Julien L Bota
Ecologist studying plant-herbivore interactions in a changing climate. PhD @bugnet.bsky.social @slfdavos.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Julien L Bota🌍🌿Review results are in! More than 900 accepted abstracts (orals & posters) will be presented in 78 different sessions at #WBF2026 in ☀️Davos. Thank you! 👉Acceptance notification will reach you on 3 February 👉Early bird registration is open, including an awesome choice of excursions - take your pick‼️
- Reposted by Julien L BotaWelcome to BES2025! 💫 Today, we are so excited to welcome ecologists from 58 countries, encouraging innovative research and practice in ecology. We have exciting talks and sessions ahead in the next days from agriculture, human's place in nature, AI to green finance and much more.
- Reposted by Julien L BotaSo happy to be back at the BES this year for #BES2025! I had a lot of nice discussions today already, and I'll be looking forward to the poster session this evening! Feel free to pass by poster nr: A-4.95 if you want to discuss species coexistence and higher-order interactions! 🌱🌿🌱
- The @bugnet.bsky.social Delegation from @slfdavos.bsky.social very much enjoyed the first day of #BES2025 in Edinburgh! Don’t miss our posters on herbivore interactions under current and future climate that we will present in the community ecology poster sessions today and tomorrow.
- Reposted by Julien L Bota...and @bota-jb.bsky.social took care that everything worked smoothly, and did amazing drone images of our experiments! Thank you all, you are the best! 🥰
- Reposted by Julien L BotaToday we definitely ended the field season of our @bugnet.bsky.social experimental sites in @slfdavos.bsky.social. What a year - with such a great team of students this was one of my best field seasons ever! Thanks @bota-jb.bsky.social, Carole, Ida, Carla, Sevi, Flo and Irene for the great summer!
- Reposted by Julien L BotaOur first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉 BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part: 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Julien L BotaJahrelange Vorbereitungen zur Pflanzung von 92'000 Bäumen: Warum dies gemacht wurde kannst du morgen Samstag, 13.9.2025 am Tag der offenen Forschungsfläche Stillberg in Davos erleben. Im Video: Aufnahmen von #SLF und #WSL aus den Jahren zwischen 1968 bis 1987. Infos: www.slf.ch/de/veranstal...
- 50 years of treeline- and ecological research at our @slfdavos.bsky.social research site at Stillberg in Davos. Great fun to present some findings together with @annekempel.bsky.social to a super interested audience and some junior scientists.
- Reposted by Julien L BotaWas hab ich eigentlich gelernt in meinen bisherigen Jahren als Juniorprofessorin, & was hätte ich gern früher gewusst? 6 Einsichten einer wissenschaftspolitisch (hyper-)aktiven Juniorprofessorin ohne TT kurz vor ihrer Zwischenevaluation: letzte Woche @hhu.de, heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna
- Do microbes contribute to prey digestion in Nepenthes pitcher plants? We investigated this through a field experiment on Borneo by sterilising the digestive fluid of N. hemsleyana. We found that plants with microbes benefit quicker from captured prey. A thread👇 🌱🧪 🌏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Nepenthes hemsleyana grows in nutrient-poor soils and acquires nutrients by capturing arthropods and collecting faeces from bats that roost inside its pitchers. It then secretes digestive enzymes into the fluid to break down prey and access nutrients. 2/7
- Despite the fluid’s acidity and enzymatic activity, a range of organisms – including arthropods, rotifers, and microbes – live inside the pitchers. These so-called inquilines may compete with the plant, aid digestion, N-enrich the fluid, or have no effect at all. 3/7
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View full threadDespite these limitations, our study supports the idea that microbes support prey-break down in Nepenthes like in other pitcher plant genera, e. g. Cephalotus or Sarracenia and we hope to provide a starting point for investigating this further. 7/7
- Reposted by Julien L BotaOur paper on unifying theory around biodiversity–consumer relationships (pathogens & herbivores) is now out in TREE! I hope it helps those navigating the forest of theories & hypotheses in this space to see more clearly 🤓 Check out @fletcher-h.bsky.social great summary of the paper here 👇
- Reposted by Julien L BotaUnter dem Motto #standupforscience tragen Forscherinnen und Forscher den Protest gegen Trumps Kahlschlag in der Wissenschaft auf die Straße. Zu den Hintergründen hat mein Kollege @cweingart.bsky.social recherchiert. Teil 1: www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-professo...
- It is a real shame that many German research institutions systematically abandon young scientists. This is not limited to the Max Planck Institutes, but is a widespread problem in German academia. 1/3
- English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse
- I know of cases of abuse of power, bullying and even sexual harassment that led to friends giving up their PhD or having to restart at another institution. Although they were reported, none of these cases led to consequences for the perpetrators (even though they were not the first complaints). 2/3
- No one should have to work under such conditions and go through these traumatising experiences. The consequences are in many cases very severe on a personal level but also deprive academia of brilliant and talented minds. This must stop now and a change of work culture is overdue. #IchBinHanna 3/3
- Reposted by Julien L BotaHappy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FrauenInderWissenschaft #FrauenInMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
- Blueberry pie season could be in jeopardy this year! 😳 🫐 Why so? Read here 👇
- #Snow -free slopes at 1,900 m.a.s.l.: #SLF biologist @christianrixen.bsky.social explains in an interview the consequences for #plants, why late frost becomes a risk and what that means for the #blueberry harvest (and blueberry pie!): www.slf.ch/en/news/snow... 📷️ Veronika Stöckli #CERC
- Reposted by Julien L BotaSave the date: 50 Jahre Forschungsfläche #Stillberg, Davos 13. September 2025 1975 pflanzten #WSL und #SLF am Stillberg 92'000 Bäume, um den #Schutzwald zu erforschen. Zum Jubiläum öffnen wir unsere Forschungsfläche für alle! Infos: www.slf.ch/stillberg50 📷️ E. Dimitrov / W. Schönenberger / C. Rixen
- Reposted by Julien L Bota#Forschung an die Öffentlichkeit bringen – als Medienverantwortliche/r am SLF in #Davos! Und dies in einem alpinen Umfeld rund um #Schnee, #Naturgefahren und den #Gebirgsraum. Jetzt bewerben: apply.refline.ch/273855/1699/... #SLF #SLFDavos #CERC #Medien #Media 📷️ R. Oester
- Reposted by Julien L Bota🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
- How do herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant communities in a changing climate? Learn how we’re investing this experimentally on our @bugnet.bsky.social field sites in Davos. 🌱 🌐 youtu.be/3zJhOJqYkcg?... @slfdavos.bsky.social
- Are you working on the impact of herbivores & pathogens on plant communities and would be interested to join a global research network? Learn more about the Bug-Network and our easy to maintain exclusion experiment at our upcoming info-meeting 👇 #ecology 🌐🌱🐌🦗
- Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with @annekempel.bsky.social online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐
- Reposted by Julien L BotaWhat's the impact of herbivores and pathogens on plant communities? That's what we investigate in our global Bug-network with many collaborators from across the world! Today we had our global meeting - what a great BugNet-spirit! Thank you all for joining!
