Joshua Lynn

The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q
@nordicoikos.bsky.social

If you squint, you can see Manchester!

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Chupei, sitting in a green grassland, measuring CO2 fluxes using a transparent chamber. In the back you can see the IBS tanks used to simulate flooding in this field experiment.

The field team during a coffee break on a very hot day - the farmer created shade to sit in by lifting a large box into the air with his tractor

One of the field experiments, showing the structures built to simulate drought and flooding in the field plots

The field team being silly

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage?

We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd!

Please RT or forward!
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Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

"Adversarial collaboration" is a great idea. There are a few hypotheses I've worked on that could benefit from this form of collaboration.
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I like that @britishecologicalsociety.org is creative with their "page not found" error message. Are they working with a Hutchinsonian, Grinnellian, or Eltonian niche concept?

I am honoured to be given platform to present our work on FOSSILPOL!🫶
Come join the seminar(!) but The slides and recording will be publicly available😉
Also checkout the website of the project 🔗https://bit.ly/FOSSILPOL!

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I've been this my whole career...

We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Workshops ⇽ Oikos Norway 2025 | Nordic Society Oikos

Going to @nordicoikos.bsky.social #OikosNorway2025? We have great signup for our #workshop on how & why #ecologists could & should engage in #science-policy and #scicom, but can fit more, so pls consider joining us!
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We propose additional lines of evidence that would support and distinguish the two mechanisms of ND. Echoing Kaspari and Welti, we need to fire up the C:N analysers and ICP-OES's to get to the bottom of how global change is altering the nutritional landscape.
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The paper lays out how continuing ND may be driving herbivore declines. This inspired Chris Taylor, Bred Beckett, and myself to propose a complementary mechanism of biochemical ND called community ND, where global changes additionally alter plant communities to favour less nutritious species.

@mikekaspari.bsky.social and Ellen Welti recently wrote an excellent piece on how rising carbon dioxide and other global changes are driving plants to become larger and more carbon-rich at the expense of their relative nutrient content - coined Nutrient Dilution (ND). doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution Kaspari and Welti [1] argued that reductions in plant nutrient concentration in response to CO2 fertilisation, nutrient flux out of ecosystems, and other global changes have led to invertebrate population declines by decreasing the bite-by-bite…

Online now: Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution

Seeking a leader to support Nature-Based Solutions. Key research areas: ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change (past/present), sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation; ecosystem resilience; and the role of biotic interactions in biogeochemical cycles.

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Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!

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Destroyer is back!
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PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk

Hey Ondrej! Hope you are well too! I would certainly have your student apply. They offer good travel grants to those who are accepted and registration, accommodation, and meals are covered. It's a good value meeting!
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

I went to this back in 2019 in Dublin. Great opportunity!

Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125) | Universitetet i Bergen Stillingstittel: Stipendiat i anvendt økologi (273125), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: fredag 31. januar 2025

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in applied ecology to devellop #climate and #nature budgeting approaches to support knowledge-based decision-making a the municipailty level. 🧪🗺️🌿🍄🐜 @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

University of Bristol Life Sciences Building

🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...

How does nitrogen availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal functioning in forests? at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - How does nitrogen availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal functioning in forests? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD opportunity available! Come work with Filipa Cox (primary advisor) and me on plant-fungal functioning in response to global change!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Computer modelling of extinction, and the impact of environmental stress at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Computer modelling of extinction, and the impact of environmental stress at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

@russellgarwood.bsky.social and I have a funded PhD opportunity open using computer models to explore extinction dynamics with environmental stress. Please distribute and contact Russell or me for more information!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Colonization and extinction lags drive non‐linear responses to warming in mountain plant communities across the Northern Hemisphere Global warming is changing plant communities due to the arrival of new species from warmer regions and declining abundance of cold-adapted species. However, experimentally testing predictions about t...

What can 44 whole-community transplant experiments from 22 mountain ranges tell us about mountain plant biodiversity? 🌿🏔️ Our first paper from the TransPlant Network is published today in @ecography.bsky.social !

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I'll mostly use this platform to promote cool work, promote work by myself, collaborators, and group members (so the coolest work!), and post and share opportunities coming up in my research group at UM. I'll also occasionally post about movies, music, books, and light vegan propaganda.

More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory Herbivory rates have classically been hypothesized to decrease from the tropics towards higher latitudes because the more benign abiotic conditions in tropical systems foster greater ecosystem comple...

And finally, I'm fascinated by what drives variation in how much plant biomass is consumed by herbivores, particularly invertebrates, with a focus on the interaction of climate and nutrition in explaining spatial patterns.
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