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Christian Schöb

@schob.bsky.social
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Plant community ecologist with particular interests in crops. Head of the Agricultural Ecology group at IICG-URJC and co-founder of Agroecology Solutions

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Pierre Hohmann @bonaplanta.eu · 16/07/2026
1/2 How can #CropWildRelatives help build more resilient and sustainable food systems? The new video of our #COUSINproject, coordinated by @schob.bsky.social shows 2.5 years of progress across Europe - conserving and using wild diversity to develop crops better adapted to climate change.
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📰Christian Schöb, IICG researcher, is co-author of the new article "Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests", published in Science Advances @science.org. 👀Read it here👇 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @schob.bsky.social
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Plant diversity modifies multi-trophic interactions in croplands, grasslands and forests
Plant diversity differentially affects trophic interactions across ecosystems.
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Christian Schöb, investigador y subdirector del IICG-URJC, ha colaborado en un estudio global que ha sido publicado en la prestigiosa revista Science Advances hace un par de semanas. 👉🏻 Lee la noticia completa: iicg-urjc.es/el-investiga...
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Christian Schöb, investigador y subdirector del Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (IICG-URJC), ha colaborado en un estudio global sobre cómo la diversidad v...
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social, investigador del IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social, participará el próximo 9 de septiembre en el Clustering Event de proyectos europeos relacionados con agricultura y sostenibilidad que se celebrará en la sesión precongreso del 194 EAAE - ...
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🌱 Christian Schöb, researcher at IICG-URJC, will participate as an invited speaker at Session 4.2. “More than simple: increasing tree and shrub complexity in agroforestry” at the 8th European Agroforestry Conference 2026, on Thursday, June 23, 2:00 p.m. at the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland 👇
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📢 From 25 to 27 May, the third General Assembly of the EU funded project COUSIN – Crop Wild Relatives utilisation and conservation for sustainable agriculture (@cousinproject.bsky.social ) took place in Scandicci (Italy). Project led by @schob.bsky.social , researcher at the IICG-URJC.👇
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
🎥Christian Schöb y Daniel Hagos, miembros del IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social, y otros miembros del equipo, en el programa La Besana Verde de Canal Extremadura @cextremadura.bsky.social, hablando sobre su trabajo en la Estación Experimental Aprisco de Las Corchuelas,... 👇
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PLOS One @plosone.org · 05/05/2026
A new study by Kammer, @schob.bsky.social and colleagues shows C₃ plants acclimated to ambient (~40 Pa) or reduced (~30 Pa) CO₂ still reduce stomatal frequency as CO₂ rises, with lower-CO₂ plants having smaller apertures, highlighting consistent yet environment-sensitive responses. plos.io/4tQQUY2
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Stomatal responses of differently CO2-acclimated plants to natural and experimental CO2 gradients
Stomata, the microscopic pores in the epidermis of plant leaves, facilitate gas exchange between the leaf interior and the external environment and thus play a pivotal role in the global carbon,…
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🌱 El pasado jueves, 6 de noviembre, Christian Schöb (@schob.bsky.social ) y José María Iriondo (@txiriondo.bsky.social ), investigadores del IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social , participaron en la Jornada "Extremadura: Parientes silvestres de los cultivos, clave para la agricultura del futuro"... 👇
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Crop wild relatives for climate change-resilient crops project (COUSIN), an internacional (EU Horizon Europe) project lead by Christian Schöb ( @schob.bsky.social  ), IICG researcher has the following latest publications: 🔹COUSIN is now on the EU CAP Network: n9.cl/g3ufy 👇Read more
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨Today starts the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ organised by #CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Projects 👨‍🔬@schob.bsky.social , researcher at the #IICG, will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🚨#CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Proyects welcome guests from all over the world for the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ 🗣️@schob.bsky.social of the #IICG will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
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Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future! ➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i
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Climate change: Children suffer the most
Millions of children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy ...
