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Billur Bektaş 🍃

@billurbektas.bsky.social

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Ecologist (PhD) | experimental ecology | ecological forecasting | alpine plants | steering committee member @ https://euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 22

When I started my PhD, I thought we were the only crazy ecologists out there. Why? Because we transplanted 1m² alpine communities downslope to study climate change effects. Imagine thousands of plants and tons of soil flying over the French Alps 😅

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 7d

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 8d

Inspired by @shankothari.bsky.social ‘s @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social publication from couple of years ago!

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 8d

Soon starting our campaign! Super excited to be part of this!

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Nov 3

Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience

Herbarium spectral digitization workflow from specimen collection to global integration, and challenges.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 8d

Such good news🥳🫶🏽

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 8d

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!

Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social

🧵1/2

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 8d

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 9d

I follow this project since the begining and I absolutely love it!

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · 9d

Landscape of Consciousness is a project I’m proud to be part of! Thanks to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Àlex Gómez-Marín, and Peter Getzels for welcoming my proposal to visualize this landscape of theories of consciousness. See it live here:
loc.closertotruth.com/interactive
Thread ↓

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · 9d

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 9d

Still cannot manage triple negatives. "The fact that I’m not at BES doesn’t mean I can’t be proud virtually."

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 9d

Proud friend moment ❤️ @agostinatorres.bsky.social The fact that I am not in BES does not mean I can be proud virtually 🤓 Thanks to onsite photo providers 😜 @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 12d

“O zaman, dünyayı kurtarmamız gerekmez çünkü nihayet onunla birlikte yaşamayı öğrenmiş oluruz.”

thepentacle.org/2025/12/14/k...

Karşılıklılık Üzerine

Bu yazıyı, geçen haftaki yazımın devamı gibi düşünmeyi öneriyorum. Her şeyin birbirine bağlantılı olduğu ilkesinden sıklıkla söz ediyoruz, bildiğiniz gibi. Mesela bir ağaç, yalnızca kendi köklerind…

thepentacle.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker, Joan Dudney, Billur Bektaş

Daniela Nemetschek (Krebber) @danielanemetschek.bsky.social · 13d

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳

🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨

We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more.

Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 16d

It would be so refreshing if our generation of ecologists witness this!

www.climatenobelprize.org

Climate Nobel Prize – Continuing Alfred Nobel’s Legacy for the 21st Century

The climate crisis is humanity’s greatest challenge. €1,000,000 secured for a new Nobel Prize dedicated to climate and planetary health. Support the movement.

www.climatenobelprize.org

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 18d

On Thursday 11th December, at 3 PM CET, we will present results from our #CESAB working group #BIOSHIFTS on species range shifts in response to climate change 🌡📈🌳🦔🦉🐝🦎🐟🐚🦈

CESABINAR #12

Find the Zoom link on the webpage of #FRB below & attend 😊

shorturl.at/p7J2R

@frbiodiv.bsky.social

🧪🌐🌍🌎🌏🏔⛰️🗻

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 22d

Our generation should be known as the generation of seeing every single tech sacrificied for advertisement. They never surprise.

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Billur Bektaş

Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · Nov 20

🌍 Save the Date! The 12th International Biogeography Society Conference is coming to Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰
📅 January 6-10, 2026 📍 Aarhus University
Join biogeographers from around the world to exchange research, foster innovation, and push our field forward!
#TIBS2026 #Biogeography #Aarhus

Reposted by Billur Bektaş

Amy Leedale @amyleedale.bsky.social · Nov 18

📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

The University of Salford hiring Research Assistant in Bioacoustics in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn

Posted 10:02:26 AM. Research Assistant in BioacousticsUniversity of Salford, School of Science, Engineering &…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

www.linkedin.com

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hahahah I feel entitled already😋

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Dr. sc. ETH Ana Petrus @anapetrus.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm happy to announce the going live of the Swiss Natural History Collections portal swissnatcoll.ch, a project, I had the pleasure to contribute to over the past few years. It's hosted by @gbif.org and provides open access to biological & paleontological specimen data.
youtu.be/KgHyJqWjLvo?...

