Yesterday at the REC Seminar, Professor @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social offered her perspective on building a career in research — a valuable session for our early career scientists! 😊💫
06.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday at the REC Seminar, Professor @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social offered her perspective on building a career in research — a valuable session for our early career scientists! 😊💫
06.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greetings from the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland! Our postdoc sammi97lai.bsky.social presented her work showing that the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in the #BalticSea are strongly context dependent, varying across biodiversity facets and tropic levels. 🌊 #plankton
02.03.2026 09:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🦋 This week in the REC Seminar, doctoral researcher Lola Fernández Multigner introduced us to the "Genetic Consequences of Range Dynamics in Finnish Butterflies". Thank you Lola!
27.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A throwback to the REC Seminar a couple of weeks ago 📸—coordinator and science communicator Pinja Kettunen sharing her best tips for making scientific presentations more visually effective.
25.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, postdoc Tanel Vahter visited Professors Normand and Svenning at Aarhus University to discuss methods and future collaboration between Aarhus, Helsinki & Tartu on historical land-use legacies. He also presented results from his Marie Curie Fellowship on long-term soil legacies in Estonia.
23.02.2026 06:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two more days to apply for a postdoctoral position in Biodiversity Economics! DL 18.2.
The successful candidate will play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision.
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
This work was made possible by Karel Kaurila - my PhD student who will defend his thesis in a month.
I will also present this in ISBA world meeting this year.
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📢 We are hiring!
Post doc: Do you want to play a key role in developing and applying economic models to assess impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem service provision? You might be the person we are looking for!
See more: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
DL for applications: 18.2.
@annaliisalaine.bsky.social
04.02.2026 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greetings from the Laine Lab Annual Meeting in Tallinn! We spent two great days sharing research updates, exchanging work and wellbeing hacks, and debating whether and how researchers should strive for societal impact. A guided tour of Tallinn’s Old Town was a refreshing way to wrap it all up!
04.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Does local adaptation shape community assembly?
Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠
doi.org/10.32942/X2G...
@erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social
REC:n johtaja @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kertoo BEF-hankkeesta, joka selvittää, miten biodiversiteetti ja ihmistoiminta säätelevät luonnon elintärkeitä ekosysteemitoimintoja.
Mukana myös @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social, @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social ja Tomas Roslin.
Subtitles also in english!
We’ve been welcoming many new faces lately! Today, postdoc Mahtab Yazdanian kicked off the REC Spring Seminar Series by sharing her past work and her exciting plans ahead. She’ll be working closely with @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social on #geneticdiversity. Welcome to the team, Mahtab!
22.01.2026 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 022 subalpine meadows, 1 177 396 flowers from 163 taxa, 9707 insect pollinators. The results of this extraordinary effort are now published! 🐝🌷
20.01.2026 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sustainable land management practices, such as carbon farming, offer promising alternatives to intensive agriculture. Carbon farming practices can support biodiversity when tailored to species group and context.
20.01.2026 10:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Olemme mukana Priodiversity LIFE:n ja Lukkin järjestämässä Luontotietopäivässä 22.1.2026! @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social kertoo aamusessiossa tutkimuksen näkökulmia monimuotoisuusseurantoihin ja niiden kehittämiseen. Tilaisuuden tarkempi ohjelma täällä: www.metsa.fi/projekti/pri...
19.01.2026 08:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Greetings from the EnvStat Winter Workshop held at the Lammi biological station! ❄️ We at the Environmental and Ecological Statistics group focus on ecological and environmental change research, statistical methods development, and supporting environmental management and decision-making.
15.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
We’re kicking off the year with the first REC newsletter —featuring recent publications, projects, and upcoming events! Read it here: mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...
07.01.2026 10:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We are all very thankful for the past year and happy to welcome the next one! Stay tuned for more exciting REC news. ✨️
31.12.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎄Wrapping up the year with our last REC Seminar: Laura Cappelatti from the NorEcoFun group explained how they study tundra carbon exchange under current environmental pressures. ✨
15.12.2025 08:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
REC Seminar (Week 49): Veera Nieminen presented her work titled “Impact of host population change on microbial diversity and disease risk.” 🦠🌿
10.12.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!
04.12.2025 06:13 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Tänään sitä saisi, tiedettä siis! 😍
Uusien professoreidemme juhlaluennot alkavat kello 14.30 ja niitä voi seurata mm. striimin kautta.
Luvassa 20 minuutin katsauksia siihen, mitä tutkimme juuri nyt.
🏛️Professori Tomas Roslin pitää juhlaluentonsa ”Lajien vuorovaikutus muuttuvassa maailmassa” keskiviikkona 3.12.2025 klo 16:00 yliopiston päärakennuksessa. #uudetprofessorit #UniversityofHelsinki #biojaympäristötieteellinen
02.12.2025 09:25 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In today’s REC Seminar Sammi explained how she studies the connection between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems such as the Baltic Sea. 🌊 #EnvStat
27.11.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social
20.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Miten hyönteisten runsautta voidaan arvioida? 🐝 Ovatko niiden määrät vähenemässä? 🦗 Miksi sen tietäminen on tärkeää? 🐜 REC:n professorit Tomas Roslin ja Jarno Vanhatalo vastaavat YLEn luontotoimittaja Minna Pyykön kysymyksiin. Kuuntele haastattelu alta!
20.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In today's REC seminar, Perttu Anttonen explained how they study the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions such as the yield, abundance, and phenology of mushrooms, fruit trees, and moths. 🍄🍏 #EnvStat
20.11.2025 13:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Ecological Society of America just highlighted our article among 5 notable studies recently published in their journals!
In this work, Dr. Parisy et. al. show that environmental conditions drive opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi.
esa.org/blog/2025/11...
In today's REC Seminar, Natalie van Dis gave a talk titled: "Population buffering effect of vegetation heterogeneity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly depends on the type of climatic perturbation" 🦋
13.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
