Sofia van Moorsel

Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social! We aim to unite researchers working on tree genomics in natural and experimental populations and on strategies for monitoring forest genetic diversity! @spatialgenetics.bsky.social @domcoqetc.bsky.social Submit your abstract here: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

🌳Interested in using genomics, metabolomics and/or remote sensing to study the drought tolerance of a majestic tree species? Apply for the PhD position in my group! Deadline: 8 December 2025. 🌳 @spatialgenetics.bsky.social jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

A new small beech biodiversity experiment is starting today @Irchel :-) 190 4-year old beech saplings growing in two contrasting genetic diversity levels. Although it was very muddy and snowy at times, we are happy to finally have the little trees in the ground. @sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social

@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social at the Basque Center of Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao (ES) presenting our research on Intraspecific Variation in Drought Responses in European Beech 🌍🌳

Netanyahu announced full occupation of Gaza — while people starve, are displaced and killed. This is genocide. EU must act now: - Impose a full arms embargo - Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement - Move to recognise Palestine Stop the war. Ceasefire and humanitarian aid — now!

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Abstract submission has been extended to 5 May 2025!

📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission! Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!  📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

After a successful workshop in Zurich! I am pleased to co-organize a symposium during the ESEB Barcelona on 17-22 August 2025. If you are interested in discussing your research about adaptation and tree genomics you can submit your abstract before the 25th of April to eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

New paper from our group! We used remote sensing to identify subtle seasonal differences between closely related beech species and developed models that accurately distinguish them at assisted gene flow sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌳 Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona in August! The abstract submission deadline is 25 April 2025. 🌳https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Abstract and registration deadline is tomorrow 23 March!

📢 Join the OptFORESTS & @euforgen.bsky.social webinar! 🌳 "Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest" 🗓️ 11 April | 🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST How does #silviculture affect #genetic diversity?👉 Register now! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

Join us for this! We would like to bring together as many people as possible who work on beech genomics. You can submit abstracts to present your work either as a talk or a poster, or just join for discussions and exchange. 🌳

I am pleased to co-organize the "Beech Genomes for the Future" workshop on April 4th at the University of Zürich! 🌳 Are you working on or interested in beech genomics? Take a look and join us for this one-day workshop! swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an...

We're organizing a thematic workshop on "Beech genomes for the future". Registration and abstract submission can be done via this link swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an.... We hope to interact with many people interested in finding a way to keep this forest species around!

Structural diversity is an important predictor of forest productivity responses to drought 🌲🧪 Productivity losses related to drought increased with greater structural diversity & decreased with functional identities characterized by conservative resource strategies 📊 🌏 🔗 https://buff.ly/40JUKEY

✒️ New Paper Alert! #Sustainability #ImpactAssessments of #trade agreements tend to mute or belittle impacts on #biodiversity. Check out our suggestions for more inclusive, inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability impact assessments of trade agreements: rdcu.be/d9oHk

Happy to share our latest work towards monitoring functional diversity using #Sentinel-2 time series at @esa.int's #BIOSPACE25 conference in Frascati, Italy. Visit our poster and talk to our team from @spatialgenetics.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social! 😊

via @twisteddoodles.bsky.social in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science -

Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively! enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10....

🚀 The Genes from Space team recently hosted a workshop in Bern with over 100 participants (!!) joining to learn about our new monitoring tool. It enables users to use space-based Earth observation data to assess habitat suitability and estimate key genetic diversity metrics worldwide🌍

🌍🌳 Using Sentinel 2- data, we showed that Swiss forests with higher functional diversity resist & recover better from drought! A step toward scaling BEF insights to real-world forests! Check out our new publication in GCB by @helfenstein.earth et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A couple of years ago, I switched fields a bit by starting to work with European beech. The more I get to know this tree species, the more I appreciate and love it. Now, the first paper – written together with MSc student Dave Kurath – is out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Our research is finally out 📜 @natureportfolio.bsky.social in our publication we show that #landscape_diversity 🏞️promotes #productivity using #remote_sensing on a continental scale 🌎 across 20 years Thanks to everyone who contributed✨ #University_of_Zurich #URPP_GCB www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Bad. But how bad? I once asked myself, while finding fakes in the Scientific Report @natureportfolio.bsky.social. So I decide to "do my our research" - I took 100 articles in a row from Physical sciences that contains diffraction. Result - 15 fakes out 100. Details in the 🧵 #ResearchIntegrity 1/x

I am excited that our symposium "Adaptation to environmental changes in trees through the lens of common gardens and genomics" has been accepted to be included at the @eseb.bsky.social conference in August in Barcelona. Be ready to submit your abstracts!

Next time I move house I'm getting ants to shift the furniture.

📣 As of January 2025, researchers in Switzerland can participate in (almost all) calls for proposals of Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme. This means that they can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator. 🧪🧬🔬🔭 www.horizon-europe.ch #HorizonEurope #Science #Innovation

Just deactivated my X account and it feels amazing.

That time the Archbishop of Liverpool got on the wrong side of Jabba the Hutt.

i wonder why it's called an alligator ga--JESUS CHRIST

Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇

🚨 We are hiring one engineer for 2 yrs to set up a #long-term #forest #microclimate monitoring network at the national extent of 🇨🇵 We look for a person fluent in 🇨🇵 to interact with local site managers 🌲🌳 This position is part of #PC #MONITOR in the #PEPR #FORESTT 🌲🌳 Please share widely 😊 🌐🍁🧪

Eine absolut lesenswerte Recherche von Bettina Dyttrich @woz.ch über gravierende Zustände und Machtstrukturen beim Bundesamt für Umwelt (Bafu). Im Kern zeichnet die Recherche nach, wie autoritär und letztlich destruktiv SVP-Bundesrat Albert Rösti regiert.

A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨ Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌

🦈 Overfishing has halved shark populations ☠️ A new @science.org study find that since 1970, global shark and ray numbers have dropped by 50% due to overfishing, eroding marine biodiversity and key ecological functions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie... #Sharks #Conservation #SciComm 🧪

So this happened. Somebody is not getting tenure @ethzurich.bsky.social. It took a lot of people with a lot of courage and strength to make this happen. Thinking of them today! www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...

I want this: Genome-edited Chardonnay grapes resistant or tolerant to mildew & powdery mildew! Did you know that grapes are grown on only ~5% of European agricultural land, but account for ~2/3 of all fungicide sprayed in Europe? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #plantscience

I asked the class to write a note to future ecology students. I received this masterpiece from the fifth row.

In Zurich and interested in public economics and/or economics of low- and middle-income countries? Join us on Dec 16-17 at @uzh-econ.bsky.social at the 9th (and last) Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries. Program and registration here: www.econ.uzh.ch/en/eventsand...

📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

This really shouldn't be a thing, should it?

Following the news that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we’ve shared an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now. Find out more. https://buff.ly/3ATRAFT

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS