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Jeffrey Harvey

@Jeffrey75327765

Senior scientist at Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Professor at VU, conservationist, nature lover. Adore spiders, parasitoids, birds, and my dog Charlie.

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I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year, despite the darkness that prevails in the world today. I have a lot planned for this year, my last before official retirement.

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Just had an article written in New Scientist about some of my research on sibling cannibalism in false widow spiders:
newscientist.com/article/238648…

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Jeffrey Harvey Gerald Kutney - 🌏🔥#ClimateBrawl🔥🌍 “Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”

- Umberto Eco

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Meanwhile, as I can see, despite half of the planet literally frying in July, the sceptics and deniers are doubling down with their anti-scientific rhetoric. Pitiful. And dangerous.

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I have been away from Twitter for a couple of months. I was recently in Cyprus, where I am studying seasonal microclimatic effects on several arthropod species. While I was there it hit 45C. Ground-dwelling organisms were cooking. I measured 89.1C on bare soil at one location.

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Two new papers attached below! One of sex-related responses in spiders to extreme temperatures, and one on soil nematodes, fungi and bacteria in Dorset wild cabbage populations.

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Many academics (including myself) are writing papers about how policy needs to change to address the climate and/or ecological emergencies

But do any of us actually believe these studies will affect policy making? Are we just howling at the moon?

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Using data from 1000s of marine and terrestrial species and climate projections up to 2100, Alex Pigot et al. predict that exposure to novel thermal conditions will start slowly, then spread abruptly across the geographical range of most species

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I have been off Twitter for many weeks due to a heavy work load. I am rearing literally thousands of spiders! Especially Steatoda paykulliana, Latrodectus geometricus, Zoropsis spinimana and (soon) Steatoda nobilis. Life is really good.

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iDiv Biodiversity Research & Universität Jena hiring a Full Professor

'Biodiversity in the Anthropocene'

Unique chance to work at one of the nicest Biodiversity research centres globally in a very nice city Stadt Leipzig

iDiv is
➡️highly international
➡️ full of amazing colleagues
➡️ family friendly
👇

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Stéphane Hacquard(@hacquard_st) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hello world! Several -funded and positions are available in my group MPIPZ Cologne to study the microbiota-root-shoot axis in plant health and disease. Join the MICROBIOSIS team here: jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/fab… Deadline: May 9th. . Please RT/share 🙏

Hello world! Several #ERC-funded #PhD and #postdoc positions are available in my group @mpipz_cologne to study the microbiota-root-shoot axis in plant health and disease. Join the MICROBIOSIS team here: jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/fab… Deadline: May 9th. #PlantSciJobs. Please RT/share 🙏
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Certain environmental conditions may constrain parasites more than their hosts, thereby providing an environmental refuge from disease. See our newest work in Ecology doi.org/10.1002/ecy.40…

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New info about Priyanga’s ongoing saga. She’d like this to be spread far and wide.

nature.com/articles/d4158…

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Madhav (Maddy) Thakur(@MadhavPT1984) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The strength of plant-soil feedback changes with plant growth. Our new paper led by Katja Steinauer in Plant Cell & Environment shows that this is most likely due to shifts in root exudate richness and shifts in rhizosphere microbiomes as a plant grows. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The strength of plant-soil feedback changes with plant growth. Our new paper led by Katja Steinauer in @PlantCellEnvir shows that this is most likely due to shifts in root exudate richness and shifts in rhizosphere microbiomes as a plant grows. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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Can buffer the effects of using thermal tolerance plasticity?🐞🐝🦗
Excited to announce our publication in Nature Communications!
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Thanks to my collaborators Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social @Patrice_Science Applied Physiological Ecology (APE) Lab., photo credit to Sam England (1/11)

Can #insects buffer the effects of #climatechange using thermal tolerance plasticity?🐞🐝🦗 Excited to announce our publication in @NatureComms! nature.com/articles/s4146… Thanks to my collaborators @englishse @Patrice_Science @Lab_APE, photo credit to @SamJakeEngland (1/11)
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I have 6 spiders in the lab now! Growing cultures of Zoropsis spinimana, Latrodectus geometricus and Steatoda paykulliana. Lots of experiments planned on critical thermal tolerance and upper thermal reproductive limits.

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