Katharina Albrich

This is extremely cool - would be awesome to have such a public archive of our @luke.fi and its predecessor organisations!

I actually use Copilot (rarely) but it's ridiculous that I have to spend time finding workarounds to keep these AI integrations from actively making my working life less efficient.

As if it's not enough that AI gets forced into every software imaginable, now it messes up my hardware? My new (company-provided) keyboard has a "Copilot" button instead of the right ctrl. 😡 Had to remap it back to ctrl because it was messing up my typing. Guess I'll be buying my own keyboards.

Nein danke, ich denke noch selbst 🌿 Die Suchmaschine will mir mit KI das Denken abnehmen. Als Biologin weiß ich: Die besten Funde macht man auf Umwegen. Warum ich wieder öfter rausgehe.

🌿 Hab das Gefühl, je mehr uns KI aufs Auge gedrückt wird, um unser "Leben zu erleichtern", umso komplizierter und verkrachter wird das alles. Ein paar außer-der-Reihe-Gedanken dazu:

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#PostDocAlert! PhD in #ForestEcology, #QuantitativeEcology or #ComputationalBiology?
Strong background in statistics & experience with large datasets? Our Forest Diversity and Biodemography research group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... #ScienceJobs #PostDoc

Research Assistant, Forest landscape modelling, Helsinki - Natural Resources Institute Finland Open job: Research Assistant, Forest landscape modelling, Helsinki, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

Are you a student our recent graduate interested in forest biodiversity and experienced with data management and coding?
@safenet-eu.bsky.social at @luke.fi is looking for a research assistant this summer!

Apply online: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

Trees4Adapt kick-off: Setting priorities and exploring strategies

We met up in the darkest month in Helsinki but luckily exciting project plans and lovely community spirit brightened things up tat our @trees4adapt.bsky.social kick-off meeting. A particular highlight was the first meeting with stakeholders from our Finnish Case Study.
www.luke.fi/en/news/tree...

Trees4Adapt project launched to address risks from climate change and biodiversity loss through tree-based solutions

Our project @trees4adapt.bsky.social is already off on a smooth start since our official launch last October.
Read more about what we are doing in the official press release!

www.luke.fi/en/news/tree...

Are we reaching a point where more resources are spent on the funding application process than actual science? Worth reading: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I have started wondering about this regarding personal and institutional resources but hadn't considered that it might happen system-wide.

We’re launching a global survey to capture expert insights on forest disturbance change. Please consider participating and share widely with colleagues working in the field — especially those whose forests are often underrepresented in global assessments
👉 www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Seedling growing in the forest

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

An eventful day in winter wonderland! It was a pleasure to show Satakunta forest diversity experiments to colleagues from @trees4adapt.bsky.social project

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

Job offer: PostDoc in “Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in European forests in the face of global changes” 80-100% (f/m/d) The aim of the projects is to investigate the impact of global changes on temperate forests toward designing management plans that allows ecosystem resilience and high levels of biodiversity. Within these projects, you will develop standard and more efficient ecological monitoring methodologies to understand how different aspects of biodiversity and/or associated ecosystem processes, in particular deadwood decomposition, in forests are altered by global change factors such as climate change, disturbances, and management-induced structural changes at different spatial and temporal scales. Through this research, you will gain a better mechanistic understanding of these relationships as a basis for predicting future changes related to management decisions and climate change. To measure biodiversity, you will use cutting-edge DNA-based methods, such as e-DNA metabarcoding of fungi, from soil and dead wood, and detecting arthropods and mammals from vegetation surfaces. Data on biodiversity and forest functions will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary manner. Depending on your skills and expertise, you can focus on more technical aspects of biodiversity quantification using eDNA, fundamental ecological research questions on modelling ecosystem processes or the more applied design of management practices. You are expected to publish your findings in high-impact journals and present them at international conferences. You hold a PhD degree in Biology or Environmental Sciences or in a related field and have a strong background forest ecology, in DNA-based biodiversity assessments (e-DNA metabarcoding), bioinformatics and multivariate statistical analyses, and/or experimental planning. Furthermore, we expect very good knowledge in R programming, a good command of English, as well as strong skills in scientific paper writing.

