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Something BIG has happened. Dear academic world, it is my huge honour to introduce the freshly awarded Dr. Franziska Koch. 🍾🥂

Franzi was the first PhD student student in my #ecoevo #modelling team. Yesterday, she defended her thesis about „the paradox of the bryozoans“ with ease and glory. Congratulations, Franzi!!! 🙌 🥳🎉

#AcademicChatter
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
#PhDone

For a PhD defence in Germany, it is good tradition that all lab members collaborate in crafting a black hat out of cardboard, mimicking a traditional graduation hat with a square surface on top. The hat is then typically decorated with stuff related to the PhD thesis or the PhD candidate, in this case several pictures, bryozoans, icebergs, a tea bag, mathematical symbols and a lot more. The picture shows Dr. Franziska Koch, a white woman with dark hair and glasses, proudly wearing her new hat and smiling into the camera. The picture was taken outside, the background is bright green and blurry.

Another German tradition requests that the former student takes her seat on a wagon that is then pulled across the campus in order to present the freshly awarded doctor to the academic world. The wagon in the picture is nicely decorated with balloons and pulled by the former supervisor (me, a white woman with blond hair, wearing a long black skirt and a blue blouse). To draw even more attention of the academic world, the attending colleagues make A LOT of noise by cheering and clapping.

It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)

🧪🌿💚 #evolution #ecoevo #histbio #histsci #bookhistory #darwin @evolution @nature @biodiversity @ecology

Page of Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London showing the signature of Charles Darwin and others

What are the ultimate factors controlling #fire regimes? The case of #boreal #forests

Phil Trans Roy Soc B, #RoyalSociety
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2023.0447
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/top-down-vs-bottom-up-models-for-boreal-forest-fire-regimes/

#topdown #bottomup #ecoevo
@ecology @plants @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @biodiversity @conservation @climate @evolution

Simplified scheme of the two evolutionary mechanisms (top-down vs bottom-up) explaining the relationship between plants and their environment

🚨 Heads-up: online registration is now open for the next @gfoe meeting! 🚨

It will take place in Würzburg in the first week of September. I'm planning to come with my whole #ecoevo team, so you can expect some really cool talks about #TheoreticalEcology, #EcologicalNetworks and #EcoEvoFeedback.

Who else is coming? We would love to get in touch!

https://www.gfoe-conference.de/
#GFOE2025 #GFOE

#FreeToRead article from our latest special issue! Xie et al. use #palynological data to uncover insights into #vegetation succession in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13168
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #PlantSci #EcoEvo #botany

Xie et al. use #palynological data to uncover insights into #vegetation succession in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13168
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #PlantSci

@HildegardUecker and I are excited to be running the second edition of our #EvolutionaryRescue workshop series at the #MaxPlanck Plön, June 30-July 3. This time the focus is on bridging theory and experiments.

Invited speakers: Helen Alexander, Lutz Becks, Robert D Holt, Laure Olazcuaga, Jitka Polechova.

Submit an abstract by March 15 and tell your friends.

More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/

#Evolution #ecoevo #evol_gen #MathematicalModeling #MathematicalBiology

poster for the workshop. photo of plön lake with cartoon rescue curve. details redundant with text of post.

🥁 🥁 🥁

Big announcement: Dimitrios Nakos (@nakdim) and Rémi Legrand have both recently joined the #ecoevo #modelling team as doctoral researchers! Welcome!

Yesterday, the whole group came together for the first time, so we had to take a new group picture. I think it turned out even better than the one from last year.. 🤣

A group of people, all smiling into the camera, standing in front of the castle of Hohenheim. The picture is quite boring at first sight, but then you realise that the person in the middle is wearing a costume...

From left to right: Simon Leoz, Mira Baer, Franziska Koch, Peter the Penguin, Dimitrios Nakos, Korinna Allhoff (with her little coworker in the carrier) and Rémi Legrand.

"Data access should be determined by participant consent not researcher gatekeeping"

For the sharing of genomic data, the key is not to ban access to research, but to give real space to the consent of individuals.

by Sasha Gusev: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/on-abhorrent-science-and-the-weaponization

#genomics #ecoEvo #genetics #data #dataScience #dataProtection #dataGovernance #openData

HUGE milestone reached today! This is the first ever #PhDThesis from our #ecoevo #modelling team. And it is such a fascinating story, full of new insights into the forces that (de-)stabilise (ecological) interaction #networks! Congratulations Franzi!!! What a crazy ride this has been…
🤩🥳🤪

#AcademicChatter

Printed copy of a PhD thesis. The title reads „The paradox of the bryozoans - unraveling the relation between structure and stability in benthic competition networks“ by Franziska Koch. The title page is bright green.

