👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬CALL FOR COLLABORATION👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬 We are looking for Global South researchers who have vegetation (plot level) data! 🌍 Join sPlot and become part of a global network of scientists unraveling patterns in plant biodiversity! 🌼🌴🌿☀️🌦️🌱☘️🌾 Contribution deadline: end of October

Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels. I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow. Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’ Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path. Strap in. It’s a 🧵 1/so many

Job re-opening! #PostDoc research #coordinator for our gorgeous Research Unit in 🇪🇨🌎🌴. You have a PhD in ecology? ¿Hablas español? Apply or ➡️RT. reassembly.de/the-team/job-a…

We are hiring a researcher in invertebrate chemical ecology (permanent position). Interested to work on the behavior of agricultural pests or disease vectors? DM for details. Please RT. #JobAlert #research

#vacature: We zijn NL Inst of Ecology op zoek naar een enthousiaste #bodemecoloog (in de dop) voor een #PhD onderzoek naar de rol van #bodemleven bij #ecosysteemherstel in bossen! ism Wim van der Putten, Jan den Ouden Wageningen U&R en NP De Hoge Veluwe Zie: shorturl.at/dr026 sluiting 20/11

📢 Just released: 🇪🇺 Red List of insect taxonomists You read it right! We are not only losing 40% of our 🐜🪲 insects, but also our capacity to study & categorize them This affects policies on conservation, #ClimateChange, trade & more: op.europa.eu/s/xinQ #EUBiodiversity

Today I was awarded the NEV Dissertation prize at the yearly Dutch Entomology day #entomologendag. 🥳🥳 What a great day of meeting up with fellow insect fanatics 🪲🐛

Applications for this rare permanent lectureship/senior lectureship in plant ecology close on 29th January. Don’t miss out. Open to all nationalities. Come work and teach with us in Tassie! #avademicjobs #ecology #plantscience careers.utas.edu.au/ci/en/job/4982…

Do you want to try some old bean varieties and help science while doing it? join the citizen science project INCREASE! 🫘

Two year postdoc available on designing 'precision pollination systems' – with SLU 🇸🇪 team & @IsaacsLab Welcome with applications to February 28th! See: bit.ly/3XG9wZX 🐝

Postdoc job in our lab (19 months, deadline 3.4., start date asap) We are looking for someone to work on subsoil fungi, partly with existing data, existing samples. Must have experience with manuscript writing, bioinformatics of HT-sequencing data (ideally with fungi).

Good news! My article received enough downloads to be a #topdownloadedarticle in New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.17…

Zoek je een stage met veel #veldwerk en wil je bijdragen aan een #duurzame #bodem? Meld je dan nu aan bij NL Inst of Ecology! 👇 cutt.ly/M7Rpz9G @TerrEcol_NIOO

The last chapter of my PhD is now published in Journal of Pest Science: read all about strip cropping and D. radicum! A great collaboration with Luuk Croijmans, Karthick Gajendiran, Rieta Gols, @Dirk_v_A, Joop van Loon, @DickeMarcel and Erik Poelman rdcu.be/dcdZb

Please RT: Are you excited to develop your career at the frontier of plant-microbe interactions research? The pmi@uu team UU_Plants has job openings for an Assistant Professor, a Research Technician, and a PhD candidate! Apply via: lnkd.in/eJsRbckM. CropXR

Ecology is complicated. An ant from Mauritius has spread through Africa. In Kenya it disrupted a mutualism between native ants and acacia trees that led to increased herbivory by elephants and ultimately a shift in lion prey species from zebra to buffalo. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The World According to Bees

⚠️ Research vlog alert ⚠️ Last summer, we used homemade camera traps to identify predators of Halyomorpha halys eggs in Dutch orchards. The results were quite a surprise (Spoiler: katydids are awesome! 🦗) youtu.be/TBX1_rFWEXA?si…