Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements
doi.org/10.32942/X26...
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Registration for BES Macro 2026 is open! Join us in a friendly conference, filled with macroecology, macroevolution and more!
Two more days to apply for a postdoctoral position in Biodiversity Economics! DL 18.2.
The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision.
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Introducing.... The Soil Ecology Seminar Series 2026!
Join us on Wednesday the 25th of February at 1 pm GMT for the first installment. We will delve into microbial ecology with exciting talks from Dr Ashish Malik and Josh Thurston:
Register your interest here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Relatedly, and obviously Saturday night is not the correct time to ask this, but: anyone know anything about plant biochemistry want to review a paper about leaf macroecology? Pretty please? Reviewers keep ghosting me on this one, and I feel very bad for the authors.
Application deadline is January 15 for graduate positions (MSc and PhD) in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Feel free to reach out and/or share 🧪
An infographic illustrating the goal to make EU soils healthier by 2050. The top text reads: "SOILS PROVIDE 95% OF OUR FOOD, YET MANY SOILS ARE UNHEALTHY." A diagram compares the soil health between 2020 and 2050. The 2020 diagram shows a light-brown soil cross-section with a small plant, stating "LESS THAN 40% ARE HEALTHY." The 2050 diagram shows a rich, dark-brown soil cross-section with healthy plants, stating "ALL SOILS ARE HEALTHY." The text between them describes the EU objective: "Supports our health" and "Protects against droughts, wildfires & flooding."
Europe takes a decisive step to protect one of our most precious resources.
Today, the first-ever Soil Monitoring Law enters into force.
It improves soil health, strengthens food security and enhances resilience to natural disasters.
More: link.europa.eu/MfJ3GP
Meet the #BES2025 SIGs on floor -1! We’ll be heading to our social at Frankenstein later too! Come say hi to some of our committee:
@inesismartins.bsky.social
@bethanyjallen.bsky.social
@lauraloubio.bsky.social
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
I really can't recommend the Macro Committee enough - we have tons of fun and organise a really cool annual meeting :)
A male greater bird-of-paradise (brownish crow-like thing with a fluffy golden tail, yellow head, and green face) on a tree branch, for attention. Photo by Tim Laman via the Cornell Lab of O.
Join the BES Macro committee!
We're recruiting a vice chair and 1-2 ordinary members to help us make macroecology & macroevolution a better place.
More information on how to apply in the link, and come chat at #BES2025 if you happen to be around!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...
PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
Open position at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
⏰Don't miss this chance to showcase your research and chat with an incredible group of soil experts!
Late-breaking poster submissions for #GSBC2026 are due on January 30, 2026!
Submit your abstract here: globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/
Applications are OPEN for a #PhD project with @nhm-london.bsky.social's brilliant Adriana De Palma & Sara Contu from and Ferran Pujol of @uor-research.bsky.social: Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems for Warehousing Worldwide Biodiversity Data. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #deadline 19th January!
Will we be seeing you during the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference? 👀
Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub in Edinburgh on 16 Dec 2025 for a social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺
There will be snacks, friends, and (loosely!) ecology-themed quiz rounds ✨ See you there!
I am briefly leaving Germany, to spend time in a German-themed pub 🍻
Excited to catch up with some fellow macroecologists! Come and join us 📝
Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🍇 Check out this meta-analysis led by Silvia Winter about the impacts of vineyard management and landscape context on biodiversity & ecosystem services. Overall, we found that extensive management increases biodiversity and ecosystem services. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎
Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?
This PhD could be for you!
Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
#PhD position!
I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).
Join our team - please RT!
Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9
#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
In this article, De Smedt et al discuss the rise of terrestrial #isopods in the #pettrade and the need for their inclusion in trade regulation. Interested in learning more? You can find their study at doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
#conservation #science #stem #stemwords #wordoftheweek #isopod
Our Ecology MSc course @helsinki.fi is coming to an end with a final seminar at the Lammi Biological station. Today we are visiting Evo 🍁🍂☘️
Check out our new database (catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/18...) and data paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) for the traits of UK ladybirds 🐞
Great to see this out, a really fun team to work with expertly led by @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social
@ukladybirds.bsky.social @aru-biology.bsky.social
Congratulations to our valued Executive Editor, @natejsanders.bsky.social, on becoming a BES fellow!
How can we identify #coexistence in #ecology? There are at least three common approaches (structural stability, eigenvalues, and invasion), and each investigates different aspects of community dynamics (equilibria, locally stable equilibria, and global stability). 1/2
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
drawing of an earthworm. It is orange-brown with darker brown segments
Day ten of #invertober
Common Earthworm
So cute, so cute! I have loved earthworms since I was a kid
A photograph of an earthworm's head pushing out of the soil surface, with a tiny half-segment at the tip clearly visible.
My (slightly late) offering for day ten of #invertober (common earthworm) 🪱
Did you know earthworms have a special lip-like first head segment called a prostomium (meaning 'before the mouth')? They use it to sense and manipulate food, and move through soil!
#SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography 🧪