“Insects and other arthropods are disappearing at an alarming rate all over Europe and pesticides play a major role.” Recently the European Pesticide Action Network (PAN) interviewed Professor Dr. Carsten Brühl, specialist in ecotoxicology.
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Landau, 12.03.2025 – A new study by the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, published in Communications Earth & Environment, shows extensive pesticide contamination in the landscape of the Upper Rhine Region. Pesticides disperse across the entire landscape, contaminating soil, vegetation, and water far beyond agricultural zones. The findings shed new light on the potential environmental impacts of conventional agriculture. According to the researchers, pesticide use must be reduced urgently in order to protect non-target areas around fields, orchards and vineyards.
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The PC2A group at the Université de Lille (France) has a PhD offer assessing the fate of emerging contaminants in the environment. Starting in October 2025 and lasting for 3-years.
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The RIFCON Wildlife team located in Hirschberg and Ludwigshafen is looking for an Ecologist in full-time to work as a risk assessor for wild birds and mammals exposed to plant protection products in the agrarian landscape.
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The University of Oldenburg is seeking to fill a 4 year Postdoctoral Position in Ecotoxicology. One research focus of the Environmental Biochemistry Group is ecotoxicological studies on birds and corals. Studies on birds focus on an over 20 yearlong timeseries of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as PCBs, mercury, chlorobenzenes, DDT, and chlordane along the North Sea.
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The University Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is seeking at the Faculty of Biology, Department of River and Floodplain Ecology, with place of employment being in Gelnhausen (Senckenberg Society for Nature Research) a Postdoctoral Researcher (Ecologist)
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ToxStrategies has an open position as early career ecotoxicologist, to contribute to cutting-edge environmental health and risk assessment projects while building expertise in a collaborative and supportive environment.
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The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research in Barcelona is offering a PhD position to work on understanding the fate of specific traffic-emitted contaminants in terrestrial ecosystems.
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Two PhD positions are available at the Pharmacological Institute of Heidelberg University to study PFAS Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs). The first position is in the field of environmental toxicology and the second is in the field of tissue engineering, both looking at of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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SystemLink opens its 3rd cohort of doctoral researchers and offers 14 doctoral research positions at the iES Landau, RPTU. To start on 1st October 2025.
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