Only one week left to apply for the full professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research at our institute @unituebingen.bsky.social ! Please re-post.

Incredibly beautiful trees in the Peruvian Amazon basin! On the way to (#1) and in (#2-4) Manu National Park. A biologist's dream come true.

Can't believe I am actually in the Amazon rainforest.

Vordenker für artenreiche Agrarlandschaften: Mendel-Medaille für den Agrarökologen Teja Tscharntke Die Artenvielfalt ist von der Bewirtschaftungsweise landwirtschaftlicher Flächen und den Ökosystemen in der sie umgebenden Landschaft abhängig. Nutzpflanzen profitieren von Bestäubungsleistungen zahlr...

🏅🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, @teja-tscharntke.bsky.social. Für seine grundlegenden Beiträge zur #Agrarökologie zeichnet die Leopoldina den Biologen und Soziologen der @uni-goettingen.de mit der Mendel-Medaille 2026 aus: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

There is nowhere else in the world (that I am aware of) where phenology has been recorded as regularly as in Kyoto, Japan. Records here of peak cherry blossom bloom go back to the year 812. Those blooms have been getting earlier in recent years due to climate change and urban heat island effects.

The Moray site in Peru. Basically a former research center where the Inka tested climate tolerances of different crop varieties along an artificial 15° temperature gradient from warm crater bottom to windy mountain slope. Very impressive!

Finally, big paper #1 from GrENE-net, the unique distributed Arabidopsis evolution experiment! What an achievement, particularly by Moi, Niek and Francois who conceived the project (in Tübingen), and by the incredibly smart Moi Lab data analysis team: Lucas, Tati, Meixi, Xing and Moi!

Daniel Prati, co-supervisor of my PhD and one of the smartest, funniest and kindest colleagues I ever met, has died unexpectedly. Dani influenced me in many ways, and I am so grateful for all the times together.

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Summer School 2026: Blue-green biodiversity. Research and practice at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems The WSL-Eawag Biodiversity Center is pleased to announce the fourth summer school on blue-green biodiversity.

⏰ Three weeks left to apply to our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity, a joint effort by @eawag.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social.
💧🌳 Join us in Davos to learn more about aquatic & ecosystems from an interdisciplinary lens.
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FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity.

@gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died The longtime Stanford professor, a giant in his field of evolutionary and population biology, also led the effort to establish Jasper Ridge Biological Pres

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@gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @sgn.one @unihohenheim.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social @feda.bio

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Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute!

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Hypothesized molecular levers regulating the apparent competitive growth-defense trade-off.

Integration of environmental information in plants

@mb-mueller.bsky.social, Xueying Chen, Casey S. Philbin, Christopher S. Jeffrey and André Kessler

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#PlantScience #ecology

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭

To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀

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I like this place! Don't forget to drink a Schwarzbier

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Just found out that my incoming emails are numbered. I am currently at #174,110. With approx. 3372 work days since my start at Uni Tübingen = 50 emails/day on average over 13 years! Wow! How is anybody able to handle such numbers? I am not good at it.

Ah the beauty of fresh Alliaria seedlings!

Part of a litter sample from one 1m2 plot (Harvard Forest, plot 100S, Macrosystems transect, 2013). These mites represent a "mesofauna" that is as daunting as it is fantabulous.

It takes a certain blend of self-confidence and derangement to study the ecology of oribatid mites.

The Tielbörger lab at @unituebingen.bsky.social is offering TWO PHD POSITIONS in rangeland ecology, as part of the sage-centre.org. It is about tipping points in Middle Eastern rangelands. A large interdisciplinary project with unique long-term experiments!

We are still looking for a PhD student to work on feedbacks between plant invasion and riverbank erosion, embedded in the @terra-cluster.org. In collaboration with geoscientists and modellers; cool combination of field work & experiments. Position is in the Tielbörger lab, in collab with our group.

"Sun dogs" (#parhelia) this morning on my way to work. Almost tripled sun (22° halo) caused by refraction of sun light by ice crystals in the air. Very strange, and weirdly blinding.

Es war die guuuude alde Zeeit! Und natürlich Hessi James!
RIP Gerd Knebel

Only 1 week left to apply for your #dreamPhD position on #GeneticDiversity of #Proteas! Amazing combination of field work, wet and dry lab, amazing collaborators in #FynFUN and @terra-cluster.org, and definitely one of the most beautiful study systems and common gardens in the world! Please RT.

Foto of an ancient beech tree, logos of Uni Freiburg and Biodiversity Exploratories, and short announcement text: "PhD position in Forest Genetics entitled "Genetic diversity of tree and shrub species in the Biodiversity Exploratories" 3 years (starting in April/May 2026), Apply now!"

🌳 PhD Position in Forest Genetics
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Join the BeGenDiv project to study genetic diversity of ~30 tree & shrub species across Germany’s Biodiversity Exploratories.
🧬 Fieldwork, lab work, bioinformatics & interdisciplinary collaboration
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Super Initiative vom Känguru-Flüsterer: #DIDit #DUTgemacht
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Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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