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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics! TreeChange combines life history traits from field observations with demographic modelling to understand the future of forests and the carbon sink. Based at Lund in Sweden you will work with researchers across the world lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪

Eight panels show body mass over 78 days for 57 Japanese quail. Columns represent control, T4, T3 and combined T3–T4 hormone treatments; rows separate females and males. Coloured points are measurements, lines are individual growth curves fitted by a hierarchical generalized additive model, and shading shows 95% credible intervals. Growth slows towards a plateau, with females generally reaching higher body masses than males.

Eighteen panels show individual pig growth curves. Black points mark daily average weight estimates from a depth camera; blue lines show curves fitted by a hierarchical generalized additive model, with shaded 95% credible intervals. Weights generally increase over time, with differences in growth and measurement variability among pigs. Uncertainty widens where measurements are sparse or absent.

Four-panel comparison of models fitted to a cow’s average daily milk fat production. Observations rise to a peak around weeks 8–10, then decline. The first panel shows fitted curves and uncertainty bands for Wood’s model, a Tweedie GLM and a Tweedie GAM. Residual plots show curved patterns for Wood’s model and the GLM, but little remaining pattern for the GAM.

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 02/10/2026

🎧 Proč nás spontánní příroda stále znepokojuje? Naše kolegyně Eliška Fulínová mluví v podcastu Podhoubí na Radiu Wave o antropocénu, proměnách krajiny i o tom, jak se mění naše vnímání přírody. 🌿 🔗 wave.rozhlas.cz/tam-bylo-moc...

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Tam bylo moc smrti, tohle je zase moc bujícího života. Proč nás spontánní příroda stále znepokojuje?

Co s námi udělá les sežraný kůrovcem? A proč nás ta mladá smrčina, která ho nahradila, také znepokojuje? Filosofka Eliška Fulínová a ilustrátorka Magdalena Gurská se v živé epizodě Podhoubí z Mezináro...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Resilience’ has become a concept that is waved around like a magic wand in talking about responses to climate change Focussing on resilience can be unhelpful if it keeps the system in a failing state (undesirable resilience) We need to link resilience to system change rather than system inertia

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 18/09/2026

🌲 New paper with researchers from @cts.cuni.cz challenges the traditional view of European larch nativity, combining paleoecological and genetic evidence to reconstruct its Holocene history. @smyckaj.bsky.social

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 18/09/2026

The deadline is approaching! An opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to work in a transdisciplinary environment.👇

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What a great idea:) 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroevolution and Macroecology

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Congratulations on this important discovery!

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 03/09/2026

🏺 An important archaeological discovery by our colleague @janturek.bsky.social & his team! Excavations near Chleby revealed an almost circular Neolithic causewayed enclosure, 230 m in diameter, with 12 gates, dating to around 4200 BC (Jordanów Culture).

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5c7kv #ECR #MonetaryPrize

Journal cover titled 'Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization'.

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 07/07/2026

🧠 Why is eating an enemy more taboo than killing one? New in PNAS: our colleague @turecek.bsky.social presents a mathematical model showing why cannibalism remained rare despite occasional benefits: repeated cannibalism amplifies pathogen transmission. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2605120123

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🌐Local bird species richness is regulated—not by diversity-dependent extinctions, but by diversity-dependent colonization as communities approach equilibrium.

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 03/07/2026

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Diversity Regulation in Local Communities: Colonization and Extinction Dynamics in North American Birds

Aim Species richness of local communities may be regulated via negative diversity dependence of colonization or positive diversity dependence of extinction rate. We explore whether and how bird comm...

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today's @theguardian.com long read philosophically scrutinises academic concepts of 'ecosystem function' and 'ecosystem services'. Recommended reading!

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 19/06/2026

Can biodiversity equilibria be tested? David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social argue that they can and that tests support the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. Read their response in TREE: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nFXkcZ3X7...

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 15/06/2026

New in TREE: David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social respond to a comment on their paper, arguing that the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics is testable and supported by current evidence as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2026.05.011

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

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Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs

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Grace I Ridder @graceridder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Where is the evidence for biodiversity equilibria? Follow the debate in the following publications. Our original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... The response: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Our reply: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

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Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Since January, I have gotten 8 desk rejections. Is this a new normal and a response to a deluge of AI-enabled papers journals are now receiving and/or dwindling availability of reviewers, or is our science not seen as novel enough (the latter I don't want to believe is true 😆)?