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🎉Congratulations to the Aprisco Experimental Station!🎉 🙌It has been accepted in the category ‘Research Infrastructures’ as a full member of the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. @schob.bsky.social
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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr Pierre Mariotte @pierremariotte.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our work on the #AgroForageTreeProject 🌳🍃🐄 @snsf-ch.bsky.social
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A partir del minuto 24:30, Elisa Pizarro explica el trabajo con la conservación de parientes silvestres de los cultivos y el #CropDiversityExperiment, de @schob.bsky.social ¡No te lo pierdas! 👇🏽
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La vuelta a la España digital - Episodio 9: Agromatch. Extremadura
Emisión del programa La vuelta a la España digital titulado Agromatch. Extremadura. Todos los contenidos de TVE los tienes aquí, en RTVE Play
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 deadline: september 2025 👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Oferta de #trabajo para hacer muestreos de #POLINIZADORES en Madrid. El contrato de mayo a octubre, 20 h semanales y 800 euros mensuales. Posibilidad de hacer el #TFM asociado. Seguro que @abejassilvestres.bsky.social o @buzzy-bee.bsky.social conocen interesados. Link en el siguiente post:
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Können geografische Herkunftsbezeichnungen (z.B. AOC) genutzt werden um den Anbau pilzwiderstandsfähiger Rebsorten attraktiver zu machen und Pflanzenschutzmitteleinsatz zu reduzieren? Agrarpolitik-Blog, lead Lucca Zachmann agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/03/13/d... Paper doi.org/10.1002/aepp...
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination 📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments tinyurl.com/mr2mkjrz
Capitula of the 15 species of summer-flowering Asteraceae, tribe Cardueae, from the southern Iberian Peninsula considered in this study. In parentheses following species names are average dry mass of individual capitula, and abbreviations for the study site(s) where each species was investigated (SC, Sierra de Cazorla; SM, Sierra Morena; LG, lowlands of Guadalquivir River valley): 1, Carduus granatensis (2.68 g, SC); 2, Carlina gummifera (6.20 g, LG); 3, Carlina hispanica (0.52 g, SC, SM); 4, Carlina racemosa (0.26 g, SC, SM); 5, Carlina vulgaris (0.54 g, SC); 6, Carthamus lanatus (0.70 g, SC); 7, Centaurea calcitrapa (0.18 g, SC); 8, Centaurea ornata (0.45 g, SM); 9, Cirsium acaule (0.33 g, SC); 10, Cirsium odontolepis (5.98 g, SC); 11, Cirsium pyrenaicum (0.11 g, SC); 12, Cirsium vulgare (1.07 g, SC); 13, Mantisalca salmantica (0.10 g, SC); 14, Picnomon acarna (0.29 g, SC); 15, Ptilostemon hispanicus (1.23 g, SC). Species are depicted at different scales, black bar = 10 mm
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World Food System Center, ETH Zurich @ethzwfsc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Applications Open for Our Summer School Until 31 March 2025! 🚀 📅 Dates: 4 - 16 August 2025 📍 Base Location: ETH PBLabs 🌿 Field Trips & Excursions 📚 Case Studies 🤝 Discussions with Stakeholders Read more: bit.ly/3EjJFmE #SustainableFoodSystems #SummerSchool #ETHZurich @usyseth.bsky.social
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Summer Schools
The call for applications for the 2025 Summer School
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📖Adrián Escudero, director del IICG, acaba de publicar un nuevo libro en @tundraediciones.bsky.social "Biodiversidad. Entre la urgencia por frenar su pérdida y su complejidad". ⚠️Puedes pedirlo ya en preventa👇
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Bienvenido a Tundra Ediciones
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #trabajo, de #gestordeproyectos y de #técnicosdecampo para experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO. ℹ️Más información👉christian.schob@urjc.es 🚨Inscríbete👉 www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...
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Convocatorias con cargo a proyectos - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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Biodiversos URJC @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
El #biodiverso @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #TRABAJO, 1 como gestor del proyecto #COUSIN a tiempo parcial y 2 de #TécnicoDeCampo para los experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO en Monfragüe. Info: christian.schob@urjc.es Inscripciones: www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...
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louisad3.bsky.social @louisad3.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Great fun hunting crop wild relatives in Taormina at the first annual meeting of the EU #COUSIN project in Sicily.
