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Maxime Eeraerts

@eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Ghent University. Interested in sustainable agriculture and applied ecology 🌻🍒🐝

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
📢 The new programme for our Ecology Seminar is out! It features a diverse lineup of early career researchers sharing insights on #Agroecology every week 🐝🚜🐦 🗓️ Wednesdays at 10:15 CET 📧 DM for webinar link! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/ecology+s... @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de
Programm of Ecology Seminar
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AGRI4POL Project @agri4pol.eu · 20/10/2025
❗ New IUCN assessment warns of rising extinction risks for Europe’s wild bees and butterflies. 🔗 Read more about it here: agri4pol.eu/news/new-iuc...
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A welcome research comparing the results of pollinator monitoring obtained by humans (so-called 'pollination ecologists') and concurrent time-lapse videos (so-called 'the future for lazy' 😜). Take a quick glance at this figure from the paper and judge for yourself doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
Four graphs comparing species richness at various taxonomic levels
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Thijs Fijen @thijsfijen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Simon Tierney @biol-si.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Fresh global-analysis admirably lead by @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social (+ @oliviabernauer.bsky.social PhD data) indicates native bee pollination services leads to higher-quality apples = improved weight & seed set. How do you like them apples? 🍎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Global synthesis of apple pollination research highlights general pollen limitation and positive contributions of wild bees compared to honeybees
Our study highlights that pollen limitation is common in this global crop. While managed honeybees are dominant pollinators, a diverse community of wild bees contributes significantly to apple pollin...
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Five 3-year Postdoc positions open at @ebdonana.bsky.social. I am happy to sponsor and mentor good candidates working in my field, but note that these are quite independent positions aimed at helping stabilize new researchers in the system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4nqkq...
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🐞 🐝 I'm recruiting students to join my lab at the University of Minnesota! Hoping to bring on 2-3 MS or PhD students (MS a pre-req for PhD students). Take a peek at the opportunities available and feel free to reach out with questions. Please share widely! jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_web...
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Opportunities – UMN iBUG Lab
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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century
Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 26/06/2025
We hebben een #vacature voor 6 maanden voor een onderzoeksmedewerker bij het team Landschapsecologie en Natuurbeheer; je draait mee in de ploeg die de technische ondersteuning biedt aan het onderzoek.Solliciteer voor 13 juli: www.vlaanderen.be/werken-voor-...
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Dara Stanley @darastanley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!
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Vacancies | ecology
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Maxime Eeraerts @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Does anyone have any good references for what a robust sampling efficiency is for field studies with pollinators?
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WildPosh Project @wildposh.eu · 19/02/2025
📄 We just enriched our library with a new resource titled Crop Diversification for Pollinator Conservation. 🌿 It looks at the mechanisms and current evidence base of how increasing the diversity of crops can benefit pollinator biodiversity. Check it out here: wildposh.eu/library #WildPoshResources
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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Here is the very first publication of the SCAPE joint special issue of JPE with @nordicjbotany.bsky.social (scheduled late 2025/early 2026) - an extremely well-thought editorial by James Thomson on how we should think about the pollination crisis: doi.org/10.26786/192...
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Catrin Westphal @catrinwestphal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Interested in #Biodiversity, #EcosystemServices and #Sustainable #Agriculture? We offer a postdoctoral researcher position on ecological synthesis in our lab🧪 @funcagroeco.bsky.social
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
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IsaacsLab @isaacslab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Read while you still can. www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...
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Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System
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Stephanie Schelfhout @stephschelfhout.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Ik zal regenwormen determinatie workshop geven, anekoworm.be werkgroep in actie! 🤓🪱🔬
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ANEKO regenwormenwerkgroep
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Catrin Westphal @catrinwestphal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Great collaboration between Thijs Fijen, Ola Lundin, @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social, @juliaosterman.bsky.social, and a team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social, @agrarunigoe.bsky.social
Examples of crop diversification practices.
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬 @flowerlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Very interesting review article "Crop diversification for pollinator conservation" by Thijs Fijen, @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social, @juliaosterman.bsky.social, @catrinwestphal.bsky.social and co-authors in Landscape Ecology!
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Crop diversification for pollinator conservation - Landscape Ecology
Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...
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Julia Osterman @juliaosterman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New paper out! 🎉 We synthesise the mechanisms oh how crop diversification can benefit pollinators with a focus in Western Europe and North America. @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social @catrinwestphal.bsky.social Led by @ThijsFijen link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Crop diversification for pollinator conservation - Landscape Ecology
Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...
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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hej Bluesky! We are ForNaLab: 🌼 a team of researchers passionate about Forest & Nature at Ghent university 📈 scientists delving deep into fundamental and applied questions We will be posting here on 🔭 the process of doing science ✨ new research results stay tuned! 🎉
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Stephanie Schelfhout @stephschelfhout.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
De masterthesis van collega Jasper Olivier werd genomineerd voor de Future Proef award. Jasper onderzocht de bloembezoekerdata in het citizen science project FlowerPower De Tuin: futureproef.gent/thesis/laat-... Stem - stem - stem futureproef.gent/stem/
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Stem – Future Proef UGent
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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬 @flowerlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Very interesting review paper by Suijkerbuijk and co-authors in Trends in Plant Science (@cellpressnews.bsky.social)! 🌺🌻
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Plasticity in plant mating systems
Many plants are extremely plastic in their vegetative and life-history traits, allowing them to deal with a variety of environmental conditions during their lifetime. However, in our understanding of ...
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