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Malte Jochum
@maltejochum.bsky.social
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Community ecologist, father of two, outdoor enthusiast; Global Change, above-belowground, multitrophic interactions, energy flux; Professor for Above-belowground Interaction Ecology with @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social .. more

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 7d
Wow, this is so bad, Benjamin! I am really sorry to read it. It's unbelievable how universities regularly treat employees! Glad that you are calling out this behaviour!

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · 7d
New paper alert! Microclimate temperatures are more extreme than we previously thought! Near-ground temperatures are amplified in hot weather, cool refugia is lost and replaced with heat traps ☀️🔥🥵 escape from heat will be very hard for small ground-dwelling organisms
doi.org/10.21425/fob...
Local microclimates can both amplify and mitigate extreme temperatures associated with climate change
Climate change is a threat to global biodiversity, with changes to mean temperatures and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Heatwaves in particular pose a threat to species’...
doi.org

Reposted by Dustin J. Marshall, Pavel Kratina, Malte Jochum

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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social · 7d
❗New paper alert❗
The 2nd publication from Poppy Romera's Masters is just out in @natcomms.nature.com
We find that adherence of 180 soil food webs to the energy equivalence rule strongly depends on the measure of energy use, trophic level, and food web structure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hypothesised scaling relationships between body size and population density and energy use (metabolism and energy flux) for predators and secondary consumers

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 7d
Impressive presentation and PhD work overall! Well done, Kim! Congratulations 🎉

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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 8d
2 weeks left in my contract and still no news. Don't know if I'm on vacation or effectively unemployed. Does this mean I have to act serious now and hang out on LinkedIn?
benrosenbaum.bsky.social Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 15d
#IchBinHanna: If you still don't know whether today will be your last day at work before the holidays or your last day in academia for good 🤷‍♂️

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 8d
👏 New timelapse inspired by “healthy soils for healthy cities” illustrating why you should be careful not to include plastic or cigarette butts in your vermicompost bin 🪱 🪱

by Wim van Egmond, with Gerlinde De Deyn, Ingrid Lubbers&Jan Willem van Groenigen from SBL and SGL!

Here: lnkd.in/enbjVE95

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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 9d
Prof Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social is currently offering two 3-year positions in arthropod 🪲🕷️🦗 ecology in the @bexplo.bsky.social framework (apply until January 14th):

PhD (65%):

www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Research associate (50% ):

www.leuphana.de/en/universit...
Research Associate (m/f/d) Arthropods
www.leuphana.de

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 16d
Some food for the Global Ecology Feed 🌐
🦦🌱🌍🌏🌎

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 16d
Great team led by expert leaders, @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social and Olivier Dezerald (www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliv...). Such a nice outcome and more to come ;)
Thanks @idiv-research.bsky.social #sDiv for the support!

Reposted by Helmut Hillebrand, Elena Litchman, Pavel Kratina , and 2 more

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Angélica L. González @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social · 16d
Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry - Nature Communications
Organisms vary in their nitrogen and phosphorus content, shaping ecological and evolutionary processes. This study shows that nitrogen deposition is a consistent global factor associated with plant an...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Helmut Hillebrand, Malte Jochum, Karl Andraczek

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Michał Filipiak @michalfilipiak.bsky.social · 17d
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🌍🔬 Our new paper is out! We identify the global mechanisms shaping the elemental composition of organisms — and the results overturn long-standing assumptions in ecology.

