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Patrick Weigelt
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Plant Macroecologist and Island Biogeographer at @ribesresearch.bsky.social at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Interested in the distribution of all aspects of plant life on Earth. See https://www.ru.nl/en/people/weigelt-p
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lorentzcenter.bsky.social
Join on 11/11 our public lecture 'Why study islands? An introduction to the insular world', at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
Speaker is José María Fernández-Palacios, professor of the University of La Laguna. He will talk about how species adapt or go extinct as island environments change. bit.ly/47rAgpd
Lorentz Lecture - Why study islands? - Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
This public lecture is part of the week-long Lorentz Center workshop ‘Merging biology and geology to study island biodiversity‘.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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ribesresearch.bsky.social
Job alert: 2 PhD positions in Thermal Ecology, Ecophysiology, or Invasion Biology
Application deadline = 17 October 2025
Read more! ⤵️
#jobalert #academicjobs #phdjob #researchjobs #phdposition
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Thermal Ecology, Ecophysiology or Invasion Biology (two openings) | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD in Thermal Ecology, Ecophysiology or Invasion Biology at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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nicholaswu.bsky.social
New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#OpenScience #FAIRdata
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Patrick Weigelt
zurelllab.bsky.social
How reliable are model-based blacklists of invasive plant species if occurrence & environmental data are limited & under different model choices? New paper by PhD researcher Valén Holle @jappliedecology.bsky.social #SDM #invasive #plants #Pacific besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Uncertainty in blacklisting potential Pacific plant invaders using species distribution models
SDMs can provide valuable support for planning the preventive management of alien species. However, our findings show that blacklist outcomes are highly sensitive to modelling decisions. While ensemb....
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September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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julianschrader.bsky.social
Thrilled to see my Tansley insight review published in @newphyt.bsky.social!

I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key opportunities for future research in island systems.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trait‐based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities
Understanding the future of ecological communities under global change is among the most pressing challenges in plant ecology. Islands, with their reduced species diversity and clear boundaries, have...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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jcsvenning.bsky.social
New in @pnas.org we assess future #climate exposure for 32,089 species of #trees🌳
🔹69% face unprecedented climates in ≥10% of range
🔹In taiga & Amazonia >50% of local tree diversity exposed
🔹 31% of species retain >90% of range in stable climates -> important climate refugia♨️
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
June 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
patrickweigelt.bsky.social
Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de
June 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
A natural language processing pipeline for large-scale extraction & digitization of plant functional trait information

New in #AppsPlantSci by @viktordo.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social et al

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MachineLearning #botany #PlantEcology
The NLP pipeline used for the prediction of categorical and numerical traits based on textual species descriptions. The description first goes through a preprocessing pipeline and then enters the categorical machine learning (ML) pipeline (violet), categorical deep learning (DL) pipeline (blue), and numerical DL pipeline (green). Within the corresponding pipelines, the description is further preprocessed if necessary and then tokenized and transformed into a vector embedding. Finally, the vector embedding is put into the corresponding model head and the model returns a prediction with an associated confidence score.
June 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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jsarmentocabral.bsky.social
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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May 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Thanks for publishing with #AppsPlantSci, @viktordo.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social et al!
June 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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amandataylor.bsky.social
Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...
June 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
patrickweigelt.bsky.social
Tired of digitizing biodiversity data by hand? Consider using large language models to, for example, extract plant functional traits from unstructured texts: See bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... led by @viktordo.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de, @exeter.ac.uk, @ribesresearch.bsky.social
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text
Premise Functional plant ecology seeks to understand how functional traits govern species distributions, community assembly, and ecosystem functions. While global trait datasets have advanced the fi...
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ribesresearch.bsky.social
Job alert: Postdoc Position in Peat Land Use and Paludiculture Value Chains 🏞️ 🔗 💧 🌱
Are you or is someone you know passionate about sustainability, peatlands and paludiculture? And are you looking for a postdoc position? Then go to our website and apply by 1 June 2025!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoc Position: Peat Land Use and Paludiculture Value Chains | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Peat Land Use and Paludiculture Value Chains at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
May 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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amandataylor.bsky.social
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
www.wur.nl
April 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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uni-goettingen.de
Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others?

