#CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #SoilScience #BehaviouralScience #SustainableEconomy
#EcosystemModelling #FutureForest #FutureCities #PublicPolicies #SustainableFutures #NaturalCapital

@unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics

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Scientific researcher (postdoc position) (m/f/d/x)

Join the Horizon Europe project OASIS: NLP, AI, and environmental science. We’re looking for candidates with a PhD and a strong background in AI/data science, interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative research.

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Excited to share a new paper led by our colleagues at #DLR! We trained AI to recognize 15 European fly pollinator families and estimate how confident it is, helping ecologists use AI more responsibly.
Paper: lnkd.in/dBAWW3hB
Code: lnkd.in/du7dD2hc

#pollinators #aiforgood #aifornature #UFZ #iDiv

Too many mediocre men talk over capable women.

Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill.

It's long past time to value competence over confidence.

Dataset structure of the advertised Terrestrial laser scanning dataset collection. The collection contains 121 forest plots, each 50 x 50 m at 1 cm spatial resolution. The collection is structured in 5 campaigns, one in Galicia, Spain, one in La Palma, Spain, one in Ostlandet, Norway, one n Brandenburg, Germany and one in Czechia. For each campaign a picture of an example point cloud is shown.

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We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊
121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner!
From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail.

#TLS #Riegl

A fair coin "knows" π.
Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π.
Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

Hände weg vom Naturschutz Die EU will zentrale Naturschutzgesetze lockern. Gemeinsam können wir das verhindern. Gib jetzt deine Stimme ab – für starken Schutz von Mensch und Natur!

Jahrzehnte lang erkämpfte Gesetze zum Schutz von Natur, Trinkwasser und Gesundheit werden gerade zugunsten kurzfristiger Wirtschaftsinteressen still und leise abgeschafft. Alle Menschen in Europa sind betroffen. Unterschreibe die Petition. #HandsOffNature
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Above‐ and below‐ground trait coordination across 90 angiosperm and gymnosperm tree species in a common garden experiment This research highlights the significance of elucidating the mechanisms behind above-and below-ground organs. The varying trait coordination across clades indicates different resource acquisition str...

Study on Above- & #below-groundTrait coordination across 90 #angiosperm and #gymnosperm #tree species in a #commonGarden experiment
highlights different resource strategies associated with #leaf & #fine-root traits.

led by Anvar Sanaei.

@agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in Leipzig for this exciting conference

#CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #BehaviouralScience #RemoteSensing #forest #ClimateImpact #ClimateExtremes #SpatialTheory #LandUse #Sustainability #WaterCycle and more topics

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We are thrilled to bring the #XAI4CV Workshop back to @cvprconference.bsky.social
, celebrating its 5th Anniversary!🚀Submit your latest research in #XAI. We accept papers & demos across 2 tracks! #CVPR2026 xai4cv-workshop.github.io/xai4cv2026/ Please repost🔁

Congratulations Ana! Something we can all contribute to.

Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk.

This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.

torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta... corporate ethics is an oxymore

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The seismic fingerprint of wind‐induced tree sway Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events like heat waves, droughts and storms, placing forests under growing physiological and mechanical stress. Common indicato...

One example is our #ML analysis on #treeSway. Read more about #WindInduced #SeismicFingerprints
here

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#bruegel

#Read the latest #cityFable on the joy of #frozenRivers

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Urban winner landscape with frozen river and people frolicking on it.

Only a week ago we had an amazing #winterScape in #Leipzig. The #FrozenRiver was full of #joyAndLaughter.

@urbanmole.bsky.social links observation with art and story.

#WeNeedStories #WeNeedArt #Leipzig #cityTales #cityFable #urbanGaze #cityScapes #bruegelPainting

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Thanks for sharing these! I communicated these ideas in words in my classes, but with your minicomic my message might be more impactful 🤓📚

This is so outrageous that there are hardly any words to describe the disgrace.
The EU marks a low moment for citizens' health, for science, for democracy, for biodiversity, and for farmers.
Congratulations for those who've just shown us who's the real boss in this puppet theatre.

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.

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The DFG research training group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N) at Leipzig University is happy to announce vacancies for another 14 doctoral researcher positions. www.eco-n.org
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I feel you.

The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education.

Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.

#PatternFormation in the real world. This looks like spiral waves which can be modelled by the reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type

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