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Marten Winter

@smartenwinter.bsky.social

Ecologist & Researcher | Head of a research think tank/science funder -> iDiv's Synthesis Centre sDiv idiv.de/sdiv | Global Alien Plants glonaf.org | SciCom | TEDx tiny.cc/aliens | Indierock drummer for http://wal.band | avid hiker & nature lover

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New paper published as a result of another great #sDiv working group: sTraitChange πŸ’š

19.01.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Registration is now open! πŸ“’
Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium β€” a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries.
πŸ“ 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig
πŸ“ Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd

#Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity

27.01.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

20.01.2026 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The pleasure is & will be on our side!!!

14.01.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@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.

‼️That's what iDiv is great at...‼️

⏩️Excellent & integrated science facilitated by diff approachesβͺ️

14.01.2026 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here is a snippet of a song

Feel free to follow us on Instagram

www.instagram.com/waltheband

#tibs2026 #indierock #rockmusic #music #alternativrock

10.01.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is a snippet of a song

Feel free to follow us on Instagram

www.instagram.com/waltheband

#tibs2026 #indierock #rockmusic #music #alternativrock

10.01.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heja @nezimmermann.bsky.social Thanks!!😍 Feel free to spread the word, book us as WSL conference band & stay tuned to buy our upcoming physical album :) (vinyl/cd)

#indierock #rockmusic #music

10.01.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 ‼️

Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done!

Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumni😍

Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).

10.01.2026 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Heja #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social , if you need good Indie music for your hopefully successful but surely long trip home, I recommend (my band):

WAL (German for whale) - atmospheric,epic & powerful IndieRock

We're on all platforms:
Http://wal.band

open.spotify.com/artist/6HFBs...

10.01.2026 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Frontiers of Biogeography  Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.socialπŸŽ‰β€ΌοΈβͺ️

❀️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❀️

biogeography.pensoft.net

#tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

09.01.2026 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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:
go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

08.01.2026 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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I’m currently in Aarhus πŸ‡©πŸ‡° for the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting for the first time something I’ve been working on for the past year. Come by to the auditorium 3 for the session on β€œSpatio-temporal modelling” #TIBS2026 #biogeography

08.01.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species Biogeographical regions reflect differences in biotic composition resulting from long-term isolation and biogeographical processes, but how human-mediated introductions of non-native species have alte...

⏩️ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species βͺ️
-> 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...

09.01.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

08.01.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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).

08.01.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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⏩️"It is not that there is life on the surface of earth.

Life is THE surface of earth!"βͺ️

#tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social with a.very interesting symposium on co-evolution of landscape & life

08.01.2026 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“Έ 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

07.01.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should meet & you should give a talk @idiv-research.bsky.social ! Happy to host you.

07.01.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lets see how often we see Darwin & Humboldt in intro slides #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

I've Darwin in a talk given by Darwin Storch

07.01.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

sDiv synthesis project?

07.01.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Heja #tibs2026

How is "ecometric" different to aspects of functional/traits diversity?

07.01.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#tibs2026

07.01.2026 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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With 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€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heja @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...

07.01.2026 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even more exciting are these new R packages by @ondrejmottl.bsky.social
#Vaultkeepr #vegvault

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#tibs2026

07.01.2026 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#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

07.01.2026 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed! You shoud come over !

07.01.2026 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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