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Markus Eichhorn

@markuseichhorn.bsky.social
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Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trees don't store carbon, forests do. The number of trees planted is largely irrelevant: the real question is the area that will be converted to forest cover.
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Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you an experimental plant ecologist? Keen on working with great colleagues in a thriving scientific environment and a unique global change experiment? Join us! recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/V… #ecology #ecologyjob #ecoevojob
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Leading Scientist (f/m/x) in Biodiversity Research
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Current mental state: woke up in the night in panic about a task. Put it on the urgent list for the day. Finally got round to it. Discovered that I actually did it last Thursday and just forgot.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One additional 'quick fact': if your name is John, the Nobel committee is twice as likely to award you the Prize for Physics, compared to scientists who are female - Number of physics prizes to a John: 10 - Number of female physics Nobel laureates: 5 Best wishes to all the John-hopefuls this yr 👩‍🔬⚛️
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's still September. I will not put the heating on. Only two more days to go.
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Jon Snow Freezing Cold in the Snow
Alt: Jon Snow Freezing Cold in the Snow
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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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The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meet the rare plant that needs chaos... A thread for #SpeciesOfTheWeek ⤵️
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish the media would interview university staff as well. The impacts on students are real (if they weren't then strike action would be pointless) but there's a reason for taking it.
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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'
The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Our members at the University of Nottingham begin strike action tomorrow over devastating job and course cuts. They will walk out tomorrow and Thursday, before beginning sustained strike action from 5 October. Share, like and comment to show your solidarity with our members.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I didn't know anything about X so I asked chatGPT." You still don't know anything about X. You have read what a sophisticated summary-generating tool predicts as the answer to your question. You have no critical insight, no direct experience, no awareness of the underlying evidence. Stop talking.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)?
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This just gets more and more scandalous the further down you read As one interviewee put it, 'is this a joke?'
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you’re a scientist then you *must* watch The Love Hypothesis on Amazon Prime: a fascinating documentary about what *really* goes on in our labs. This educational clip is likely to feature in stats lectures for years to come. 🧪
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Mike Knell @blat.at · 24/09/2026
US university drama: Beautiful sunny weather, set at Stanford, impeccably tidy offices UK university drama: Permanently overcast, set at Keele, offices piled high with crap and built from whitewashed breezeblocks
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In things that suddenly make me feel old: we're up to APG V now. Five! My mental plant phylogeny is still coming to terms with APG III 🧪
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Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V
We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of t...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can't wait for a world in which AI-written abstracts are summarised by AI bots in order to produce AI papers. No need to trouble our little meat brains again.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Start licking driftwood: apparently the latest smuggling trick is to impregnate wood products with cocaine.
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Kinahan cartel believed to be behind mobile drug lab seized under major international policing operation
The cartel – which has restructured in Spain around a new operational figure – was trafficking in cocaine impregnated into wood shipped over by Colombian suppliers.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just saw an ad for a face yoga class and I think I've pulled an eyebrow
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A wedding invitation! The first in years! Have we finally left the 'everyone's getting divorced' phase and entered the 'everyone's getting remarried' phase?
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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship applications went from just 7.000 applicants in 2022 to over 21.000 this year 🤯🤯🤯
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The other brutal constraint on ECRs is time. If you don't land a post-doctoral fellowship on the first cycle then your chances of still being in the pool for the next call drop considerably.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oxford United have apologised for releasing a clothing collection with the slogan ‘United 93’, after the club’s founding date in 1893. United Airlines flight 93 was one of those hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11. OUFC say “we are reviewing our approval processes”.
The United 93 clothing
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Things must be getting desperate in the UK if they're getting excited about a crop normally used for feeding livestock.
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Meet the mangelwurzel: The forgotten root vegetable making a comeback
Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.
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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not new, and not discovered...still great news. I offer a, perhaps, more accurate, less colonizing, title: "Western scientists describe a felid known to local communities as Tilcayo. It is the first description of its kind in over a century"
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing" I've never seen a trigger warning in the abstract of a research paper before This study estimates there were 2.2 million Indigenous Australians before British colonisation share.google/eCcqV6xHaVSx...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can we not encourage Elon Musk and his techbro minions to all move to Mars? The prospects for humanity would improve dramatically, although not for the reasons they think.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wild excitement in the family home following the appearance of a new Minecraft biome. At least the kids are talking about trees 🌳🌲
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Dappled Forest – Minecraft Wiki
The dappled forest is a woodland biome consisting of poplar trees with red, orange, and yellow leaves, along with the occasional spruce trees. The ground is an orange-brown grass and coarse dirt soil ...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Urban trees have different allometries to those in woodland, meaning that standard diameter-based estimates greatly over-estimate the potential for carbon storage. New paper by Davenport et al. 🧪🌍🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Graphical abstract from Davenport et al. (2026) which basically says the same thing as the skeet.
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Two high profile Irish politicians involved in 'incidents' yesterday - the Taoiseach & Healy Rae. There are ppl - racists, anti-vaxxers, angry loons - who have gotten the taste for intimidating people in the streets. If we don't deal with this now - we know where it goes.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We need a remake of "Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker" from the perspective of a botfly.
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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Britain in no place to sneer at village’s stupid separatist referendum buff.ly/RDjMFJQ
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As an ex-Christian (I'm an escaped Fundie) old friends sometimes give me a knowing "Yes, but deep down you still believe don't you" because they can't quite accept that someone can know the whole story and still walk away.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Forest fragmentation intensifies along contested borders in northern Ethiopia, showing the impacts of conflict on conservation 🧪🌍🌳🌲🌐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Robots asking humans if they're robots, humans asking robots if they're humans what are we even doing lol this sucks
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Twelve months of continuous camera trap data from Ireland. Natural forest: 31Gb per camera. Coniferous forest: 7Gb. Wonder if we'll find any differences? @biocomp-erc.bsky.social
A deer and faun in a coniferous plantationTwo red squirrels running across a mossy forest floor
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's not too late for you meet the Early Bird registration deadline! Here's what some of our attendees said about last year's conference: “The conference was well organised, and I enjoyed a very bit of the programme, it was an excellent experience.” Register by 18 September: buff.ly/KVEGYfT
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Irish Women's Rugby Supporters Club @irishwomens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌍 iDiv and the @uni-jena.de are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Macroevolution & Macroecology. 🕒 Full-time (40h/week) or part-time (minimum 75%) 📅 Start: 1 Dec 2026 💼 Fixed-term: 3 years 💶 Salary: up to E13 (TV‑L) ⏳ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
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Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate - BECC @beccsweden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Open position: Assistant professor in ecology and evolution of terrestrial arthropods Application deadline: 30 October 2026 Learn more: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The battles within UKHE have taken a particularly dark turn at Uni of Brighton.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After listening to a few podcasts I'm increasingly suspicious that we are being tricked into hearing a nice human present content that was largely generated by AI.
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Doode Bembe is a nature reserve in Belgium whose name translates as 'unusable grasslands'. It's a reminder that conservation often happens in places that have no obvious economic value.
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Doode Bemde
In de Doode Bemde kan je wandelen langs de natuurlijk meanderende Dijle. Vlakbij Leuven gaan natuurbescherming en beveiliging tegen wateroverlast hand in hand. Wie weet vind je de sporen van de bever....
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