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

Good discussions today at the stakeholder kick-off meeting in Pori about our case study on diversifying Finnish forests in @trees4adapt.bsky.social project. Heading back to the UK now. Many thanks to @mdpashkevich.bsky.social, @albrichk.bsky.social and @luke.fi team for organizing the meeting! 🌲🌳❄️

Successful day 2 of the Trees4Adapt kick-off meeting in Helsinki! 🌿

We worked on our case studies in Germany, Portugal, and Finland, looking at how more biodiversity, and the right stakeholders, can make real impact.

And yes, we wrapped up with a sauna!

#TreeBasedSolution #TreeBiodiversity

The Trees4Adapt team is in Helsinki for our kick-off meeting! Two days of planning, good discussions, a cold ferry to Suomenlinna, and a sauna ahead. A strong start to a Horizon Europe project on tree-based solutions 🌱

#Trees4adapt
#TreeBasedSolution #MissionClimateAdapt
#EUproject
#KickingOff

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻
Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg.

A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

These are really cool positions. Especially the coordinator role really seems tempting! 😀

@trees4adapt.bsky.social people - nice opportunity to hear about research closely related to ours, but from another ecosystem!

I’m also really tired of seeing AI art. I don’t care if your diagram looks ugly or your photo is basic, it is instantly more interesting if it was made by a human!

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science - Natural Resources Institute Finland Open job: Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

Open position for a methods-savvy PhD student to work on combining diverse data sources to understand forests! Great chance to work on an important topic with Mari Myllymäki and me + collaborators across Europe. Please apply (by 31st Oct) or share forward valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

Das ist wirklich schön zu hören, Daumen werden gehalten fuer einen gesunden Herbst und Winter ❤️

🌳 New Mission Adaptation to Climate Change project: @trees4adapt.bsky.social

Over the next 4 years, we’ll work across Europe to co-
develop tree-based solutions for climate resilience and biodiversity.

📢 Follow our updates here and on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/tree...

#Trees4Adapt #NBS

Home - English - SmartForest SmartForest creates a space to find solutions that will make forestry more digital, innovative, sustainable, and climate adjusted.

We're once again hosting the "Smart Forest" conference in Freising from March 12th-13th 2026!
🌳🎯💻
If you're excited about digitalization of forestry and bringing together theory and practice, apply now at smartforest.ai/en/home-engl...

@wernerrammer.bsky.social @johannesmohr.bsky.social

Using archived television video footage to quantify phenology responses to climate change Predicting how the timing of cyclic life-history events, such as leafing and flowering, respond to climate change is of paramount importance due to the cascading impacts of vegetation phenology on...

A few things I like: cycling, ecology, creative use of unusual historical datasets. Today I discovered this paper by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social et al. combining all three, tracking phenology shifts using Tour of Flanders footage. Very cool.😀🚴‍♂️🍃
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Old-growth forest, dominated by mature spruce trees. A lot of downed deadwood and many young trees in the foreground.

A podzol soil profile with a very clear grey eluvial horizon

A group of people wearing orange safety vests, standing in a birch forest and discussing

Very cool field course on forest restoration (focus on deadwood+soils) last week. Organized by #Priodiversity project in Evo (also a CS area in @safenet-eu.bsky.social).
Great to visit the Evo restoration experiment and Kotinen old-growth. My highlight: reactivating my soil knowledge (yay podzols)

YouTube video by ERINN Innovation SafeNet Project Explainer Video: Safeguarding Biodiversity and Carbon-rich Forest Networks in Europe

🎥✨Our project video is live!

#SafeNet is working to safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest networks across Europe🌲🌳

Watch the animated video to learn more!

📽️ youtu.be/pKzUwJ6qShg

#Biodiversity #OldGrowth #Forests #CarbonCapture #EUProject

@luke.fi

@erinninnovation.bsky.social

How expensive are 🪲💨🔥?! I can‘t believe it, but my 2nd PhD paper is finally published @natclimate.nature.com! Disturbances lower the economic value of Europes 🌲 by 29%... Climate change will increase it to up to 42%! (Now imagine a company looses 42% of its value…) doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9