👇 Thread ↓
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry - Nature Communications
Organisms vary in their nitrogen and phosphorus content, shaping ecological and evolutionary processes. This study shows that nitrogen deposition is a consistent global factor associated with plant an...
doi.org

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler , and 8 more

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 21d
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 21d
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 21d
Seid ihr auf der Suche nach Informationen über Bodenbiodiversität? 🌐🪱 Unsere Artikelsammlung über das Leben im Boden und Übersetzungen in 30 Sprachen findet ihr hier:
idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min...
HEUTE IST WELTBODENTAG
@uni-wuerzburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social @soilbiocomm.bsky.social
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Hotspot in Biodiversity Science
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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 21d
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @soilbiocomm.bsky.social

Reposted by Christian Hof, Benjamin Wildermuth

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 21d
Interested in the world under our feet and desperate to find cool and engaging reading material? Check out our Soil Biodiversity articles for kids, available in more than 30 languages: 🪱🌐
idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min...
HAPPY WORLD SOIL DAY
@uni-wuerzburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Hotspot in Biodiversity Science
idiv-biodiversity.de

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Patrick A. Jansen, Malte Jochum , and 1 more

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 22d
What are the mechanisms behind terrestrial arthropod declines? @bmwildermuth.bsky.social and colleagues have some answers

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bexplo.bsky.social
@idiv-research.bsky.social
@jena-experiment.bsky.social
Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...
www.nature.com

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 22d
Large terrestrial omnivores (bears) shift to carnivory in unproductive ecosystems and at short growing seasons and to herbivory in more productive systems and when seasons are longer.
Interesting results in new study @natcomms.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change - Nature Communications
Omnivores like bears can switch between plant and animal diets, potentially helping them respond to changing conditions. By combining modern and fossil data, this study shows that bears shift toward c...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Michael G. Bertram, Ricardo Rocha, Malte Jochum

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 23d
🚨we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our editorial board!
⏲️deadline for submissions: 23 February 2026, 23:59 GMT (UTC+0)
📎read more and apply at the link below:
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Anne Ebeling, Malte Jochum , and 3 more

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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 24d
New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲

In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines.

It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Malte Jochum, Stefan Pinkert

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 24d
📢 Over 90% of local insect biomass decline in German grasslands is explained by species loss.

“By the end of the study period, species loss, regardless of rarity or size, had become the main driver of decline”, says @bmwildermuth.bsky.social of #iDiv and @uni-jena.de

www.idiv.de/majority-of-...
Majority of local insect biomass decline linked to species loss
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function.
www.idiv.de

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Malte Jochum, Benjamin Wildermuth

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Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social · 28d
Registration for the #BE20Conference is now open.
We’re celebrating 20 years of the Biodiversity Exploratories with our first international conference. ✨
We appreciate when the news circulates in the community.
www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/

See you there. 🙂

@dfg.de @sgn.one

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Nov 25
📣Applications are now open!

Find out more about how to apply 👇
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
f.mtr.cool

Reposted by Malte Jochum, Benjamin Wildermuth

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Nov 20
📢We are hiring! If you are experienced in financial matters and want to support iDiv's financing department as a parental leave cover, apply by 26 Nov! www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
www.idiv.de

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Nov 17
Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.

Watch till the end
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social

Reposted by Christian Hof, Malte Jochum

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hendrik Mohr, also PhD student with @maltejochum.bsky.social, gave us at the GCERetreat2025 some insights into his impressive review work on the multiple global change impacts on above-belowground interactions

Reposted by Christian Hof, Malte Jochum

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Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social · Nov 13
During our GCERetreat2025 Ayushi, PhD student in @maltejochum.bsky.social‘s Above-belowground interaction ecology group presented an update about her PhD work on energy fluxes in ecological communities.

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Nov 11
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Wow! Dieses beschauliche 400 Jahre alte Bauernhof-Ensemble entwickelt sich zur Top Location für gemeinschaftliche Retreats und New Work in den Bergen.
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Reposted by Cornelius Senf, Christian Hof, Malte Jochum , and 3 more

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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 Christian Hof, Esme Ashe‐Jepson

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Nov 11
At our @globalchangeeco.bsky.social retreat to Austria, we are both taking in the beautiful surrounding landscape and discussing the latest research advancements of the team members. Here, Rasmus Dam Jensen presents our #MultiCrossBEF project as part of @bexplo.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
The Global Change Ecology crowd listening to Rasmus Jensen introducing his PhD research. A field path and some trees in the foreground with a mountain range in the background