@schob.bsky.social
Plant community ecologist with particular interests in crops. Head of the Agricultural Ecology group at IICG-URJC and co-founder of Agroecology Solutions
🌱 El pasado jueves, 6 de noviembre, Christian Schöb (@schob.bsky.social ) y José María Iriondo (@txiriondo.bsky.social ), investigadores del IICG y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social , participaron en la Jornada "Extremadura: Parientes silvestres de los cultivos, clave para la agricultura del futuro"...
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The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
Crop wild relatives for climate change-resilient crops project (COUSIN), an internacional (EU Horizon Europe) project lead by Christian Schöb ( @schob.bsky.social ), IICG researcher has the following latest publications:
🔹COUSIN is now on the EU CAP Network: https://n9.cl/g3ufy
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🚨Today starts the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’ organised by #CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Projects
👨🔬@schob.bsky.social , researcher at the #IICG, will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
🚨#CROPDIVA and #LEGENDARY Proyects welcome guests from all over the world for the II International Symposium ‘Agrobiodiversity along the value chain’
🗣️@schob.bsky.social of the #IICG will give a conference called ‘Ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits of diversity in annual crop systems’
🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future!
➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i
🎉Congratulations to the Aprisco Experimental Station!🎉
🙌It has been accepted in the category ‘Research Infrastructures’ as a full member of the European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures.
@schob.bsky.social
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
24.04.2025 05:25 — 👍 23 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our work on the #AgroForageTreeProject
🌳🍃🐄 @snsf-ch.bsky.social
A partir del minuto 24:30, Elisa Pizarro explica el trabajo con la conservación de parientes silvestres de los cultivos y el #CropDiversityExperiment, de @schob.bsky.social
¡No te lo pierdas! 👇🏽
The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration
💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 deadline: september 2025
👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI
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Oferta de #trabajo para hacer muestreos de #POLINIZADORES en Madrid. El contrato de mayo a octubre, 20 h semanales y 800 euros mensuales.
Posibilidad de hacer el #TFM asociado. Seguro que @abejassilvestres.bsky.social o @buzzy-bee.bsky.social conocen interesados. Link en el siguiente post:
Können geografische Herkunftsbezeichnungen (z.B. AOC) genutzt werden um den Anbau pilzwiderstandsfähiger Rebsorten attraktiver zu machen und Pflanzenschutzmitteleinsatz zu reduzieren?
Agrarpolitik-Blog, lead Lucca Zachmann
agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/03/13/d...
Paper doi.org/10.1002/aepp...
Capitula of the 15 species of summer-flowering Asteraceae, tribe Cardueae, from the southern Iberian Peninsula considered in this study. In parentheses following species names are average dry mass of individual capitula, and abbreviations for the study site(s) where each species was investigated (SC, Sierra de Cazorla; SM, Sierra Morena; LG, lowlands of Guadalquivir River valley): 1, Carduus granatensis (2.68 g, SC); 2, Carlina gummifera (6.20 g, LG); 3, Carlina hispanica (0.52 g, SC, SM); 4, Carlina racemosa (0.26 g, SC, SM); 5, Carlina vulgaris (0.54 g, SC); 6, Carthamus lanatus (0.70 g, SC); 7, Centaurea calcitrapa (0.18 g, SC); 8, Centaurea ornata (0.45 g, SM); 9, Cirsium acaule (0.33 g, SC); 10, Cirsium odontolepis (5.98 g, SC); 11, Cirsium pyrenaicum (0.11 g, SC); 12, Cirsium vulgare (1.07 g, SC); 13, Mantisalca salmantica (0.10 g, SC); 14, Picnomon acarna (0.29 g, SC); 15, Ptilostemon hispanicus (1.23 g, SC). Species are depicted at different scales, black bar = 10 mm
🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination
📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments
tinyurl.com/mr2mkjrz
Applications Open for Our Summer School Until 31 March 2025! 🚀
📅 Dates: 4 - 16 August 2025
📍 Base Location: ETH PBLabs
🌿 Field Trips & Excursions 📚 Case Studies 🤝 Discussions with Stakeholders
Read more: bit.ly/3EjJFmE
#SustainableFoodSystems #SummerSchool #ETHZurich
@usyseth.bsky.social
📖Adrián Escudero, director del IICG, acaba de publicar un nuevo libro en @tundraediciones.bsky.social "Biodiversidad. Entre la urgencia por frenar su pérdida y su complejidad".
⚠️Puedes pedirlo ya en preventa👇
@schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #trabajo, de #gestordeproyectos y de #técnicosdecampo para experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO.
ℹ️Más información👉christian.schob@urjc.es
🚨Inscríbete👉 www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...
El #biodiverso @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @schob.bsky.social oferta 3 puestos de #TRABAJO, 1 como gestor del proyecto #COUSIN a tiempo parcial y 2 de #TécnicoDeCampo para los experimentos en #CULTIVE y #APRISCO en Monfragüe. Info: christian.schob@urjc.es
Inscripciones:
www.urjc.es/i-d-i/convoc...
Great fun hunting crop wild relatives in Taormina at the first annual meeting of the EU #COUSIN project in Sicily.
20.02.2025 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‚Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms’
Relevant new paper by Wan et al. in Nature Communications
„…synthesis shows that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have broad-scale detrimental effects on all groups of non-target organisms tested.…“
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
Soil community ecology, i.e. how different soil organisms (in particular microbes) interact with each other, influence community composition and ecosystem functioning. How does the ecological interaction network in soils look like?
08.02.2025 07:02 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Totally blown away by today's agroecology meeting that multi- species ant interactions work as excellent pest control for coffee too. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
08.02.2025 04:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sharing a great story on the power of transdisciplinary collaboration 🤝
🏫 The #RUNRES team reports on a successful innovation for improving sanitation systems in South African.
🎥 Check how this transformative journey for the students of Julukandoda Primary School : www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVG...
👀Después de la pausa, continuamos con la Mesa redonda sobre Experiencias en el Panel LS8 "Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution", moderada por @schob.bsky.social. Participan @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social, @annatraveset.bsky.social, José M. Gómez y Martí March.
03.02.2025 12:39 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🎉El próximo lunes tendrá lugar la Jornada Informativa sobre las ERC Grants. Vendrán @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social , Ana Traveset, José María Gómez y Martí March, componentes de la mesa redonda "Experiencias Panel LS8 -Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution- ERC", moderada por @schob.bsky.social
31.01.2025 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry
07.12.2024 13:31 — 👍 67 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 7
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’
As Joan Baez put it, "action is the antidote to despair"
Our review on the milpa is out, a multicropping system serving agroecology
comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
