🌵 BayCEER Colloquium | 23 April, 12:00 🌵
Dr. Albert Cabré, explores how short but intense runoff events shape the Atacama Desert and drive erosion in arid landscapes.
🔍 A talk on extreme events, sediment transport, and scaling challenges in drylands.
🔍: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/de/a...
Part of the Elite Network of Bavaria, the M.Sc. integrates ecology, statistical modelling, deep learning & AI, remote sensing, and decision science — training graduates to forecast ecological change and communicate it to managers and policy-makers.
The new Master's programme in Ecological Forecasting at UBT and JMU Würzburg is looking to employ six lecturers and a program coordinator!
For more information, please contact Prof. Steven Higgins (www.pfloek.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/higg...).
This looks like an amazing dataset, exploring an important shift in European plant communities.
Can we please move on from analysing ad-hoc community summaries from multi-species data? The statistical problems run so much deeper than people appreciate.
🌿 The BayCEER Colloquium SS 2026 starts on April 23rd. 🌿
Join us every Thursday for exciting talks in ecology and environmental research!
🔍 Check out the full programme and explore a wide range of fascinating topics throughout the semester.
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/en/a...
Get your stable isotope analysis for free! Current call for projects is open until end of April! * You are an early career researcher and interested in the application of stable isotopes? * You have a new idea that you want to test? * You need preliminary data for a research proposal? * You want to get a first proof of a concept? * You need some supporting data for a publication? The Bayreuth Center of Stable Isotope Research in Ecology and Biogeochemistry (BayCenSI) offers innovative and sophisticated stable isotope analytics to local, national, and international researchers. Financial support will include: * Development, preparation, and interpretation of results. * Up to 120 samples/analysis per project. * 6-10 projects per year. * Not for travel, hotel, and subsistence expenses! Application procedure: * Call for proposals are open until 30 of April * Submission of an abstract explaining the isotope project Apply: https://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/CenSI-steppingstones/
Get your stable isotope analysis for free! Current call for projects is open until end of April!
* Up to 120 samples/analysis per project.
Application is easy:
* Call is open until April, 30th
* Submit an abstract explaining your isotope project here:
www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/CenSI-steppi...
Food waste has a ripple effect.
It's the water, energy and labour used to produce it, the money spent to buy it, and the emissions released when it's thrown away.
This #ZeroWasteDay and every day, every plate counts.
Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the globe, do not miss this next splendid opportunity for career building and networking! 🦠🧑🔬🧑🎓💯🇵🇹
🤩 Now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Comms!
#NicolasTyborski and our wonderful #Rhizotraits team unravel how old landraces and modern varieties of maize distinctly modulate their #rhizosphere #microbiomes under drought via soil water potentials!
🌽🥵🦠
Thanks to #BayCEER #Rhizo4Bio #bmftr_bund
Our PhD student #SulariAnthony most lively discussing 🔥 results from the @crc1357.bsky.social Soil Microplastics Observatory #SMO at the #VAAM2026 conference.
Thanks to @vaam-microbes.bsky.social and Berlin colleagues for a great conference! 👌🚀
Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional
Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles!
Nettes Feature unserer Forschung zu Klimawandelanpassungen im Naturschutz in der Bayerischen Staatszeitung:
www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitun...
Writing on parental care and reproductive strategies? Submit to our collection! We invite studies on the diversity, function and costs of parental care; the evolution of reproductive and mating strategies; the roles of sexual selection and conflict; and the factors that drive variation in parenting.
Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming
go.nature.com/482g2Cd
We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences.
More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
Most inspiring spring meeting of our #BMFTR @bonares.bsky.social funded #Rhizotraits project in Raitenhaslach Monastery of @tum.de ⛪️ Thanks to all colleagues of @bayceer.bsky.social, #LfL … for fruitful discussions 🌽👍🏼
🧬 New at Keylab Genomics & Bioinformatics: 🧬
The latest-generation MiSeq-i100 NGS device (Illumina) is now available at the Uni Bayreuth for environmental, biodiversity, and microplastics research.
#NGS #Genomics
www.genomics.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2026...
@dfg.de
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
Excited to share about:
🌱 Gaps in Germany’s next forest generation
Regeneration maps from National Forest Inventory data show:
• 14% low regeneration density
• 30% low species richness
• 15% of Bavaria lacking climate adapted regeneration
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New EASI lab publication about the status of forest regeneration in German forests!
@bayceer.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social
University of Bayreuth launches elite master’s programme in Ecological Forecasting
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press...
#Elitestudiengang #UBT #UniBayreuth #Ecological #Forecasting #StudierenInBayreuth
Check out new study presenting concept+1st results of a fantastic and more than important long-term field experiment #LTE on #stockless & #veganic farming published in #OrganicAgriculture (@springer.springernature.com) by Morten Möller et al. last week: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New study out with @steigerlab.bsky.social! We investigated male care in a biparentally caring 🪲. Why does male contribution vary so much? Turns out there are repeatable individual differences, and how much the female does only affects some male care behaviors.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
📣 We are hiring!
Six postdoctoral positions in Earth System Science & Science Diplomacy are open within a new international MSc program led by FAU in collaboration with the Uni Bayreuth.
🔗 fau-earth-system-science.github.io/pdfs/ESDE_pr...
@fau.de
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
@mrentetzi.bsky.social
Climate change doesn’t affect everyone equally: up to 80% of those displaced by climate disasters are women.
But women aren’t just facing the crisis, they’re also leading the response.
This #WomensDay, meet the women driving climate adaptation: https://ow.ly/qjFG50YpZmz
📢 Reminder:
Public lecture on 12 March, 6 p.m.
“Microplastics in water – where the particles are going” (in German) by Dr. Johanna Schmidtmann.
Afterwards, Jona will guide visitors through the marine aquarium at the University of Bayreuth.
@crc1357.bsky.social
@johannaschmidtmann.bsky.social
📣 New CRC 1357 Microplastics publication! 📣
A new study in #Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety shows that both petroleum-based and biodegradable #microplastics can affect Daphnia magna, with responses varying between clones.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@crc1357.bsky.social
@dfg.de
Extreme weather events are affecting billions globally.
Beyond cutting emissions to slow the pace of global warming, adaptation is essential to protect people and communities from the consequences already underway.
Here is why adaptation matters: www.un.org/en/climatech...
🔬 Microplastics in water: Where do the particles travel?
Join Dr. Johanna Schmidtmann on March 12 for a public lecture at the Main FlussFilmFest.
Info: www.vhs-bayreuth.de/programm/bil...
📍 University of Bayreuth, NW I (H12)
🎟 Free admission (registration required)
#Wassermonat #MainFlussFilmFest
🌊 BayCEER’s CRC Microplastics is part of the Water Month March at the Main FlussFilmFest, with a public talk, children’s cinema & more events. 🌊
🌿 The Ecological-Botanical Garden also joins in.
More info: www.mainflussfilmfest.de
@crc1357.bsky.social
#MainFlussFilmFest #Microplastics
🌱📢 Call for Abstracts for the International Grassland Congress (IGC) 2027 opens on 26 February!
Submit your contribution by October 2026 & help shape the programme! 📝
🔗 Info & submission: www.igc2027.org
#IGC2027 #CallForAbstracts #GrasslandResearch
