AQUACOSM ECR Network

📖 A block course on physical limnology (physics of lakes) will be
held at the University of Heidelberg/Germany, during the spring
break 2026 from 23rd to 27th March 2026.

For details:
www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

Are you leading or involved in an early career (ECR) initiative? We’d love you in EP010 at next year’s ASLO–SIL. This session showcases ECR-led programs and creates a space to learn about opportunities across our community.

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💼Fully funded PhD on "Antarctic snow algae – consequences of lipid accumulation on photosynthesis and survival" in polar research group Scottish Association For Marine Science and Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa.

Details and application conditions at: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

💼Postdoctoral position in Rennes (Brittany, France) - 24 months

The position is expected to begin at the end of 2026 or very early in 2027. The candidate will be responsible for molecular analyses and publication of results (not sampling).

Full details here:
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 @bruzos.bsky.social lab is seeking a highly motivated #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate the marine transmissible cancers. 🧬🌊

#sciencejobs #jobalert #researchjob #cancer #marinescience #symbiosis #bioinformatics #MaxPlanck

🎓Join our AQUACOSM ECR Event!

🗨️We invite you to our Panel Discussion: “Building Bridges for Career Success – How to Create Opportunities Through Networking.”
🗓️ October 27|🕑14-15:30 CET
🔗Register here: shorturl.at/z6RQh

📩The Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants before the event.

Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.

SS082 Mesocosm-based approaches for tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems

With @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social members Cihelio Alves Amorim, Anna Schmidt, Gabriela Ágreda-López and Gülce Yalcin

Each year, IAGLR gives out several scholarships to students showing great promise early in their research careers, including the David M. Dolan Scholarship. Don't miss the November 1 deadline, apply today: https://bit.ly/47ekTPK

Share your research with us!

If you would like to promote your recently published (in the last year) paper or pre-print with us, we invite you to contact us so that we can advertise these in our upcoming newsletter (mesocosm based-research, aquatic science, R package/Python library).

We invite you to submit abstracts from your mesocosm-based research to the Session SS082: Mesocosm-based approaches to tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems

Possible Formats: Standard Oral, Lightning Talk, Poster

www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

One of our members @majailiczg.bsky.social is co-hosting two sessions at the ASLO-SIL 2026 in Montreal. Please consider submitting abstracts to: Session SS078 and SS088.

You can find session descriptions here:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Abstract preparation guide:
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

SORTEE The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE) is a service organization which brings together researchers working to improve reliability and transparency…

If you are like us and can't wait for SORTEE's conference to start, you can warm up and get ready for #SORTEE2025 by (re)watching plenary talks and remarks from past conferences on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@SORTEcoEvo/...

🏔️Glaciers are retreating fast. But what happens to the tiny food webs in the ponds they leave behind? This Greenlandic fieldwork (avoiding polar bear encounters!) sheds light

📷 © 1,2 Mariana Meerhoff 3 Thomas A. Davidson

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🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky

🚗💨 New research reveals #TyreParticles are both eaten by – and cling to – tiny estuarine animals.

These particles can make up 73% of #microplastics in such habitats.

Led by PhD researcher Charlotte Woodhouse (@charlwoodhouse.bsky.social) at PML & Exeter University.

🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/micropl...

One of our core members @sarahhasnain.bsky.social is co-hosting a session at the ASLO-SIL 2026 Joint Meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract to her session:

SS031: Emerging ideas and technologies transforming aquatic trait-based ecology
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Attending a conference next year and looking for funding? Consider applying to the following 🤩:
waqua.nl/Scholarships
www.mdpi.com/journal/wate...
fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/n... @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/trai... @britishecologicalsociety.org

One of our core members, Kati Patonai, is co-hosting a session at the @aslo.org ASLO-SIL 2026 Joint Meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract to her session: SS014 Novel concepts and methods in food web research
www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

GLEON GSA Limnoseries: Workshops: Sign-up for October 14th 15h00-17h UTC Proposal Writing: Strategies for Successful Strategies for Grant Writing by Thomas Shannon

Sharing a workshop that may be of interest to you all, put on by the @gleonetwork.bsky.social GLEON Student Association! Register here: forms.gle/tbjJALRfkoeF...

🎙️ Sign up for our next free online workshop with Dr. Cristina Charette to learn the basics of #SEM and how to apply it to #mesocosm studies.

🗓️ Sept 26, 16:00 - 17:30 CET
🔗Register: forms.gle/rQgwamMaUvmL...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

Throwback to the 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences #SEFS14 Conference in Bolu!
So good to have part of the team reunited🤗 Great science, great laughs, and great company 💚

Poster for 90 minute workshop on HOW TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS, by Mridul Thomas & Ravi Ranjan. Details: September 23rd 16:00 CEST ; 14:00 UTC Description: Experimental designs can make or break an experiment. A good experiment has a clear goal and efficiently uses experimental resources to achieve that goal. In this workshop, we will review what experiments are for, basic and advanced principles of designing experiments, and how to use simulations to evaluate designs before actually doing the experiment. We’ll do a moderate amount of coding in R and so experience with this would be helpful but is not required. We intend to have small-group discussions to help participants develop their own experiments, and encourage participants to think of a specific question they would like to answer with an experiment.

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd.

We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals.

Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

🎙 Sign up for our next free online event with Dr. Luca Schenone to learn and discuss about how #Bayesian Inference can advance our insights from #mesocosm experiments!

🗓 Aug 21 | 🕓 10:00–11:00 CET
🔗 Register: forms.gle/XExbghHcgnFL...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

🎙 Our next event, "Diversity in Science: Women in Science", will broaden your horizons on diversity-related issues and challenges faced by women in sciences (open to everybody!)
🗓 June 12 | 🕓 16:00–17:30 CET
🔗 Register: forms.gle/aFktByB14RjH...
📩 Zoom link sent to registrants before the event.

Thanks to all the participants for the nice discussion about the challenges and directions of mesocosm research during our workshop at #ASLO25

Let's continue our event's activities!

📣The 5th international conference in community ecology is coming up in Budapest, Hungary from September 3-5!
Early registration is open until March 31.

It's a super fun, small conference, and great to meet others in aquatic and terrestrial community ecology research. 🪱🦠
akcongress.com/comec/

We will host Gregor Kalinkat and Phoebe Griffith for the online workshop "Social Media for Scientists". They will explore how to optimise the visibility of our science and present the potential of various social networks! 🧑‍💻

🗓️ March 18th at 14:00 - 16:00 CET
📝 Register here: tinyurl.com/23pmvx3b

@gkalinkat.bsky.social @crocodiledunphd.bsky.social