Markus Eichhorn
@markuseichhorn
Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com
It's not always possible to identify people from terrestrial LiDAR scans, but when your collaborator is an Argentinian birder it's pretty easy @rama84.bsky.social
Translation: as a grown-up I can be trusted to use AI responsibly but not these kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Registration is open for the @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting in December! Don't wait to sign up, we ran out of space last year. #BES2026 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...
Nonsense. Everyone knows the Germans are in West Cork, and the Spanish are on the Beara but we don't talk about that. #SpeirGorm
After three long hot days of LiDAR scanning in Wicklow, I'm now nursing some very sore muscles. Lots of lovely new data to play with though. #YesWeScan
Coming up with some memes for a talk on interdisciplinary collaboration and I'm having way too much fun.
My wife is trying out motivational art and I think she's really hit on something here.
I would mind less if the new buildings were designed for effective teaching at scale, rather than (as is often the case) expensive shells with largely useless interiors. Evidence item #1 The ELSC at UoN.
Our paper on decolonising field ecology was featured on a new BBC documentary as an example of how woke has gone too far on university campuses. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. This is impact! @biotropica.bsky.social 🌍 1/6
Trees in trees! New paper by Gotsch et al. (2026) shows how woody plants adapt when they become accidental epiphytes. 🌲🌳🌏🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Researchers: We built this thing for [target group] but they're not using it! We should do a survey of [target group] to find out why. Later: Why aren't [target group] filling in our survey? We need to post more on social media.
Reposting without the embarrassing mathematical error. Applicants bear most of the cost of funding applications. Probably best to go to the original source: f1000research.com/articles/15-...
How many people on the planet are farting at the same time? This was the important question my 7-year-old son asked me. It's time to do some research. 1/6 🧪
Many cacti are bat-pollinated. The flowers open at night, have rich scents, and are held far from any spines that might deter bats. #LoveCacti
That must be why one of my former clubs has gone unbeaten so far this season. They were never that good with me on the pitch. I'm blaming the boots.
Sometimes I miss making long field trips to exotic destinations. But on days like this, out collecting plants from the cliffs for our botany module, I think life turned out fine.