Nordic Society Oikos

Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026!
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026

👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Cover of the Special Issue 'Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change'. Cover credit: Violeta Caballero Lopez

🎤GUEST EDITOR INTERVIEW: read about the key takeaways, guest editor experience and the gaps in our understanding of the effects of human-induced changes on avian reproduction in the interview with Judith, Juan Diego and Elisa

➡️ vist.ly/4a4h5

#ornithology #birds #reproduction #humanchanges

Did you know that there are many possibilities to publish #OpenAccess with us?
➡️Funder & institution agreements: vist.ly/49psa
➡️Discounts & waivers: vist.ly/49ps9
➡️NJB waivers: vist.ly/49psb

New EiC for Ecography: Christine Meynard | Ecography New EiC for Ecography: Christine Meynard | Ecography

Please welcome our new EiC: Christine Meynard! vist.ly/495uz

@nordicjbotany.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social

Got inspired by all the fantastic research at #gfoe2025? Save the date for an even larger gathering of excellence in #ecology and #evolution at the joint #NSO2026 and #gfoe2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! See you on 14-17 Sep 2026 in Denmark! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

Meet us in room 1.003 at #gfoe2025 to talk about publishing, our journals or the joint #NSO2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

Special issue cover: water colour drawing for the special issue cover by Violeta Caballero-Lopez

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨

"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"

Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo

Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r

Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n

#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

Supernice editor dinner with 12 @avianbiology.bsky.social editors and 1 @oikosjournal.bsky.social editor at #EOU2025 ! Amazing food & great company, discussing research, publishing and conferencing.
@nordicoikos.bsky.social is lucky to have you on the editorial boards!

Flyer for special issue on passive acoustic monitoring

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/43vfp

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

All set for the #EOU2025 ! Come and talk to us about our journals and our society (and of course pick up some free swag, because we don’t plan to take any back home!). @oikosjournal.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

Joining the Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology 2025 conference? Sign up to the workshop "Improving your chances of getting published", free for NSO members! Led by @Oikos.bsky.social Co-EiC @comecology.bsky.social and Tomáš Scholz, (EiC Folia Parasitologica). Contact hrandhawa@hi.is

@nordicoikos.bsky.social give out awards to young researchers at the #XXEGC Eurasian #grassland #conference in Oulu
Vineta Verpeja 🇱🇻 for the best poster and Christian Klopsch 🇮🇸 for the best presentation 🥳
All presentations were really good and interesting and the publishing workshop was a success

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q
@nordicoikos.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition!

Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026

Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate

More info: vist.ly/3n8ihr8

@NordicOikos.bsky.social

WATCH THIS SPACE! Winds of change are sweeping across NJB! Later this week, we will share some exciting news with you, so be sure to check in again! #plant #fungi #ecology #evolution #taxonomy @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Fantastic to see so many of you at the #publishing workshop yesterday at #XXEGC2025! Great discussions regarding journal choice, the review process, AI and more! We are happy to hold workshops at your next meeting! Just contact us!

Now listening to @saocousins.bsky.social, EiC of @nordicjbotany.bsky.social, talk about preserving #biodiversity in grasslands at #XXEGC2025. She will also join us for the publishing workshop later today!

At the #stakeholder discussion session at #XXEGC2025, we are happy to share how we can support YOU in #networking and #collaboration with each other.

The #XXEGC2025 is opened by Stephen Venn of the EGC and @isabelbarrio.bsky.social, editor at @oikosjournal.bsky.social

Welcoming you to #XXEGC2025 at @unioulu.bsky.social to talk to you about publishing and the NSO. Come to our workshop on publishing tomorrow evening!

Coming to the EGC meeting in Oulu next week? Meet us at the exhibitor's table, join the publishing workshop, or listen to our EiC @saocousins.bsky.social‬'s plenary talk!
Check out where else you can meet the @nordicoikos.bsky.social this summer: vist.ly/3n8hm38

The cover depicts a Eurasian spoonbill Platalea leucorodia featuring the article 'Do older parents do better? Relationships between parental age, chick body condition and migratory behaviour in a colonial-breeding waterbird' by Ferreira et al. Photo credit: Hugo Ferreira.

📣 🚨 Issue 3 of 2025 is now complete! You can find all articles here:

vist.ly/3n898kz

Cover depicting a Eurasian spoonbill, featuring the article by Ferreira et al:

vist.ly/3n898m4

📷 Hugo Ferreira

#ornithology #OpenAccess #birds #research #ecology #evolution #behaviour #hypotheses

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition!

Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026

Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate

More info: vist.ly/3n7fbc8

@NordicOikos.bsky.social

Grantees of the 2025 NSO Grants | Nordic Society Oikos The NSO has now awarded the next round of grants to five lucky recipients. We were happy to receive so many excellent applications which just shows what a fantastic range of members we have. It makes us proud to be able to reinvest back into you and support the networking and education of scientists from the Nordic regions and beyond.

The NSO Grants 2025 have now been awarded to five lucky recipients! 😍Check out the list of excellent events which we are able to support in 2025-2026: vist.ly/3n52k74
We received many excellent applications and therefore had to refuse many, but do not hesitate to apply again next time!

The registration for the 20th Eurasian Grasslands Conference on 6th-10th July in Oulu, Finland, is still open! Register until 15th June for the early-bird fee! The conference is supported by the NSO Grants 2025🤩
👉Direct registration link: vist.ly/3n5ztyk
👉Conference website: vist.ly/3n5ztym

The annual meeting of the Icelandic Ecological Society #VistÍs is starting now! 🇮🇸 @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Check out the grant report from the 4th Meeting for Protistology in the Nordics! vist.ly/3n4yaye
The meeting was supported by the NSO Networking and Education Grant 2024!

Join the NSO at the 12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference in Tartu from 29.6.-4.7.2025.

A wonderful opportunity for you working in science, policy and practice of wetlands and ecological restoration to share knowledge and discuss the future of nature!

vist.ly/3n48jic

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/3n45223

Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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