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Liam Langan

@myplantsdance.bsky.social
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I try to disentangle interactions between functional diversity and ecosystem function using #ecoevo vegetation models.

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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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Liam Langan @myplantsdance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Impressed with Macklemore and all the other artist that have dropped the Red Sheeran tour.
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Liam Langan @myplantsdance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Careful with your best ideas 💡
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ihr könnt nirgends hin heute abend, weil es so heiß ist? Dann gerne hier in diesen sehr guten Vortrag hineinschauen, online! senckenberg-de.zoom-x.de/j/6195136516...
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Dr. Katrin Fleischer @kaaze7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lucky me. I was able to visit the AmazonFACE site again and witness how ready to go we are! How will the largest tropical forest on Earth respondent to the elevated CO2? What do you think?
Tree trunk in a tropical forest leaning at a metal tower.
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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Frankie throws a hardball for pride month www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utfo...
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why all men need to be gay
YouTube video by Meditations for the anxious mind
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Caroline Farrior @cfarrior.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center: hiring a communications coordinator. tinyurl.com/apply-bccc
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Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
Becky Chaplin-Cramer during her introductory key note presentation at #wbf2026 called for providing solutions to the biodiversity crisis rather than being accountants of the decline. #xp #biodiversity
A graph showing that between 2000 and 2024 the number of papers documenting loss increased much faster than those of documenting recovery
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Delighted to be part of the #worldbiodiversityforum in #Davos for the first time! 1150 #biodiversity specialists from all over the world are meeting this week and work towards a transformative change for the world's biodiversity and ecosystems, based on #science. @worldbioforum.bsky.social @sgn.one
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Brendan Choat @profchoat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
PhD Scholarship to work in the beautiful Blue Mountains! Drought and heat stress responses of temperate forest trees growing across a broad environmental gradient Applications close June 30 Must be Australian citizen, permanent resident, or NZ citizen to be eligible. PS2026_034_CS0791892_HIE
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Mittwoch 10.  Juni, 19:30, hybrid "Bauen mit Baum und Zeit – Baubotanik als Zukunftsmodell" Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig (TU München) Alle Infos hier: museumfrankfurt.senckenberg.de/de/kalender/...
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Heute Abend, 19:30 - der Vortrag von Prof. Dietmar Brandes zur #Krautschau-Aktionswoche 🤗. Teilnahme auch via Zoom. Alle Infos: museumfrankfurt.senckenberg.de/de/kalender/...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Looks like a fantastic postdoc...deadline soon 'Greenland Institute of Natural Resources seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in vegetation mapping and herbivory' Drones, traits and Greenland #PostDocJobs naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/... 🧪🌐🌾
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Greenland Institute of Natural Resources seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in vegetation mapping and herbivory.
The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Birds and Mammals, with a starting date on 1 July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter,...
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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Somehow I have managed to forget to upload this to Youtube for four straight years. Another samplefuckery project, this time using R's API for Google speech-to-text, with art by the inimitable @americanbeetles.bsky.social. youtu.be/T6Ww-Ng0Ktc
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Attenborough on Monsters
YouTube video by Dan Warren
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Julia Krohmer @juliakrohmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Nicht verpassen, noch bis 16 Uhr! Tag des Botanischen Gartens mit Pflanzenbörse: Pflanzen, Informationen, Führungen, Speis & Trank Themenschwerpunkt: Der Botanische Garten Frankfurt als verwirklichte Utopie www.botanischergarten-frankfurt.de/programm/
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Job opening! Asst/Assoc Prof (TT) in Forest Ecology at McGill University in Canada. mcusercontent.com/1319f832ffab...
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/04/2026
Only thing worrying about this proportion is that it isn't 100%. Knowledge is our work. Our labor. We can't steal it. It's ours.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Jeremy Fox has a new book out, 'The Ecology of Ecologists'. What's that about, and should you read it? (Quick answers: how ecology's chaos of approaches is a feature, not a bug; and YES.) scientistseessquirre... 🌍🧪
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‘The Ecology of Ecologists’: what, if anything, is ecology? (book review)
What, if anything, is ecology? You would think I’d know that – I’ve been a practicing (academic) ecologist for about 40 years. But I don’t. Sure, I know some stuff. I know that ecology isn’t the sa…
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Violeta Calleja Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇
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Cooperation maximizes biodiversity | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I am teaching at the ACDC "Climate and Landscapes" summer school in Abisko in August! Looking forward to visiting the much fabled Abisko field station! Application deadline April 15th... www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/acdc_...
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ACDC 2026 Abisko
The summer school will take place at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Northern Sweden 16 - 29th of August 2026. The topic is "Climate and Landscapes".
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Liam Langan @myplantsdance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Replace psychology with vegetation modeling/ecology/tipping points/alternative stable states. Too many stories and too many big assumptions without evidence.
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Dickson Mauki @dicksonmauki.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I am happy to share this again! 🎓 PhD done! I’m sincerely grateful to my amazing supervisors, @peteecology.bsky.social, @mschleuning.bsky.social and @margot Neyret for their guidance, support, and encouragement throughout this journey. Cheers to the next step✈️.
