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Fabian A. Boetzl

@fboetzl.bsky.social
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Dr. rer.nat., ecologist, working on biodiversity 🌷🐝🦋 and pest control in agricultural landscapes 🌽🐛🐞 postdoc @uni-wuerzburg.de, born at 354 ppm, part-time tiger beetle taxonomist, curator @inaturalist.bsky.social, japanophile 🍙🗾🇯🇵, linktr.ee/fboetzl

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m honoured to have been invited to give a keynote at the 22nd European Carabidologist Meeting in Tartu, Estonia, this week. A wonderful experience - and a real pleasure to meet and exchange ideas with fellow carabidologists from across Europe! 🪲🇪🇪
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Alfredo @alfredoventuro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Grateful for this amazing experience in Leiden for the #ECCB2026. With our symposium we managed to connect wildflower planting optimisation for biodiversity with landscape conservation and cooperation with farmers. Thanks to all participants for their crucial contribution!!! @fboetzl.bsky.social
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mission accomplished! 🪲 In the scorching heat of last weekend I finally photographed the last German tiger beetle species that had eluded me: the Viennese tiger beetle (Cylindera arenaria viennensis), highly threatened by the loss of dynamic river systems. #tigerbeetles #entomology #biodiversity
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New meta-analysis: #Pollinator responses to distance from #crop field boundaries depend on pollinator taxa, crop type, and adjacent agri-environment habitats. Smaller field sizes can foster pollinators within crop fields. 🦋🐝🌾 #agroecology #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our recent paper has gained some traction in the Swedish media, including a feature by SVT: www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... (and several other outlets).
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Rapsfält oväntad guldgruva för biologisk mångfald
Inte bara ängs- och betesmarker är viktiga för artrikedomen. Rapsfält kan gynna oväntat många arter, visar forskning från Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Come join us on the editorial board of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We're looking for a Commissioning Editor to seek Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives and Policy Directions. The role comes with a small stipend. Please share! apply.workable.com/britishecolo...
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Commissioning Editor - Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the direction of one of the leading journals in applied ecology. Contract: 3 years (Initial term of 1 year)Stipend: £1500 per yearLocation: Remote, anyw...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fresh off the press! 📄We find that crop fields and semi-natural grasslands support complementary #biodiversity across #Europe. Semi-natural habitats alone are insufficient to ensure farmland biodiversity - biodiversity-friendly management of crop fields is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Meet #Licinus cassideus — a beetle that hunts snails, loves sun-scorched calcareous grasslands, and hadn't been seen in #Unterfranken since 1955. After being undetected for 71 years, we found it again in its typical habitat. #Carabidae #beetles #biodiversity #fieldwork @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Horn combined scientific excellence with moral clarity - his tiger beetle taxonomy still largely stands, and he never yielded to fascism.
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Has @elsevierconnect.bsky.social hit a new low? I just recieved a demanding email imforming me that my review was a negative three days late ... three days before the deadline for my review. This is honestly not ok.
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I'm in good company 😊
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If you're an active researcher or practitioner working in the field of applied ecology - why not apply to join us as an Associate Editor?🌍 We're seeking a range of expertise such as marine ecology, disease ecology & local knowledge!🧪 Find out more 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New paper, Great news: We have been saying for years that making the editorial board more diverse was needed We now show that diverse team of editors makes for more diverse reviewers More Inclusive=Better Science Things are getting better on this❤️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
network showing more diverse connections over time for editors and reviewers cover of the paper with title and authorslast paragraph of the abstract: Synthesis and applications. Our results show that editorial diversification is a practical lever for making peer review more inclusive and better aligned with the global distribution of ecological research. These changes make the publication process fairer and improve the quality and global impact of the papers published.
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
At the start of the year I hit 2,000 species on @inaturalist.bsky.social and set myself the goal of adding 1,000 more this year. I finish the year with 1,600 new species recorded. Enormous thanks to the 635 identifiers who helped along the way! 🙌 #iNaturalist #Biodiversity
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It was a pleasure to serve as opponent in the PhD defence of @alfredoventuro.bsky.social at the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU) last week. Excellent work on the long-term and off-season effects of wildflower strips on biodiversity. Well deserved — congratulations, Dr Venturo!
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Neat new publication in @jappliedecology.bsky.social linking conservation and pest control / food safety - I really enjoyed handling this one!
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 19/11/2025
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud
Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12)
"Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are"
- caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12)
The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to
"ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor! If you… 👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management 👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision 👉have editing experience …we’d love to hear from you! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
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Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 21 Dec 2025.
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 23/10/2025
Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target. A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking. Shocking!
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This is also a long known problems in entomological collections - collectors do not want the common species, they accumulate the rare species ....
