Maximilian Hanusch

@mhanusch.bsky.social

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Ecologist | loves Mosses and Mountains | Senior Scientist @unihohenheim.bsky.social

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 10h

How wonderful that you revived the blogging, Robin. Another ~1000 posts of yours would not (only) be a gift to AI companies improving their models, but to the people that relate with you and get excited about your personal growth. I for sure would appreciate one bird picture a day 🤗

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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pharmacophagy in insects: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on the non‐nutritional use of plant specialized metabolites

Insects interact with plants not only for nutrition but also to actively seek plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) for chemical defense, reproduction, and self-medication—a behavior known as pharmaco...

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Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science Hohenheim @landscape-ecol.bsky.social · 6d

In our last ecology colloquium for this semester, today 4:15 pm @mhanusch.bsky.social provides "Insights into community assembly and biotic interactions".

Feel free to join this presentation via Zoom:
uni-hohenheim.zoom-x.de/j/6193370953...

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Christian Hof , and 2 more Ingolf Kühn, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Christian Hof, Maximilian Hanusch, Benjamin Wildermuth

Sylvia Haider @sylvia-haider.bsky.social · 9d

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴
Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team.
Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 9d

Tell me five classes you took in college:

- Sociology
- Classical archeology
- Underwater ecology
- Bat bioacoustics
- Geology and geomorphology

I was fortunate to study at universities that allowed students to individually craft their own curricula with few constraints or mandatory courses

Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 9d

Tell me five classes you took in college:
(uni for me, I guess)

- Vertebrate Biology
- Biology of Invertebrates and Lower Plants
- Plant Physiology
- Fundamental Virology
- Molecular Aspects of Bio-Interactions

(Interestingly I never really studied ecology before starting my PhD)

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Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 9d

Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 9d

Töröööö 🐘🌳

Stella Wimmer @stellawimmer.bsky.social · 10d

🐘🌳Pre-Print of our work in Kenya: Habitat heterogeneity responds to megaherbivores in East African coastal forests, but vegetation composition remains constrained by land-use history

@mhanusch.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Stella Wimmer @stellawimmer.bsky.social · 10d

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 11d

Does greater biodiversity always increase ecosystem functioning? I used to think so, but now I'm not so sure.

How I stopped believing in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning consensus

The E120 Biodiversity Experiment at Cedar Creek in Minnesota, from their website. It all began with the best of intentions. By the time the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published in 2005, th…

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Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 11d

Harnessing the potential of a chemodiverse landscape :) @robinheinennl.bsky.social

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Michael Lueth @milueth.bsky.social · 11d

Grimmia austrofunalis Müll. Hal.
Andes, Merida, sourrounding of Laguna Coromoto, Subparamos, on open rock, gneis, 3000 m, leg 2001 M. Lüth 3302
Stem without central strand, costal cells mostly uniform, hydroids lacking, big and somewhat glossy plants

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tcamenzind.bsky.social @tcamenzind.bsky.social · 11d

My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 14d

Bird Landscape https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483165

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Stephen D. Murphy, Malte Jochum , and 3 more Ingolf Kühn, Stephen D. Murphy, Malte Jochum, Maria Faticov, Maximilian Hanusch, Benjamin Wildermuth

Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM @terrecolgroup.bsky.social · 14d

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social

Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.

More information here:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

www.lss.ls.tum.de

Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · 23d

Wonderful pictures, Robin. The great tit looks very dynamic and its behaviour is well captured. About to jump out of the screen 😄

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Nicolas Gross, Maximilian Hanusch

The Jena Experiment @jena-experiment.bsky.social · 24d

New study by Medina-van Berkum et al. in @pnas.org

Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels 🌱🌼🌿

-> "At the community level, plant species richness directly enhanced VOC emission and increased VOC richness"

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

doi.org

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 24d

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later

One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 25d

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Reposted by Francis Martin, Jesse R. Lasky, Maximilian Hanusch

Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 25d

Out now 🥳 our study led by @mikkotiusanen.bsky.social!
With data on 1.17 M flowers & 10,000 pollinators 🌼🐝 we show plant–pollinator timing shifts from biotic to abiotic control along alpine gradients ➡️climate change may rewire interaction synchrony
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Shinichi Nakagawa @itchyshin.bsky.social · 27d

Please contact me if you want to be nominated for a postdoc via this scheme - you need to live outside of Canada and I need to do so by 9 Feb (and need to start by March 2027) - www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-... (I think you do need to have a competitive CV etc)

Please email me if you are interested

Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards for Postdoctoral Scholars

www.ualberta.ca

Reposted by Nicolas Gross, Maximilian Hanusch

Caterina Penone @catpenone.bsky.social · 27d

Space-for-time substitution approaches in ecology do work! (at least in temperate grasslands)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposted by Maximilian Hanusch, Benjamin Wildermuth

Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science Hohenheim @landscape-ecol.bsky.social · 28d

Three funded PhD positions on Geo-Biosphere Interactions in the South African Fynbos biome @terra-cluster.org 🪴⛰️

Please RT and forward to suitable candidates.

Link: bwsyncandshare.kit.edu/s/67A6Kx7MLf...

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Maximilian Hanusch

Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 29d

Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!

Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · Nov 26

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Maximilian Hanusch @mhanusch.bsky.social · Jan 10

Accidentally cosplaying the Holy Roman Empire

tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

A map of Europe with countries marked that I lived in. Germany Austria and Italy are marked and somewhat represent the border of the hol. Roman Empire

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · Jan 5

You can be forgiven when you overlook moss as a clue to solve a crime. Over the last 150 years researchers found only elven in the scientific literature reported cases. But these tiny plants can give you important clues about where somebody or somewhat has been. 🧵1/5
Image credit: Field Museum

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jan 2

Some positive news for the New Year: Year‐Round Grazing Promotes Species‐Rich Grasslands in Natura 2000 Sites 🐂 🌼 🐎 🌸See our new study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#grazing #yearroundgrazing #helårsgræsning #plantdiversity #biodiversity

Reversing the Trend: Year‐Round Grazing Promotes Species‐Rich Grasslands in Natura 2000 Sites

Representative landscapes from the studied management areas illustrating a mosaic of habitat types. All areas were managed with year-round grazing cattle and/or horses. Photos illustrate the diversit...

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 1

Biodiversity loss in sub-Saharan Africa has been estimated using the expertise of 200 local specialists.

go.nature.com/3YjVwYD

Sub-Saharan Africa has lost almost one-quarter of its pre-industrial biodiversity

Biodiversity loss in sub-Saharan Africa has been estimated using the expertise of 200 local specialists.

go.nature.com

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jan 1

Today, Bulgaria adopts the euro as its currency.

This strengthens the bond with Europe. Travel, work, and business will become easier and more connected.

Bulgaria, you’ve opened a new chapter in your story.