Geoffrey Mesbahi

We now have ONE new ASAB account completely dedicated to the Winter and Spring meetings. Rather than having to find and follow a new account for each conference, you can now follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social for all of the continuous up-to-date info and conference posting you crave 😀

A new paper in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: Aboveground and belowground biomass of Robinia pseudoacacia trees already accounted for 34 % of total plant carbon stocks in a Mediterranean agroforestry system only five years after their plantation.

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lSf-cFXJo...

Another job opportunity!

📢 Call for abstracts! Want to present your animal behaviour research online & for free? Submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2025. Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord!

📅 Nov 13–14 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍
🔗 Learn more, register, submit ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
#animalbehaviorresearch

We are looking for panelists! 🦧 If you are working in community-based conservation, (or know someone who is) apply to speak on our panel at PSGB's 2025 Field Skills Workshop. See 🧵 and video: youtube.com/shorts/YBJLr...

Stockholm University (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) is joining the ranks of PCI's new sponsors for 2025! 😊
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📢New paper alert ‼️

Excited to share our new paper out now in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social
We evaluated how oil palm plantations affect the community structure of Amazonian birds, with a focus on functional and phylogenetic diversity.

Read more here
tinyurl.com/4ubwjr7s

This Colombian 'hotel for cows' could help reduce deforestation in the Amazon Clearing land for cattle and cows is the single biggest driver of rainforest loss in the Amazon. This "hotel for cows" in Colombia offers a solution.

Timothy Searchinger, a CHW affiliate and senior research scholar at Princeton University, explains how silvopasture – the intentional integration of trees, grasses and livestock – could increase cows' productivity and reduce deforestation in South America. tinyurl.com/2hhynr99

Klimaat-slim beheer van graslanden: van processen tot potentieel en beheer Graslandbodems kunnen een sleutelrol spelen in onze weerbaarheid tegen klimaatsextremen, maar hun potentieel wordt niet benut in Vlaanderen. Solliciteer nu en word onderdeel van een toonaangevend onde...

We are hiring! Looking for a motivated PhD candidate to work with us on soil and climate smart grassland management! (Knowledge of Dutch is required as this project has a strong stakeholder component) — thanks for sharing!! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Senate panel rejects Trump’s proposed cuts to agricultural research House spending committee has taken similar position on 2026 request

A key Senate spending committee has joined its House of Representatives counterpart in rejecting deep cuts that President Donald Trump’s administration proposed for research at the USDA for the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October. scim.ag/3InyWcQ

Map of Mexico, Central, and South America, with the text: “Authors in Latin America receive special discounts when they publish in Applications in Plant Sciences.” The APPS and Botanical Society of America logos are in the bottom corners.

Please spread the word! Authors based in Latin America receive discounts from 35-100% when they publish in #AppsPlantSci, thanks to Wiley's Open Access Pricing Power Parity Pilot (OAPPP Pilot).

Discover your discount at authorservices.wiley.com/author-resou... #OpenAccess #SocietyJournal #botany

Do you know that the webinars of Agroecology-TRANSECT can be found online 👉 www.youtube.com/@agroecology... with so far:

✅ 9 webinars on transition, adaptation to climate change, biodiversity, policy...

⭐ 1 full session on barriers & levers to agroecology

⏹️ 3 short-formats

#agroecology #teaching

PhD Assisted Migration

*Job alert*
Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Please repost!
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Want to advance sustainable organic agriculture? Become Professor (W2) for “Co-designed Organic Vegetable Production” at University Kassel & Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) jobs.zalf.de Copyright: Wei / Unsplash

What´s the job? - Push transdisciplinary science to the next level as working group leader at ZALF within the newly created IAT! - Research focus on experimental research and co-design of cultivation systems for climate-resilient and sustainable vegetable cultivation - Experiments at the research station, as well as on-farm trials - Teaching at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of University Kassel What does the position offer? - joint professorship according to Juelicher model - the position is located in Witzenhausen, - salary in accordance with pay grade W2 (university full professorship) Copyright: Wei / Unsplash

W2 Professor for “Co-designed Organic Vegetable Production” Deadline for Applications: 6 August 2025 www.zalf.de/en/karriere Copyright: Wei / Unsplash

Job offer: Professor (W2) for Co-designed Organic Vegetable Production at Uni Kassel & ZALF!

