Markus P. Eichhorn

Markus Eichhorn

@markuseichhorn.bsky.social

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Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 14h

Welcome back! Are you coming to BES?

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 16h

In this world there are good people, bad people, and people who finish other people's jigsaws when they're not in the room.

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 17h

📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)

Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society

Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Reposted by Tatsuya Amano, Colin M. Beale, Markus P. Eichhorn

Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think the primary goal of applied ecological/conservation research is?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Diagnose threats and impacts
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Understand ecological processes
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Inform management or policy
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Something else (comment below)

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

M50 Held Up For 2 Hours This Morning Because Of This Dipshit
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/10/14/m50-held-up-for-2-hours-this-morning-because-of-this-dipshit/

M50 Held Up For 2 Hours This Morning Because Of This Dipshit

DUMBNUTS motorist Mark Finn has apologised to the thousands of men and women that were left stuck in gridlocked traffic on Dublin's M50 this morning following a collision that he was 100% to blame for, …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 6d

Don't waste money on expensive champagne. Just buy a cheap chardonnay and put it in your SodaStream. #TopTips

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Markus P. Eichhorn

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 6d

It’s awful. I’ve finally decided I need to demo how bad it is. In my intro lecture, I have several in class activities where I show the students chat GPT output and have them identify what’s wrong.

This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.

A shocking terrible attempt at diagramming the carbon cycle. There is a cloud labeled CO2. An arrow pointing from it to a volcano is labeled photosynthesis. An arrow from the cloud to a river is labeled respiration. An arrow from a tree points to the word diffusion floating in the water. A rock in the water has an arrow pointing to the word sedimentation. There is an arrow from sedimentation to the word limestone. There is an arrow from the word limestone to the volcano, labeled burial. There is another rock labeled rocks. The word decay floats by itself in the river.

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 6d

New plant genus discovered in the Andes. Sumacoa barbata is an arborescent Gesneriad endemic to Cordillera del Cóndor.
David Neill, co-author of the study and legendary figure in neotropical botany, passed away this year. Sumacoa represents both a scientific milestone and a tribute to his legacy.

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Laura Pereira, Markus P. Eichhorn

Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 7d

🚨If you are at #COP30, evacuate the Blue Zone immediately.

(from a source)

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 9d

"You have been nominated for an award but have not been short-listed". Thanks, that's a nice way of saying "Someone thought you deserved this but we don't". I'll take it.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 9d

Could it be an ivory-billed woodpecker?

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, John R. Hutchinson, Smith , and 3 more Brigitte Nerlich, John R. Hutchinson, Smith, Julia M. Wright, Zen Faulkes, Markus P. Eichhorn

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 11d

www.oglaf.com/buoyancy/

in case of maritime emergency escape crocodile will deploy. Please remove shoes and leave all luggage behind

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 14d

The Senior Editor team at @jappliedecology.bsky.social is growing. Come join us! Applications close 21st December.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...

Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society

Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 21 Dec 2025.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 15d

Aside from being cool research on remote-sensing of AGB across Canada, this is an amazing visualisation by Tompalski et al. (2025). Paper here: academic.oup.com/forestry/adv... 🌲🌏🧪

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 15d

Hat trick!

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 18d

After this weekend I'll be happy to never see another unicorn for as long as I live.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

I'd be glad to never hear all the other stories told again. They were such a fixture of meetings and conferences for so many years that I'd prefer we found someone better to talk about.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

This is literally the only Jim Watson Story I've heard that wasn't lewd, drunken or shockingly offensive. Probably because he's hardly in it.

James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 20d

I don’t have a particularly good James Watson story, but I found it amusing at the time. He visited the Irish National Diagnostics Centre, where I worked in 1995. The centre prepared a visitors book at the entrance and after giving a lecture in the university, Watson came to the research centre 1/2

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 20d

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

This isn't a partisan point either. It's that the political system doesn't allow a shutdown to happen. The civil service just carries on until government decides how it should change.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

Amid any talk of US exceptionalism we should include that government shutdowns don't happen in other countries. Political parties don't crash their societies to make a point.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

It's as if we learnt nothing from the 90s.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations, but as your bio points out, you've been a college prof for 30 years. Junior colleagues aren't playing the same game that we were.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

Ant people are fun people. Is that Yvette? I'm very jealous.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

Why does this keep happening to me.

Headshots from Squid Game. Top panel, happy and optimistic: "We invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript". Lower panel, drawn and jaded: "Your manuscript has been rejected by a new set of reviewers."

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

Things I wish I'd known as a junior academic #37

Meme based on split scene from one of the Star Wars films. I don't know which one. Top panel: "If I'm a great teacher I'll be sure to land a faculty position". Lower panel "That's not how higher education works".

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

I always love it in a talk when someone says "I didn't know the answer to this so I asked ChatGPT" because it means I can take a nap.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

How does not teaching languages help students develop a 'global mindset' as set out in @uniofnottingham.bsky.social's Global Engagement strategy?

Home - The University of Nottingham

www.nottingham.ac.uk

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

Only a few years ago @uniofnottingham.bsky.social liked to call themselves "Britain's global university". What kind of global institution stops teaching languages?

Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 21d

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'

Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

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