Number of studies growing faster where the best data exists (and yes you will soon hear from me about contributing one more such study, that sleeping dog is awakening…)

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🌿 Contribute to research on plant aesthetics !

Help us explore how people perceive plant beauty in urban spaces. Take our quick, anonymous 5-minute survey :

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Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University

Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

Oh wow!!! Big potential for excessively collaborative PhD supervisors that are in the search for external opponents and committee members for a PhD Defense (mandatory in Sweden)…

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) are a potential substitute for human-generated data and knowledge resources. This substitution, however, can present

Using LLMs for solving your (small & large) coding Qs has consequences. It eats tons of fossil energy & threatens our future knowledge base

"Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms" 🧪💻🤖

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Nice one! Strong Anscombe quartet vibe…

… green gram?

Using Artificial Intelligence to Map the Earth’s Forests - Meta Sustainability An open source, global canopy height dataset and a foundational AI model for a more accountable carbon market.

Using Artificial Intelligence to Map the Earth’s Forests - a global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale (!) sustainability.fb.com/blog/2024/04... 🧪🌎

Shade tree trait diversity and function in agroforestry systems: which traits matter? It was a real pleasure to work on this review with amazing collaborators! Now out in Journal of Applied Ecology. #agroforestry #planttraits #soilfertility

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We are opening our call for Biodiversity Synthesis projects at #CESAB in the beautiful, Montpellier 🌈, France

Up to 4 groups will be funded for 3 years: 5 (1 week) meetings + 24 mth postdocs !

Generic synthesis: bit.ly/4aC3fW6

Thematic synthesis: bit.ly/4aeEMq2

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@newphyt.bsky.social on tree cover in Drylands! Enjoyable collarboration with Lucio Biancari et al.

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Ursula von der Leyen scraps pesticide reduction bill, in gift to farmers The European Parliament already rejected the contentious text, which the Commission President described as a “worthy aim.”

EU scraps plans to reduce pesticide use by 50%. Disappointing lack of leadership here. The 50% target had flaws, but was needed to drive the kind of reductions we need to see. Sad to see it scrapped entirely not reworked.
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

Call for papers!
Conservation of Palaearctic steppes and semi-natural grasslands: challenges and solutions
Special issue in Biological Conservation: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biol...
Coordinated by Orsolya Valkó, Jürgen Dengler, @leonardoancillo and me

Our #RestPoll member Deepa Senapathi shows how to increase production of a tropical oil-producing tree with flower strips of a legume and a garden crop. This is a great example how farmers & pollinators benefit by co-designed conservation measures. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Unglaubllich: Bayern macht Ernst mit der Moorwiedervernässung, zahlt den Landwirten 2.200 €/ha. Details sind noch nicht klar. Ich hoffe inständig, dass da auch Beweidung geht. Damit wären auch große Erfolge im Wiesenbrüterschutz möglich. Eigentlich zu schön, um wahr zu sein
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Now is the time to make true on your New Year's Resolution to share your fantastic research with more scientists! The Nordic Oikos 2024 conference is the perfect forum for this and you still have until tomorrow 12th January to register your abstract! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/80737/...

You have until Friday to submit your abstract for #NordicOikos2024! Happy to lead the session „Biodiversity contributions to ecosystem function and services“ with exciting contributions coming from a wide range of systems. Still accepting contributions!

Ant face patterns like swirls and stubble might have practical value Reviewing thousands of ant photos hints that facial surface patterns might offer benefits, like structural support or abrasion protection.

A lab team spent the pandemic lockdown studying thousands of photos of ant faces (and discussed their findings at #EntSoc23)

Odd, I thought, but then realized we also have one. Salvaged from a discarded Christmas tree some years back.

Grateful for lead by @vyhvyh.bsky.social and the moment of weakness when your PI suggests “it would be pretty straightforward to make a review based on this proposal”

Hot off the press. We pulled together evidence for pollinator-mediated landscape-scale land-use effects on grassland plant communities and functioning, including what may be weakening or strengthening those links. doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Strong environmental #trade-offs associated with #beef 🐮production in the #Chaco, but good #management can lower trade-offs substantially. New paper by Pedro Fernandez and the team @IER Tucuman (Argentina) now out in Science of the Total Environment: authors.elsevier.com/c/1iHsYB8ccy...

New job for Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology @BioEnvHelsinki @helsinkiuni
Deadline for applications is 29 February 2024

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

I had a couple of such eerie ones recently.
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9 aerial photos of landscape change from 1945 to today The project focuses on how rapidly and to what extent plant communities change depends surrounding landscape composition and habitat change over time. It is a cross-disciplinary project between community ecology and geography. The long-term goal is to understand how we avoid local species extinction where there are time lags because of historical landscape change and other global drivers By using an unique re-survey data set from the UK it is possible to explore and systematically test hypotheses about how landscapes over time influence plant community change. Historical maps and aerial photographs will be used to determine habitat patterns and change in specific geographical location to investigate the possibility for developing methods to quantify ecologically important aspects of landscape history. The postdoc will work within the team of ECSTATIC project with collaboration with CEH in Lancaster university in the UK.

I have a postdoc position in Landscape Ecology 🧪🌍
Please RP #BES2023
on identifying how surrounding landscape composition and historical management influence rates of plant community change and occurrence, today and in the future. Collaboration with CEH in UK. See alt text

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Only a bit more than a week left to submit abstracts! Next year’s biannual OIKOS meeting in Lund has a stronger focus on evolutionary ecology. Check out the session topics here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...