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Joshua Lynn
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I'm an ecologist at The University of Manchester and subject editor at Ecological Monographs and Nordic Journal of Botany. I mostly study plants, how they're distributed, what determines their traits, and how they interact with other organisms.
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🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫

The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)

Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH

@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I saw that this MacArthur and Levins classic was hurting in the Altmetrics, so I thought I should bluesky it.

The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species | The American Naturalist: Vol 101, No 921 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species | The American Naturalist: Vol 101, No 921
1. There is a limit to the similarity (and hence to the number) of competing species which can coexist. The total number of species is proportional to the total range of the environment divided by the...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was recently on this cool youtube series that focuses on conservation across different aspects of society (e.g., management, academia, etc.) called Conservation Conversations. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXM...
Conservation Conversation - Dr Josh Lynn
YouTube video by Balsam Bashing
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October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.

Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

@vvandvik.bsky.social
PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q
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July 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If you squint, you can see Manchester!
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage?

We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd!

Please RT or forward!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
May 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Adversarial collaboration" is a great idea. There are a few hypotheses I've worked on that could benefit from this form of collaboration.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come
Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.
www.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I like that @britishecologicalsociety.org is creative with their "page not found" error message. Are they working with a Hutchinsonian, Grinnellian, or Eltonian niche concept?
May 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I am honoured to be given platform to present our work on FOSSILPOL!🫶
Come join the seminar(!) but The slides and recording will be publicly available😉
Also checkout the website of the project 🔗https://bit.ly/FOSSILPOL!
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️27th March 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️

Next week we will hear from Dr Ondřej Mottl from Charles University, on “FOSSILPOL: the workflow to process global palaeoecological data of fossil pollen for vegetation-based macroecological synthesis”

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
March 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Going to @nordicoikos.bsky.social #OikosNorway2025? We have great signup for our #workshop on how & why #ecologists could & should engage in #science-policy and #scicom, but can fit more, so pls consider joining us!
@ipbes.net @vkm.no #artsdatabanken nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/oikos-...
Workshops ⇽ Oikos Norway 2025 | Nordic Society Oikos
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March 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
@mikekaspari.bsky.social and Ellen Welti recently wrote an excellent piece on how rising carbon dioxide and other global changes are driving plants to become larger and more carbon-rich at the expense of their relative nutrient content - coined Nutrient Dilution (ND). doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Redirecting
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Seeking a leader to support Nature-Based Solutions. Key research areas: ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change (past/present), sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation; ecosystem resilience; and the role of biotic interactions in biogeochemical cycles.
February 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!
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February 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch [email protected]
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I went to this back in 2019 in Dublin. Great opportunity!
New Phytologist next generation scientists: a unique meeting dedicated to early career researchers in the plant sciences

Apply for your chance to join us in Birmingham, UK this July.

Applications close on 27 January!
👉 https://www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/2025

#npnextgen #PlantScience
January 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in applied ecology to devellop #climate and #nature budgeting approaches to support knowledge-based decision-making a the municipailty level. 🧪🗺️🌿🍄🐜 @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...
Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125) | Universitetet i Bergen
Stillingstittel: Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: fredag 31. januar 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
January 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM