Exciting news! Thanks to ETH4D, we’re offering two travel grants (up to 2,000 CHF each) for our Blue-Green Biodiversity Summer School in Davos.
Open to students based in least-developed, low- or lower-middle-income countries.
Application deadline: 15 March
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In Switzerland, some of the most radical proposals ever put forward by the far right will go to the ballot in 2026:
▪️strict immigration cap written into the constitution
▪️drastic weakening of the public broadcaster
Want to stay informed with the most accurate polling? Follow @leewas.bsky.social
Qué genial! 🇵🇪🙌
Qué fuerte escuchar esas respuestas.
Last chance to apply to our summer school on blue-green biodiversity!
The feedback from students in the previous editions has been overwhelmingly positive, so I'm excited to organize it again.
Are you a MSc/PhD student working on the linkages between aquatic & terrestrial ecosystems? Curious about the ecological AND social dimensions?
Apply to the 3rd edition of our #SummerSchool on Blue-Green Biodiversity! Deadline: 1 May
@wslresearch.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social
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🌳 Smell, Taste and Touch It: Biodiversity for All the Senses
How can we transform biodiversity, an abstract concept, into a full body experience? Join our next seminar w/ Atlant Bieri, a science communicator, to learn how he conveys biodiversity to broad audiences.
❗Time: 15:00
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If connecting people and ideas excites you, are motivated to create and foster opportunities for #science, #policy, and practice to interact - and you are passionate about #mountains ⛰️🏔🗻, then this #job with us could be for you! Join us.
Friendly reminder: Our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity has an early application track this year!
If you need a visa to Switzerland, apply by March 15. You'll be notified by early April, giving you more time for the visa application process.
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À l’occasion de la reprise de la conférence des Nations Unies sur la biodiversité à Rome, une étude comparative des plans d’action nationaux contre la crise de la biodiversité a été publiée. www.pronatura.ch/fr/2025/la-s...
For the 3rd & last time, we’re hosting our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity in Davos 🇨🇭
If you're a PhD student curious about terrestrial AND aquatic ecosystems, check out the summary & testimonials from our students from last year bit.ly/3QzOJWZ
More info & application: bit.ly/3Qv0jT0
"Para qué se necesita el litio? Porque si estamos solamente pensando en un reemplazo de los autos de energías fósiles versus autos eléctricos, en realidad no alcanza siquiera el litio que hay en el planeta."
Una entrevista a @criordor.bsky.social sobre la explotación de litio en los salares 🦩
Por 3ª vez organizamos un summer school sobre ecosistemas acuáticos y terrestres—¡dos ecosistemas que suelen estudiarse por separado, pero aquí exploramos sus conexiones y dimensiones ecológicas y sociales!
El feedback de los estudiantes ha sido muy positivo, asi que nos alegra organizarlo de nuevo.
Poster for the 3rd Annual Biodiversity Symposium organized by the WSL Biodiversity Center. The theme is 'Communicating Biodiversity,' held on December 3, 15:30–17:15, at Englersaal and via Zoom webinar. Featured speakers are Viktoria Cologna discussing communication challenges in biodiversity crises, Bianca Saladin presenting on translating scientific insights into practice, and Bernhard Schmid. Event includes an apéro and a tombola. QR code for more information and registration provided. With photos of the speakers.
⏰ Join us tomorrow at our 3rd Biodiversity Symposium: Communicating Biodiversity (or why it is so complicated)! We'll have three incredible speakers (with diverse perspectives & expertise) @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @bsaladin.bsky.social, and Bernhard Schmid.
Join us in person or online!
Hola! It's time for my first post here. I'm a biologist & coordinator @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social. I'm so happy to be here. This morning, on my commute, I was scrolling through Bluesky & came across two cool papers & a long read about rural land abandonment. It felt like the old days of Twitter :-)