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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz

@inadehn.bsky.social
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Ecologist interested in biological invasions, weed ecology, gardening, and citizen science. Coordinator of plantalert.org

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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Very happy to see this published, just the beginning of hopefully more use of the methodology. @tomosjohn.bsky.social @holuwadunsin.bsky.social @coventrycawr.bsky.social @northwaleswt.bsky.social
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Toke Thomas Høye @tokehoye.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January! phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
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Harnessing the power of AI for biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks - From foundation model to edge processing
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
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Wayne Dawson @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
One of multiple S hemisphere plants in GB that we would like a talented PhD student to study! See link for funded NERC ACCE+ PhD opportunity at Liverpool: www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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ACCE+ DLA Programme: From South to North: Evaluating Current and Future Invasion Risk of Ornamental Plants from the Southern Hemisphere at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: From South to North: Evaluating Current and Future Invasion Risk of Ornamental Plants from the Southern Hemisphere at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Muehlenbeckia complexa in its native range in New Zealand. Identified in our recent Horizon scan as one of the potential top next invaders in Britain - these pictures illustrate why. nonnativespecies.org/non-native-s... @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social
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Horizon scanning » NNSS
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 16/09/2025
🎞️ On 27 August, a media feature on the CamAlien was shown on Belgian national television, bringing attention to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of invasive alien species. 👀 Watch the video: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki... 🔎 Read more: onestop-project.eu/news/camalie...
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Snelle camera's met AI helpen invasieve exoten langs de waterkant te bestrijden | VRT NWS: nieuws
Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pot-plant trade is ‘hitchhiker pathway’ for invasive flatworms, say UK experts
Rise in sightings prompts call for ban on soil imports, to prevent entry of more species that eat earthworms and degrade soil
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Nature Conservation @natureconservation.pensoft.net · 20/06/2025
A new article from @theguardian.com explores the spread of invasive raccoons in Europe, featuring research from our journal on their diet of endangered mussels in western Poland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe
Many in Kassel have embraced the animal but the EU classes it as an invasive species and ecologists are divided about what to do next
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 11/06/2025
🌍 For the 1st time, we have a systematic global overview of how #InvasiveAlienSpecies change the environment and people's lives. .—Prof. Sven Bacher Discover GIDIAS: 22,000+ records on IAS impacts, now open to researchers worldwide. Watch the full story! 🎥 📖🧪 More: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 13/06/2025
Calling young UK-based artists! To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨 🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
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BioArtAttack 2D
BioArtAttack 2D is a drawing and painting competition for children aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The Nancy Rothwell Prize is now a sub-category for speci...
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DAISY_HorizonEurope @daisyproject.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🌼 Join us on 11 June for “Turning on Transformation” — an online workshop exploring how to put policy into practice (and practice into policy) through real-world transformative change. 🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST 🔗 Registration open tinyurl.com/zjfwzppz #DAISYProject #PLANET4B #Biodiversity #Transformation
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 07/04/2025
🗓️ On 8 May, during the Iberian Week of Invasive Species, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO are hosting a OneSTOP Living Lab workshop on innovative #IAS management strategies. 👽 🔜 Learn more: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop... #SEI2025 #Bioinvasions @eualiens.bsky.social @invasionscience.bsky.social
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Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience - CAWR @coventrycawr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A new paper by Yitbarek Weldesemeat, who recently completed his PhD at CAWR, highlights the importance of community involvement in tree planting initiatives. Yitbarek investigated 13 tree planting schemes in Ethiopia: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience - CAWR @coventrycawr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Join us at Wyken Croft Nature Park on Friday 25th of April, 11am-1pm for the City Nature Challenge. Sign-up here: bit.ly/3GgCxby
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 04/04/2025
🎉 Officially introducing the first version of our website! 🎊 Explore resources on invasive alien species management via onestop-project.eu #InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #Bioinvasions
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
One of my favourite events of the year: the @warwickshireccc.bsky.social annual biological recorders meeting. Amazing venue, also recruiting for our OneSTOP invasive species Living Lab
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Looking for a PhD in biological invasion? Come and join us at Coventry University @coventrycawr.bsky.social this September to study emerging invasive plants. Project in collaboration with @bsbiscience.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social and linked to @onestop-project.eu.
