Veränderung durch Austausch

  Veränderung durch Austausch – dieses Motto kennzeichnet nicht nur die aktuelle Diskussionsreihe KlimaDiskurse des Bayerischen Netzwerks für Klimaforschung bayklif. Auch ihr erster Protagonist Bernd Ulrich, stellvertretender Chefredakteur der Zeit, legte immer wieder den Finger in die Wunde des Hinterfragens gegebener Zustände oder gängiger Auffassungen. Unter dem Titel „An die Wurzeln! – Warum wird nicht entschieden, was nötig…

We were treated to a retreat

We are a quite international team and not everybody’s at the same place at the same time. Thus we know Zoom conferences very well. And it works for us. This is probably why the ever ongoing pandemic does not cause us to be drawn apart, although our chances to meet happen to be shrunk to…

Bayklif Retreat 2021

Here we went! In late September 2021 the second annual Bayklif retreat took place directly at lake Starnberg in Tutzing. ‘What’s Bayklif?’, you may ask. The Bavarian Network for Climate Research is one of our funders, who actually makes our MintBio research project possible, which is one of several cooperative research projects which are to…

BioChangeLab group at the GFOE conference

As many other conferences, the GFOE conference (for any non-ecologists: GFOE = The Ecology Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland) takes place online this year. Which luckily does not scare the scientific community away, and this is why the program is packed. Three days of plena, round tables, talks and poster lounges were ahead of…

BioChange @school: Talking to the future

Just recently, our principal investigator Dr. Christian Hof gave an interview to the well known German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’. The interview discusses the importance to make ecological science visible to high school students. Although going to school for quite a while, most of us neither learn how science really works, nor do we learn how…