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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · 1d

So excited to be representing @spun.earth at the #IUCNCongress! 🌍✨ I’m eager to connect with you and explore how we can integrate mycorrhizal fungi into your conservation strategies. Schedule a time to meet up: www.spun.earth/events/iucn-...

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 1d

🚨SPUN’S Biodiversity Conservation Strategist, @catiacanteiro.bsky.social will be at the #IUCNcongress presenting our latest mycorrhizal maps to conservation leaders.

Schedule a meeting with Cátia: buff.ly/dy2amO3

Visit SPUN’s event page: buff.ly/aQ7L97Y

SPUN at IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025

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Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social · 2d

🪸🧪 We’re hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:⁣
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𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 + 𝟐 𝐏𝐡𝐃𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.⁣
Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. ⁣

Questions: [email protected]⁣
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 4d

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Biology - UMass Boston

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Adriana Corrales @adricorrales.bsky.social · 8d

I’m super glad to have the opportunity to be a speaker at LivigData representing the SPUN team! I would love to connect with anyone here that is attending 🙌🏽

GBIF @gbif.org · 8d

⏰ 3 weeks to go until #LivingData2025!

The presentation deadline has been extended to 14 October 🎉

👉If you're a presenter, check inbox for further instructions! ✉️

See you in Bogotá or online! 🌍✨

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

Purple graphic with white text reading presenter deadline 14 october

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · 5d

Current Conservation just published a special issue on fungal conservation. It is amazingly beautiful and creative, with great content! Don’t miss out on this fascinating exploration of fungi and their vital role in our ecosystems! 🍄‍🟫 💕 www.currentconservation.org/issues/19-3/

19.3 | Current Conservation

Before their ecological relevance and unique properties were revealed to me, my earliest memory of fungi was as a whimsical toadstool in the background of a fairytale book. Growing up, I also saw them...

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 5d

Why is a journal reminding me every week I have a revision due? Like honey I’m aware.

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 6d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 6d

They were really bad at being alive and the fungi are helping

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats on this Laura!

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Laura van Galen @laura-vangalen.bsky.social · 12d

If you are in need of soil microbial data relating to PLFAs or enzyme activities, check out our latest paper that provides an open-access global database of data form around the world. Thanks very much to the long list of collaborators who made this happen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 16d

Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Necromass of Diverse Root‐Associated Fungi Suppresses Decomposition of Native Soil Carbon via Impacts of Their Traits

We investigated the decomposition of diverse root-associated fungi, their influence on native soil carbon (C) dynamics and the relationship of these processes with fungal traits. Fungal melanin, blac....

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 17d

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

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

Plant species domesticated in pre-Columbian times are widely and often abundantly distributed in modern-day Amazonian forest.

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 19d

Super thanks!

Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 19d

Does anyone have access?

Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 19d

New online! Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems

Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 19 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00081-6Human actions have shaped ecosystems for thousands of years, and have profound effects on biodiversity and environmental processes. This Review explores the ways that humans have modified past ecosystems and the methods available for researchers to study these changes, as well as indicating how understanding historic change can inform conservation strategies.

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 20d

Manuscript submitted. Cross fingiesssssss

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 22d

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nitrogen and phosphorus limitations are both key to spatial patterns and temporal trends in primary production. This global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary product...

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 26d

INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 26d

Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍

🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...

Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores

Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 26d

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

Please share!

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...

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 29d

"Protected areas buffer against aridity thresholds in global drylands." 🌎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highly protected areas buffer against aridity thresholds in global drylands - Nature Plants

Highly protected areas help drylands stay productive under increasing aridity, delaying critical ecosystem thresholds and underscoring the need to expand protection to safeguard these vulnerable regio...

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · 29d

Andrew D. Cronin @andrewdcronin.bsky.social · Sep 8

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals?

We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs in the field.

Full text: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

#evolutionarybiology
#animalbehavior
@eseb.bsky.social
@jevbio.bsky.social

Photo: Grant Maslowski

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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