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
‚Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms’ Relevant new paper by Wan et al. in Nature Communications „…synthesis shows that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have broad-scale detrimental effects on all groups of non-target organisms tested.…“ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ole Seehausen @oleseehausen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
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Laura R. @lauratheexplorer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Totally blown away by today's agroecology meeting that multi- species ant interactions work as excellent pest control for coffee too. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Interactions between seed‐dispersing ant species affect plant community composition in field mesocosms
There is recent appreciation that interactions among mutualist species within functional guilds influence interactions with partner species in generalized mutualisms. Understanding the complexities o....
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Sustainable Agroecosystems Group, ETH Zürich @saegroupethz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sharing a great story on the power of transdisciplinary collaboration 🤝 🏫 The #RUNRES team reports on a successful innovation for improving sanitation systems in South African. 🎥 Check how this transformative journey for the students of Julukandoda Primary School : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVG...
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Transforming Lives: Sustainable Sanitation at Julukandoda Primary School - RUNRES project 🌍💧🌱
YouTube video by SAE ETH Zürich
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
👀Después de la pausa, continuamos con la Mesa redonda sobre Experiencias en el Panel LS8 "Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution", moderada por @schob.bsky.social. Participan @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social, @annatraveset.bsky.social, José M. Gómez y Martí March.
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🎉El próximo lunes tendrá lugar la Jornada Informativa sobre las ERC Grants. Vendrán @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social , Ana Traveset, José María Gómez y Martí March, componentes de la mesa redonda "Experiencias Panel LS8 -Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution- ERC", moderada por @schob.bsky.social
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Peter Dietrich @drpeterdietrich.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’ As Joan Baez put it, "action is the antidote to despair"
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I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’
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Maud Tenaillon @maudtenaillon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our review on the milpa is out, a multicropping system serving agroecology comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Farmers are abandoning land worldwide. In Europe, for example, 120 million hectares have been left fallow since 1990. What does and what should happen to it? Insightful new article in Science www.science.org/content/arti...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Kentaro K. Shimizu @kkshimizu1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A new open postdoc position in population genomics! Reposting appreciated. Demography of human beings and crop plants. Attached is a group picture during a lab retreat in Lichtenstein. Job description: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
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Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year to my colleagues from the COUSIN consortium and our followers. I am looking forward to the second year of research and innovation with crop wild relatives for a sustainable agriculture with all of you. #cwr @ec.europa.eu @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social
on-farm trial of a barley population stemming from a cross between a modern cultivar and Hordeum spontaneum, a wild relative of barley. The population was provided by FIBL and the field trial conducted by APRISCO.
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Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Public-private collaboration to investigate the benefits of mixture ecotypes for cereal-legume mixtures, with @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Seeds Adapted to Mixed Cropping Increase Yield and Drought Resistance of Cereal–Legume Mixtures
Cropland diversification through mixed cropping has the potential of achieving a more sustainable agriculture while securing food production. This is of special relevance with climate change and the ...
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I published this figure in 2017 showing how herbicide use has increased in maize, soybean, cotton, rice and wheat from 1990 to 2015. www.nature.com/articles/nco...
Figure showing the steady increase in herbicide use intensity in U.S. crops. Nearly all crops show a steady, linear increase except soybean, which decreased until around 2006, then increased until the end of the study (around 2015).
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Joachim Claudet @joachimclaudet.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Scientists as political advocates "[...] as more and more scientists come under political attack, they are realizing that we cannot rely on nonscientists to be the primary advocates for the necessity, value, and power of scientific knowledge and methods." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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Christian Schöb @schob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The PLANTCOM network led by Fabrice Roux @inrae-france.bsky.social met for two days in Toulouse to talk through latest research on the genetics and a mechanistic understanding of plant-plant interactions. I was happy to contribute with a talk on coadaptation of plants in #intercropping.
Fifth meeting of the international PLANTCOM network The international PLANTCOM network for ecologically relevant genetics of plant-plant interactions
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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Elena Velado-Alonso @velado.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This conference is being organised with effort & care 💜💚 Among all of topics -diversity, ecology, education-, we will discuss how to Ensure the ecological effectiveness of the EU Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 in a session with Mario Díaz, Sonia Roig and myself. 📩 Send your abstract!
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