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 28/03/2026
This sandbox for LLM agents looks great and very easy to use!: jai.scs.stanford.edu
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jai - easy containment for AI agents
Super-lightweight Linux sandbox for AI agents
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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Huge congratulations to Dr Dickson Mauki @dicksonmauki.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD yesterday: 'Plant functional strategies and regulating Nature's contributions to people along environmental gradients of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania'.
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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Well done Dickson- I’m really proud of your development and and all you have achieved over the course of your PhD journey. The first of Dickson's PhD papers is published here in Journal of Ecology, with more great work to follow besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Community‐level plant functional strategies explain ecosystem carbon storage across a tropical elevational gradient
We demonstrate that major plant functional strategies manifest at the community level along elevational gradients. These strategies also explain variation in carbon storage, although above-ground sto...
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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Next piece of exciting news coming soon from the #ResponseDiversityNetwork ! Never been a better time to sign up: responsediversitynetwork.github.io/RDN-website/ @acekl.bsky.social @fwindsor.bsky.social @hillebr1.bsky.social @elinakaarlej.bsky.social @owpet.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social
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Welcome
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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨🚨Job Alert 🦇🚨🚨 Come to join my group! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in population genomics and bioinformatics to work on the UK serotine bats and Lyssavirus transmission project with APHA. 18 months project based @exeter.ac.uk 🦇🧪🌍🌐🧬 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Simon Lewis @simonlewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s not really a cost, net zero is insurance, against fossil fuel price spikes, heatwaves, floods, droughts, emerging diseases, ecosystem collage and more. A veritable bargain.
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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A pioneering rewilding site in Europe entailed transforming the river Rhine. The flood risk has been massively reduced saving billions of euros; the local economy has been revitalised. Delighted to film Wouter Helmer explaining how he created it. youtu.be/gr5YyyCHI4o?...
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Rewilding the Rhine: a new approach to flood control
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is why @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social and other diamond OA journals are so important. Send us your awesome biogeography papers and do the field a solid! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
‼️ New preprint: By solving a paradox in graph theory, we show that specialist symbionts constrain ecosystem structure, drive biodiversity, and face high extinction risk. With @jbyoder.org and @ctrlalttim.com: 🎉 Specialists drive biodiversity scaling in symbiotic relationships
Sublinear and linear scaling coexist in bipartite graphsReal ecological networks are constrained by the presence of specialistsCoextinction risk is driven by host extinction risk - but especially high for specialists
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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And just what was it that made you first suspect they had used gen-AI to prepare the document?
Image is a screenshot of a filename titled "Add_a_heading.pdf"
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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Come to work with us! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Restoration Ecology
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Paul Ehrlich and The Bet The real lesson everyone misses about Paul Ehrlich and his famous wager 🌐🧪
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aislingirwin.bsky.social @aislingirwin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Journalists have in general failed to probe her scientific work. That is why she was astonished, and threatened legal action, when I asked her critical questions during an interview for this piece www.nature.com/articles/d41... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The ‘Mother Tree’ idea is everywhere — but how much of it is real?
A popular theory about how trees cooperate has enchanted the public and raised the profile of forest conservation. But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵
This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I always say that it’s good to be in nature (surrounded by flowers and insects)… but to be in Nature (the scientific journal) is not bad either 😊
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Nature @nature.com · 17/03/2026
A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner go.nature.com/4sQu3uX
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How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career
A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability link.springer.com/article/10.1... @azajmahmud.bsky.social @schwilk.org
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Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability - Fire Ecology
Background Understanding the relationship between plant traits and flammability is important for accurately predicting fire behavior and assessing fire hazard. However, plant flammability is multidime...
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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thank you for your message. On top of my day job, I am busy tackling compulsory redundancies & supporting those at risk. Expect delayed responses. The most senior and highly paid Faculty adminstrator is busy dealing with stationery supply levels. They may be able to help instead. [Not a joke 😔]
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Liam Langan @myplantsdance.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Now that’s a St. Patrick’s Day greeting. 👌
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Only a small fraction of greenhouse gases is needed to create most of the greenhouse effect, because these gases absorb specific wavelengths of the heat the Earth emits, states PIK scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social in new explainer on climate change myths👇 Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mla...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🧪
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Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our new preprint reports an interesting analytical approach for RNA-seq based gene expression analysis of a ~500 plant diversity panel of switchgrass grown in the contrasting environments of Michigan and Texas. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...
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Barbara Feldmeyer @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Two PhD positions available in our lab! www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... a) "Genomic Mechanisms of Olfactory Adaptation and Plasticity in Wasps, Ants, and Bees." 🐜🐝 REF.11-26010 b) "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality."🪲🪳 REF.11-26011
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Stellenanzeigen Archiv | Senckenberg Naturforschung
Heute geöffnet (9 — 17 Uhr)
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Bob O’Hara @bobohara.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Something new in @pnas.org from me & @grrlscientist.bsky.social! A commentary on a really neat paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Developing statistical models as an early warning system to predict Salmonella outbreaks in wild birds | PNAS
Developing statistical models as an early warning system to predict Salmonella outbreaks in wild birds
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on: ⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐ Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍) Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ See you there!
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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...
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Open Positions – GEvol – DFG SPP 2349
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Liam Langan @myplantsdance.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Just came across this paper. I reckon the authors had a great laugh deciding on the order Vincent, Van, Goh :-) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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a painting of a man with a red beard
ALT: a painting of a man with a red beard
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