merz @mosssoup2.bsky.social · 29d

Sphagnum fallax in a mesotrophic sloping fen in central Germany 🌿

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 29d

Finally, one of the features I sought-after most has arrived 🙏

Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Sep 8

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

jobs.unibas.ch

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Alpenflora @flora-alpina.bsky.social · Sep 3

Androsace helvetica
🇩🇪 Schweizer Mannsschild
🇫🇷 Androsace de Suisse
🇮🇹 Androsace emisferica

#AlpinePlants #FloraAlpina #Flora #Mountain #Wildflowers #Botany #PlantPhotography #Biodiversity #Alps #FlowerPower

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Alpenflora @flora-alpina.bsky.social · Aug 25

Petrocallis pyrenaica
🇩🇪🇦🇹 Pyrenäen-Steinschmückel
🇫🇷 Petrocalle des Pyrénées
🇮🇹 Petrocalle pirenaica

#AlpinePlants #FloraAlpina #Alps #Photography #NaturePhotography #PlantPhotography #Flora #Botany #Biodiversity #MountainVibes #FlowerPower

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Rhine at Duisburg https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483176

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · Aug 23

They might have used an electric fence to keep foxes and other animals out instead of keeping something fenced in?

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · Aug 12

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

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Flagellated pants @flagellatedpants.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ok, hear me out, here's the plan:

Meme with a quasi bryologist disaproving of early land plants agenda, but quite liking early mars plants idea, since mosses are amongst organisms that should be able to colonize mars.

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Jonas Trepel @jonastrepel.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’m very happy to share our new paper “Intensive feeding modifies nutrient patterns in a strictly protected area” (doi.org/10.1016/j.je...), just out in Journal of Environmental Management. We explore underestimated consequences of a common management practice: supplementary feeding of deer. (1/5)

Redirecting

doi.org

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Michał Filipiak @michalfilipiak.bsky.social · Aug 13

PostDoc & PhD positions available:

PostDoc - soil-dependent pollinators stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/a...

PhD - citizen science stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/6...

Research Assistant (Postdoc)

stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · Aug 12

We are selling American Bryological and Lichenological Society hats to raise money for student travel awards to our annual conference. Place your order by August 17th.
You can access the fundraiser via the link or QR code below.
www.customink.com/fundraising/...

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