An ancient #medicinal #plant genus, #Rhodiola is also a promising model for investigating radiation #speciation. Here, integrated analyses reveal extensive cytonuclear discordance and two new members of the genus!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13149
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #systematics #botany #evolution #ecoevo

Reconstruction of a comprehensively sampled Rhodiola phylogeny based on nuclear and plastid genomes. Integrated morphological, phylogenetic, and population genomic data delineate a previously undescribed species, R. renii sp. nov. and reassigned a former Pseudosedum species (P. lievenii) to the genus Rhodiola.

@nakdim @unihohenheim
Welcome aboard the #ecoevo #modelling team Dimitri! We are very happy that you decided to join us and I’m very much looking forward to all the amazing science that we will do in the next 3+ years! 🥳

@nakdim
Oh yes you are! Welcome on board the #ecoevo #modelling Team in Hohenheim!

Seems like we are having a lucky streak:
- Franzi is about to submit her PhD thesis 💪🏻
- Felix received excellent feedback on his first paper 💪🏻
- Simon is producing tons of exciting new simulation results 💪🏻
- Dimitris finally started his PhD adventure here in Hohenheim 💪🏻
- Rémi accepted our job offer and is planning to join the #ecoevo #modelling team in March 💪🏻
- ...and even my little coworker is in an excellent mood! 🥰

I'm a *very* proud #newPI today. 🎉
#AcademicChatter

Finally, Felix‘ #ecoevo paper is back from #PeerReview:

"…this manuscript is an important contribution that almost uniquely explores the evolutionary transitions between #mutualism through #commensalism and on to #antagonism, and vice versa. […] Not only are the results strong, but some of them are surprising, and in interesting ways that will be worth exploring in future years"

Thank you! 🤩
The #preprint is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.27.615354

Interesting discussion of causes and consequences of a decline in fieldwork-based research and education in ecology (also relevant to evolution)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.12.010 #FieldWork #ecology #EcoEvo #Training

Top box: drivers of decline in fieldwork
Arrows linking this through loss capability, loss of opportunity, loss of motivation, to the decline then to a bottom box
Bottom box: consequences of decline in fieldwork
Description from article:
Various social (e.g., societal expectations, regulations), economic (e.g., limited funding, rising research costs), environmental (e.g., ecological degradation, climate change), technological (e.g., use of remote sensing over field observation), educational (e.g., declining focus on natural sciences in school curricula), and cultural (e.g., shifting academic values regarding fieldwork-based studies) factors can reduce the capability, opportunity, and motivation to conduct fieldwork-based research and education. Decreased fieldwork can negatively impact ecological research and education, which in turn can hamper efforts to address the ongoing global biodiversity decline. Several feedback loops likely exist, where declines in fieldwork lead to further reductions in these activities.

New research suggests that fires were more common during the Devonian than previously thought, implying that atmospheric O₂ levels were also higher than previously estimated - Glasspool & Gastaldo #GSAPublications

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/52/11/846/647389/Don-t-mind-the-charcoal-gap-A-reassessment-of

🧪🌍🔥 #ecoevo #geology #fossils @wildfirescience

An opening position by @KorinnaAllhoff 's group on #Evolution #Ecology and #complexity and #networks for PhD student or Post-doc:
https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openings?tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Bjoboffer%5D=3951&tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Baction%5D=show&tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Bcontroller%5D=Joboffer&cHash=d832919110edc59268b2b4b2bf89c28d

🔁 for more reach

#phdPosition #phd #postdoc #science #ecoevo

The patience, meticulousness and dedicated time of our technicians are essential in our research! Here is one of them, Martín, in Jaime's experiment with Anthyllis cytisoides at CIEF (GV) facilities, Valencia (Spain)

#ecology #PlantEcology #ecoevo #biodiversity #botany #greenhouse @ecology @plants @botany @plantscience @nature @biodiversity @conservation

Greenhouse experiment, Anthyllis cytisoides

Oh no, I messed up the group tags 🤦‍♀️. So here we go once again with corrected group tags: I’m looking for a doctoral or postdoctoral researcher to join my #ecoevo #modelling group.
More info 👆

@ecoevojobs
@phdstudents

#EcoEvo

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