Jana C. Massing

Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS When studying a complex system, it is often useful to think of the system as a network of interacting units. One can then ask if some properties of...

New paper with @mhab.bsky.social @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social out now in @pnas.org! We show when and why you can know something about an entire network, just by knowing the behavior of it's building blocks: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Modeling and Inferring Metacommunity Dynamics with Maximum Caliber https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660802v1

Our paper made the cover of Trends in Microbiology! doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Excited for #same18 kicking off! 🎉 Looking forward to great science & discussions with all of you guys!
If you’re interested in the sweet breath of bacteria come check out my poster tomorrow/Monday evening- would love to chat:)

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Beeindruckende Transformation. #Paris

Check out this amazing session 😊👇 at #OSM26

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.

Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:

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[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.

Mass Spec

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New paper led by @janamassing.bsky.social, with @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social, on dynamics of cooperative bacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Vorschau auf die Druckversion des #S4FAppell an die Politik

Zeichnung noch möglich bis Montag 24.03. 23:59 Uhr

Öffentliche Übergabe des Appells:
Dienstag, 25.03. 09:30 Uhr, Nordende Friedrich-Ebert-Platz

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Ein Appell von Wissenschaftler zur Einhaltung der Klimaschutzziele: https://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o2/stat.php

Probleme müssen genannt werden, Probleme müssen angegangen werden und Lösungen langfristig verfolgt. Klimaschutz ist keine Frage von politischen Strömungen, sondern eine Aufgabe die Sicherheit, Wohlstand und Demokratie schützt.

Hier gehts zum Appell:
www.bayceer.uni-bayr...

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

"HOLEN WIR UNS DIE ZUKUNFT ZURÜCK" in weißer Schrift auf lila Hintergrund, mit Volt-Logo im unteren Bereich

Holen wir uns die Zukunft zurück! 🚀
Mit Maral als Spitzenkandidatin und einem radikalen Reformprogramm bringt Volt erfolgreiche Lösungen aus Europa nach Deutschland. Mit Volt zieht eine neue, zukunftsorientierte Generation in den Bundestag – bereit, Probleme zu lösen. 💜

Four photos taken at the PhD defense of Pedro Carrasco. The first one shows him in front of the title page of his defense talk with the title "Computation of functional biodiversity from long-term monitoring time series". Underneath, we see him standing in front of his committee, ready to take on their questions. In the next picture we see a happy, smiling Pedro toasting with his colleagues and glasses of sparkling wine (we only see the hands and glasses of the colleagues). The last picture shows how he gets his doctor hat put on his head. In Germany it is tradition that the friends and colleagues craft the hat and put things on it that relate to the PhD's work and time in the institute as a reminder of things they experienced together. His head features references to diversity in fish and plankton communities as well as some results from his diffusion maps.

What's the best way to top off a great week? For us, it was celebrating Pedro Carrasco's successful PhD defense last Thursday. His research explored how diffusion maps can aid in computing functional biodiversity from long-term time series. Congratulations, Pedro! We are all incredibly proud of you!

🆕Evaluation of #climatepolicy over 2 decades: A global PIK study of 1,500 #climatepolicies, published in the journal Science, shows most failed to cut emissions. Only 63 cases saw a 19% average reduction. The key? Tax & price incentives in smart policies.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Are you interested in mutualisms?

Have you always wondered how these cooperative interactions emerge and coevolve?

If the answer to these questions is YES, then please consider joining my vibrant group as a PhD student.

Please RT.

More details👇

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Jobs - HIFMB Oldenburg Vacancies External Job Offers Vacancies PostDoc for Tipping behaviour in ecological metacommunities – theory (HIPP25 Pos #1) (m/f/d) PostDoc for Tipping points induced by planktonic dispersal...

4️⃣5️⃣ days left to submit your application and become part of our fantastic international and interdisciplinary team. We have:
🔹5 #postdoc positions
🔹salary level E13 TVÖD (100%), 3 yrs fixed term
🔹start: 1 January 2025
hifmb.de/news/jobs/
#jobsinscience #jobalert

We are happy to announce the next MARUM Research Seminar with Dr. Sinikka T. Lennartz   🗓️ When: 22.04.2024, 01:15 pm 🗺️ Where: MARUM, room 2070 Find out more about it here ➡️ https://www.marum.de/en/Dates-events/Sinikka-T.-lennartz.html

We are happy to announce the next MARUM Research Seminar with Dr. Sinikka T. Lennartz @icbm-uol.bsky.social
 
🗓️ When: 22.04.2024, 01:15 pm
🗺️ Where: MARUM, room 2070
 
Find out more about it here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Dates-eve...

9 days left! Take your chance and apply. And spread the word please 📣

Thank you so much :)!

Thank you a lot @hifmb.bsky.social family! Huge thank you to my supervisor @thilogross.bsky.social and to @akfbio.bsky.social, Pedro, Rana, Laura, Ole, Melanie, Jordan and all the wonderful people that contributed to my new favorite hat and the many amazing moments during my PhD time!🎓😍

New paper with Pedro Carrasco, Josie Antonucci and @janamassing.bsky.social. Measuring functional biodiversity by merging multiple monitoring datasets www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Monitor: Migrationskrise? Eine Gemeinde zeigt, wie es geht | ARD Mediathek Migrationskrise? Eine Gemeinde zeigt, wie es geht | Video | Die Migrationsdebatte läuft seit Wochen auf Hochtouren. Und immer wieder heißt es: Die Kommunen sind überfordert. Alle Kommunen? Keinesw...

Migrationskrise? Überforderung? Unser Monitor-Film über eine Gemeinde in Oberbayern, die zeigt, wie‘s (anders) geht.
www.ardmediathek.de/video/monito...

Comedian Nish Kumar helps Dr Fredi Otto spell out the actual risks of climate change, pulling zero punches, and using highly unscientific language throughout... Nish Meets Fredi NSFW | Climate Science Translated

Watch it!
youtu.be/CnITUQVEqLQ?...

"Did you know the financial sector invests savings, pensions and insurance premiums in companies linked to controversial weapons, child labour and deforestation? This must change." fairfinanceguide.org

Mehr als Wetter – Einblicke in die DWD-Sonderausstellung im Klimahaus Bremerhaven Alle reden übers Wetter - und in Zeiten der Klimakrise ist das wichtiger denn je. Eine zum 70-jährigen Jubiläum entwickelte Sonderausstellung zeigt an sieben...

Welche Aufgaben hat der Deutsche Wetterdienst? Bei #WissenschaftfürsWohnzimmer wird heute Annika Brieber, Meteorologin am @Klimahaus_Brh, die Ausstellung zum 70-jährigen Jubiläum unserer zentralen Wetterbehörde vorstellen. Live ab 20:30 Uhr
www.youtube.com/live/QxUR5by...