iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Julia Fugger @fuggerjulia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

And so it is done 🥳 I finished my Master's Degree @univie.ac.at 👩🏻‍🎓 It was a blast! A big thank you to my two supervisors @franzessl1.bsky.social and @lenzner.bsky.social

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Final days to register join us, the @linneansociety.bsky.social and our wonderful panelists for a discussion on how increasingly politicised media is affecting biodiversity conservation! Thursday, June 12 at 18:00 BST, Burlington House, London Register: tinyurl.com/e8e4p5zt

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 08/05/2025

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A. Butler] Long before “biodiversity hotspot” became a conservation cliché, Alwyn Howard Gentry was painstakingly mapping them — one vine, one tree, one tenth-hectare transect at a time.

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Alwyn Gentry died young, but left a forest’s worth of ideas behind

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Long before “biodiversity hotspot” became a conservation cliché,…

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement

Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

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Scientists for Future Berlin-Brandenburg @s4f-bebb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wir haben heute den Appell von über 13.000 Wissenschaftler:innen übergeben. Unserer Einladung sind Abgeordnete von @spdfraktion.de, @gruene-bundestag.de und @dielinkebt.bsky.social gefolgt. Der Appell zum Nachlesen: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... #KlimaschutzIstDasFundament

Mitglieder von Scientists for Future übegeben den Appell von über 13.000 Wissenschaftler:innen an Abgeordnete des Bundestages.

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WSL-Eawag Biodiversity Center @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our Research Unit “Biodiversity and Conservation Biology” is looking for a “Head of Research”.

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Three exciting positions at the new Landscape Ecology Group led by Alejandra Morán‐Ordóñez at the University of Basel Technician (50%): bit.ly/4hogX1F Research assistant (50%): bit.ly/3FlrVrC PhD position: bit.ly/3R0C6nT #jobs #PhDposition #ecology #fieldwork #conservation

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This study projects shifts in climatic niches of 30 food crops under 1.5–4°C global warming and assess their impact on crop production and food crop diversity across global croplands, highlighting latitudinal differences in the adaptation potential of global food systems. 📑 doi.org/10.1038/s430...

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Although many invertebrates and other less-charismatic groups are key for ecosystem service provision, they and their functions are rarely included in conservation strategies. Benoit Guénard, @achughes.bsky.social et al show how funding largely goes to charismatic rather than threatened species 🌐🧪🪲

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Limited and biased global conservation funding means most threatened species remain unsupported | PNAS

The conservation of biodiversity represents a global challenge as the world experiences its sixth mass extinction. Understanding how conservation e...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

▶️𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 - 𝟓𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐬𝐃𝐢𝐯◀️ ❤️‍I'm incredibly proud of how the sDiv & iDiv admin team has supported this achievement! 🫶 I'm even more thankful for >100 synthesis working groups, >40 postdocs & >20 sabbatical fellows who are the driver of this success. www.idiv.de/50000-sdiv-c...

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50,000 sDiv citations - 12 years of excellence in biodiversity research

The sDiv synthesis centre at iDiv achieved a huge milestone: Scientific publications resulting from sDiv-supported projects have amassed over 50,000 citations.

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.

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Ana Novoa @ananovoaperez.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Getting ready for the second #SoNAF meeting in winter wonderland 🤩❄️ @iris-eeza.bsky.social @invaculture.net @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

On International Day of Women in Science let's celebrate the life of Prof. Georgina Mace (1953–2020) who was instrumental in creating the Red List of endangered species which now underpins conservation around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

Geogina Mace. Photo: Javi Martínez on elmundo.es

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Franz Essl @franzessl1.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Mehr als 1000 WissenschaftlerInnen sagen JA zur Demokratie! Und NEIN zu Regierungsverhandlungen mit einer Partei, die Wissenschaft nur dann akzeptiert, wenn es in ihre Ideologie passt. #FPÖ #Regierung science.orf.at/stories/3228...

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Politischer Appell aus der Wissenschaft

Mehr als tausend österreichische Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler warnen vor einer FPÖ-geführten Regierung. In einem offenen Brief an die Parteien appellieren sie, demokratische Werte, Mensche...

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 06/02/2025

New @circleu.bsky.social Online Course: “Natural Hazards, Vulnerability and Disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives". In the summer semester of 2025, the lecture series is an official Circle U. course, open to incoming BA students from Circle U. partner universities for online attendance.🌍 More: ⤵

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Circle U. Online Course: Natural Hazards, Vulnerability and Disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 06/02/2025

🌿 We're hiring researchers in quantitative environmental science! 👉We are looking for new colleagues @iiasa.ac.at who are interested in a career in quantiative enviromental science and ecological modelling. Vienna, Austria. 🎯 International environment 👥 Open to all nationalities, support with moving

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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BioMonI: Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems @biomoni.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/

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BioMonI

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Tobias Schernhammer @schetobi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wow, Austria is also rather trashed...

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Reinhard Steurer @steurer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Der "Klimawandel" ruiniert unsere Winter. Lass uns deshalb in den hohen Norden fliegen wo es noch schön weiß und kalt ist. Dekadenz-Journalismus rundet den Kollaps dieser Zivilisation sehr nett ab. 🎉🍾 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Was es bringt, mit schulpflichtigen Kindern antizyklisch zu verreisen

Als Familie kommt man den Touristenmassen in den Ferien ohnehin kaum aus? Stimmt nicht ganz, wenn man etwa im Sommer in den Norden und im Winter in den Süden fährt.