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Very excited to share our latest paper: We investigated landscape-scale predictors of #insect pest damage to #sugarbeet showing that the species’ ecology is determining their responses making unified approaches difficult #agroecology #pestcontrol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
As we near the end of #PeerReviewWeek, we'd like to say a massive thank you to everybody who has taken the time to review for us over the past year ✨🌏 Your efforts are crucial in helping us to continue to publish high quality research 📚🧪 Full list here: bit.ly/4m3WW2I
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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Exciting new meta-analysis: compared to calendar spraying, threshold-based management cuts insecticide use by 44% and costs by 40% without reducing yields, and supports more beneficial insects. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Threshold-based management reduces insecticide use by 44% without compromising pest control or crop yield - Communications Earth & Environment
Pest control programs using pest density thresholds cut insecticide uses by 44% and costs by 40%, while maintaining yield and pest suppression, and enhancing beneficial insect populations, as revealed...
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Great mentoring opportunity for emerging researchers based in the global south- join the Journal of Applied Ecology editorial board!
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Meet Harpalus politus, a predominantly granivorous #carabid beetle threatened with extinction in #Germany (RL1) that is found exclusively on dry grasslands on limestone soils 🪲. Suitable habitat management and traditional grazing regimes are needed to help the species survive 🌿🐑
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Check out our new paper on the drivers of hedgy biodiversity 🌱🦗🐞🕷️
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Long-term management is required for the recovery of pollination networks and function in restored grasslands 🌱🌏 Grassland management, including mowing, should be maintained for a certain period that exceeds at least 75 years 📈🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Cassy Vogel @cassyvogel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Maybe it is a long shot but thought I could try out the power of this platform: I am looking for a botanist with knowledge of flora/plant ecology of the Miombo woodland ecoregion, particularly trees! 🌳🌍 If so, drop me a comment or DM! 😊
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Online now: Questioning the sixth mass extinction
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Questioning the sixth mass extinction
The idea that Earth is currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction is widespread. We critically evaluate this claim. Very few studies have tested this idea. Some studies showed that recent extinction rates are faster than fossil background rates, but…
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Postdoc at SLU Uppsala! 🇸🇪 The work will use a large database to investigate drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks and their links to climate to improve crop protection 🐛🌽🌡️ Work with fantastic PIs, Ola Lundin, Hanna Friberg and Giulia Vico! Apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Please share!
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
World map showing biodiversity collection hotspots (red) and blindspots (blue).  BALL ET AL./PEERJ  (2025)
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/12/2024
New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs. www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
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Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A few weeks ago, after three years, my time at #SLU Uppsala sadly came to an end for now. I had a great time, met wonderful people, experienced Sweden at its best and at its worst and found a great mentor in my boss, Ola Lundin. Thank you so much for everything! Tack så mycket!
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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Scientists: Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal. Link to the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign can be found therein. Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap. Thanks!
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EU post elections should revive the Green Deal 27.9.2024
Scientists urge EU policymakers to reinstate the Green Deal Laura Bosco1, E.R. Jasper Wubs2, Guy Pe’er3,4, Kris Decleer5, Marie Vandewalle3, Stephen Venn6, Volker Mauerhofer7, Róbert Gallé8, Vasilik...
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Néstor Pérez-Méndez @nperezmendez.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A starter pack for those working or interested in agroecology. Lot of room for new folks. Comment below to be added. go.bsky.app/VXdYJjQ
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Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. @gfoesoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🌿 Save the Date! 🌿 Mark your calendars: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (#GFÖ2025) will take place 1–5 September 2025 at the University of Würzburg. 📅 Stay tuned for more details! #Ecology #ScienceConference #Würzburg
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Earlier this year, I traveled #Japan and did the usual sightseeing 🗾🇯🇵 #tigerbeetle #TeamBeetle #Entomology
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
'Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields' Relevant new paper Science by Larsen et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... In New Scientist I underline that this highlights need for ‘landscape perspectives’ for agricultural policy www.newscientist.com/article/2423...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Fascinating study (open access): One in five butterflies exported across borders before even sold online (and presumably much more afterwards). Conservation status does determine price but luckily not the traded volume, so at least there is some hope .... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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One in five butterfly species sold online across borders
Humankind's appreciation for butterflies spans cultures and millennia, including the practice of assembling butterfly collections. We monitored the gl…
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
After more than five years of work, it is my great pleasure to announce that our synthesis on carabid within-field distribution is now published in Proceedings B! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Sampling soil mesofauna today near Uppsala - last day of fieldwork for this year
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
As the BES jorunals have not made it over here yet, I am sharing this with you: We are looking for contributions to a special feature on the effects of planning & development on biodiversity, including adhering to policy and the processes involved with stakeholders. 9 days left! t.co/v7CLxsR0AT
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
The end of an era: After 12 years,  439249 ID requests from 5800 users, the ID-module of the citizen science platform kerbtier.de ceased service yesterday night. I was part of the admin team since 2015 and it has been an important part of my life.
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This week, I communicated our recent research on predictions and landscape-level regulation of flea beetle pests in spring oilseed rape at the annual meeting of the Centre for Biological Control (CBC)
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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Hey BlueSky, I’m Fabian! I’m an ecologist and entomologist, currently working in Sweden. I am interested in biodiversity 🦋🐝🐞 and related ecosystem functions 🌽🐛🕷️ in agroecosystems but occasionally also work on tiger beetle taxonomy 🔬 Follow for the science and stay for cute beetle pics!
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