Wir sind dabei - diesmal im purpur Café
@funcagroeco.bsky.social

🥳 6 years of our Ecology Seminar in a hybrid format!

It’s great to see that we continue to reach and engage many people interested in #Agroecology and functional #Agrobiodiversity. Many thanks to our speakers for covering cutting-edge topics. 💚

The new program is out now—take a look!

Great and fun group of speakers and lecturers—thanks for staying with us!

Great start to the BioIntAkt Spring School! 🐝🐦🐟

Day 1 kicked off with an inspiring poster session covering passive acoustic monitoring across forests, agroecosystems, aquatic systems, and computational challenges.

Thanks to everyone for the relaxed, inspiring atmosphere and great exchange 💚

Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology

Come to work with us!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

It’s surprising to see that Bombus lapidarius plays such a key role in virus transmission within agricultural landscapes. This challenges long-held assumptions and highlights how non-honeybee species can drive the spread of pathogens. 🧪

Congratulations to Patrycja Pluta for leading the study!

Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors synthesize bee assemblage data from 681 crop fields across three continents, finding that local pesticide hazards and decreasing adjacent semi-natural habitats both negatively affected wil...

Our new paper, co-authored by Riho and Péter, titled "Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields", is published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The study emphasizes the need to reduce pesticide impacts and restore habitats for promoting wild bees. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📺 Unsere Studie hat es ins Fernsehen geschafft!

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Wo wachsen die besten Erdbeeren? 🍓🐝🍓

Pressemitteilung www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

🔔Just a quick reminder!

The open postdoctoral researcher position is still waiting for the right candidate. 🧪

🕒 Apply by: 01.03.2026

Feel free to share with your network or reach out if you have questions!

see www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

@uni-goettingen.de
@agrarunigoe.bsky.social

You will work in the transdisciplinary #ProjectKOOPERATIV in a great and diverse team of ecologists, economists and social scientists.

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/628701.html
@agrarunigoe.bsky.social
@uni-goettingen.de

📢 We’re hiring!
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social

The position focuses on how collaborative agri-environment measures affect multiple taxa and ecosystem services.

See: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Long-term agricultural diversification increases financial profitability, biodiversity, and ecosystem services: a second-order meta-analysis - Nature Communications Feeding a growing population while protecting the environment is a major global challenge. This study suggests that agricultural diversification enhances long-term profitability, biodiversity, soil he...

Do agricultural diversification practices pay off in the long run? Our new paper synthesizes 100+ years of evidence showing that diversification practices become more profitable over time and delivers growing benefits for soils, biodiversity, and carbon.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New article led by Evan T. Sloan🐝

Pollen metabarcoding shows strong preference for Cichorioideae in the specialist bee Osmia leaiana.

Foraging patterns are driven by local flower abundance and nearby semi-natural grasslands.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@basicapplecol.bsky.social

Landscape composition determines reproductive success: more cropland and forest reduce brood cell numbers.

The results highlight how local plant communities and land use shape specialist bee #conservation and could guide grassland #restoration.

Thanks for funding
@biodiversa.eu
@dfg.de

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Reminder 📣 submit your abstract for a talk or poster by February 15th and register to secure early bird price by April 30th for the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology!

See you in Leiden, the Netherlands 6 - 10 July 2026!

More at eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses...

Many thanks for the invitation to
Dr. Nils Stanik & Prof. Dr. Gert Rosenthal @unikassel.bsky.social
Department of Landscape and Vegetation Ecology,
the North Hessian Society for Natural History and Natural Sciences (NGNN)
and the Natural History Museum Kassel.

Thank you very much for listening, for the long and critical discussion, and for the numerous positive comments. I enjoyed the improvised lecture, which once again showed how topical and relevant the issue of cooperative agri-environmental measures at the landscape level is for nature conservation.

The only downside was that probably not everyone was able to see the beautiful pictures of our flowering areas and the co-design of our study landscapes.

The solution: share the presentation via the open learning management system with the students and everyone who doesn't have access can watch together on a laptop.

What do you do when the projector isn't working and the room is full of people who have come especially to hear your talk despite the ice and sleet?

Main conclusion: Effective conservation must integrate landscape restoration and social levers

1. local management boosts plant and bee richness
2. landscape-scale habitat connectivity strengthens species diversity and ecosystem functions
3. farmers’ motivation matters

@biodiversa.eu

Congratulations on your very successful PhD defence! 🎉

Thank you for all your contributions to the lab from managing our social media to organizing outreach events and promoting science communication. 🐝

I’m truly grateful for everything you’ve done! All the best! 💚

It is an honour and pleasure to have Teja presenting at our Ecology Seminar this week. I greatly appreciate his consistent mentorship and look forward to building on the creative team spirit of the Agroecology group with him. Thanks so much, Teja! 💚

The Festschrift:
www.openagrar.de/receive/open...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

shorturl.at/f1TuF

Nordic Oikos 2026 | Nordic Society Oikos Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

🎉 Congratulations on this great achievement!

The students’ feedback says it all:
The excursions, research-oriented exercises, and diverse applied topics were perceived as highly inspiring, practical, and relevant to their training.

Keep up the great work! 🚀

@agrarunigoe.bsky.social

Don’t miss the related article:
a Europe-wide meta-analysis led by Qian on how to optimize flower-area design to support ground-active predators.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@jappliedecology.bsky.social

📢 Join us #EcologySeminar!
Qian Zhang
will will share new #ProjectKOOPERATIV insights, on how flower areas enrich ground-dwelling arthropod diversity and ecosystem services.

📅 Wed 19.11. at 10:15 AM
📩 DM for webinar link

@agrarunigoe.bsky.social
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/628701.html

📢Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into AI-powered #biodiversity research shaping the future of eco-informatics and #conservation!

We’re excited to welcome outstanding international speakers who will present and actively engage in our workshops.
www.biointakt.de/en/springsch...