Researchers at our Uni explored the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#NatureEcology&Evolution: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
showing stream in foreground, flanked by lush, green flourishing trees in front of mountains in background which are grey-brown and show a much harsher environment. The interplay of environmental conditions and geographical barriers such as mountains and lakes determine where plants thrive – an international study shows how these patterns have developed over millions of years. Image thanks to Professor Holger Kreft
April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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gortegasolis.bsky.social
Dani's new prepr. (she doesn't have bsky)

🌿 Tropical Africa has up to 84% fewer ferns than other tropical regions. Massive extinctions during the Paleogene and Miocene wiped out native lineages, with over half of current diversity coming from recolonization.
#evolution
#macroecology #biogeography
Summary graph of the dispersal event reconstructions of the buildup of fern diversity on the main tropical continents. The circles show the total numbers of fern species in each continent (dashed circles) and the numbers of species included in the phylogeny (filled circle), with the colored pie segments showing the biogeographical origins of the current fern species, corresponding to lineages present in a continent over the last 66 my. The bar graphs indicate the timing of the first appearance of an extant fern lineage on each continent. Lines indicate the direction of the dispersal events between areas, and the numbers correspond to the mean numbers of dispersal events.
April 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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ribesresearch.bsky.social
Hooray - dr. Jelle Hilbers has won this year's University Education Talent Award of Radboud University! Congrats 👏
April 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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lnvh.nl
In many cities, universities and colleges are closing their doors for a day, in protest against the proposed cuts in higher education. The strike is an initiative of, among others, @woinactie.bsky.social, the @aob.nl and @fnv.bsky.social, the student unions and various action groups.
March 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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ribesresearch.bsky.social
Job alert: PhD Position Environmental Assessment of Green Hydrogen
Are you or is someone you know looking for a PhD position in environmental science? Then please read more on our website and apply by 16 March 2025!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#phdposition #vacancy #environmentalscience #greenhydrogen
PhD Position: Environmental Assessment of Green Hydrogen | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Environmental Assessment of Green Hydrogen at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
February 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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ribesresearch.bsky.social
Job alert: postdoc position Wildlife Ecology (22 months)
Are you or is someone you know looking for a postdoc position in ecology? Then go to our website and apply by 20 April 2025! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#postdoc
#postdocjob
#academicjobs
#researchjobs
#vacancy
#ecology
#wildlifeecology
Postdoc Position: Wildlife Ecology | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Wildlife Ecology at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
February 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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amandataylor.bsky.social
Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.
February 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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smartenwinter.bsky.social
▶️GUBIC: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants◀️

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A unique collection also supported by #sDiv's synthesis working group #sGubik www.idiv.de/sgubik led by @djli.bsky.social & Luke Potgieter
GUBIC: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants
By integrating multiple data sources, we compiled a Global Urban Biological Invasions Compendium (GUBIC) for vascular plants representing 553 urban centres from 61 countries across every continent ex...
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February 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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zurelllab.bsky.social
Excited to share new preprint by PhD candidate Anna Rönnfeldt „Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants depends on introduction history and biogeographic context“ highlighting context dependency in climate niche shifts of species introduced in multiple world regions doi.org/10.1101/2025...
February 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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biomoni.bsky.social
Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/
BioMonI
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February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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julianschrader.bsky.social
Only 8 days left to apply for our fully-funded 4 years #PhD position in island biogeography for plants!
Work with Prof Rampal Etienne and me at @unigroningen.bsky.social & Macquarie University in #Sydney.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity!

Please share widely!
Global PhD in island biogeography for plants
This scholarship supports PhD candidates studying ecology and evolutionary biology of plants. Research in Groningen, The Netherlands, and in Sydney, Australia.
www.mq.edu.au
January 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM