Huge congratulations to Pamela Medina van Berkum on successfully defending her PhD! Supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social and Jonathan Gershenzon, her work on how plant biodiversity shapes chemical defenses bridges ecology, chemistry, and evolution. Pam is now part of Sybille’s group at @uni-kiel.de.

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!⭐

Pamela Medina-van Berkum explored whether introduced ribwort plantain populations differed from native populations in growth and chemical defence traits🛡️

Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Tropical ecologists on Bluesky - where are you? Let's network.
go.bsky.app/5B14mCT
There's one by Emilio on plants too: go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

Warum koexistieren in artenreichen Wäldern so viele Baumarten und wie hängt dies mit bestimmten räumlichen Mustern der Baumarten zusammen? Ein vom #UFZ geleitetes internationales Team hat unerwartete Muster in der räumlichen Verteilung von Baumarten entdeckt. @nature.com
www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

I am thrilled that this study by my former PhD student and current postdoc Chrisin Walther is now published in Ecology Letters! Congratulations Tine!!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...