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

A screenshot of slides drawn from 7 slide decks, showing the range of topics addressed on the webpage

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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 22/01/2025

OneSTOP's morning of Day3️⃣is for Living Labs🇬🇧🇧🇪🇫🇮🇷🇴🇵🇹covering ports, distribution hubs, botanic gardens & different transportation infrastructures 🚙 🚄 ⛴️ eDNA & Computer vision detection tools connected to data pipelines so that #IAS information flows into the relevant systems #GuardiasOnestopKickoff

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There is an idea that we can simply step away from degraded ecosystems & they will recover But truly biodiverse, resilient ecosystems are complex So, in degraded landscapes, we will often need to intervene to guide systems towards complexity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Explore before you restore: Incorporating complex systems thinking in ecosystem restoration

By illustrating how key Complex Systems Science (CSS) concepts linked to non-linear threshold behaviour can impact restoration outcomes through influencing recovery trajectories, our framework Explor...

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Out of ~72k people in 68 countries, 83% believe that scientists 👩‍🔬👩‍💻👨‍🏫 should communicate 📣 about science 🧪with the public🧵

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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 17/01/2025

💥 Excitement builds as we gear up for the #GuardiasOnestopKickoff meeting on 20-23 Jan at the #JRC in Ispra, Italy! 🤌 🚀 Together with @guardias.bsky.social, we aim for lasting collaboration to tackle #InvasiveSpecies across land & sea. 🗺️ 👣 Follow us for updates on #GuardiasOnestopProjects 👈

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GuardIAS @guardias.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The Kick-off Meeting for the Guardias and Onestop Projects starts today. These two exciting projects, look to collaborate in tackling #InvasiveSpecies across terrestrial, marine & freshwater realms. These Horizon Porjects are funded by the @ec.europa.eu #GuardiasOnestopKickoff

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 20/01/2025

Invitation to the inaugural lecture of Norman Wickett, Professor of Systematic & Evolutionary Botany at the Faculty of Life Sciences - "Plant Diversity in the High-Throughput Era – using genes, trees, and genomes to reconstruct evolutionary history" 🌳 🧬 📅: Jan 29 More information & registration: ⤵

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Plant Diversity in the High-Throughput Era

Programme: 17:00Welcome byChrista Schnabl (Vice-Rector of the University of Vienna) Opening wordsKarl-Heinz Wagner (Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences) Inaugural lectureNorman Wickett Plant Diversit...

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in applied ecology to devellop #climate and #nature budgeting approaches to support knowledge-based decision-making a the municipailty level. 🧪🗺️🌿🍄🐜 @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

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Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125) | Universitetet i Bergen

Stillingstittel: Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: fredag 31. januar 2025

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Marjolijn Haasnoot @marjolijnhaasnoot.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Interested in adaptation pathways? Our new paper provides a rich overview and lessons of adaptive pathways applications. We find the approach : 🚀 helps to accelerate adaptation 💡 generates new ideas 🔎 identifies path-dependency, barriers, and opportunities. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lessons from a decade of adaptive pathways studies for climate adaptation

Adaptive pathways planning is an approach that maps the solution space over time to inform decision making under uncertainty. Since its first applicat…

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Climate change refugia are places to which species can migrate as the climate changes. But there is more to anthropogenic effects than climate change, giving rise to the idea of global change refugia. Find out more in my recent paper in Nature Review Biodiversity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Locations that are relatively insulated from the effects of climate change (so-called climate change refugia) might be similarly insulated from a range of other anthropogenic stressors. The degree of ...

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IAS Secretariat - Belgium @secretariatias.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

📢You are conducting research on IAS or sometimes encounter them on the field? 🦞🌳 ℹ️ Consult this short guide for scientists to know more about best practices and obligations: NL: www.iasregulation.be/nl/889/downl... FR: www.iasregulation.be/fr/888/downl... EN: www.iasregulation.be/en/887/downl...

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Pat Lillich @quietlynow.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

red crowned crane. Hokkaido #birds #birdphotography #photo #photography red

red-crowned cranes were some of the most beautiful birds i've seen. white with black neck and a patch of red on their foreheads. elegant, most of the time. this one was against a white snowy field

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

All the talks from the @royalsociety.org discussion meeting in June 2023 are still available online too. Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=usII...; day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np6E...; and the schedule is here - royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Recovering nature: a biodiverse and liveable future | day 1

YouTube video by The Royal Society

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 03/01/2025

There’s a bit of discourse in the comments here regarding the question of whether ChatGPT is actually getting worse over time. The answer is a resounding Yes, and it’s not even controversial. Plus it’s not just ChatGPT, it’s all LLMs. Here’s a good study on this issue: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable - Nature

Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a fundam...

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#ICYMI «Steve Jobs der Umweltwissenschaft» verliert Job an der ETH Der Ökologe Thomas Crowther ist nach Vorwürfen von 8 Personen freigestellt. 2019 hatte eine von ihm geleitete Studie in Science zum CO2-Einlagerungspotential von Aufforstungen Kontroversen ausgelöst www.watson.ch/schweiz/fors... 🧪

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Nach unangebrachten «Annäherungen»: Weltbekannter Klimaforscher verliert Job an der ETH

Crowther war seit 2017 bei der ETH im Verfahren zum fest angestellten Professor. Der ETH-Präsident entschied, den Klimaforscher nicht weiter zu beschäftigen.

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