Daniel Hering

@danielheringude.bsky.social

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Aquatic Ecologist, University of Duisburg-Essen. 🇪🇺 Co-speaker www.sfb-resist.de, coordinator www.project-merlin.eu. Posts on biodiversity, freshwater, restoration, sustainability. Life without chicken is possible, but meaningless. .. more

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 2d

Wer Weihnachten unbedingt noch eine gute Tat vollbringen möchte, dem empfehle ich aus aktuellem Anlass eine Spende für hateaid.org/spenden/

Spenden an HateAid

Unterstütze Betroffene und stärke Meinungsvielfalt!

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The Freshwater Blog @freshwaterblog.bsky.social · 11d

🌊 A major event will be held in Brussels next March to explore key insights across freshwater and wetland restoration science, practice and policy.

🔗 Find out more and sign up!

freshwaterblog.net/2025/12/15/f...

@merlin-project.bsky.social

Freshwater, Wetlands and Sponge Landscapes for Resilient Europe

The landmark Nature Restoration Regulation was adopted by the European Union in August 2024 following a lengthy negotiation process. The Regulation – which compels EU member states to restore their…

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 15d

Merry X-mas from the Aquatic Ecology group!

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 19d

I assume EU politicians have better to do. X is one of the most overrated thingis and Musk definitely the most overrated person. Every word on them is waste of time (I have just wasted a minute of my time).

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MERLIN project @merlin-project.bsky.social · 22d

The 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 will be dedicated to identifying solutions for the conservation and restoration of rivers in the context of climatic, social, and environmental change, focusing also on Nature-based Solutions. Registration is open and free: life2rivers.si/en/internati...

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 23d

I must say that I am getting tired of BlueSky. I have 2600 followers, but noone is reading the posts, there is no interaction, no discussion...
I'll stay for a while, but will shift my activities to LinkedIn. (Though I profoundly dislike the showing off behaviour on that platform.)

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 24d

Schon erstaunlich, wie präzise hier Triggerpunkte, vermutlich unbeabsichtigt, getroffen werden. Welche*r Wissenschaftler*in bezieht denn eine Plakatwerbung im Bahnhof auf sich? Sie richtet sich offenkundig an Fachinformatiker und Buchhalterinnen. Anyhow, gute Kolumne, as usual.

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 24d

Auf den Friedhöfen im Westlichen Ruhrgebiet leben fast 1000 Wildpflanzenarten, mehr als 100 davon stehen auf der Roten Liste. Die Veröffentlichung von Corinne Buch et al. in Natur und Landschaft ist nun open access verfügbar. bfn.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/de...

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 29d

Sorry, das ist Nius Niveau. Stellt Politiker inhaltlich, das ist in diesem Fall doch wirklich möglich. Aber beschwert Euch nicht über Privilegien für Frau Reiche, die genauso für die von Euch präferierten Politker(innen) gelten. Und sowas wie GasKaethe ist nicht besser als CrookedHillary.

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 29d

It is not a representative sample, but I have been part of many appointment committees for professorial positions in Germany and neighbouring countries in the last years (more than 20, if I count correctly). The 2 procedures this year were the first with several strong applicants from the US.

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 29d

The situation of postdocs in Germany has made it to Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to stop the revolving door of German academia

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 24

papers one published in the previous year * 2 - that should be the number or reviews one is doing, at least for those with stable positions. But consider that many who decline receive 50-100 invitations per year.

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Ecotoxicology lab RC One Health Ruhr @ecotox.bsky.social · Nov 24

New study on the spatial dimension of multiple stressors. Gemma Burgazzi (iDiv) did a great job in running this mesocosm experiment. Effects of single stressors cascaded along the network, with stronger downstream effects. Thanks to all contributors! @leeselab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 16

Third year in a row that the neighbours and I brew our own beer. Different receipe in 2025, targeting "Helles" instead of "Pils".

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Nov 14

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇

"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 12

Interview with the radio station Deutschlandfunk (in German) about the Kaijser et al. stressor paper that appeared yesterday in Nature Ecology & Evolution:

www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-stressfa...

Wie Stressfaktoren das Leben in Flüssen formen, Interview mit Daniel Hering

www.deutschlandfunk.de

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

Data source and code are of course freely available. And hopefully a useful source for future predictive models in aquatic stress ecology.

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

And we can now also align species richness to combinations of stressors (Fig 4):

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

We observed consistent relation with salinity, oxygen depletion, and fine sediment accumulation, while the relation with nutrient enrichment and warming varied among groups. The results allow us, amongst others, to predict how species richness changes with increasing stressors intensity (Fig. 3):

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

The figure (1a) shows the probability distribution on how species number of the different organism groups are associated with increasing stress intensity. Invertebrates are generally most sensitive and species number is negatively associated to six of the stressors.

Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

We extracted data on 1,332 stressor–response relationships from literature and ran Generalised Linear Mixed Models for each dataset individually. With the resulting estimates (e.g. regression coefficients) we performed a Bayesian meta-analysis.
In short, these are the results:

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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · Nov 11

Led by Wim Kaijser, we published a global analysis on how five different organism groups respond to seven stressor categories. New paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This global meta-analysis of freshwater stressor–response relationships reveals that the biodiversity loss of five riverine organism groups reflects elevated salinity, oxygen depletion and fine sedime...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Nov 7

We need a culture and systematic infrastructures to encourage raw data publication (not only in soil ecology).

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Nov 7

In the context of the 🇩🇪 biodiversity assessment (Faktencheck Artenvielfalt) my soil ecology colleagues analyzed ~1250 time series datasets on var soil organisms. Only 100 (sic!) of them were derived from the literature. All the rest were unpublished datasets uncovered from desk drawers and archives.

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Jost Maurin @jostmaurin.bsky.social · Nov 7

Berater von Bundesagrarminister Alois Rainer fordern den CSU-Politiker auf, mehr gegen Risiken durch den Einsatz von Pestiziden zu unternehmen. Doch Rainer beendet ein Programm genau dafür. taz.de/Forderung-vo... #Landwirtschaft #Pestizide

Forderung von Beratern des Ministeriums: Agrarminister soll mehr gegen Risiken durch Pestizide tun

Ein Beirat des Agrarministeriums kritisiert, dass Alois Rainer ein Programm zur Reduktion von Ackergiften beendet. Das Gegenteil sei nötig.

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · Nov 7

🌐Geographic isolation doesn’t limit #dragonflies and damselflies in the #Alps. Local #habitat, not distance, shapes communities, suggesting odonates disperse freely across mountain landscapes. ⛰️

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