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Niko Kulha @nkulha.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our Forest Disturbance Ecology lab at @uniuef.bsky.social is looking for a PhD researcher to work on dead wood dynamics in Fennoscandia. For more details, see: sites.uef.fi/dp-fobi/dead...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

The full project website of @trees4adapt.bsky.social is now live! Check it out at trees4adapt.eu to learn more about our activities - and subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you @erinninnovation.bsky.social for the great website! #NatureBasedSolutions #MissionClimateAdapt @mip4adapt.bsky.social

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yey, a landscape science xkcd! 🤩🌎 A super reasonable question and great answer

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Mikko Peltoniemi @Luke @mikkopel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Happy to repost this study led by TUM. We really should be concerned about increasing forest disturbances in Europe. The focus should be put next to developing resilient and adaptive forest management options. Great work Marc, Rupert et al. @luke.fi

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Various policies have high expectations on forests, as carbon sinks, as biodiversity habitats, as source of renewal resources for the bioeconomy - future disturbance regimes will strongly affect all of these! Check out both the Science paper and our policy brief!

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

This is extremely cool - would be awesome to have such a public archive of our @luke.fi and its predecessor organisations!

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 16/02/2026

As if it's not enough that AI gets forced into every software imaginable, now it messes up my hardware? My new (company-provided) keyboard has a "Copilot" button instead of the right ctrl. 😡 Had to remap it back to ctrl because it was messing up my typing. Guess I'll be buying my own keyboards.

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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 12/02/2026

🌿 Hab das Gefühl, je mehr uns KI aufs Auge gedrückt wird, um unser "Leben zu erleichtern", umso komplizierter und verkrachter wird das alles. Ein paar außer-der-Reihe-Gedanken dazu: steady.page/de/db21f24b-...

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Nein danke, ich denke noch selbst

🌿 Die Suchmaschine will mir mit KI das Denken abnehmen. Als Biologin weiß ich: Die besten Funde macht man auf Umwegen. Warum ich wieder öfter rausgehe.

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#PostDocAlert! PhD in #ForestEcology, #QuantitativeEcology or #ComputationalBiology? Strong background in statistics & experience with large datasets? Our Forest Diversity and Biodemography research group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... #ScienceJobs #PostDoc

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

We met up in the darkest month in Helsinki but luckily exciting project plans and lovely community spirit brightened things up tat our @trees4adapt.bsky.social kick-off meeting. A particular highlight was the first meeting with stakeholders from our Finnish Case Study. www.luke.fi/en/news/tree...

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Trees4Adapt kick-off: Setting priorities and exploring strategies

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

Our project @trees4adapt.bsky.social is already off on a smooth start since our official launch last October. Read more about what we are doing in the official press release! www.luke.fi/en/news/tree...

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Trees4Adapt project launched to address risks from climate change and biodiversity loss through tree-based solutions

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 09/01/2026

Are we reaching a point where more resources are spent on the funding application process than actual science? Worth reading: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I have started wondering about this regarding personal and institutional resources but hadn't considered that it might happen system-wide.

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Johannes S. Mohr @johannesmohr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We’re launching a global survey to capture expert insights on forest disturbance change. Please consider participating and share widely with colleagues working in the field — especially those whose forests are often underrepresented in global assessments 👉 www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

An eventful day in winter wonderland! It was a pleasure to show Satakunta forest diversity experiments to colleagues from @trees4adapt.bsky.social project

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

Job offer: PostDoc in “Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in European forests in the face of global changes” 80-100% (f/m/d)
The aim of the projects is to investigate the impact of global changes on temperate forests toward designing management plans that allows ecosystem resilience and high levels of biodiversity. Within these projects, you will develop standard and more efficient ecological monitoring methodologies to understand how different aspects of biodiversity and/or associated ecosystem processes, in particular deadwood decomposition, in forests are altered by global change factors such as climate change, disturbances, and management-induced structural changes at different spatial and temporal scales. Through this research, you will gain a better mechanistic understanding of these relationships as a basis for predicting future changes related to management decisions and climate change. To measure biodiversity, you will use cutting-edge DNA-based methods, such as e-DNA metabarcoding of fungi, from soil and dead wood, and detecting arthropods and mammals from vegetation surfaces. Data on biodiversity and forest functions will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary manner. Depending on your skills and expertise, you can focus on more technical aspects of biodiversity quantification using eDNA, fundamental ecological research questions on modelling ecosystem processes or the more applied design of management practices. You are expected to publish your findings in high-impact journals and present them at international conferences.
You hold a PhD degree in Biology or Environmental Sciences or in a related field and have a strong background forest ecology, in DNA-based biodiversity assessments (e-DNA metabarcoding), bioinformatics and multivariate statistical analyses, and/or experimental planning. Furthermore, we expect very good knowledge in R programming, a good command of English, as well as strong skills in scientific paper writing.