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Emerging invasive alien species and their management
This fully funded studentship explores the early identification of emerging invasive alien plants in Britain and stakeholders' awareness and management responses.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/03/2025
Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn
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Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn
Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive alien species and the knock-on effect of their presence, says professor of invasion biology Tim Blackburn
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Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Just a reminder about the postdoc position in the post quoted below, applications close 7th March! 👇 Also colleagues are advertising another similar one, on using large data sets to investigate the drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks in agriculture: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... (closes March 19)
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Part-time postdoc position available in my group to work in the @onestop-project.eu and @daisyproject.bsky.social projects testing novel invasive species detection and monitoring tools in living labs. 1 year initially, but potential to extent.
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Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Society
Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Society
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EFSA Plants @efsa-plants.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can now register and attend remotely on 📆 26 February 2025, 9am - 1pm (CET) the #PlantHealth Panel Plenary Meeting, to learn more about #RiskAssessment and especially #Commodity Risk Assessment in relation to plant health. Please register by 21 Feb 2025 → www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/13...
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DAISY_HorizonEurope @daisyproject.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🌼 Introducing Horizon Europe DAISY 🌼 DAISY will identify and test innovative socio-technological interventions, assess key enabling factors through case studies, and provide policy recommendations to advance biodiversity and equity. Led by #CoventryUniversity, funded by the #EuropeanUnion.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Results of our 14th #NewYearPlantHunt are out! >3K hunters, 647 wild & naturalised species in bloom, c25K records: plans afoot to extend the Hunt across rest of year. Huge thanks to all plant hunters! Summary/ press release here: bsbi.org/download/45297 Longer report here: bsbi.org/download/45290
Dan and Ada found 3-cornered leek on their New Year Plant Hunt20-month old Evri and her NYPH spotter sheetFinding a Hellebore in bloom during a group hunt on the south coast
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 22/01/2025
As we approach the end of day 3️⃣ of our joint #GuardiasOnestopKickoff here are some afternoon session highlights: 📌 Stakeholder interview implementation on different levels 📌 Citizen science involvement through Sentinel garden schemes for #IAS 📌One-Biosecurity integrated governance for invasions
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We found good governance practice is important to achieve sustainable outcomes from tree planting schemes. New paper with results from Yitbarek's PhD:
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Investigating tree planting in Ethiopia and the extent to which scheme implementation aligns with good governance practices
Tree planting schemes are implemented to achieve social, cultural, economic, and environmental goals. Various frameworks and guidelines outline good g…
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Union members have threatened strike action after Coventry University announced plans to make nearly 100 academics redundant and to transfer others to a subsidiary company. Juliette Rowsell reports bit.ly/4ghVhVv
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Coventry to axe 92 jobs and transfer academics to subsidiary firm
Remaining staff will lose access to Teachers’ Pensions Scheme as union attacks ‘Scrooge playbook’ cuts
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Erik Öckinger @eockinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I have an open position (fully funded for 4 years) for a PhD candidate in a project on pollinator communities and populations in relation to forest structure and microclimate. See more, and apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu....
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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se
Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This would not have been possible without citizen scientists.
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Rapid spread of bee-killing Asian hornets halted in UK
Action helps thwart advance of invasive yellow-legged hornet that can kill 50 bees a day and has devastated honeybee colonies in France and Italy
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GuardIAS @guardias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#GuardIAS (Guarding European Waters from IAS) is a new Horizon Europe project aiming to offer solutions that address every phase of the invasion process (pre-border, border, post border). This is the official BlueSky account of the project. #bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology #Science 🧪
The structure of the GuardIAS project in Work Packages linked to the stages of the invasion process.
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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz @inadehn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Join us at Coventry University this Wednesday when @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social will talk about invasive species in the Czech Republic.
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Invasive species in the Czech Republic: lessons for prevention and management
There are different approaches to minimise the negative impact of invasive alien species.
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Lindy @lindywrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What makes a plant beautiful?🌹🌺🌼 I hadn't thought about it until I was asked if I'd do this 5 minute survey for a research project www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en #biodiversity
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Biodiful
Etude de la perception humaine de la biodiversité. Studying human perception of biodiversity.
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Martin Wilkes @wilkesma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Two unique opportunities for fully funded interdisciplinary PhD research on #biodiversity #conservation @Uni_of_Essex, blending #ecology with #sociology and #business as part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Sustainable Transitions programme jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT611/p... jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT503/p...
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Theresa Henke @theresahenke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Follow us on blue sky to find out more about what we do at IRIS 🌱👽🇪🇸 & Check out our new website iriseeza.com 🥳 @iris-eeza.bsky.social @ananovoaperez.bsky.social
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