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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 2h

Ein Beweis gefällig, dass zuviel FLEISCH 🥩 dumm macht? Konservative WURSTesser können offenbar nicht lesen & "Veggiburger" 🍔 wegen begrifflicher Verwechslungsgefahr nicht tolerieren.
Winner of the Day: Massentierhaltung & Klimawandel, Prost! (mit alkfreiem "Bier"? 🍻)
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...

Entscheidung im Streit über Bezeichnung: EU-Parlament stimmt für »Veggie-Burger«-Verbot

Veggie-Schnitte statt -Schnitzel? Straßburg hat über die Bezeichnung von Fleischalternativen entschieden. Nun müssen die Staaten ausloten, ob solche Produkte bald nicht mehr Wurst oder Schnitzel heiße...

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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

www.cell.com

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 6d

#Jane #Goodall She was an incredibly inspiring person for #nature #conservation, appreciation of #wildlife ... and to never give up in the fight for justice! RIP.

May her legacy survive: “giving #young #people #hope and … a sense of #empowerment.”

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

Conservationist Jane Goodall, whose work revolutionized the study of primates, has died | CNN

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 16d

👉 Interested in joining our #Bexplo Synthesis Team?
Apply now – the deadline is October 25!
🔗 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Aug 21

Richtig! Man muss bei solchen Falschbehauptungen immer wieder widersprechen und mit Fakten kontern. Haben wir in ähnlicher Weise auch bei Bauer Willi's Kolumne in BiuZ gemacht zum selben Thema www.biuz.de
(Gruß, Nico B.)

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Aug 21

Forest bird communities 🦜recover -- and their choires captured by sound recorders 🎤🎶-- but biodiversity recovery is hampered in agricultural landscapes where tropical forests disappeared!
New study led by @cofeuniwue.bsky.social published in Conservation Letters
www.reassembly.de/news/impover...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's even worse in this case! Rescuing honeybees by synthetic superfood (genetically designed yeast) to release them from the need of threatened wildflowers... this can further accelerate biodiversity loss. Synthetic ecology - for crops.

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Pristimantis latidiscus #frogs bury their eggs! Froglets 🐸 from experimentally disturbed egg clutches hatched earlier - potentially to reduce predation risk. New paper by Niklas Fuchs and M.-O. Rödel @roedellab.bsky.social from the Ecuadorian rainforest.
www.reassembly.de/news/scienti...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Aug 20

What do Blue-bellied Whiptail 🦎lizards eat? And how? Natural history notes on Holcosus bridgesii in 🇪🇨Ecuadorian #rainforest 🌴published in #Herpetological_Review by @roedellab.bsky.social
They feed on earthworms (see picture) and four other diets that are nastier
www.reassembly.de/news/what-wh...

Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Jun 6

Poison frogs 🐸 with fly 🪰 parasite? First record of myiasis in a frog in Ecuador by Michelle Vélez, Mónica Guerra @roedellab.bsky.social and others published in the Intern. J. for Parasitology:
www.reassembly.de/news/poison-...

The picture shows a Oophaga sylvatica with four lesions caused by flesh-fly larvae

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · May 20

Playing death: Thin-toed Frogs 🐸🐸

To avoid being eaten by a predator 🐍- or to be stepped on by a researcher 🥾- Leptodactylus rhodomerus displays death-feigning ☠️. ‪Discovered by roedellab.bsky.social‬ www.reassembly.de/news/playing...g/

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · May 9

Mit der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social hatte ich die Freude, über unser Forschungsthema #Biodiversität im #Klimawandel zu sprechen. Danke!
www.fr.de/politik/fors...

Forscher schlägt Alarm: „Größtes Artensterben seit den Dinosauriern“

Der Biologe Christian Hof spricht über den Einfluss der Klimakrise auf die stark bedrohte Artenvielfalt. Ein Interview von Theresa Stoll.

www.fr.de

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · May 4

Whow! Riesenholzwespen sind beeindruckend - aber einer ihrer Parasiten noch mehr! Gestern entdeckt: Die riesige Ichneumonide MEGARHYSSA PERLATA auf Totholz - drängelnde Männchen, eierlegende Weibchen.
youtu.be/QKAIGg5F4wM
www.inaturalist.org/observations/2

Megarhyssa perlata: a giant ichneumonid wasp. Mating and egg laying on tree trunk.

YouTube video by Nico Blüthgen

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 7

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

www.science.org

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 27

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...

news.mongabay.com

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Mar 5

Sample coverage matters: succession of #bird communities along a #chronosequence of a recovering tropical #rainforest.
🦜🕊️🦉🌱🌴
www.reassembly.de/news/sample-...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 27

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...

news.mongabay.com

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 25

More than half of the Reassembly team participates at the great #ECTE2025 conference... and warms up for their talks tomorrow at a hot pot restaurant. #tropical #ecology

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 17

#Reassembly of a tropical #rainforest: A new #chronosequence in the #Chocó tested with the #recovery of #ree attributes
Our basic article is now online, with all the information on our study design and exciting results for trees.
www.reassembly.de/posts/basic-...

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Feb 15

Tightly snuggling up 🐍❤️🐍 #snake #courtship behaviour of the Chocó endemic Northern Eyelash Boa #Tropidophis boulengeri described for the first time!
@roedellab.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/news/snuggli...

Tropidophis boulengeri copulation. Foto by Moira Wiedebusch.

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Jan 28

And for the non-spanish-speaking folks, our English version has been published here:
www.reassembly.de/posts/third-...

Third Newsletter – REASSEMBLY

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Jan 28

Nuestro tercer boletín está listo. ¡Gracias a todos los estudiantes de doctorado e investigadores postdoctorales que contribuyeron con sus historias! 🇪🇨🌴🪲🐗
www.reassembly.de/posts/tercer...

Tercer Boletín – REASSEMBLY

www.reassembly.de

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Dec 30

... Keep your motivation to fight for democracy, justice and science. Don't get used to facism.

Good luck in the new year

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