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Good discussions today at the stakeholder kick-off meeting in Pori about our case study on diversifying Finnish forests in @trees4adapt.bsky.social project. Heading back to the UK now. Many thanks to @mdpashkevich.bsky.social, @albrichk.bsky.social and @luke.fi team for organizing the meeting! 🌲🌳❄️

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Trees4Adapt @trees4adapt.eu · 19/11/2025

Successful day 2 of the Trees4Adapt kick-off meeting in Helsinki! 🌿 We worked on our case studies in Germany, Portugal, and Finland, looking at how more biodiversity, and the right stakeholders, can make real impact. And yes, we wrapped up with a sauna! #TreeBasedSolution #TreeBiodiversity

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Trees4Adapt @trees4adapt.eu · 19/11/2025

The Trees4Adapt team is in Helsinki for our kick-off meeting! Two days of planning, good discussions, a cold ferry to Suomenlinna, and a sauna ahead. A strong start to a Horizon Europe project on tree-based solutions 🌱 #Trees4adapt #TreeBasedSolution #MissionClimateAdapt #EUproject #KickingOff

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Ana Stritih @anastritih.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 11/11/2025

@trees4adapt.bsky.social people - nice opportunity to hear about research closely related to ours, but from another ecosystem!

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Jenni Prokkola @jmprok.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I’m also really tired of seeing AI art. I don’t care if your diagram looks ugly or your photo is basic, it is instantly more interesting if it was made by a human!

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Open position for a methods-savvy PhD student to work on combining diverse data sources to understand forests! Great chance to work on an important topic with Mari Myllymäki and me + collaborators across Europe. Please apply (by 31st Oct) or share forward valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

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Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science - Natural Resources Institute Finland

Open job: Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

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Trees4Adapt @trees4adapt.eu · 01/10/2025

🌳 New Mission Adaptation to Climate Change project: @trees4adapt.bsky.social Over the next 4 years, we’ll work across Europe to co- develop tree-based solutions for climate resilience and biodiversity. 📢 Follow our updates here and on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/tree... #Trees4Adapt #NBS

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Trees4Adapt Project | LinkedIn

Trees4Adapt Project | 4 followers on LinkedIn. Addressing complex risks from climate change and biodiversity loss across systems and scales: tree-based solutions

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Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group @edfm-tum.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We're once again hosting the "Smart Forest" conference in Freising from March 12th-13th 2026! 🌳🎯💻 If you're excited about digitalization of forestry and bringing together theory and practice, apply now at smartforest.ai/en/home-engl... @wernerrammer.bsky.social @johannesmohr.bsky.social

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Home - English - SmartForest

SmartForest creates a space to find solutions that will make forestry more digital, innovative, sustainable, and climate adjusted.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 14/10/2025

A few things I like: cycling, ecology, creative use of unusual historical datasets. Today I discovered this paper by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social et al. combining all three, tracking phenology shifts using Tour of Flanders footage. Very cool.😀🚴‍♂️🍃 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Using archived television video footage to quantify phenology responses to climate change

Predicting how the timing of cyclic life-history events, such as leafing and flowering, respond to climate change is of paramount importance due to the cascading impacts of vegetation phenology on...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 07/10/2025

Very cool field course on forest restoration (focus on deadwood+soils) last week. Organized by #Priodiversity project in Evo (also a CS area in @safenet-eu.bsky.social). Great to visit the Evo restoration experiment and Kotinen old-growth. My highlight: reactivating my soil knowledge (yay podzols)

Old-growth forest, dominated by mature spruce trees. A lot of downed deadwood and many young trees in the foreground.