Swiss natural history collections network (SwissCollNet)

YouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT

youtu.be

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 16

Now I understand….

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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · Nov 16

It’s a great initiative! Submit your projects

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 10

Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 16

When they say AI will take over, I remind myself they still ask for birth certificates.

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Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ecologists! Give me ideas where to publish a registered report on plant-microclimate experiments :-) It is hard to find OA journals that are society-owned and read by ecologists ☘️💚🌿💚🍃

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jakob Zscheischler, Pieter A. Zuidema , and 7 more Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jakob Zscheischler, Pieter A. Zuidema, Paul Lehmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Guy Pe’er, Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Darío Martin‐Benito, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Nov 13

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist

We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)

www.uni-regensburg.de

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 13

How nice to see those points appearing on the map from France to Turkey from Spain to Finland! 💙

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 10

Reposted by Cornelius Senf, Christian Hof, Malte Jochum , and 3 more Cornelius Senf, Christian Hof, Malte Jochum, Maximilian Hanusch, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

Maximilian Pichler @maximilianpichler.bsky.social · Nov 11

#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

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Tommaso Jucker, Catherine M. Hulshof , and 2 more Julie L. Lockwood, Tommaso Jucker, Catherine M. Hulshof, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Billur Bektaş

Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · Nov 11

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?

The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.

A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:

🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…

the3dlab.org

Reposted by Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · Nov 11

🛰️🌿💻 #PostDoc Alert! PhD in #EnvironmentalSciences, #RemoteSensing or #ComputerVision, and sound ecological knowledge of #biodiversity? You work comfortably with statistical computing and scripting languages? We offer a 2-year PostDoc position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1792/... #ecology #ScienceJobs

Job offer: PostDoc “Remote Sensing for Biodiversity Monitoring” – Eawag-WSL BiMo Initiative (80-100%, f/m/d)
A key component of an effective biodiversity strategy is rapid and scalable monitoring. Eawag and WSL have extensive expertise and experience in novel biodiversity monitoring approaches. The new Biodiversity Monitoring initiative (BiMo) aims to strengthen this research portfolio and generate effective practice implementation. BiMo has a strong focus on method development and outputs with high relevance for stakeholders. In addition to the remote sensing project for which we are recruiting here, BiMo comprises two further projects that will obtain information from eDNA and image analysis, with the joint objective to strengthen capacities at Eawag and WSL for developing and implementing biodiversity monitoring methods. In this project, you will examine the potential and applicability of remote sensing technologies and data (2D, 3D, active and passive sensors on different platforms) to assess and monitor terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. You will adapt existing methods and available data on national scale to swiftly enhance ongoing monitoring programmes, identify gaps and unsolved issues and design new avenues. You will be actively involved in a large BiMo joint research proposal aimed at third-party funding.
You hold a PhD degree in environmental science, remote sensing, computer vision or an equivalent field and have sound ecological knowledge of biodiversity. You work comfortably with statistical computing and scripting languages (e.g. R, Python). You are highly motivated to analyse data using sophisticated methods and tools. Good communication and organisation skills, an excellent team spirit and fluency in German or English with very good knowledge of the other language are mandatory.

The project is led by Christian Ginzler (WSL) and Dr. Daniel Odermatt (Eawag). The successful applicant will be based and hired in the group of Christian Ginzler at WSL.

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Seth M. Munson, Billur Bektaş

ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Nov 10

🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics

📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Schematic illustrating how species interactions can depend on neighborhood density and identity.

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 10

Would you help me spread the word?🫶🏽

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Nov 10

Submit your project here 👉 euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/forecasting-...
#EcologicalForecasting #EEFI #AIforEcology #OpenScience

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