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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱

@amandataylor.bsky.social
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#Biodiversity #Conservation #Plants #Ecology #Islands #Macroecology #Orchids Assistant Professor at Wageningen University, NL; Editor at Journal of Vegetation Science; Board Member Society for Island Biology

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Tired of digitizing biodiversity data by hand? Consider using large language models to, for example, extract plant functional traits from unstructured texts: See bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... led by @viktordo.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de, @exeter.ac.uk, @ribesresearch.bsky.social
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Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text
Premise Functional plant ecology seeks to understand how functional traits govern species distributions, community assembly, and ecosystem functions. While global trait datasets have advanced the fi...
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Don't forget to register for this interesting webinar happening tomorrow!
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
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Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.
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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Author-pays model: Check out our recent post at peeer.net/news/ to better understand the growing inequities in global science associated with high Article Processing Charges in Open Access publications. #BetterPublishing #APC #OA
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Author-pays model and growing inequities in global science (Dec’24) Scientific publishing, in a form similar to what we know today, has existed for hundreds of years. However, in recent times…
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Signed!!
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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025
Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.
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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
I will be presenting Perspectives from Early Career Researchers at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” at 4:15 pm in room 516D. Hope to see some of you there! #BetterPublishing @peeer.bsky.social
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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Join us after lunch at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” 2:30 pm in room 516D. #BetterPublishing peeer.net/events/
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3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology link 26 June 2024: NAVIGATING SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING (GLOBAL EDITION)Workshop description: Current changes in scientific publishing are among the most radical...
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Bryan Carstens @bryanccarstens.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
Annual spending on APCs went from $910 million (2019) to $2.5 billion (2023) alongside "the strain on scientific publishing." Most of those fees went to for-profit groups. Publish with non-profit societies, save billions, fund science. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551 #OpenAccess #SciPub #AcademicChatter
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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Plant peeps at #Evol2024, be sure to swing by the Chicago Press exhibit to say hi to @ijpsjournal.bsky.social managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social.
Exhibit with IJPS sample issues
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
We have an open PhD position at the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group (Wageningen University, Netherlands) in "Climate resilience and conservation of species interactions in a changing world" - please distribute widely and send to possible candidates :) www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
Really excited to be hosting the pre-conference Early Career Workshop on Navigating the Publishing System at #Evolution2024 #Evol2024 - a timely topic, and one that disproportionately affects ECRs. Hope to see some of you there! @peeer.bsky.social www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-an...
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Come work with us in the Netherlands! Assistant Professor in vegetation-environment interactions (Tenure Track) within the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group, Wageningen University. Please share! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... #ecology #plant #vegetation #ecosystem #professor
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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
To all Island Ecology folks: two months left to send abstracts to the Special Issue on Island plant communities in Journal of Vegetation Science Please help spreading the word. JVS is owned by a society reinvesting all revenue back into the community #BetterPublishing #ecology #island #conservation
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Call for Abstracts: “Island plant communities: natural experiments at the intersection of biogeography, conservation and global change ecology”, Special Issue in the Journal of Vegetation Science - ve...
Guest Editors: Description of the Special Issue Islands have always attracted scientists because of a combination of features that make
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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
A year ago we published our first Ecolclip 🎉 Thanks to all who subscribed and watched 👍 Your support makes Ecolclips possible :) Here the link to the first clip with Rob Kooyman about the Australian rainforests www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tt...
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Part I: Australian Rainforests – Origin and Conservation with Dr. Robert Kooyman | EcolClips
EcolClips by Dr. Julian Schrader (Interviewer; Lecturer at Macquarie University) and Dr. Cornelia Sattler (Video production). In EcolClips we document and e...
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Tim Barlow @timbarlow.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
This is brilliant: @WeliMenaCo sings and dances his PhD on behavioural ecology of eastern grey kangaroos, and wins global prize!! 👍🙌 www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos
Four-minute video features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer and a bunch of friends from Canberra
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Congrats on the nice talk Lirong Cai at the #IBS2024 meeting in Prague. It was nice catching up!
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Poster about GIFT, the accompanying R-package and some recent studies using both at #IBS2024 in Prague. Find the paper on GIFT 3.0 and the accompanying R-package for downloading regional plant checklists, traits and environmental information for 3400 regions worldwide 🌍 here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
still my favorite diversity indicator
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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Been having an absolutely wild and fun time learning more about #Ledebouria in South Africa this week! 3 more days to go!
A hand holding a plantA hand holding several bulbous plantsA hand holding a plantA hand holding a plant with 3 big leaves
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of #bryophytes reveals deep relationships & uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification New #AJB research by Julia Bechteler et al! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #mosses #liverworts #hornwarts
Photo of the hornwort Phaeoceros minutus (Notothyladaceae), on. Bare soil in renosterveld, near Jongensklip, Western Cape, South Africa. Photo by Des Callaghan.Photo of the moss Hypopterygium tamarisci (Hypopterygiaceae), on boulder in plantation of Cryptomeria japonica (Cupressaceae), Forêt de Rond, La Réunion. Photo by Des Callaghan.Photo of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha subsp. montivangas (Marchantiaceae)---growing with some mosses---beside streamlet flowing down steep rockface, Skaftafell, Iceland. Photo by Des Callaghan.Photo of Tetraplodon (a dung moss) and Marchantia. Photo by Bernard Goffinet.
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Full day symposium with speakers from the Nordic countries to celebrate the 100 year jubilee of 🇸🇪 phytogeographical society. "Past, present, and future plant ecology and geography in the Nordic region" You can join via Zoom Everyone speaks English 🧪🌍🌱⚒️
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 02/11/2023
New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.
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Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work
Post-doctoral scientists are effective mentors for graduate students. This Perspective discusses how failures to properly credit them for this role has negative consequence for everyone and suggests p...
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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
#Fungi flowers! I thought these were stray artificial blooms at first glance but no, they are Amethyst Deceivers looking beautifully frilly and floral! 💜 Laccaria amethystina. 🍄📸
The purple mushroom, Amethyst Deceiver, looking remarkably frilly and flower-like, amongst the fallen autumn leaves.
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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
3 days left to apply!
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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
I've just created an account here for AoBP: @aobp.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aobpla In the short term, I'll try to copy posts over from AoBP's Twitter account. Long term we'll try for a more elegant solution.
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Christopher Krieg 🌿 @ckrieg.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Would anyone be interested in a plant water-relations workshop? E.g., measuring and analyzing water potential, turgor, hydraulic conductance and vulnerability, etc? I'm thinking about proposing one, since I'm close enough to #Botany2024 to drive with the necessary equipment.
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Severin Irl @severinirl.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
📢 Tenure-track professor position in Conservation Biology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. Great university, vibrant and international city and really nice colleagues! The TT is six years and the position is equivilant to associate to full professor TT. Incredible opportunity!
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Amelia Neely @aneely.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Don't wait, Symposia and Colloquia proposals are due October 1!
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Congratulations Lirong Cai on a superb #PhDThesis defended yesterday at Uni Göttingen including the traditional walk to and kiss of the #Gänseliesel. Very proud of the first PhD student I mainly supervised and happy to be in such a nice group of colleagues...
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Dylan Craven Moore @dylancraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Very happy to share Rasgos-CL, an open-access database with trait data for 662 woody species in Chile: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Title page of articleHow much we have improved trait coverage for Chilean species.
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