The agrichemical company Syngenta is hiring an ecotoxicologist in its Canadian location. The position is to be filled as soon as possible.
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Position as Technical Assistant at UBA
The Federal Environment Agency of Germany (UBA) is hiring a Technical Assistant for drug exposure assessment in the Department of Medicine. The position begins immediately and is unlimited (part-time is also possible).
Continue readingPhD fellowship in Applied Statistics at University of Copenhagen
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.
Continue readingInternship: Short Term Scientific Missions in COST-Action PERIAMAR
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.
Continue readingWhy coffee makes you alert after a heavy lunch: Mixture neurotoxicity explained through the lens of zebrafish behaviour
In this blogpost, Fola Ogungbemi talks about the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances. Risk assessment of chemicals is usually conducted for individual chemicals whereas mixtures of chemicals occur in the environment. Considering that neuroactive chemicals are a group of contaminants that dominate the environment, it is then imperative to understand the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances.
Continue readingApply now for the Master in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)
The application for the Master in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) for the winter semester 22/23 at the University Landau is now open. Investigate the potential impact of chemical stressors on ecosystems and how to effectively manage environmental risks.
Continue readingPesticides fly under the radar of official monitoring
The governmental monitoring under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) shall monitor the status of European water bodies. By carrying out a refined monitoring, a group of scientists from Leipzig and Landau now showed that pesticide risk in surface waters remains widely unnoticed in the WFD monitoring.
Continue readingGlyphosate spray drift reduces numbers of inflorescences
In this blogpost, Moritz Link reports how spray drift deposition of the herbicide glyphosate on a mixture of perennial non-target terrestrial plants was simulated and measured. Plant cover and number of open, pollen-producing inflorescences were recorded before and after the exposure event to determine sub-lethal herbicide effects.
Continue readingYear in Review – Part 3
In the third installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we present our readers a glimpse of the last lot of most visited posts in the year 2021.
Continue readingYear in Review – Part 2
In the second installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we give our readers a glimpse of 3 most visited posts in the year 2021.
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