Maximilian Hanusch
@mhanusch.bsky.social
Ecologist | loves Mosses and Mountains | Research on ecosystem dynamics |
PostDoc @chemodiversity.bsky.social
maximilianhanusch.github.io
PostDoc @chemodiversity.bsky.social
maximilianhanusch.github.io
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Maximilian Hanusch
@mhanusch.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Hello Bluesky! 🌱 I’m a nature-loving ecologist with a soft spot for alpine plants. Join me for glimpses of their beauty! Happy to reconnect with old friends from Twitter and welcome new ones to share this journey. 🌿 #ecology #nature #alpinePlants
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#PhD position!
I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).
Join our team - please RT!
Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9
#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).
Join our team - please RT!
Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9
#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#PhD position!
I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).
Join our team - please RT!
Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9
#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany).
Join our team - please RT!
Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9
#Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring
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#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Is this a thing? hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Is this a thing? hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
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For those of you interested in plant chemical diversity, I highly recommend our latest preprint, led by Humay Newrzella. Her experimental efforts show the strong localized chemical responses to herbivory in Tanacetum. Great work with the wonderful @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social team
Plant-Insect-interactions & the chemistry behind it - I‘m happy that the 3rd chapter of the PhD thesis of #HumayNevrzella became online as pre-print. Again a great cooperation with @robinheinennl.bsky.social and @terrecolgroup.bsky.social
#Plantscience
#Plantscience
Compartmentalized above- and belowground defenses in Tanacetum vulgare are tailored to localized antagonists
Specialized metabolites, specially terpenoids, play a key role in plant defense. However, how terpenoid diversity governs inducible chemistry and root architectural development remain poorly understoo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
For those of you interested in plant chemical diversity, I highly recommend our latest preprint, led by Humay Newrzella. Her experimental efforts show the strong localized chemical responses to herbivory in Tanacetum. Great work with the wonderful @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social team
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Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Halloween-Moss
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
Tetraplodon mnioides likes to grow on dead animals (and humans).
England, Yorkshire, Upper Warfdale
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Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z
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Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social
JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Only 4 days left to apply for the coordinator position (7 years!) for the geo-biodiversity experiment platform in our @terra-cluster.org. If you love experiments, and you want to be part of an large amazing interdisciplinary project, go for it! @unituebingen.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social
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Munich-Schwabing with the church of St. Ursula
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22148
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22148
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Munich-Schwabing with the church of St. Ursula
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22148
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22148
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La diversité chimique des parfums floraux pourrait non seulement façonner la spécialisation/généralisation des assemblages de visiteurs floraux, mais aussi agir comme un mécanisme de régulation des communautés microbiennes.
Les espèces végétales aux profils olfactifs plus variés attirent davantage de pollinisateurs, mais présentent une diversité bactérienne plus faible
Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social
@newphyt.bsky.social
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70600 Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers - Hanusch - New Phytologist - 22.10.2025 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70600
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Nos résultats révèlent qu'une grande diversité chimique des parfums floraux est associée à une richesse accrue des visiteurs des fleurs, mais à une richesse bactérienne réduite sur les fleurs. Ces résultats nous ont amenés à proposer l'« hypothèse du pollinisateur sale ».
Notre hypothèse repose sur deux idées fondamentales : les fleurs dont les parfums sont chimiquement diversifiés attirent un plus large éventail de visiteurs, augmentant ainsi le potentiel de transmission microbienne ; et la diversité chimique des parfums floraux agit comme un filtre sélectif, atténuant les risques de colonisation microbienne indésirable en empêchant l'établissement de microbes nuisibles tout en permettant l'établissement d'un microbiome sain.
La diversité chimique des parfums floraux pourrait donc non seulement façonner la spécialisation/généralisation des assemblages de visiteurs floraux, mais aussi agir comme un mécanisme de régulation des communautés microbiennes.
En mettant en évidence la multifonctionnalité de la diversité chimique dans la structuration des interactions plante-animal et plante-microbe, notre étude fait progresser la compréhension de la diversité chimique et souligne son importance dans l'écologie végétale.
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https://bsky.app/profile/robinheinennl.bsky.social/post/3m3rhcfsltk2x
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October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
La diversité chimique des parfums floraux pourrait non seulement façonner la spécialisation/généralisation des assemblages de visiteurs floraux, mais aussi agir comme un mécanisme de régulation des communautés microbiennes.