🌱Sustainable intensification of #organic #agriculture & development of stable & productive organic 🥬 #vegetable cultivation systems using the 👥 #livinglab approach!

stellen.uni-kassel.d...

English farms could be taken out of food production to boost nature, says minister Plans announced by environment secretary mean many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming

“taking the least productive land out of food production, but supporting the more productive land to increase production”

Land sparing has wormed its way into policy

Ignoring many issues, eg: how we increase production & the spillover of damage from those areas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call: SFIAR Award 2024 The Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) offers an annual Award for graduates and scientists of a Swiss institution who work in agricultural research for development. Deadline f...

🇨🇭📢 Swiss Agri-Research Grads! The #SFIAR Award is back.

Win CHF 5,000 for your PhD project or CHF 1,000 for your Master's thesis in agricultural research for development. 🏆
Deadline: 4 Aug 2025.

Details: www.sfiar.ch/award

Interested in #Agroforestry, #EcosystemServices & rural-urban dynamics? Apply for a 4-years (65%) PhD position on “Effects of tree-based agriculture on ecosystem services supply, distribution & access in a rurban environment”. Fieldwork takes place in Morocco. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358166.

Great article. Scary reality.
- In Scotland 153 rivers (72%) have a conservation status of 'poor' for salmon
- The upper Dee has 8% tree cover, compared with an average of 37% in Europe
- "The river would have had woodland in the past...there are so many deer here the trees don’t get peace to grow.”

Diversity Increases but Community Specialists Decline Over Three Decades in Dry Grassland Communities of Central Germany Aim Dry grasslands are vulnerable to climate and land-use change. Increasing temperatures, drought, grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition can all result in shifts in grasslands' taxonomic and fu...

⬆️🌡️Increasing temperatures,☀️ drought,🐮🐑🚫 grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition amount to tough times for vulnerable dry grasslands. A three-decade long case study in Germany by Horka et al. gives us more insights on the changes these communities face.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Map of Europe and their forest use. Very little (1%?) is not managed at all

Very cool paper!
It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci

The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.

New work by @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
members @franziswegdell.bsky.social @carolinefryns.bsky.social J. Schick
@sabinestoll.bsky.social @zuberbuehler.bsky.social S. Townsend:
The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing input across all great apes, revealing an important shift in us 🧪

The image shows the banner of the ECG XX - 20th Eurasian Grassland Conference, to be taken place from the 6th until the 10th of July in Oulu, Finland

🐦 Early-bird registration ends 15 June!
Secure your spot for #EGC2025 in Oulu, Finland — a unique chance to explore boreal & Arctic-edge grasslands 🌾
Details + registration 👉 edgg.org/egc2025
#EDGG #GrasslandConference

🚨 The SNSF welcomes the Federal Council's decision to submit the treaties with the EU for consultation. The #research agreement enables #Switzerland to continue participating fully in #HorizonEurope in the coming years. This is also key for the Swiss economy. 🇪🇺 🇨🇭

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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

📢 Have you registered yet for the 2025 HSA conference?

Join us in person or online for two days of expert-led presentations and discussion:

📍Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum & Online
📆 21-22 October 2025

🔗Register or submit an abstract here: hsa.org.uk/conf2025

Still a few days left to apply for this position in phenology/climate change ecology. Spread the word! The deadline is 31 May.

We're collecting data on blood sampling in horses to assess welfare impacts better. Got relevant data or insights? Submit by 30 June 2025.
📥 Help @efsa.europa.eu shape future animal welfare assessments www.efsa.europa.eu/en/call/call...

European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK

European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming