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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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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 14d

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · 16d

Tomorrow I’ll be serving on the PhD defense committee @charlesuni.cuni.cz in beautiful Prague. The thesis is ‘Plant radiations in tropical-alpine areas’ by J.M. Gorospe 🏔️🌿. Can’t say more yet 🤫, but I’m much looking forward! (And yes, I still print papers and I travel with a portable screen 😅)

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 17d

Debating the aesthetics of #wind & #solar is a luxury. The real crisis is climate change—threatening billions with deadly heat & catastrophic ecosystem breakdowns ♨️🥵🔥 Green #energy is a necessity🍃 Challenges exist (noise, land use) but are manageable - biggest risk is inaction #dkpol #climatechange

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · 24d

exciting times! looking forward to meeting them soon 😍 proud to see you grow as a supervisor and project manager!

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · 29d

Come to our amazing Bergen! Great work-life environment, 100s km of hiking around Bergen, and the project also looks pretty cool 😄

Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Eline Rentier @elinerentier.bsky.social · Sep 3

New R-package alert! 🚨

With tabs it has never been easier to reconstruct altitudinal shifts of biogeographical systems over time. Whether in the ocean 🏝️, shallow seas 🪸 or mountains ⛰️; tabs can project spatial configurations shaped by climatic conditions.
➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just one more week to submit an abstract for our biennial conference! More info found here: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am ready for IBS with abstracts and the organization of a symposium of Quantitative Paleoecology!

Are you happy being part of IBS? Do you think that keeping such society is important?

Please consider/renew membership so that IBS can continue! Finances are low and efforts high.

Thanks 😍

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

Care to learn about the latest biogeography research? Come join us in the beautiful city of Aarhus, Denmark in January 2026 for our 12th biannual conference! Abstract submission is open until September 1st. See more details here 👇
conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

The International Biogeography Society Conference Jan 7-9, 2026 Aarhus

The International Biogeography Society and Aarhus University are excited to welcome you to the 12th Biannual Conference in Aarhus, the city of Smiles.

conferences.au.dk

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Dr. Andrés Peredo Arce @miluelbarbaro.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fellowships for early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs) from the Global South at Senckenberg!

Application period approaching! (15th Oct - 15th Sept)

Check it out in case you are interested and spread it if you may know somebody else who is!

www.senckenberg.de/en/career/gl...

Global Fellowships | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Senckenberg offers fellowships to highly motivated and talented early career scientists – doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers – from the Global South.

www.senckenberg.de

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John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · Jul 18

Two good #AGU2025 sessions about vegetation-climate interactions and past ecosystems... abstracts due July 30!
PP019: Modeling and Reconstructing Vegetation-Climate Interactions in the Past.
PP026: Paleoecological Perspectives on Past Climates
Section: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · Jul 14

Macrosystems ecology: A new engine and frontier in contemporary ecosystem science ?

let's have a look :

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

🌐🧪

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate with analytical skills and knowledge of biodiversity to plan and lead research on how biodiversity change is unfolding in the Anthropocene.

Find out more and apply by 10 August
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’m heading to #IAVS2025, Colorado, USA, to present #VegVault! 🌿🔒🏛️

🌍A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers
🚀 A powerful tool for studying biodiversity dynamics across time & space!
🙋‍♂️ Who else is coming?

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault

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David Nogués Bravo @noguesbravo.bsky.social · Jun 30

Would you like to come to work with us here at @Macroecology ? The Center is opening six new positions!

macroecology.ku.dk/people/posit...

Open Positions

Positions and vacancies at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate

macroecology.ku.dk

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jun 24

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Time to publish ethically: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology.

doi.org

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Eline Rentier @elinerentier.bsky.social · May 29

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research?

In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵

➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains

Downscaled paleoclimate datasets are widely used in biogeographical research, aiding our understanding of past environmental shifts and species’ responses to climate change. Numerous datasets exist, v...

doi.org

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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · Jun 17

🧪 @elinerentier.bsky.social and colleagues in Prague, Gothenburg Bergen & Brussels have compared five well-known paleoclimate datasets and found that they vary in mean annual temperature estimations.

biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1358...

A poster with a reference to a new scientiifc publication: Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affectsbiome reconstruction in mountains. By Eline Rentier et.al

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · May 8

3 year postdoc position on this coming up here in beautiful Bergen - if interested keep your eyes peeled! 👀

CeSAM @cesam-uib.bsky.social · May 7

Congratulations @peteecology.bsky.social with being awarded this exciting grant! www.uib.no/en/cesam/177...

New grant for Strengthening Agricultural Landscape Multifunctionality

Peter Manning was awarded an NFR grant as part of the transnational Agroecology Partnership program.

www.uib.no

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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · Apr 21

La Red Latinoamericana de Polen invita al taller online "Neotoma2" por MSc. Socorro Dominguez. El evento se realizará el 9 de mayo a 9:00 (Zona horaria Pacifico, PT). Inscripciones: www.neotomadb.org/outreach/lap...

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Franck Courchamp @franckcourchamp.bsky.social · Mar 28

France is setting up an initiative to welcome some of the scientists in the USA who are no longer able to work there.
At this early stage, we are asked to provide names (and CVs) of candidates
If interested, contact your French colleagues to see whether they'd be willing and able to host you
🙏 FWD

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · Mar 21

Super proud about this! It was quite a journey but great to see our work being picked up widely!

Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Mar 19

That's fantastic news! 🎉 The #paleo community is embracing our recommendations for using #fossil #pollen data in #macroecology studies! 🌿
Check it out 🔗 bit.ly/FOSSILPOL
A joint first author with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social , V. Felde & K. Bhatta!
#GEB #global #ecology #biogeography #palaeoecology

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Dr. Suzette Flantua @suzetteflantua.bsky.social · Mar 21

Ondrej Mottl @ondrejmottl.bsky.social is a fantastic presenter and will be great showing our FOSSILPOL workflow. Get a view here into our R package hope-uib-bio.github.io/FOSSILPOL-we... ! Hope to see many join for discussion and questions

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ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence @econovoau.bsky.social · Mar 14

1/6 Paper Alert📢📢📢
New publication from #ECONOVO on the widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere🌱

Read the article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Key take homes below👇

Widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Even outside urban and agricultural areas, ecosystems are vastly transformed as a result of human activities. Here the authors map patterns in climate change, defaunation and floristic disruption to q...

www.nature.com

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Mar 4

7/🧵 Want to see VegVault in action? 🔬

Both the website & preprint include:
📌 Example projects using the database
📌 Code snippets to extract & analyse data

Visualisation of example data usage of VegVault using vaultkeepr package. See preprint (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635213) for code used to extract such data from VegVault and for details about the aim of each data compilation. A: Data for “Spatio-temporal patterns of the Picea genus across North America since the Last Glacial Maximum” example. The individual points represent vegetation data (Samples for fossil pollen or contemporary vegetation plot) within each age time slice. B: Data for “Joined species Distribution Model for vegetation within Czech Republic” example. Each point represents one contemporary vegetation plot. The colour represents the Mean Annual Temperature (MAT) associated with that plot. C: Data for “Patterns of community weightedmean of plant height for South and Central America between 6-12 ka cal yrBP”. The left figure represents temporal length of fossil pollen Datasets, which are available for Central and South America between 6 and 12 ka BP (thousand years before present). The middle figure represent the distribution various genera present in this data assembly. The right figure represents distribution of average Plant height Trait per each genus present in the data assembly.

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