New paper published as a result of another great #sDiv working group: sTraitChange π
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New paper published as a result of another great #sDiv working group: sTraitChange π
19.01.2026 12:36 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Registration is now open! π’
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Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk.
This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.
The pleasure is & will be on our side!!!
14.01.2026 16:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@carlyziter.bsky.social in our @idiv-research.bsky.social seminar.
Carly was part of the #sDiv #synthesis group www.idiv.de/surbio2050 & is now as sabbatical here @ufz.de, one of our main partners.
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Feel free to follow us on Instagram
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A big thank you to the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Aarhus, and to the judges for the poster prize, supported by the @newphyt.bsky.social foundation.
10.01.2026 09:01 β π 24 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 βΌοΈ
Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done!
Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumniπ
Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).
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It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones.
To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done:
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Iβm currently in Aarhus π©π° for the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social. Tomorrow Iβll be presenting for the first time something Iβve been working on for the past year. Come by to the auditorium 3 for the session on βSpatio-temporal modellingβ #TIBS2026 #biogeography
08.01.2026 18:06 β π 16 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0β©οΈ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species βͺοΈ
-> rewriting classical Floristik biogeography
#tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social In case you missed the talk by Lirong Cai (now new postdoc in Copenhagen w Carsten Rahbek) here is the preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Absolutely! Esp while they allow the writing for that part also be suppirted by AI.
We here in sDiv, the synthesis centre moved away from it & ask directly for the problem/question & its justification.
We should put more trust in our colleagues & decrease work loads
The German research foundation @dfg.de allows AI assisting its review processes.
Another way of reducing the massive unpaid workload in these processes is to decrease the length of proposal to focus on the most important parts (e.g. 5 (?) pages of state of the art isn't important).
β©οΈ"It is not that there is life on the surface of earth.
Life is THE surface of earth!"βͺοΈ
#tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social with a.very interesting symposium on co-evolution of landscape & life
πΈ Today at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, Robert Whittaker talked about the island species-area relationship for plants globally.
Robert is also the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of #Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net, the journal of @biogeography.bsky.social we are happy to publish!
#TIBS2026
Now at #TIBS2026: the functional island biogeography symposium, with a nice intro by @biogeokreft.bsky.social. For some background on functional traits, check out our paper in @ecography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
08.01.2026 08:19 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0We should meet & you should give a talk @idiv-research.bsky.social ! Happy to host you.
07.01.2026 13:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lets see how often we see Darwin & Humboldt in intro slides #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social
I've Darwin in a talk given by Darwin Storch
sDiv synthesis project?
07.01.2026 12:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Heja #tibs2026
How is "ecometric" different to aspects of functional/traits diversity?
#tibs2026
07.01.2026 10:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0With the first Alfred Russell Wallace awardee, Michael Donoghue, #TIBS2026 has started, celebrating 25 years of the Society @biogeography.bsky.social. Looking forward to three days of inspiring exchange as well as meeting old friends of the #biogeography family
07.01.2026 07:40 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Heja @ondrejmottl.bsky.social , if you could think about a synthesis question you would like to approach lets talk about #sDiv synthesis centre @idiv-research.bsky.social opportunities
I'm in Aarhus too...
Even more exciting are these new R packages by @ondrejmottl.bsky.social
#Vaultkeepr #vegvault
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#tibs2026
#Fossilpol a great resource for pollen analyses (synthesis) ondrejmottl.github.io/projects/FOS...
@ondrejmottl.bsky.social #tibs2026 @biogeography.bsky.social on exciting paleo pollen research
Agreed! You shoud come over !
07.01.2026 09:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0