Graduating in conservation and want to leave academia? Tough luck. Universities do a terrible job telling us about alternative careers. Luckily, you don't rely on them. Here are 6 resources that will help you find a job in conservation or sustainability 🧵 :

This paper is a first global attempt to see how well protected areas cover insect species. PAs do not adequately cover the 89K species in the study. And, we need more information on the occupancy of the 5.5 million species that are out there.

It is still time to apply (until 15th Feb) for the two 4-year PhD positions in Prague FŽP ČZU v Praze. Remote sensing, biodiversity, macroecology & statistics. Fully ERC-funded, international team, great city. Starting on 1 Oct 2023. Details and instructions: petrkeil.github.io/news/2023/01/1…

Any suggestions for ag econ/technology journals that *actually* follow their pre-print policies? V interesting paper (with a pre-print) needs to find good home without triggering a desk rejection... because of a pre-print 🙄

Are you interested in a 3 months research stay at ZEF? If you are a researcher in Latin America on topics regarding sustainability, environmental peace, and development and you have a Doctorate degree we wait for your application! 📤 More info here➡️dssp-colombia.org/es/investigaci…

How does international trade in #agricultural & #forest products affect #biodiversity? #CLEVER investigates this question, particularly for animal feed, energy crops, tropical timber and aquacultures. Check out our website 🔗clever-project.eu & follow us for more updates!

🚨 New pre-print! 🚨 I know lots of right-wing people in 🇧🇷 that would argue "Bolsonaro does say a lot of 💩 but that doesnt matter". Well, here we show that political discourse does matter and can have serious implications for the environment.

Always leave the ipbes #NexusAssessment mtgs so inspired and invigorated to do my job and my research 💚 Thank you Kruger National Park what a enourmous privilege to be here!

I'll be soon advertising 2 PhD positions to work with me on "bioeconomic transformations of agrifood systems" (sabio-project.org). Cant officially publish the call yet, but if u know someone who might be interested in the position/topic, please tell them to get in touch!

Oportunidad para hacer doctorado sobre temas en bioeconomía🌿🌽🫘⚡️ en Suramérica (basado en Alemania) No que haya sesgo, pero el supervisor va recomendado💯

Call to researchers working with anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change! Join us at the upcoming GfÖ Meeting (12-16 Sep 2023). Apply for the session “Drivers of Biodiversity Change” organized by Kimberly Thompson and me. Deadline for abstract submission: May 15 #idiv

Lovely iDiv Biodiversity Research alum reunion in Nairobi this week for some cross-assessment capacity building 💚 ipbes

Fellow fellows 💚💚💚

2 more weeks until the deadline to apply! 2 PhD positions on #BioEconomy to work with me at ZEF / Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Know someone who might me interested? Pls share & RT 👇 #teamcounterfactual European Association of Agricultural Economists Int. Association of Agricultural Economists GLP @ICABR2023 Bioeconomy Hohenheim Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica 🇧🇷 IAMO

Mainstream story in biodv conservation is there’s not enough funding, & we can’t expect much more from states so we must rapidly upscale private finance & hope it delivers effective conservation. Our take: it’s not that simple. Our new paper NatureEcoEvo nature.com/articles/s4155…

🚨Job alert! IIASA is looking for a motivated researcher to work on international trade & sustainable development. On the menu: modelling of trade & trade policies within ag, forestry, bioenergy and aquaculture sectors with the GLOBIOM model iiasa.ac.at/employment/job…

The 1st paper of my research group is finally out in #EnergyPolicy! Here @pmacclay (ZEF) used data from 98 countries from 2000-2020 to analyze the effect of renewable energy (RE) auctions on countries' energy matrix. See the highlights in the 🧵👇1/5 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We will all be more powerful and effective when female leaders are supported to be equitable participants in the diverse and holistic scientific organizations of the future, say Alison Bentley and @rach_garr nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very excited to share our *new preprint* led by Sven Wunder reviewing biodiversity credits and lessons that need to be learned from other economic instruments for funding biodiversity conservation osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Andrea Pacheco, #CLEVER researcher at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, was recently in Kathmandu, Nepal participating as an author of the upcoming Nexus Assessment of ipbes, which synthesizes “the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate” ➡ bit.ly/49plIEv