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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 1d

🦝🌱Non-native species: misunderstood menace or ecological opportunity?

In the latest #InsideBiodiversity episode, iDiv sits down with biologist @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) to unpack the tangled reality of species on the move.

🎧 Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 6d

The iDiv Podcast on interesting aspects of biological invasions w yours truly😎👇😍

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out today!

Guest @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) explores the impact of invasive species diving into some of ecology's most-debated questions!

▶️ Listen & subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out today!

Guest @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) explores the impact of invasive species diving into some of ecology's most-debated questions!

▶️ Listen & subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 6d

The iDiv Podcast on interesting aspects of biological invasions w yours truly😎👇😍

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️🎧 A new episode of #InsideBiodiversity is out today!

Guest @smartenwinter.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) explores the impact of invasive species diving into some of ecology's most-debated questions!

▶️ Listen & subscribe: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 8d

🌿 Day 1 of #iDivConference2025 at @unihalle.bsky.social brought blue skies, warm connections and a keynote by @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social on modelling biodiversity under climate change.

📍Tomorrow's keynote by Meredith C. Schuman is on genetic and functional diversity.

More to come! ☀️

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 11d

🎉 iDiv feierte heute: 13 Jahre Förderung durch die DFG enden im Dezember – Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und Sachsen übernehmen dann Gros der Grundfinanzierung. Die Ministerpräsidenten der 3 Länder bekennen sich zur Förderung von iDiv über das Jahr 2030 hinaus. 🌱

www.idiv.de/de/neues-kap...

Podiumsdiskussion: Aletta Bonn, Mario Voigt, Michael Kretschmer

Unterzeichnung der Absichtserklärung zur Förderung von iDiv über das Jahr 2030 hinaus. Sitzend: Thomas Wünsch (Sachsen-Anhalt), Mario Voigt (Thüringen), Michael Kretschmer (Sachsen). Stehend: Martin Quaas, Anne Wesemann (beide iDiv)

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 8d

#iDiv sabbatical @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social kicks of the annual conference of @idiv-research.bsky.social w an intro into modelling under #climatechange & a very interesting intro how to incorporate network properties into it

#iDivconference2025

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 11d

I had the pleasure to talk in @idiv-research.bsky.social podcast about biological invasions👇

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 12d

🤔 Is it possible to identify non-native species without knowing their origin – just by measuring how they impact the ecosystem?

Upcoming episode of #InsideBiodiversity with iDiv biologist @smartenwinter.bsky.social

🗓️ Oct 2, 11:00 CEST

🔗 Subscribe to the podcast: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Inside Biodiversity episode cover: How Detrimental Are Non-Native Species? Guest: Marten Winter

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Mountain Research Initiative @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social · 27d

📢 @ecologybasel.bsky.social at @unibas.ch is hiring a 5-yr Postdoc (70–90%) for an ERC project on global plant invasions in mountain ecosystems! 🌍🌱 Join fieldwork in the Alps + global #macroecology research! See this job + more on the MRI website ➡️ buff.ly/PWTUag1 #OurChangingMountains

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,…

buff.ly

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 17d

Great job opportunities 👇👇

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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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 28d

New study in @natcomms.nature.com co-authored by iDiv's @smartenwinter.bsky.social indicates that it could be the same characteristics that make plants successful both in their homelands and in foreign regions.⬇️

Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · Sep 8

Globally spreading naturalized alien plant species are often those that are also expanding within their native regions. This is shown by a cross-national study led by the #UniKonstanz:https://t1p.de/b67xa.de/b67xa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t1p.de/b67xa

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 28d

This paper is new ground for me but I'm extremely happy that it happened.

A story about
▶️the environmental crises in Chile & how this affects #indigenous people - the Machi

▶️co-writing a scientific paper with them - giving them an international voice & your ears.

PLEASE READ & distribute!

Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · Aug 7

By far my favorite paper this year.
A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interested in #Macroecology?

Join our (Special Interest group Macroecology of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social - see also here www.gfoe.org/en/specialis...) 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 to get few mails per month on relevant jobs, courses & meetings.

Send me a PM or email with your email address!

Macroecology

GfÖ - The Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland

www.gfoe.org

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · Apr 29

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks the whole @uni-wuerzburg.de @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 Team for yet another lovely, inspiring conference full of great science & exchanges.

I can only advertise becoming a member. Its a great society w its iwn great journal.

See und next year or @idiv-research.bsky.social 🫶

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 4

1️⃣❓️How to get published in ecology❓️

A great direct way to learn & ask questions about/to journals (i.e. some of their editors) @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

2️⃣❓️Should we do a gofundme page for @uni-wuerzburg.de to get functional microphones?🤭❓️

Great activity!

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Zuzana Burivalova @uwmadison.bsky.social about how to use soundscapes for monitoring & conservation management in the Old World Tropics @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

Inspiring & creative & effective!

PS: I'm volunteering to be a field assistant 😍🌳

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Zuzana Burivalova @uwmadison.bsky.social about how to use soundscapes for monitoring & conservation management in the Old World Tropics @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe202

Inspiring & creative & effective!

PS: I'm volunteering to be a field assistant 😍🌳

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Jörg Spengler @joergspengler.bsky.social · Sep 4

„2024 kamen 441 Fahrradfahrer:innen und 402 Fußgänger:innen im Straßenverkehr ums Leben. 843 Menschen, deren Leben jäh, brutal und vor aller Augen beendet wird.“ Wir brauchen endlich eine konsequenten #Verkehrswende damit die #VisionZero Realität werden kann!
utopia.de/843-vermeidb...

843 vermeidbare Verkehrstote: Warum Deutschland von Helsinkis Vision Zero lernen muss

Über 800 getötete Radfahrer:innen und Fußgänger:innen auf deutschen Straßen. Warum setzen wir die Vision Zero nicht um? Kolumne von Ingwar Perowanowitsch.

utopia.de

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Will see if we receive one...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah cool...didn't know that there is a plaque😍

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

gfoe.org/en/specialis...

If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

gfoe.org/en/specialis...

If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations to Volker Grimm on receiving the @gfoesoc.bsky.social Honorary Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology! So well deserved! #gfoe2025

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations dear Volker Grimm (www.ufz.de/index.php?en... to the honorary medal of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

He helped me a lot in my early synthesis years @idiv-research.bsky.social always calling for involving theory

Maybe we still write the paper we talk about since 10 years.🤭😱

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