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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊 icom2026.org

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🚨 POST DOC 🚨 The Suding Lab at the University of CO - Boulder is recruiting a Postdoc researcher to build on an ongoing project examining grassland fuels, wildfire risk, & management questions. Applications close May 8, 2025. Start date will be before September 2025. 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈

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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I'm looking for a mycorrhiza-motivated PhD student to start this project, fully funded by a Rank Prize Lord Selborne Scholarship, in October 2025 - please contact me via email for more information and forward on to potentially interested people... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr. Elise Gornish @restorecal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! @EsaSeeds

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Benjamin Delory @benjamindelory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🚨PhD position in Functional Plant Diversity and Community Assembly available in Prof. Vicky Temperton's group (@7toucans.bsky.social) at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany). Deadline: May 4, 2025 🧪🌍 www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

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Dr. Julia K. Baum @baumlab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

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We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Excited to announce our new paper, “Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity,” out today in Nature – and it’s open access! Huge global collaboration led by Meelis Pärtel 🌐@macroecologyut.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature

A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...

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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New global study of dark diversity by #DarkDivNet led by Meelis Pärtel, where Aleš, Maruška, and Eva are co-authors with the dataset from Novohradské Hory, is now out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Map from the article Pärtel et al. 2025, Nature.

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Dr. Jon Bennett @bennettecology.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍

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Andrew Vickers @vickersbiostats.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There is no statistical solution to the problem of causal inference from observational data, it requires good scientific & statistical judgement, & knowledge of the literature. Folks like short cuts (propensity scores, E values etc) to avoid hard thinking. Such short cuts don’t exist.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

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Dr. Jon Bennett @bennettecology.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Always exciting when a student publishes their work. Former MSc student Aisa found complex responses among Medicago sativa cultivars to commercial AMF inoculum. AMF enhanced stress, but that depended on the cultivar and response measured. Free read only link: rdcu.be/d3vug

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Intraspecies variation in mycorrhizal response of Medicago sativa to Rhizophagus irregularis under abiotic stress

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CanFunNet @canfunnet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's happening! We are coming back with virtual meetings! Save The Date - August 6-8, 2025. 📅🇨🇦🍄🛜. Check your emails or social media for more details. PS. Contact us if you want to receive emails! #CFN25 #SaveTheDate #FungiareBack

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This new study suggests that high-quality old grassland may be particularly good at supporting pollinators because diverse food sources provided by such grassland provide additional health benefits. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | Pornon et al. @funecology.bsky.social

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Species‐rich old grasslands have beneficial effects on the health and gut microbiome of bumblebees

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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Reviewers, consider not suggesting we should have added molecular analyses that are ‘trivial’. Not everyone has the same resourcesthat you do. Reviews are for constructive criticism of what they submitted, not what you wish they did. -signed, me trying to share a small but interesting experiment

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Dr. Jon Bennett @bennettecology.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

We are reopening a search for a postdoc in my group. I am looking for a curious person with an interest in plant-soil / plant-insect interactions to join our large and diverse team (research-groups.usask.ca/bennett-lab). 1/4

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