A group of people wearing orange safety vests, standing in a birch forest and discussing

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SafeNet Project @safenet-eu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🎥✨Our project video is live! #SafeNet is working to safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest networks across Europe🌲🌳 Watch the animated video to learn more! 📽️ youtu.be/pKzUwJ6qShg #Biodiversity #OldGrowth #Forests #CarbonCapture #EUProject @luke.fi @erinninnovation.bsky.social

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SafeNet Project Explainer Video: Safeguarding Biodiversity and Carbon-rich Forest Networks in Europe

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Johannes S. Mohr @johannesmohr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How expensive are 🪲💨🔥?! I can‘t believe it, but my 2nd PhD paper is finally published @natclimate.nature.com! Disturbances lower the economic value of Europes 🌲 by 29%... Climate change will increase it to up to 42%! (Now imagine a company looses 42% of its value…) doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9

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SafeNet Project @safenet-eu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🎥 Check out our second #SafeNet video! It highlights our four #CaseStudy locations and the #LivingLabs where we co-create forest conservation solutions with #stakeholders 🤝🌲🌳 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLNi... #Biodiversity #CarbonRich #Forests @luke.fi @erinninnovation.bsky.social

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SafeNet Case Studies: Safeguarding Biodiversity and Carbon-rich Forest Networks in Europe

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Want to do a PhD in remote sensing? Interested in mountain forest ecosystems? Then apply for a PhD position in our lab! You will be part of the newly founded Centre for Forest Management in the Alps, working on scaling tree productivity from tree to landscape scale. Deadline 21st September.

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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.

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Markus Melin @markusmelin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

📣 #Research 🌍 Led by @thlasny.bsky.social, focus is on national monitoring of forest disturbances in EU. 🥜: • Lot of data available at national forest agencies • Looot of differences between the surveys • Data non-harmonized with limited sharing and access We can do better! ✔️ @yliojan.bsky.social

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Perspectives: State of national forest damage survey programmes in Europe and ways toward improved harmonization and data sharing

Recent increases in forest damage across Europe have challenged national forestry sectors and threatened progress toward Europe’s climate and bioecono…

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Just a few days left to apply!

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 13/08/2025

Opportunity to work with some very cool people!

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#PhD Alert! Interesse an transdisziplinärer Forschung? Erfahrung in empirischer #Sozialforschung und Kenntnisse zu #Raumentwicklung und #Partizipation? Unsere Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften bieten eine PhD-Stelle: apply.refline.ch/273855/1748/... #ScienceJobs

Stelleninserat: Die Forschungseinheit Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften bearbeitet wirtschaftliche, institutionelle und gesellschaftliche Fragen zu den WSL-Forschungsthemen Landschaft, natürlichen Ressourcen, Raumentwicklung und Naturgefahren und sucht im Rahmen des Projektes «RAVEN» des Nationalen Forschungsprogramms «Biodiversität und Ökosystemleistungen» (NFP 82) ab 1. November 2025 oder nach Vereinbarung für die Dauer von 4 Jahren eine/-n
Doktorandin / Doktoranden im Bereich sozialwissenschaftliche Umweltforschung (w/m/d)
Sie initiieren und begleiten in zwei Regionen in der Schweiz partizipative Prozesse, in denen Systemmodelle und darauf aufbauend räumlich explizite Visionen zur Förderung der Biodiversität in Landwirtschaft, Wald und Siedlung entwickelt werden. Sie führen selbständig qualitative und quantitative empirische Erhebungen durch (Interviews und standardisierte Befragungen), lassen die Ergebnisse in diese Prozesse einfliessen und verwenden sie zu deren Evaluation. Sie veröffentlichen Ihre Forschungsergebnisse in internationalen Fachzeitschriften und verfassen auf dieser Basis eine kumulative Dissertation. Daneben kommunizieren Sie gegenüber internen und externen Anspruchsgruppen und beteiligen sich bei der Ausarbeitung eines Leitfadens für die Praxis.
Sie weisen einen Hochschulabschluss in Sozial- oder Wirtschaftsgeographie, Umweltwissenschaften, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft oder in verwandten Gebieten vor. Zudem haben Sie bereits Erfahrung in empirischer Sozialforschung, die Fähigkeit zur eigenständigen Projektbearbeitung, Kenntnisse zu Themen der räumlichen Entwicklung und Partizipation sowie Interesse an transdisziplinärer Forschung. Erfahrungen im Publizieren und Präsentieren eigener Arbeiten sind von Vorteil. Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse sind unerlässlich. Sie sind initiativ, engagiert und kommunikativ, arbeiten gerne selbständig sowie in einem interdisziplinären Team.

