In this blogpost, Alex Roodt talks about how pesticides which are accumulated by emerging aquatic insects during their development can be retained after metamorphosis and may increase the dietary exposure of terrestrial insectivores.
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The University of Cogenhagen is offering a PhD fellowship in dynamic statistical modeling of toxic effects in herbicide exposed plants. The position is expected to start on 1st October, 2022.
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In this blogpost, Sonja Ehlers reports how microplastic loads in rocky intertidal snails from the North Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean are consistent across space and time. The majority of the contained microplastics consisted of paint chips that likely derived from ships or maritime equipment. Such paint chips can contain toxic antifouling substances and heavy metals.
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The MAGIC team (Meta-Analysis of the Global Impact of Chemicals) at Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz – Landau is offering paid research stays and positions for researchers from Ukraine.
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The European Chemicals Agency has open positions for trainees in the Hazard Assessment Unit (C4). The work position starts on 1. September 2022.
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Short Term Scientific Missions is being organized by COST-Action PERIAMAR to help scientists contribute to ERA while allowing them to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and methods not available in their own institutions/ organizations.
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The Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at Campus Landau is looking for a Postdoc in the working group ‘Ecotoxicology and Environment’, starting as soon as possible.
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The Society of Limnology (SIL) meeting will be held in Berlin in August 2022 on the theme ‘Cross-boundary interactions: propagation of stressors from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems‘
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The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis is hiring two research scholars – one each for ecological modelling and spatial conservation prioritization.
Continue readingUpdate 02.03.2022 – Here is a link to a new video of the study on insects contaminated with a mix of pesticides in nature reserves.
In this blog post Carsten Brühl explains the background and findings of their paper on pesticide residues measured on insect samples from nature conservation areas in Germany published in Scientific reports.
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