Christoph Scherber

Zeichnung des Silbergrünen Bläulings. Ein kleiner blauer Falter mit einer schwarzen Flügelbinde.

Nun ist es wohl offiziell, der Grünlandschmetterlings-Indikator wird nicht verpflichtend in die Nationale Wiederherstellungsverordnung in Deutschland aufgenommen. 😔🦋

Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT) Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...

#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035

@cscherber.bsky.social

Know your rights when voting today.

BugNet currently includes 36 experimental sites in 18 countries 🌍.

Huge thanks to all collaborators for their enthusiasm and teamwork!!

We’re also looking for new collaborators to join this global effort to understand how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape ecosystems.
🌐 bug-net.org

Diese Kampagne braucht deine Unterstützung An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!

Der Brief und die Möglichkeit zur Unterschrift sind unter folgendem Link zu finden:

chng.it/VhcP5tDBBY

Wäre interessant, wie das für andere Bundesländer aussieht... Niedersachsen, NRW, Bayern?

Why does the Soil Monitoring matter?

Check out our NGO letter to EU ambassadors, sent ahead of the discussions and vote among Member States today, where we urged EU countries to take a strong stand on the Soil Monitoring Law:

eeb.org/library/lett...

Thank you so much for being a guiding and strong voice in those turbulent times, giving orientation to many

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The Guardian on our study published today:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Wow. Check this out.
Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot!
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

5 Mrd t CO2. Wtf. Das sind 100 Jahre Ausstoß der 50 Zementwerke in D ohne irgendeine Dekarbonisierung.

I'm searching for primary papers&photographs from field experiments in terrestrial ecology on the following topics:
-pollution experiments (e. g.light,noise, information pollution)
-habitat fragmentation experiments
-whole ecosystem&natural experiments (e.g.volcanic eruptions BACI design etc.)

It's for a book I am currently writing, get in touch if you have any photographs or would like to point me towards your favorite study.

I'm searching for primary papers&photographs from field experiments in terrestrial ecology on the following topics:
-pollution experiments (e. g.light,noise, information pollution)
-habitat fragmentation experiments
-whole ecosystem&natural experiments (e.g.volcanic eruptions BACI design etc.)

Thank you so much. How important!

War on universities, war on science, war on knowledge

Map of land managed by the forest service in green and bureau of land management in Orange, potentially for sale in the American west.

Millions of acres of our shared lands in the American West may be up for sale. The catastrophic damage of plundering these lands is unimaginable, for now and future generations. Out here we are in deep relationship with the land. It’s habitat, it’s home.

wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Is there a recent paper on that? Best wishes

It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me...

Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

This should be front page news everywhere

Why glaciologists believe the Birch Glacier collapsed, burying a nearby Swiss town The landslide flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten.

Another very concerning result of ongoing human-caused global warming and climate change
“The collapse likely occurred as a result of permafrost thawing underneath and along the sidewalls surrounding the glacier”

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Outstanding postdoc position on ecology and biogeography with @biogeokreft.bsky.social
@unigoettingen.bsky.social

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

Ein neurechtes Einfallstor Seit Jahren drängt die Neue Rechte in den literarischen Diskurs – Torsten Hoffmann erforscht diese Interventionen

Torsten Hoffmann von der Uni Stuttgart forscht zum Versuch der Neuen Rechten, über Literatur – Klassiker wie Gegenwartsliteratur – eine Tür zum Bürgertum aufzustoßen. Die Strategie besteht u. a. darin, Romane zu rezensieren, um so Leser*innen auf ihre Websites zu locken.

Mein Interview in der ak!

A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king | Robert Reich The bill could stop federal courts from enforcing their rulings, eliminating any restraint on Trump

1/2 Buried in the GOP’s budget bill is a dictator clause—a sneaky provision that would let Trump ignore court orders without consequence. It guts enforcement of contempt rulings unless plaintiffs post a bond, making the judiciary toothless.
This would crown Trump king.
🔗 tinyurl.com/Crown-Trump

Egal ob exzellent oder nicht: Für mich geht es um exakte, saubere, nachvollziehbare Wissenschaft, um der Wahrheit ein Stück näher zu kommen. Die Natur ist ohnehin zu komplex, zu organisch, zu selbstorganisiert, um sie rein rational begreifen zu können.

Leaving synthetic pesticides behind

Towards reducing pesticides worldwide:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7806

Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Security: An Annotated History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Security Assessments (Part 1: to 2010) Summary: For more than half a century, U.S. intelligence and defense communities have worked to understand the threats to national and international security from a range of enviro

For 60 years, unclassified US defense and intelligence reports assessed security threats from environmental, #water, and #climate risks.

These assessments are now being deleted, censored, and canceled. I document, annotate, and link to them here (first of 3 posts):

www.gleick.com/blog/climate...

To Save This Critically Endangered Bird, It Takes a Village • The Revelator The Bali myna once faced extinction from the illegal wildlife trade. An unusual approach may have helped save them.

“The community is required to preserve the balance of nature,” Astawa says. If someone is caught hunting the birds, “his photo is put up in the village office to embarrass him.” therevelator.org/bali-myna/

A very useful summary.