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Eight PhD Positions in Forestry at SLU, to develop soil moisture maps to reduce damage from forest machinery, test innovative methods to control pests in nurseries, understand how species are affected by different forest management practices... Closing on 12 August 2025 www.slu.se/en/news/2025...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 14/07/2025

Wish I was a PhD student still, this looks cool!

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Climate champions and young scientists! Join in the 🌱Third International Young Scientist Forum for Climate Change - Sustainable development through bamboo resources 📅 3–5 December 2025 📍 Hangzhou, China & Online 🕘 9:00–17:00 (UTC+8) 🚨Submit your abstract by 15 July! www.inbar.int/event/the-th...

Flyer of the Third International Young Scientist Forum for Climate Change - Sustainable development through bamboo resources

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🖥️🧬 #Sciencejob Alert! Good knowledge of plant ecology and experience in coding? Our Research Group Dynamic Macroecology offers a position for six-months: apply.refline.ch/273855/1746/... #AIModels #Biome #PlantEcology #Macroecology

Job: The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards.

The research group Dynamic Macroecology of Prof. Dr. Niklaus E. Zimmermann studies questions related to spatial ecology, macroecology, macroevolution and biodiversity conservation. Within the Advanced Grant SNFS Project "Biome.cc”, we seek to fill by August 1st, 2025 (or later), for a duration of 6 months, a
Tempory Employee in Macroecology and AI 80-100% (f/m/d)
Within the Advanced Grant project “Biome.cc”, we develop a series of AI models trained to detect plant traits from photographs. This supports our goal to characterize global biomes by means of plant traits and to map these biomes globally. This position will develop suitable sets of pictures from online sources such as gbif.org to train and test these AI-models. Further, you will support WSL scientists in training such AI models and to test them. In addition, you will support WSL scientists in downloading large quantities of images with the goal of applying the trained and tested models and to extract plant trait information from them. At WSL, you will work in close collaboration with Prof Zimmermann’s group on global biomes. Your main place of work will be the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf.
You hold an MSc degree and you have a good knowledge of plant ecology. In addition, you have good experience in coding, preferably in python and/or R. Experience with the processing of large datasets is an asset. The capability to develop new ideas independently is necessary, as are very good English skills (both written and oral). You are a curious, self-reliant person who is also an excellent team worker valuing cooperation.

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Early-career forest scientists: Want to collaborate abroad? 🌍IUFRO is offering sponsored Scientific Visits in 2025–2026 for researchers from economically disadvantaged countries. A chance to build skills, connect internationally, and grow your impact! 🔗 www.iufro.org/open-call-fo... #forestscience

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Osbert Sun @osbertsun.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

NEW ARTICLE OUT @forestecosyst.bsky.social 📰Large-scale modelling wind damage vulnerability through combination of high-resolution forest resources maps and ForestGALES www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

A rare field day, getting to know the forests of our @safenet-eu.bsky.social case study area in Romania, near Brasov. Impactful to see the shifts in species dominance already happening. Spruce and, crucially, Silver Fir are not doing well, Beech is gaining importance even at higher elevations.

A forest picture. A beech tree in sunlight, growing below a canopy of spruce and fir trees. Some dead spruces in the background. Ferns and other understorey plants in the foreground.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

Hey #plantecologists - question for you: I am pretty sure this is Veratrum album, which I thought is a species of open areas e.g. alpine meadows. Really surprised to see it in a closed canopy mature beech forest. Does it occur in forests too or what's up here? Location: Postăvarul massif, Romania.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025

Great start to my short visit to beautiful Brasov as part of @safenet-eu.bsky.social - very excited to work on the data to set up a new iLand model landscape and even more excited to get to see the local forests!

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