Interested in #biodiversity #bioinformatics #invasivespecies #metabarcoding #eDNA and aquatic ecosystems (e.g. mountain lakes & marine coastal areas)? We are advertising a 4-year postdoctoral position (call: x.com/CSIC/status/18…) CEAB-CSIC Details here: riuslab.com/opportunities/

This week in Nature: Lonely plants – isolation in arid environments drives high levels of trait diversity. Browse the full issue: nature.com/nature/volumes…

"Scientists today are witnessing the natural world disappear & are quietly & carefully documenting the details for the benefit of future generations, with the feeling that this process is unstoppable given its strength (the Badia effect)" ESA Frontiers esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We will be very happy to welcome you all in Belgium for #Neobiota2026 🎉🇧🇪🍫🍟 with INBO - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek Belgian Biodiversity LIFE RIPARIAS Natuur en Bos Bruxelles Environnement - Leefmilieu Brussel

🚨 Call for Applications! 🚨 Join the Youth Task Force for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and help shape global policy and advocate for youth-led action! 🌍✨ 👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/nRr5C #YouthLeadership #EcosystemRestoration #ClimateAction

If sleep is the only kind of rest you get this weekend, You're setting yourself up to fail next week. There are actually 7 types of rest we need, explains Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, And sleep is only a PART of ONE of those 7:

There's still time to join the Invasive Species Awareness 2024 Bioblitz! The iNaturalist user who makes the most invasive species observations in each region by September 16, 2024 will win a prize. Get reporting:bit.ly/49Mtw3s

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Slugs clearly have a PR problem, so we asked an expert to help put things right. 👉 theconversation.com/in-defence-of-… #slugs #science #pr

Butterflies- not just beautiful, but essential! 🦋 Sadly, they are declining in many areas of the world... Protecting pollinators safeguards #biodiversity. Learn more: @ipbes #PollinationAssessment 📚 ipbes.net/assessment-rep… 🖌️Design by Eleanor Lutz

Impacts of cats on biodiversity have been, are, and (as shown by this new preprint) will be huge Authors reviewed threats to almost 4500 tetrapods to predict that within 50 years some 140 species could be driven to extinction by cats in a bussiness-as-usual scenario (1/3)

Field Inclusive will be at ECU giving our workshop on social field safety on September 20th! If you will be at or attend ECU, find out more and register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

👉The intensity of agriculture in 7 countries that entered the EU in 2004 and 2007 increased after the accession, while farmland bird population trends started to decline. 🧐Read the new paper based on the PECBMS data in Science of the Total Environment: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

Goat herd chows down to help rid Nose Hill Park of invasive plants youtube.com/watch?v=7q8Kj1…

PhD degree position available in ambrosia beetle-fungus coevolution: University of Florida Forest Entomology lab pitchtube.org/phd-degree-in-… Short film here: youtu.be/qh81JvaqKJc

Global invasion and biosecurity risk from the online trade in ornamental crayfish - just out in Conservation Biology. We conducted the first global assessment of the online trade in and associated invasion risk of freshwater crayfishes. doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… OA UW SAFS UW College of the Environment

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When macrophytes grow in large numbers, they are often removed. Study in Science of the Total Environment led by NIVA with IGB Berlin showed for 6 freshwater systems in 5 countries that the "do nothing" option should be considered when dealing with aquatic plants 👉igb-berlin.de/en/news/managi…

Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study theguardian.com/environment/ar…