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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · 2d

Still time to apply for the open #postdoc position in our team!
Note that the link has been updated: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

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Roberto Rozzi @robertorozzi.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to welcome @paleobicha.bsky.social to the ZNS @unihalle.bsky.social! Excited for our collaboration 🦋🏝

Sara Gamboa @paleobicha.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to announce that I’m joining the Halle (Saale) [email protected], where I’ll be working on butterfly ecology and evolution with the brilliant @robertorozzi.bsky.social, thanks to a @fundacionareces.bsky.social fellowship!

Already covered in gifts on my first day 🎁🦋

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 22d

Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 12d

Who said that biogeography is necessarily a correlative science? This is the way to do ecological experiments with a biogeographical perspective. Read this nice thread about a superb #functionalbiogeography work (spoiler: they find regional variations and habitat effects in antipredation traits)🧪🌐

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · 13d

Help us spread the word! PhD offer @creaf.cat #islands #fossil 🏝️

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 13d

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · 19d

New review out: how humans have shaped ecosystems for millenia. Greatful to all co-authors!! ⭐️⭐️ rdcu.be/eG8Ai

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NordBorN @nordborn.bsky.social · 20d

Can we identify #functional traits that characterize #boreal and #tundra plants? Last week #NordBorN researchers met at @creaf.cat in Barcelona to address this question. Stay tuned for results! nordborn.lbhi.is?p=422 🌱 @nanitundra.bsky.social

Characterizing the functional trait space of boreal and tundra plants - The Nordic Borealization Network

Last week, Beatrice Trascau and James Speed visited Mariana García Criado at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) in sunny Barcelona, Spain. Mariana reports back from a...

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xᴀᴀʟɪ ᴏ'ʀᴇɪʟʟʏ ʙᴇʀᴋᴇʟᴇʏ, ᴘʜᴅ @xaalii.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New TEB Lab blog post 🌱

@nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her summer trip to Finnish Lapland for fieldwork! 🥾

www.temporalecology.com/post/an-unex...

An unexpectedly hot expedition to Finnish Lapland

This summer, Mariana spent two weeks in Finnish Lapland conducting fieldwork for her BIPOLAR Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. The aim of this project is to quantify the potential for adaptation to clim...

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CREAF @creaf.cat · Aug 20

¿Sabías que algunos de los organismos más resistentes del planeta viven en la tundra ártica? 🌍❄️

Nuestra investigadora Mariana García Criado 🙋‍♀️ @nanitundra.bsky.social ha cambiado el laboratorio por la Laponia finlandesa…

¡En busca de #líquenes y #musgos! 🌱 📖

No te pierdas su diario de viaje ⤵️

Mariana García Criado. Autora: Judith Winkler

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · Jul 28

A reminder that this month's Funk lecture is upon us! Tune in for Mario Moura's talk on Wednesday. Register below.

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · Jul 9

www.temporalecology.com/post/back-to... Memories from last fieldwork season in Seychelles 🏝️🐢🔬👩‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

Back to the Seychelles: science, sediments, and surprises

From April 28th to June 9th 2025, Sandra, Sergi, and Judit from TEB Lab returned to the Seychelles Islands for another exciting round of fieldwork. This time, they were joined by Jaume Pellicer, a bot...

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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · Jul 4

We’re hiring! Join us at maraujo lab as a #PhD candidate to model species abundances using cutting-edge ecological and statistical tools. Based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.maraujolab.eu/2025/07/04/p...
#SpeciesDistributionModels

PhD candidate in species abundances modelling -

Project Description Understanding species abundance patterns is essential to addressing fundamental questions in macroecology and biogeography, specifically about […]

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · Jun 29

The ongoing marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the the largest marine anomalies observed globally

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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · Jun 18

New postdoctoral opportunity in my lab www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas -

Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas Candidate Profile: Educational and Research Expertise: Candidates should possess a PhD in ecology, marine biology, oceanography,...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jun 16

Zhao et al present a 3.5-million-year-long pollen record from the Tibetan Plateau. The ~5,000 pollen assemblages reveal many ecosystem transitions during this time and indicate what effects future warming may have on regional vegetation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three-and-a-half million years of Tibetan Plateau vegetation dynamics in response to climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors present a 3.5-million-year-long pollen record from the Zoige Basin of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, 3,442 m above sea level. The ~5,000 pollen assemblages retrieved from the core reveal man...

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globalecounit.bsky.social @globalecounit.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧪🌋 New study tracks 2,000 years of ecosystem change in Azores lakes using elementome trajectories — revealing climate & human impacts over time.
J de la Casa @sandranogue.bsky.social ‪@spr-bcn.bsky.social
@jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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School of Geography and Environmental Science @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social · Jun 11

Join us for the launch of Sacred Connections: Heritage Revival by Indian-origin Communities in the UK—a panel and exhibition exploring legacy and living heritage through sound, photos and sacred objects.
🗓️ 21 June, 1–4 PM | John Hansard Gallery
🔗 bit.ly/4dWlVCV
📸 Amit Guha

Sacred Connections: Heritage Revival by Indian-origin Communities in the UK

Come explore the powerful legacy of indian-origin communities in the UK andtheir commitment to preserving living heritage

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last post from TEBLab 🌴🏝️https://www.temporalecology.com/post/teb-lab-abroad

TEB Lab abroad!

TEB Lab members attended two congresses in the last months. First, Javier de la Casa attended EGU25 in Vienna, Austria; and later, Judit Rodrigo and Javier de la Casa attended SIBECOL-AEET congress in...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🐾 Demà serem al Zoo de Barcelona amb una xerrada molt especial! 🐆

🎙 “Què tenen a veure les femtes dels jaguars del Zoo de Barcelona amb l’ocupació humana de l’Amazònia boliviana?”

Amb el Dr. Umberto Lombardo (investigador de l'ICTA-UAB / projecte DEMODRIVERS)

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Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks for the invite!!!!😀🏝️

Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Jun 2

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

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Adrián García-Rodríguez @adriangarcia-r.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢Our new paper on alien vertebrates in the world's mountains is now out @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using data on 700+ spp across ~3,000 mountains we explore their distribution patterns,flows across realms, presence in protected areas, and the factors driving these trends.
🐟🐸🦎🦜🦝⛰️
👉 rdcu.be/ebidu

The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains

Nature Communications - Among contemporary threats to mountain biodiversity, biological invasions have been understudied. This large-scale synthesis on alien vertebrates in global mountains delves...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 26

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks 🌾🧪 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks

Premise Leaf venation network architecture can provide insights into plant evolution, ecology, and physiology. Venation networks are typically assessed through histological methods, but existing pro...

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · May 23

Reminder to register for this super cool @biogeography.bsky.social Funk lecture by @jacquelyngill.bsky.social next week!

The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · May 19

We are super excited to have @jacquelyngill.bsky.social give a Funk lecture! To learn more and to register, please visit our website: www.biogeography.org/news/feature...

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · May 21

Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.

Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · May 20

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · May 19

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

Join the BES Board of Trustees - British Ecological Society

We are seeking an ecologist working in academic research

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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