Julia Kemppinen
@juliakemppinen.bsky.social
Geographer asking ecological questions 🍃☘️🌿 Assistant professor in biodiversity change at University of Helsinki 🏔️ Subject editor at Oikos helsinki.fi/biodiversity-change
Ecologists! Give me ideas where to publish beautiful plant functional trait datasets :-) Criteria: OA journals that are society-owned and read by ecologists ☘️💚🌿💚🍃
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Ecologists! Give me ideas where to publish beautiful plant functional trait datasets :-) Criteria: OA journals that are society-owned and read by ecologists ☘️💚🌿💚🍃
Registration open! Pack your talks, posters and sunhats for Montpellier, France 🌴🌞🏖️ This is the 3rd edition of the best conference on the planet - and of all time. And yes, I am completely biased as the organiser of the previous edition in Helsinki 😎 meb-network.com/meb-2026/
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Registration open! Pack your talks, posters and sunhats for Montpellier, France 🌴🌞🏖️ This is the 3rd edition of the best conference on the planet - and of all time. And yes, I am completely biased as the organiser of the previous edition in Helsinki 😎 meb-network.com/meb-2026/
One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...
Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity
This collection examines how human activities and global change stressors are transforming the composition and functioning of terrestrial Arctic and Antarctic ...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to conduct experiments on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends October 7! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
I made new friends this summer ☘️🌿🍃
A snapshot of our expedition to Finnish Lapland this summer, featuring bogs, bugs, a pink hula hoop, and of course, bryophytes and lichens 🌿
Thanks to funders @ec.europa.eu via POLARIN and #MSCActions, and to my brilliant colleagues @miguelvilloslada.bsky.social et al. for keeping morale high!
Thanks to funders @ec.europa.eu via POLARIN and #MSCActions, and to my brilliant colleagues @miguelvilloslada.bsky.social et al. for keeping morale high!
🚨 New TEB Lab blog post 🌱
@nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her summer trip to Finnish Lapland for fieldwork! 🥾
www.temporalecology.com/post/an-unex...
@nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her summer trip to Finnish Lapland for fieldwork! 🥾
www.temporalecology.com/post/an-unex...
September 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I made new friends this summer ☘️🌿🍃
New article! To what extent community-level knowledge on species abundances helps in predicting species traits? 🌿☘️🍃 We used joint species-trait distribution modeling to link species abundances to trait variation. By Nerea Abrego, @niittynen.bsky.social, me & Otso Ovaskainen doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
September 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
New article! To what extent community-level knowledge on species abundances helps in predicting species traits? 🌿☘️🍃 We used joint species-trait distribution modeling to link species abundances to trait variation. By Nerea Abrego, @niittynen.bsky.social, me & Otso Ovaskainen doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
I will be placing my first ever Amazon order next week 🤓
Just got the final proofs of my book💓
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will be placing my first ever Amazon order next week 🤓
New preprint! How do leaf functional traits vary within a growing season? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks, and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....
July 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
New preprint! How do leaf functional traits vary within a growing season? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks, and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social doi.org/10.22541/au....
Art exhibition: Whose nature? Our artist-scientist group Saxifraga has a collaborative display at Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland 17.5.–7.9.2025. Our work involves over a thousand samples of the beautiful Arctic flora @niittynen.bsky.social 🌿☘️🍃 Welcome! www.jyvaskyla.fi/en/jyvaskyla...
Whose Nature? – On Shared Trails
17.5.–7.9.2025Nature and forests are deeply embedded in Finnish identity and remain central to the visual language of Finnish art. Yet our relationship with nature is far from unambiguous — while its ...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Art exhibition: Whose nature? Our artist-scientist group Saxifraga has a collaborative display at Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland 17.5.–7.9.2025. Our work involves over a thousand samples of the beautiful Arctic flora @niittynen.bsky.social 🌿☘️🍃 Welcome! www.jyvaskyla.fi/en/jyvaskyla...
New article! How nutrient inputs from seabird colonies affect plant traits and communities? 🐧 Plants closest to the nesting sites, were taller and had higher resource-acquisitive trait values, such as larger and thicker leaves and higher leaf nutrient contents ☘️🍃🌿 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New article! How nutrient inputs from seabird colonies affect plant traits and communities? 🐧 Plants closest to the nesting sites, were taller and had higher resource-acquisitive trait values, such as larger and thicker leaves and higher leaf nutrient contents ☘️🍃🌿 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...