If you are a Professor in Germany and you value your current and future postdocs, please consider signing your name in objection to the planned #WissZeitVG #ProfsfürHannah #IchBinHanna twitter.com/DieVilla4/stat…

The deadline for submissions to our special issue on Functional Island Biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/136526… is extended to 17th April 2023. Submit your articles and help define the future of this emerging field! #Island #biogeography

Islands🏝️+ mammals🐘🐃🐭+ body size evolution⚖️+ extinctions 🦤 Excited to share our paper ‘Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands’, published today in @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience #ScienceResearch science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… a🧵👇

Using a global dataset of >295,000 plant species we provide a global assessment of the importance of different plant life and growth forms to global patterns of plant diversity.

Very happy to share our preprint on 'the contribution of plant life and growth forms to global gradients of vascular plant diversity'. @BioGeoKreft @BioGeoMacro @Weigelt_P @lrcai 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@wile_phylote 😍

The undetectability of global trends on local species richness: our paper out today in @EcographyJourna. I think this settles the so called biodiversity change paradox.

It’s about time we find authentic ways to collaborate with and support Global South scientists. We must include budget, time, and recognition for our local partners. We need funding structures to change and journals to evolve. ‘Takes a village 🙌🏽 science.org/content/articl…

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it. But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.* Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

New name, same award: the call for nominees for the 2023 GBIF #GradResearchers Award is open! Two €5,000 awards await two graduate researchers whose innovative investigations of biodiversity rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🌍 deadline:19 June 2023 Details: gbif.org/news/6gyLOum00…

What can missing pollen grains tell us? Dark diversity in pollen data indicates expansion lags related to dispersal limitation and stress tolerance. Missing taxa are functionally redundant. @diegopftrindade @C_PCarmona @MacroecologyUT doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

@GiacomoPugliel1 @MacroecologyUT @NewPhyt @lrcai @BioGeoKreft @Weigelt_P @sMarten_Winter We really enjoyed reading it thanks a lot!!

Just updated #Rstudio and see that it now highlights colours, including hex codes🤯- making maps and figures just got a whole lot more fun!

@LucasGabor3 @AcademicChatter I was waiting for this comment 😅 I 100% totally agree with you it is less than ideal...it's the tail end of a grant I received & there is nothing else I can really do. Could work well for someone already based in Germany who is between projects, let's see!

Couldn't be more excited for the upcoming Island Biology conference!! twitter.com/IslandBiology/…

obp.uni-goettingen.de/en-us/OBF/Inde… here is the application link. Application deadline is February 10th 2023. Thanks!

This is a tail end of a DFG-funded project, which is why it’s only for 1 year 🙈it would be ideal for someone who recently graduated with a PhD and who wants a taster of what a postdoc is like, or a postdoc who is ‘in between’ projects and is already based in Germany/Europe. 2/n

Job alert🚨: We are offering a 1 year postdoc position in plant ecology to analyse a nice dataset and lead publications on how orchid-mycorrhizal fungi interactions drive orchid spatial patterns across islands. Read on for details and link to apply. Thread 1/n.

Last days to apply for this competitive PhD opportunity in my lab on genomically explicit ecological models! Please re-tweet! twitter.com/cabral_sarment…

Do you work with island #conservation and are you planning to attend the International Congress for Conservation Biology (conbio.org/mini-sites/icc…) next July, in Rwanda? @PGuedes26, @APalmeirim & I are looking for potential speakers for island-related symposium. Care to join? 🏝️

I miss the good old days when you only had to add an extra hour of 'wiggle room' when travelling with Deutsche Bahn to make sure you caught your international flight...now I see I should have known better 😒

@redkite79 @ESAMonographs @bugEcology Wow great news - congrats!

CLIFF HANGERS! I love #cycads. Here is Cycas clavicola, a relatively new Indonesian species (1999) that can grow on cliffs. cycadlist.org/taxon.php?Taxo…

@CamilleDelavaux 😵

Just received my 3rd review request in under 2 weeks! 'Tis the season!

The Faculty of Forest Sciences getting into the holiday spirit 😅

A tiny package to help you choose the right picture size for your ggplot. github.com/idmn/ggview #RStats #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday #dataviz

Thinking of all my fellow travellers from 🇩🇪 trying to get to #Metz 🇫🇷 today at the mercy of DB! At least it looks pretty outside 🥶 looking forward to catching up with colleagues at the @GfoeSoc ecology conference!

@Severin_Irl @GfoeSoc @sfecologie I am dreading my train journey tomorrow - I think I have to change 4 or 5 times with just 7-8 minutes between some connections 🥲 See you there!