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Fox et al. The sample size of the typical ecological correlation coefficient is small and slowly declining nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The sample size of the typical ecological correlation coefficient is small and slowly declining
Larger sample sizes are desirable because they minimize sampling error. However, they are not the only desideratum, and it is unknown if sample sizes in ecology trade off with other desiderata. Here ...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Fox et al. The sample size of the typical ecological correlation coefficient is small and slowly declining nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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
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
🌟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
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
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The world is full of beautiful birding sites. On Birdingplaces.com birders share their knowledge about great places to watch birds. A not-for-profit and free platform that makes it easy to find birding areas. Great if you join us or add an area!
Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephal)
Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephal)
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The world is full of beautiful birding sites. On Birdingplaces.com birders share their knowledge about great places to watch birds. A not-for-profit and free platform that makes it easy to find birding areas. Great if you join us or add an area!
Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephal)
Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephal)
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The 'Filthy #Pollinator Hypothesis': does floral scent affect insect visitors and bacterial strains on #flowers?
New research published today suggests scent diversity could be a clever way for plants to welcome visitors while keeping unwanted #microbes out.
New research published today suggests scent diversity could be a clever way for plants to welcome visitors while keeping unwanted #microbes out.
Does scent affect insect visitors and bacterial strains on flowers?
Using information on alpine plant species, researchers investigated how the chemistry of flowers’ scent affects not only the diversity of insect pollinators but also the communities of bacteria…
www.newphytologist.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The 'Filthy #Pollinator Hypothesis': does floral scent affect insect visitors and bacterial strains on #flowers?
New research published today suggests scent diversity could be a clever way for plants to welcome visitors while keeping unwanted #microbes out.
New research published today suggests scent diversity could be a clever way for plants to welcome visitors while keeping unwanted #microbes out.
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Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Individualized Altimetry of Stripes https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/individualized-altimetry-of-stripes-1930
October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Individualized Altimetry of Stripes https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/individualized-altimetry-of-stripes-1930
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JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
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@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
Please repost!
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social
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New study 🎓 by @robinheinennl.bsky.social
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar predation in an urban environment
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) is changing our nocturnal landscape. Recent research reveals the negative impacts on biodiversity, including individu…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New study 🎓 by @robinheinennl.bsky.social
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓
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Monday morning throwback to our wonderful meeting on #chemodiversity in Großbeeren – hosted by @nmvandam.bsky.social. Again a big thank you to Matthias Erb, Karin Gorzolka, @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social, Stefan Dötterl, Eva Castells, John D'Auria and Kirsten Leiss for their enlightening contributions.
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Monday morning throwback to our wonderful meeting on #chemodiversity in Großbeeren – hosted by @nmvandam.bsky.social. Again a big thank you to Matthias Erb, Karin Gorzolka, @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social, Stefan Dötterl, Eva Castells, John D'Auria and Kirsten Leiss for their enlightening contributions.
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Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sphagnum balticum taken yesterday in a wetland nature reserve #moss #bryophyte
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Tree inside tree.
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tree inside tree.
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Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Morgen (am 25.9.25) erscheint mein Buch "Mutter Erde", geschrieben gemeinsam mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Jörg Blech. Im Buch schildere ich auch den wissenschaftlichen Prozess der Erforschung des Bodens und seiner Ökologie.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Morgen (am 25.9.25) erscheint mein Buch "Mutter Erde", geschrieben gemeinsam mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Jörg Blech. Im Buch schildere ich auch den wissenschaftlichen Prozess der Erforschung des Bodens und seiner Ökologie.
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"Moss meets laser on a mountain" may sound like cheap clickbait, but is actually the topic of my recent paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!
🏔️New study from the #Ödenwinkel glacier forefield! 3D-laser scans show that vegetation structural complexity uniquely captures competition between vascular plants and bryophytes. 🌱🌿 Structure, not cover, richness, or traits, drives the interactions @mhanusch.bsky.social 👇
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September 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Moss meets laser on a mountain" may sound like cheap clickbait, but is actually the topic of my recent paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!
Thanks a lot for the shout-out!
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Thanks for setting up this platform, Ingolf and colleagues. Exciting times ahead for glacier forefield research :)
I am happy to share our new paper, introducing our glacier forefield study platform in the Dachstein and Berchtesgaden Mountains
https://we.copernicus.org/articles/25/157/2025/
#newpaper #glacierforefields #alps
And by coincidence just in time for the #imc2025
(Edited 10:17 via @skeetsapp.com)
https://we.copernicus.org/articles/25/157/2025/
#newpaper #glacierforefields #alps
And by coincidence just in time for the #imc2025
(Edited 10:17 via @skeetsapp.com)
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thanks for setting up this platform, Ingolf and colleagues. Exciting times ahead for glacier forefield research :)