Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thank you @gfoesoc.bsky.social & @nordicoikos.bsky.social! This years conference was clearly one of the best i‘ve ever been to. The community, content quality, key notes, organization, venue, catering, …👏👏👏 I leave inspired and motivated and am looking forward to the next meeting! 130
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeSORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026SORTEE at the NSO-GfÖ conference! Want to discuss open, reliable, equitable & reproducible science? Say hi at our booth! You’ll find a 'science frustration & hopes' board, information leaflets, and a chance to win a #SORTEE t-shirt 🎉 #NSO2026 #GfOe2026 @nordicoikos.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social 092
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeMichael Kröncke @mickroflora.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Always a pleasure to meet my good friend @philaes.bsky.social, here at the @nsogfoe2026.bsky.social joint meeting of @gfoesoc.bsky.social and @nordicoikos.bsky.social promoting his awesome model predicting @invasivespecies.bsky.social and just having a good time in the awesome town of Odense! 💜💚🇩🇰 132
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@mickroflora.bsky.social in action at the joint @gfoesoc.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social conference 2026. Come visit my friend and his poster 🍻 152
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From #neobiota2026 conference to @gfoesoc.bsky.social & @nordicoikos.bsky.social 2026 conference in Odense, Denmark. Talk tomorrow at 10:45 - I am very much looking forward to present our work (@hannoseebens.bsky.social @mormoops.bsky.social) there! 😊 092
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Presenting my poster on our new model framework to forecast spread of non-native species 5:20pm today at @neobiota.pensoft.net #NeoBiota2026 conference. I developed the framework with @hannoseebens.bsky.social and @mormoops.bsky.social who also present work at the conference. 073
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026BP & ExxonMobil doubled, Shell tripled, Chevron quintupled their profits! They plan to extract more oil and reduce renewable energy sectors. While thousands die of heat waves and fires, entire ecosystems get fucked, species go extinct & prices explode. Fuck them! www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u... 030
Reposted by Philipp LaesekePhilipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026New paper out 😊 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPlant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblagesThe results indicate that successful restoration of grassland vegetation and butterflies is strongly linked. To fully restore target butterfly assemblages, future grassland restoration should aim to .... 05826
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026New paper out 😊 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPlant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblagesThe results indicate that successful restoration of grassland vegetation and butterflies is strongly linked. To fully restore target butterfly assemblages, future grassland restoration should aim to .... 05826
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026„Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event“ by Tamburri et al. ….🫠🫠🫠 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comClosure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event - Biological InvasionsThe ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are causing substantial humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical impacts and disrupting global trade. While the human and economic effects remain the focus of ... 022
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeThe International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Reminder: July's Funk Biogeography Seminar is coming up this Wednesday. There's still time to register- come join us! 032
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026„Consequently, approximately 98% of the Earth‘s surface (95% of land) remains unsampled“ doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... New paper by @ahmed-elgabbas.bsky.socialdoi.orgA Global, Taxon‐Stratified, High‐Resolution Sampling‐Effort Dataset From GBIF for Bias‐Aware Ecological ModellingIntroduction and Aim Spatiotemporal and taxonomic sampling bias in biodiversity occurrence data poses critical challenges for robust ecological inference, species distribution models (SDMs), and con..... 030
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeMarten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026A fantastic funding opportunity when you are interested in biological invasions!!👇👇 Please distribute it further! 085
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeAshkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon. 13348117
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026🔥🔥🔥 game -changer(*) 🔥🔥🔥 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... (*) i guess… still putting it into my code and evaluating, but i‘m hyped already!opensource.posit.comori: Shared memory for R objectsmori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere. 010
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeTrinobia @trinobia.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Working all day with no fun? 😩🥱 Not anymore! 🎲🎯♟️ Take some time off coding and running scripts all day and try out this fun R package called Rcade It also contains my favourite game: Pacman 😄✌️ github.com/RLesur/Rcade #RStats #OpenSource #CodingFun #RProgramming #DataScience #Pacman 0182
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Beautiful forest in Denmark. Nice Sunday everyone 👌 010
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeEmma L Underwood @geospatialemma.bsky.social · 12/05/2026New paper alert… 🌿🍄🦠 🌡️📖 Our work that explored potential changes in the distributional ranges of both a vulnerable, endemic tree and a newly identified fungal wilt pathogen under future climate change is now out in Landscape Ecology: PDF download: rdcu.be/fh02g Online: lnkd.in/esu-Y5a2 642
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553912981
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Funk Biogeography Seminar Series now live with @zurelllab.bsky.social 👌 @biogeography.bsky.social 010
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A man writing about a man doing man-things in a colonial man‘s world. Still, a captivating book on the emergence of biogeography as a discipline connecting the abiotic, geological realm with the distribution and evolution of species as perceived by Wallace during years of most-impressive fieldwork 120
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeCo-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026For every £1 directed toward protecting nature in 2023, £33 went toward destroying it. A landmark new @ipbes.net report sets out what businesses need to do, and the tools already exist to do it. We've written a short explainer on what it means in practice. buff.ly/nXdzzW7 097
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeNicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪 40551632
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeIPBES @ipbes.net · 01/03/2026Marine ecosystems, from coastal to deep sea, now show the influence of human actions, with coastal marine ecosystems showing both large historical losses of extent and condition as well as rapid ongoing declines. Let’s act to restore what’s been lost. 🌊🌱 Happy World #Seagrass Day! 04032
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeIPBES @ipbes.net · 27/02/2026Access the full media kit, including the Summary for Policymakers (SPM), multilingual press releases, and various multimedia assets at this link: bit.ly/IPBES12Mediabit.ly 042
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️ Find it here👇️ buff.ly/10TeNok @nhcooper123.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org 06443
