@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social
Ecologist interested in biodiversity and the impacts of global change. In love with plants. Mother of two small humans. Group leader @uzh_geo she/her 🌈
🌳Interested in using genomics, metabolomics and/or remote sensing to study the drought tolerance of a majestic tree species? Apply for the PhD position in my group! Deadline: 8 December 2025. 🌳 @spatialgenetics.bsky.social jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
26.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A new small beech biodiversity experiment is starting today @Irchel :-)
190 4-year old beech saplings growing in two contrasting genetic diversity levels.
Although it was very muddy and snowy at times, we are happy to finally have the little trees in the ground.
@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social
@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social at the Basque Center of Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao (ES) presenting our research on Intraspecific Variation in Drought Responses in European Beech 🌍🌳
08.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Netanyahu announced full occupation of Gaza — while people starve, are displaced and killed.
This is genocide.
EU must act now:
- Impose a full arms embargo
- Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement
- Move to recognise Palestine
Stop the war. Ceasefire and humanitarian aid — now!
This is a really unique and exciting opportunity for a full professorship in Vienna. Come be my colleague @ter-cemess.bsky.social and join a fantastic group of scientists!
07.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du
15.03.2025 15:22 — 👍 74 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 4Abstract submission has been extended to 5 May 2025!
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📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission!
Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!
📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
After a successful workshop in Zurich! I am pleased to co-organize a symposium during the ESEB Barcelona on 17-22 August 2025.
If you are interested in discussing your research about adaptation and tree genomics you can submit your abstract before the 25th of April to eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social! We aim to unite researchers working on tree genomics in natural and experimental populations and on strategies for monitoring forest genetic diversity! @spatialgenetics.bsky.social @domcoqetc.bsky.social Submit your abstract here: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
11.04.2025 08:41 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
New paper from our group! We used remote sensing to identify subtle seasonal differences between closely related beech species and developed models that accurately distinguish them at assisted gene flow sites.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks! And I agree :-)
08.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌳 Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona in August! The abstract submission deadline is 25 April 2025. 🌳https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
02.04.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Abstract and registration deadline is tomorrow 23 March!
22.03.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Join the OptFORESTS & @euforgen.bsky.social webinar!
🌳 "Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest"
🗓️ 11 April | 🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST
How does #silviculture affect #genetic diversity?👉 Register now! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...
Join us for this! We would like to bring together as many people as possible who work on beech genomics. You can submit abstracts to present your work either as a talk or a poster, or just join for discussions and exchange. 🌳
17.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Beech forest - Germany
I am pleased to co-organize the "Beech Genomes for the Future" workshop on April 4th at the University of Zürich! 🌳
Are you working on or interested in beech genomics? Take a look and join us for this one-day workshop!
swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an...
We're organizing a thematic workshop on "Beech genomes for the future". Registration and abstract submission can be done via this link swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an.... We hope to interact with many people interested in finding a way to keep this forest species around!
06.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1is she poking her own forehead :-D
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Structural diversity is an important predictor of forest productivity responses to drought 🌲🧪
Productivity losses related to drought increased with greater structural diversity & decreased with functional identities characterized by conservative resource strategies 📊 🌏
🔗 https://buff.ly/40JUKEY
✒️ New Paper Alert!
#Sustainability #ImpactAssessments of #trade agreements tend to mute or belittle impacts on #biodiversity. Check out our suggestions for more inclusive, inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability impact assessments of trade agreements: rdcu.be/d9oHk
Happy to share our latest work towards monitoring functional diversity using #Sentinel-2 time series at @esa.int's #BIOSPACE25 conference in Frascati, Italy. Visit our poster and talk to our team from @spatialgenetics.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social! 😊
11.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
via @twisteddoodles.bsky.social in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science -
11.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively! enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10....
12.02.2025 08:42 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 The Genes from Space team recently hosted a workshop in Bern with over 100 participants (!!) joining to learn about our new monitoring tool. It enables users to use space-based Earth observation data to assess habitat suitability and estimate key genetic diversity metrics worldwide🌍
06.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🌍🌳 Using Sentinel 2- data, we showed that Swiss forests with higher functional diversity resist & recover better from drought! A step toward scaling BEF insights to real-world forests! Check out our new publication in GCB by @helfenstein.earth et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
06.02.2025 12:43 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A couple of years ago, I switched fields a bit by starting to work with European beech. The more I get to know this tree species, the more I appreciate and love it. Now, the first paper – written together with MSc student Dave Kurath – is out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
03.02.2025 08:40 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Save the date: 14th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, 2-4 June 2026 at Aalto University, hosted by my team! is.earsel.org/workshop/14-...
29.01.2025 15:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
