Three people with a Bee Friendly Insector remote sensing insect monitoring system in a renaturated quarry.

Two people setting up a Bee Friendly Insector remote sensing insect monitoring system in a renaturated quarry.

Today we set up two insect monitoring stations in the glorious sunshine as part of a Masters thesis project. We will be comparing this with traditional monitoring to improve our understanding of the role of AI to supplement and enhance insect monitoring 🐝🪰🦋💚 @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Insekten: Ein Datenschatz für Wissenschaft und Naturschutz Wie verändert sich die Biodiversität unter Bayerns Insekten – und warum? Forschende der Uni Würzburg nutzen nun die Datenbank Karla.Natur des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt, um Zukunftstrends zu m...

Schätze müssen gehoben werden, so auch die Datenschätze zur #Biodiversität. Wir freuen uns über die Fortsetzung der Kooperation mit dem @lfu.bayern.de zur Nutzung der bayerischen Insektendaten, um zu neuen Erkenntnissen in Wissenschaft & Naturschutz beizutragen
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Very happy to have @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social as a guest at our lab to talk about ongoing & new collaborations. Thanks for a fantastic talk in the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter colloquium about his work that integrates biophysical modelling with macroecology to better understand diversity variation.

To the #TIBS2026 crowd and everyone else: we are hiring! Please spread the word and/or write to @ekengelhardt.bsky.social to hear more about her great project and her PhD position!

Job Offer: PhD Position Project bAImo: artificial intelligence for insect monitoring 3 years (initially) 65% TV-L Background: photo of a brown butterfly (Pyronia tithonus) on a purple flower

Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

Before it ended, at our GCERetreat2025 our amazing IT-data-programming wizard Steven Hill gave a great overview on the important topics of data and code management.

A fantastic GCERetreat2025 came to end. Amazing talks from all our global change ecology research themes (thermal, macro- & above-belowground interaction ecology) productive exchange about joint research and teaching, group development, career options and many other topics. To be repeated soon!

GCERetreat2025: Amazing insights into his new research on thermorgulatory behaviour of #dragonflies and on how to model this from a biophysical perspective were presented by our postdoc Roberto Novella Fernandez

Hendrik Mohr, also PhD student with @maltejochum.bsky.social, gave us at the GCERetreat2025 some insights into his impressive review work on the multiple global change impacts on above-belowground interactions

During our GCERetreat2025 Ayushi, PhD student in @maltejochum.bsky.social‘s Above-belowground interaction ecology group presented an update about her PhD work on energy fluxes in ecological communities.

Last program day of our GCERetreat2025 has started. Our MSc student @kc-gehrig.bsky.social shows cool (or hot?) results from his thesis project on behavioural responses of butterflies to temperature variation. Great work, highlighting the importance of behaviour in climate change impact studies

#PhD position!

I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).

Join our team - please RT!

Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9

#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring

Yesterday at our GCERetreat2025 our postdoc @esme-ashe.bsky.social presented her impressive data collection as well as first models and findings on butterfly thermoregulation and thermal tolerance. Many more cool results coming up!

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Katrin Fuest presented ideas and first fieldwork reports from her thesis. She studies thermoregulation of forest #butterflies in relation to habitat structure and microclimate. Well done Katrin!

The Global Change Ecology crowd listening to Rasmus Jensen introducing his PhD research.

A field path and some trees in the foreground with a mountain range in the background

At our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social retreat to Austria, we are both taking in the beautiful surrounding landscape and discussing the latest research advancements of the team members. Here, Rasmus Dam Jensen presents our #MultiCrossBEF project as part of @bexplo.bsky.social
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A wonderful morning in the Austrian Alps, our next GCERetreat2025 day has started, and Rasmus Dam Jensen gives an overview of the MultiCrossBEF project @bexplo.bsky.social and some first results on the Earthworm subproject

GCERetreat2025: Congrats to our @ekengelhardt.bsky.social on her new project bAImo (Bavarian AI for insect monitoring), funded by bayklif2.0. Cool research at the interface of modelling, macroecology & conservation science coming up! With @maximilianpichler.bsky.social & @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

GCERetreat2025: Our MSc student Lars Landgraf presents his ideas and first analyses for his thesis project on how landscape heterogeneity influences distribution and trends of biodiversity in Bavaria

Retreat time! In the great setting of the Austrian Alps we just started our group retreat to discuss science, new ideas & how to further develop our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social ecosystem. Here @christianzehner.bsky.social is kicking off the program with his project on occurrence sampling biases.

Christian Hof Eva Katharina Engelhardt and me in front of a wall where my poster is attached. We smile and enjoy drinks. On the poster, you can see my phd project about exploring regional insect rends. the sun outside is shining and other posters are in the room, too

Very happy to have given a talk and presented my phd project at this year’s @gfoesoc.bsky.social about insect trends
Grateful for the inspiring discussions and feedback on my research and my colleagues and supervisors @ekengelhardt.bsky.social @christianhof.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

We are happy and proud about our MSc students Lars Landgraf and Karl Gehrig presenting posters on their thesis on landscape heterogeneity and thermal butterfly behaviour yesterday at #gfoe2025

A pleasure to be (co-)supervising these young folks @globalchangeeco.bsky.social, together with @esme-ashe.bsky.social and @christianzehner.bsky.social

#gfoe2025 has started, whohoo! Just enjoyed 2 great talks by @kampjohannes.bsky.social & @felixneff.bsky.social, highlighting the importance of considering longer time periods than just the last 2 decades to understand #biodiversity trends

Great workshop @iDiv @nfdi4biodiversity with @christianzehner.bsky.social meeting many interesting people contributing to #biodiversity #data collection and curation. Such networking events are an important aspect of integrative biodiversity #research - very inspiring, lots of new ideas!