- That was fun! Creating a summary figure for a paper on pitcher plants escalated slightly when I couldn’t find what I needed and decided to draw it myself…
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- Absolutely delighted with blueskys decentralised design which makes it possible to follow and interact with people on other platforms like mastodon and vice versa. All you have to do is follow @ap.brid.gy and your account is bridged. That really is the future of social media! fed.brid.gy
- Reposted by Julien L Botahey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Julien L BotaOur first starter pack is here! A list of members and alumni of @wslresearch.bsky.social working on biodiversity research and outreach. It will updated as more people join. Let us know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/3Gzw93eat://did:plc:m5zfzvi3exanjj67wixov7yu/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lba4fvnggz2y
- Reposted by Julien L BotaStarter pack about researchers interested in plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions! This list is by far not complete - so please help me to get it extended. Leave suggestions or self-nominations in the comments and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/4JR67t6at://did:plc:yixdm4ylkmlhtaemyxdtxv7m/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3larv5hui4x2w
- Reposted by Julien L BotaSurely a great talk about why biodiversity matters, and probably a great example of how to do talks about biodiversity and outreach!
- Reposted by Julien L BotaI tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.at://did:plc:ehpfzb33ti63eth45mqwipy6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l6ut27enmt2a
- Reposted by Julien L BotaWant to see our BugNet sites in Davos? @bota-jb.bsky.social explains our transplant experiment to test how novel plant-consumer interactions affect plant fitness, nicely featured by @slfdavos.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
- What do #SLF researchers do in summer? For example, they are investigating #insect diversity and the interactions between #plants and living organisms. There are two videos about this on our website: slf.ch/en/news/of-p... #CERC #biodiversity #climatechange
- Reposted by Julien L BotaWhat do #SLF researchers do in summer? For example, they are investigating #insect diversity and the interactions between #plants and living organisms. There are two videos about this on our website: slf.ch/en/news/of-p... #CERC #biodiversity #climatechange
- Reposted by Julien L Bota#SLF -Wissenschaftlerin @annekempel.bsky.social und ihr Team haben im Sommer 2024 in #Davos Insektenkameras aufgestellt. Diese fotografieren automatisch die #Insekten, wenn sie sich auf dem leuchtgelben Schild befinden. Mehr dazu im Video: youtu.be/omFmS3aAu3c #CERC #Biodiversität
- Thanks to @annekempel.bsky.social our @bugnet.bsky.social data collection workflow is now fully digitised which saves an incredible amount of time! Also, with access to our database in the field, we have all relevant information at hand… 🐛
- SLF researcher Julien Bota writes in the Bündner Woche about alpine plants and their inconspicuous herbivores. academiaraetica.ch/assets/forsc... Original article (in german): academiaraetica.ch/assets/forsc...
- Absolutely thrilled that our Biotremology meets Klangkunst tour with the fantastic Chuchchepati Orchestra from last year has been released on vinyl! And I can hardly believe that @monikaeberhard.bsky.social and I were invited to write the foreword - what an honour! unitrecords.com/artists/chuc...
- A short radio report about what it was all about: www.ndr.de/kultur/musik... (in german)
- Perfect day for fieldwork at our @bugnet.bsky.social site @slfdavos.bsky.social
- Looking back on a very inspiring World Biodiversity Forum in Davos. I enjoyed especially the great mixture of talks from ecology, social sciences, philosophy and arts! #WBF2024
- Reposted by Julien L BotaBugNet family meeting at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos with @annekempel.bsky.social, Eric Allan, Jana Stewart, Sergio Rasmann and @bota-jb.bsky.social #WBF2024 🌱🐛🐌
- Very nice public lecture by @annekempel.bsky.social about Biodiversity (and why it’s important for our beer) @ the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos! Btw: the economic value that pollinators bring to humanity is equivalent to the annual revenue from beer consumption worldwide! #WBF2024
- Reposted by Julien L BotaLots of fun and very useful information at the @slfdavos.bsky.social Mountain safety course today. Fieldwork can come - we are prepared! 💪
- A very warm welcome to our @bugnet.bsky.social intern Léon Lepesant who will join our team @slfdavos.bsky.social for this summer!
- Reposted by Julien L BotaAre you interested in insect monitoring using cameras and AI and looking for a paid intern in the Swiss Alps? I am looking for a motivated candidate who helps installing Diopsis Cameras along elevational gradients, and advance the image analysis @slfdavos.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1630/...
