Isabel Kilian Salas

I have been a little bit quite over here. However, the International Day of Woman and Girls in Science is always a good motive to come back! This year I spend the day doing one of the things I love the most about my profession: fieldwork! #WomanInScience #WomanInSTEM

Congratulations Prat! 😀👍

A Metadata Checklist and Data Formatting Guidelines to Make eDNA FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a transformative tool for biodiversity monitoring and species detection, yet inconsistent metadata practices hinder data interoperability and reuse. To address...

🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA,
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

From meeting the challenges of parenting whilst completing a PhD to thriving as a researcher, Dr Chimene Laure Daleu says honesty is key to a supportive environment. #AndAScientist #CarersWeek royalsociety.org/about-us/who...

2030 conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept - Scientific Data Scientific Data - 2030 conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept

🚨New research sets conservation goals for European terrestrial mammals! 🌎🧪

Study by D’Alessio, A., Davoli, M., Rondinini, C. et al. employed a new methodology to set targets for 81 threatened European mammals to achieve a favorable conservation status.🐺🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pollinator cognition in a plant network | Biology Letters Cognitive abilities evolve within the context of ecological communities. Honeybees and bumblebees have become model systems for cognitive ecology, but pollination is performed by a diverse group of in...

Along with @ferransayol.bsky.social we discovered specialized bees have bigger brains... which was puzzling at first royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/.... But evidence supporting this is accumulating: Specialists are better at learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you Nature - Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!

Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences

https://go.nature.com/3FhzbVE

Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of...

Pollinator decline has captured global attention, but another plant-animal mutualism is quietly unraveling.

Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity article synthesizes global evidence on seed disperser decline and what it means for plant biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and climate adaptation. 🧵

Multispecies crop mixtures increase insect biodiversity in an intercropping experiment In an agricultural field intercropping experiment, we manipulated crop diversity (0–3 crop species) and the input of agrochemicals. We found that insect biodiversity increases with crop diversity and...

Insect apocalypse? No! Intercropping can be a solution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Contrasting effects of #climate warming on hosts and parasitoids: insights from Rocky Mountain aspen leaf miners and their parasitoids #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A new issue of Journal of Pollination Ecology has just been published. All papers are open access and free to download!

pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

#pollinators #bees #botany #entomology #biodiversity #ecology

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...

🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡

Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination!

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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Shoutout to all my fellow amazing women in science I have met in the past. You inspired me everyday!

¡Feliz y reivindicativo #11F a todas y a todos, porque la ciencia no tiene género!

#WomanInStem #WomenInScienceDay #11F2025

‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap A range of initiatives, from financial-support schemes to awareness campaigns, is already changing the university’s environment.

"Women will continue moving forward — not only for ourselves but for the next generation that will inherit our efforts and build upon them. The status quo is not an option"

Kaori Hayashi is the executive vice-president of the University of Tokyo
https://go.nature.com/4jTowA0

And that is why representation matters! 👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️🧑🏾‍⚕️👩🏿‍⚕️

📣#Stellenangebot
🌱 🌽 🎓Promotion zur nachhaltigen Landwirtschaft - Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in🌱 🌽 🎓

Zum Bewerbungsportal ⬇️
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Bei Fragen gerne Frau Dr. Sarah Iweala (sarah.iweala@uni-goettingen.de) kontaktieren!

Über das Teilen der Ausschreibung würden wir uns sehr freuen 🙏

Maximizing Identification Precision of Hymenoptera and Brachycera (Diptera) With a Non‐Destructive DNA Metabarcoding Approach DNA metabarcoding is utilized for efficient bulk sample assessment, yet limited research addresses disparities in species identification methods. We compared diverse clustering and filtering techniqu....

How does #DNAmetabarcoding overlap with traditional morphological ID? We tested this on Brachycera 🪰 and Hymenoptera 🐝 in our latest publication! 👇 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

📢 Job opportunity: Join our team as Postdoctoral Researcher to explore acoustic monitoring methods and their applications in conservation and agriculture with a focus on arthropods

@unigoettingen.bsky.social
@agrarunigoe.bsky.social
@feda-biodiv.bsky.social

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

This is figure 2, which shows two perspectives on land use as a driver of biodiversity loss and disease emergence.

Introducing Nature Reviews Biodiversity! This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene. https://go.nature.com/42fzUQk 🧪

+++ Startpaket zu Naturschutz & Biodiversität +++

Nachdem die Startpakete von @rote-liste-zentrum.bsky.social & @akrotelm.bsky.social uns sehr weitergeholfen haben, hier nun eines von der BSG.

Gerne in den Kommentaren weitere wichtige Akteur*innen ergänzen!

go.bsky.app/BZGnXSi

Okay, the list is far from complete, but it is a first attempt.☺️Here you can find our starter pack on #research organizations and #academies, in #Germany and worldwide. Who else do you think should be included? go.bsky.app/DGGtVu6

An illustration for a 'Working Life' article featuring four individuals, one in front of the others, rowing a small boat through choppy waters. The text reads: I thought being strong meant hiding my struggles—but I learned a better way.

"My confidants … helped me see there is no disgrace in seeking help."

This week's #ScienceWorkingLife: https://scim.ag/3C6lXJV

The Field Automatic Insect Recognition‐Device—A Non‐Lethal Semi‐Automatic Malaise Trap for Insect Biodiversity Monitoring: Proof of Concept The FAIR-Device, a novel nonlethal field tool, combines semi-automatic image capture and AI-based species identification to monitor insect biodiversity. In a 26-day proof-of-concept evaluation, it re....

Ever dreamt of an insect trap that is non lethal? Check out this new paper by our PhD student Juan Chiavassa! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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