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A sad task, well done—Brian McGill pens a tribute to Bob Ricklefs. One measure of Ricklefs’ influence: Ecology students from the 70s on were trained on “Ricklefs”: an imposing tome weaving graphs and equations together with fine, dense prose. Thanks Bob. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Join us at @cts.cuni.cz for two years of academic freedom and transdisciplinary exchange in Prague

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you’re interested in editorial work and want to contribute to our society @biogeography.bsky.social, consider applying to become a new editor of our society’s journal!

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 09/06/2026

📚 Srdečně zveme na křest nové knihy našeho kolegy @janturek.bsky.social: První Evropané. 🎤 Křtem provede Jaroslav Hutka 📅 11. června 2026 v 17:00 📍 Knihkupectví Academia, Václavské náměstí 34, Praha (kavárna, 1. patro)

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Fantastic funding opportunities for biodiversity related research projects👇 1. Synthesis Working Groups 2. Senior Fellows Please spread the words & apply :)

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#anthropocene interdisciplinary course by @cts.cuni.cz at Charles University, Prague

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Irena Simova @isimova.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Congratulations to the author team from @cts.cuni.cz on winning the Magnesia Litera Award for Best Non-fiction Book! 📖 Hinterland (eds. Petr Pokorný & Petr Šída)

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 14/04/2026

New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics

Why do some groups contain far more species than others? By testing competing explanations across terrestrial vertebrates, this study shows that biodiversity patterns are most often shaped by long-ter...

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Check out the new blog post on our latest #BIEN paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data 🧪🌐🌾

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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Congratulations ‪@bjenquist.bsky.social‬ for leading the amazing BIEN. Biodiversity science is immensely richer, more reliable and more integrated thanks to BIEN. This new paper shows how and why.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

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BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 19/03/2026

📚 Dnes! Zveme na křest nové knihy našeho kolegy Radana Haluzíka Turbo-venkov: plné krajiny a prázdné domy (nejen) na Balkáně (Academia) 📍 CAMP, Vyšehradská 57 🕖 19:00 Součástí bude i krátká přednáška s obrázky. 🔗 praha.camp/program/deta...

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Turbo-venkov: Plné krajiny prázdných domů

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Department of Geoecology @spacetimeeco.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

European #forests, #grasslands, and #alpine plant communities are reflecting climate warming differently See our new study in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #forestREplot #GLORIAnetwork #thermophilization #forestecol

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Ecosystem integrity is a central concept in #conservation & #restoration. I argue for shifting from pattern-focused views to ecological processes & evolutionary lineages. Happy to see it accepted in @restorationecology.bsky.social🌿It'll become available at DOI: 10.1111/rec.70390 #ecosystemintegrity

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Záznam mé přednášky z Pražského hradu byl zveřejněn na YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjX...

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Věda na Hradě - Milan Chytrý: Lidská stopa v krajině (SPH, ÚOCHB, UK 4.3.2026)

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Call for proposals for the 2026 E4 award: vist.ly/4vak7 Winner will receive 1000 Euros and runner-up 500 Euros. Only two weeks left until deadline #ECR #EarlyCareerGrants #Review #Award

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The E4 Award | Ecography

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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 15/03/2026

David Storch přednášel na Čtvrtcích ve Viničné na téma "Kolébky a muzea, rovnováhy a nerovnováhy" (v češtině). Záznam jeho přednášky je zde: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77m_...

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Biologické čtvrtky ve Viničné; D. Storch: Kolébky a muzea, rovnováhy a nerovnováhy; přednáška

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biologickectvrtky.bsky.social @biologickectvrtky.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Právě jsme zveřejnili program Biologických čtvrtků na nadcházející letní semestr.

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Department of Ecology, Charles University @depecocu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🎓 Our amazing PhD students are organising one of the upcoming talks in our seminar series! Join us on 31 March (15:00) for Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews) speaking on “Biodiversity Change in the Recent Past.” 📍 Zoology Lecture Hall, Viničná 7, Prague #Ecology #Biodiversity #Seminar

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