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I just visited Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Walking in this pristine forest and experiencing the sheer diversity and interactions of plants, animals, fungi, lichens, the elements, in this ecosystem was almost spiritual. Protect life on Earth! 020
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeDBU Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt @umweltstiftung.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Die eingeschleppte Wollhandkrabbe wird zur Gefahr für heimische Flussökosysteme. Ein neues #DBUprojekt setzt auf Barrieren am Gewässerboden, um ihre Ausbreitung zu stoppen. Mehr dazu: www.dbu.de/projektbeisp... 151
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026We ( @mormoops.bsky.social @hannoseebens.bsky.social ) recently published a dataset on native and non-native ranges of invasive species doi.org/10.1038/s415... We are at #tibs2026 by @biogeography.bsky.social with a poster (number 1061) to present it! 110
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Poster session at #tibs2026 by @biogeography.bsky.social now! My talk tomorrow on forecasting spread of NIS. 181
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeAmrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHannanature.comHow to stop the revolving door of German academiaGermany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success. 319495
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025In winter 2012/13 I had a great time studying Fucus with @lomentaria.bsky.social for my Bachelor Thesis. Now I am here again, showing my child these beauties. 120
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeDr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 19/11/2025The latest research confirms AMOC weakening together with a tipping point that is getting closer and closer. Governments are starting to notice with Iceland the first to declare it a national security threat. drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake... #climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpointdrtomharris.substack.comAMOC weakening declared a national security threatIceland has declared the AMOC a national security threat and an existential risk in the coming decades, enabling its Government to prepare for worst-case scenarios. Should we be worried? 26227
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeMountain Research Initiative @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social · 18/11/2025🌿📢 Expert reviewers needed! IPBES has opened the external review of its assessment on monitoring biodiversity & nature’s contributions to people. 🐛 Review period: 5 Nov 2025–7 Jan 2026 🦋 Register: bit.ly/4pBchKH #Biodiversity #IPBES #SciencePolicy #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter 0127
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeVicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · 07/11/2025justiceandconservation.com/so/abPfKR0nB... A really well written blog post about the values people hold in relation to #grassland restoration. A key outcome of our Grassworks project, asking what leads to success in grassland restoration.justiceandconservation.comNew Blog PostTHREE WAYS OF LIVING WITH GRASSLANDS: WHAT A GERMAN “REAL-WORLD LAB” TEACHES US ABOUT RESTORATION 033
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeDGL - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie @dgl-ev.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The young modelers in ecology (YoMo), a specialist group of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social, are currently organizing an exciting workshop series about ecological modeling. www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... 082
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I will present my work with @hannoseebens.bsky.social and @mormoops.bsky.social on forecasting spread of non-native invasive species at this years @guardias.bsky.social online conference from 13th to 14th of November. 051
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeJean-Philippe Lessard @bugecology.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Too bad the article is behind a pay all, but the title says a lot. We don’t talk enough about mental health challenges in academia and most institutions don’t seem to have resources in places to support students and postdocs going through difficult times www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comPostdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchersThe Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds. 031
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeB-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 19/09/2025📢 A 90-day public review and comment period has been opened for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore Have your say until 16 December! 🔗 Learn more: www.tdwg.org/news/2025/pu... 021
Reposted by Philipp LaesekebiodiversityDS. @biodiversityds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025New publication! We mapped the global genetic diversity of marine forests of brown macroalgae. Using genetic data, machine learning & past climate projections (LGM, ~20k yrs ago), we identify hotspots of diversity that shape resilience & conservation priorities. 🌍 🌊 Link: doi.org/10.1038/s420... 093
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeScientists for Future 🇩🇪 (S4F) @de.scientists4future.org · 16/09/2025Am 20.09.2025 ist wieder Klimademo! Infos: fridaysforfuture.de/klimastreik/ 06536
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Now live: webinar on „Changing human behavior to secure conservation outcomes“ octogroup.orgoctogroup.orgOCTO: Open Communications for the Ocean | Accelerating Ocean Conservation 010
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeIPBES @ipbes.net · 11/09/2025Amid the biodiversity crisis, stories of resilience and recovery offer hope. From monarch butterflies migrating to the reintroduction of species such as the Arabian oryx, nature's recovery inspires. 🦋 #ConservationOptimism 🌏🧪 Discover more with @theguardian.com bit.lyHope, joy, absurdity and marvel: there is so much more to our world story than lossAmid environmental tragedy, a hidden world of curiosity and wonder still exists. And in this, says Natalie Kyriacou, we can find glimmers of hope 16017
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025„[…] human migration as biological invasions inherently constructs migrants as potential threats […] and conceptualises migration as a passive process where humans have no agency or free will.“ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comRaising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migrationA recent paper by Ahmed et al. (2025. “Parallels and Discrepancies between non-native Species Introductions and Human Migration.” Biological Reviews 100 (3): 1365–1395), published in Biological Rev... 000
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Registered for @biogeography.bsky.social conference 2026 and will give a talk about our (@mormoops.bsky.social & @hannoseebens.bsky.social) new model approach to forecast invasive species spread based on traffic gravity model and landscape resistance maps derived from open data. 🥳 031
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Submitted my abstract for GuardIAS virtual conference this November 💪 looking forward to taking part in this! 010
Reposted by Philipp LaesekeGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025#GEOMARJobs | We are hiring! 🌊 Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) “Algal heat adaptation” 🌊 Personalsachbearbeiter:in (m/w/d) 🌊 Projektmanager:in (m/w/d) 🔗 www.geomar.de/karriere-cam... 069
Philipp Laeseke @philaes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Submitted abstracts for the @biogeography.bsky.social conference in Aarhus in January 2026 💪 very much looking forward to it! 010