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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 1h

🍀Want to know how to build your career in the environmental and conservation sector?

Green Careers Conference 2025, hosted by British Ecological Society at Linnean Society on November 5, 2025.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 1h

Is it possible to combine text, reproducible code, and reproducible results (tables or figures) all into one document? 📑 Find out how with the LMU Open Science Center tutorial about Quarto.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Literate Programming with Quarto 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

1. Welcome to the Quarto Workshop – Introduction to Quarto

lmu-osc.github.io

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Sarah Hasnain @sarahhasnain.bsky.social · 2d

@mphebert.bsky.social, Sierra Cagle, Celia Symons, & I are co-hosting a session at ASLO-SIL 2026. If you work with imaging, -omics or (AI-based) pipelines, please consider submitting an abstract!

SS031: Emerging ideas and technologies transforming aquatic trait-based ecology @aslo.org

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AQUACOSM ECR Network @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing a workshop that may be of interest to you all, put on by the @gleonetwork.bsky.social GLEON Student Association! Register here: forms.gle/tbjJALRfkoeF...

GLEON GSA Limnoseries: Workshops: Sign-up for October 14th 15h00-17h UTC

Proposal Writing: Strategies for Successful Strategies for Grant Writing by Thomas Shannon

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d

"A coalition of willing states can, and should, quickly launch an alternative negotiating process for the global plastics treaty"

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty
Dauvergne+
doi.org/10.1126/science.aec1353

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty

Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...

doi.org

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Sep 5

Seasonal variation in community structure and elevational distributions of mammals and birds in the Central Himalayas vist.ly/45qtx #Community #Composition #Network

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Technische Universität München @tum.de · Sep 4

Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

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Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM

Six further researchers at TUM are to receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grants for their projects.

go.tum.de

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Aug 29

Making Your Research Free May Cost You
* With federal funding exceptionally unreliable, scientists say they are stressed about spending thousands of grant dollars on unexpected and questionable open-access charges.
By @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Making Your Research Free May Cost You

Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.

www.chronicle.com

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Aug 28

Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement.

It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!

Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith | TGS 192

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · Aug 28

This looks interesting. NASA is looking for volunteers to track the Artemis II mission. 🔭 🧪 www.nasa.gov/humans-in-sp...

NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Artemis II Mission - NASA

NASA seeks volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the Moon and back to Earth.

www.nasa.gov

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Aug 28

🏅 Know an outstanding individual, a small team of researchers, or an institution that would be a strong candidate for the #EinsteinFoundationAward?
▶️ You can now recommend them at any time throughout the year: award.einsteinfoundation.de/recommend-a-...

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

🥳 Meet Dr. Zsófia Horv�¡th <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:42g5hzqo3fvlvpqxbqedl3os" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@zsofiahorvath.bsky.social , our new subject editor from Budapest, Hungary Get to know her and her research by reading her interview here: vist.ly/44s89

Welcome Zsófia Horváth - New SE | Oikos Journal

www.oikosjournal.org

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Aug 22

Just met the world's oldest pot plant. Taken from South Africa in 1773, it's almost nine times my age!

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · Aug 14

Life these days.

Three matryoshka dolls called “meeting, pre-alignment meeting, follow up meeting”. The third is open to show a fourth one called “quick sync”.

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Bonus acantharian today! These and radiolarians will become more abundant as summer ends and fall rolls in. I'm here for it! #starofthesea #protistsonsky #marinelife

A microscope image of a small acantharian from a plankton tow at the Bigelow dock today. It has a strontium sulfate skeleton.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 1

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 30

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals

The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · Jul 30

In a great team effort of modelers, observational biologists and experimental biologists, we reviewed the role of zooplankton DVM in carbon export, indicating the remaining issues, and potential solutions and steps forward
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured | Annual Reviews

Zooplankton diel vertical migration (DVM) is a globally ubiquitous phenomenon and a critical component of the ocean's biological pump. During DVM, zooplankton metabolism leads to carbon and nutri...

www.annualreviews.org

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David Zelený @zdealveindy.bsky.social · Jul 21

Want to do vegetation ecology in Taiwan? I am still searching for postdocs, so if interested, check the ad below and apply!

We focus on ecological drivers of cloud & monsoon forests in mountains and how to explain them using plant functional traits.

davidzeleny.net/veglab/

David Zelený @zdealveindy.bsky.social · Jul 11

I am searching for 1-2 postdocs to join our research team at the Vegetation Ecology Lab, IEEB, National Taiwan University, from August 2025 for one to three years.

Details: davidzeleny.net/veglab/lib/e...

davidzeleny.net/veglab

#postdocjobs #vegetation #TaiwanIsaCountry

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Sarah Hasnain @sarahhasnain.bsky.social · Jul 15

@aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social This might be relevant

Changing Ocean Biological Systems working group @scor-cobs.bsky.social · Jul 15

We will be teaching two free training courses at the BECoME-2025 conference in Hong Kong next month🌊

Course 1: Designing Multiple-Driver Experiments
Course 2: Data Analysis for Multiple-Driver Experiments

Join us! Apply through the conference website:
www.become2025.com/registration

Training Course 1: Designing Multiple-Driver Experiments

BECoMe-2025 and SCOR’s Changing Ocean Biological Systems infrastructure group are hosting a free training course for researchers interested in learning how to design and carry out multiple-driver (i.e., multiple stressor) experiments that measure responses in microbes, plants, or animals. This training course will guide participants in using the MEDDLE resources to:

• Define a relevant research question
• Identify key drivers, biological traits, and responses
• Select an appropriate experimental design
• Develop a statistical analysis plan

Training Course Details

Time &Date: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, 18 August 2025 (Monday)
Location: City University of Hong Kong
Participant Limit: 24 researchers (first-come, first-served)
Eligibility: Participants should have experience in designing and conducting single-driver experiments that study biotic responses (e.g. marine warming, ocean acidification).

Conveners: Christina McGraw, Sam Dupont, Sinéad Collins, Mridul K. Thomas, Peter Dillingham

Training Course 2: Data Analysis for Multiple-Driver Experiments

Researchers work hard to conduct interesting and challenging multi-driver experiments, but are often unaware of how best to analyse their data to take maximum advantage of these experiments. In this training course, participants will:

• Learn some of the common statistical challenges that appear in multi-driver experiments and how to solve them
• Work through an example R vignette for a multi-driver experiment
• Simulate an example dataset based on a proposed experiment
• Perform an appropriate analysis and visualise and interpret its output using “literate programming” via R markdown

Training Course Details

Time &Date: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm, 22 August 2025 (Friday)
Location: City University of Hong Kong
Participant Limit: 12 researchers (first-come, first-served)
Eligibility: Attendance at Training Course 1 (Designing Multiple-Driver Experiments) is required, as Training Course 2 builds directly on the concepts developed in the first training course. Participants should have experience with R and good knowledge of regression. Strong Python skills may also be considered, but Training Course 2 will be conducted using R.

Conveners: Peter Dillingham, Mridul K. Thomas, Sinéad Collins, Christina McGraw

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Changing Ocean Biological Systems working group @scor-cobs.bsky.social · Jul 15

We will be teaching two free training courses at the BECoME-2025 conference in Hong Kong next month🌊

Course 1: Designing Multiple-Driver Experiments
Course 2: Data Analysis for Multiple-Driver Experiments

Join us! Apply through the conference website:
www.become2025.com/registration

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