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PhD position in Microbial Community Ecotoxicology at Eawag

The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a PhD researcher in microbial community ecotoxicology as part of their stream biofilm research.

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3 PostDoc & 1 Technician positions in Aquatic Ecology & Evolution at Uni Bern

The Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern is hiring three PostDocs and one technician for a freshwater conservation biology project, including fish ecology, ecological niche modelling, and aquatic conservation.

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Position in Ecology / Project Management at Senckenberg

The Department of River Ecology and Conservation at Senckenberg is hiring an ecologist for the management of national to international projects on ecological research in river ecosystems.

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15 PhD positions in Water Quality across Europe

The European Training Network Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the Catalan Institute for Water Research are offering 15 PhD positions in the project “inventWater: Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate”.

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Position as Ecological Modeller / Computational Biologist at Rifcon

Rifcon in Hirschberg, Germany, is hiring within their effect modelling and statistics team to apply and develop ecological and ecotoxicological models for environmental risk assessments. 

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Plants and invertebrates face increasing applied pesticide toxicity

Increased efficacy of pesticides comes along with decreased applied amounts in agriculture – but does this translate to lower risks to non-target species? The answer is NO, if you ask scientists at the University of Koblenz-Landau who recently published a study in Science assessing changes in the use of 381 pesticides and toxicity to eight non-target species groups over the course of 25 years. In our blog, the authors explain the shifts in applied pesticide toxicity they found, and which species are increasingly at risk.

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PostDoc position in Machine Learning for Ecotoxicology at Eawag

The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a PostDoc to predict acute toxicity through machine learning in ecotoxicology.

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Impact of fungicides on amphibian development & metamorphosis

In this post, Mirco Bundschuh and Carsten Brühl talk about a recent publication assessing the impact of fungicide-induced changes in food quality on the development and metamorphoses of the European common frog (Rana temopraria). This work is published open access in Ecology and Evolution. Relevant data is made available to the research community through dryad.

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PhD position in Functional Ecology at University of Minho, Portugal

The Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology at the University of Minho is hiring a PhD researcher in functional ecology within the project STREAMECO: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under climate change: from the gene to the stream.

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Water Quality in European Surface Waters – A Spatial Complex (Part 3)

Jakob Wolfram talks about how water quality in Europe is affected by spatial factors and how they contribute to quality impairments for different organism groups. His research on “Water Quality and Ecological Risks in European Surface Waters – Monitoring Improves While Water Quality Decreases” is published in Environment International.

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