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Masha van der Sande

@masha-vandersande.bsky.social
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Assist. prof. @Wageningen Uni, the Netherlands (@w-u-r.bsky.social). Interested in tropical forest functioning across time and space. 🔥Fire resilience. 🌳Secondary succession. 🪵Traits. Paleo- & Neo-ecology.

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 17h
I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...
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NRC @nrc.nl · 11/08/2026
De oceanen wereldwijd bereikten afgelopen juli de hoogste temperatuur ooit gemeten deze maand. Het gemiddelde over de maand kwam uit op 20,96 graden Celsius. Het vorige record, van 20,89 graden Celsius, stamde uit 2023. @kamagurka.bsky.social maakte hier een dagelijkse tekening bij. buff.ly/sBOkLNA
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Angelica Resende, Brazilian Forest Scientist @resendeangelica.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Read our latest #research on 'Non-native and invasive tree species are abundant in neotropical secondary forest but decline over time', published with @springernature.com in @natplants.nature.com Check it here rdcu.be/fvICa with 2ndFor @lourenspoorter.bsky.social @masha-vandersande.bsky.social et al
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Non-native and invasive tree species are abundant in neotropical secondary forest but decline over time
Nature Plants - Non-native and invasive trees establish early during the regeneration of secondary forests. However, their decline over time suggests that native forest recovery can limit their...
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Arjen Lubach @arjenlubach.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Seizoensafsluiter! @lubach.nl
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Hoe staat het ervoor met de oorlog in Oekraïne? | LUBACH
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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 27/02/2026
LUBACH: 'Wat is er aan de hand op de Westelijke Jordaanoever?'
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LUBACH: 'Wat is er aan de hand op de Westelijke Jordaanoever?' - Joop - BNNVARA
Lubach legt het uit.
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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postdoctorat projet FEVER: Fire effects on vegetation productivity and nutrient fluxes in Mediterranean ecosystems
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥 @sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
'Wie dat overdreven vindt, is óf gevaarlijk ongeïnformeerd, óf gevaarlijk naïef.' decorrespondent.nl/16657/donald...
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Donald Trump is het grootste gevaar voor de wereld sinds Adolf Hitler
Onze grootste en belangrijkste bondgenoot uit de twintigste eeuw is nu de machtigste en gevaarlijkste criminele organisatie ter wereld. Donald Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch ...
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Patrick Jansen 🐾 @patrickjansen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration.

As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. 

Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. 

You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. 

In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.
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Jan Leune @janleune.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Caroline de Gruyter in de NRC: "De Amerikanen zijn een bedreiging geworden voor de interne markt, de euro, en de Europese veiligheid en democratie. Europa heeft een eigen bedrading nodig, om overeind te blijven. En snel ook."
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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥 @sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Wat een goed artikel over #empathischeintelligentie #empathischebiologie. Eerst kijken, dan denken, dan doen.
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Gerrit Hiemstra🐇 @gerrithiemstra.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Fossiele subsidies kosten miljarden, verergeren de klimaatcrisis en staan in de weg van een gezonde toekomst. ✍️ Teken jij de petitie voor een stop op fossiele subsidies? www.brandbriefaanhetkabinet.nl
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Brandbrief aan het kabinet | Stop fossiele subsidies
Brandbrief aan het kabinet: Fossiele subsidies kosten miljarden, verergeren de klimaatcrisis en staan in de weg van een gezonde toekomst. Stop fossiele subsidies.
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐
Two plots with the global mean annual burned area (left) and fuel consumption (right), for the 2002–2022 period, in grasslands & non-grasslands.
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Pieter Zuidema @pieterzuidema.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Extra CO2 stimulates #photosynthesis of trees and reduces water losses through transpiration. But does that stimulate growth of #tree stems? Our paper today in NatClimateChange led by Quan Zhang uses theory & data to show that strong growth stimulation is unlikely.🌎🌐🍁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increased efficiency of water use does not stimulate tree productivity - Nature Climate Change
The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight en...
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔥Only 2 days left (until 26th) to apply! 2 PhD positions at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, on Amazon fire resilience!🔥
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/11/2025
A 30,019-hectare forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia may soon be sold to agribusiness giant Bom Futuro, which plans to clear it, documents show. Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
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The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest
A large forest in eastern Bolivia is on the verge of being sold to an international agriculture company, raising concerns that it might be razed to make room for new cropland. The 30,019-hectare…
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶 www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
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PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... Please share!
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PhD positions: Fire resilience of Amazon forests
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Guus Beugelink @guusbeugelink.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Stemadvies van Loesje
Stemadvies van Loesje
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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Oportunidade de Pós-Doutorado / Post-doctoral Research Opportunity in our lab!
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Collage showing the bark of Anadenanthera colubrina: on the left, intact bark before fire; on the right, bark surface after exposure to fire, showing charring and structural changes.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥 In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces. Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites. Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.
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Pieter Zuidema @pieterzuidema.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)
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Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...
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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
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Lessons From a Climate Disaster - Inside Climate News
Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.
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Dominic Martin @dominic-martin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself Deadline: 4.8. www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Dutch wetland in the morning mist
Source: (c) Paul van de Velde
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
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Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This 👇🏼 confirms the tragedy we’ve witnessed in the Bolivian Amazon, with 2024 as record fire year.🔥 And it’s the reason we’re studying Amazon’s fire resilience in Madidi, Pilón and Chiquitanía.
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡ Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps
Lightning is a fundamental Earth system process that influences the world's major forest biomes and their carbon storage through two primary pathways. Lightning is the major cause of boreal forest fi....
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Morpho Institute @morphoinstitute.org · 09/01/2025
#amazonrainforest #climate news.mongabay.com/2025/01/afte...
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After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025
South America recorded the highest number of fire outbreaks in 14 years in 2024, with Brazil at the epicenter of the crisis.
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Masha van der Sande @masha-vandersande.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hello all, I've just arrived (and left X)! I'm a researcher interested in anything related to fire ecology, tropical forests, Amazon, paleo & neo ecology, forest succession & restoration. Looking forward to connect!
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