I am in the process of recruiting a postdoc with phylogenetic/macroevolutionary skills to work on two projects:
Diversification of Asteraceae in southern Africa.
A project using the collections at the Gothenburg Botanic Garden and/or supporting GBG’s activities.
I provide below a link to the advertisement for this position which has a closing date of 2026-09-14. I would be very grateful it if you could distribute this notice and advertisement within your institutions and forward it to any others whom you think may be interested.
There is an open position as senior lecturer (universitetslektor) in Vegetation Ecology and Botany at Karlstad University in Sweden. For more information and how to apply, see: https://kau.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:897824 (Knowledge of Swedish or another Nordic language is required.)
The meeting will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, 17–19 August 2026, hosted by Uppsala University and the Swedish Systematics Society, in partnership with the Swiss, German, Austrian, French and UK societies, as well as the Swedish Species Information Centre (Artdatabanken) and Wallenberg and SciLifeLab Programme for Data Driven Life Science (Evolution and Biodiversity).
Meeting highlights include:
Keynote lectures by Paul Hebert (Barcode of Life, University of Guelph), Sandra Knapp (NHM London) and Fredrik Ronquist (NRM Stockholm).
Themed symposia accepting abstracts:
• Trait Evolution, Lineage Diversification and Historical Biogeography in a Big Data era. Confirmed invited speaker: Isabel Sanmartín, Botanic Gardens Madrid
• Evolution in Deep Time: Fossils, Phylogenies, and Reconstructing the History of Life
• AI and Automated Species Identification: Assets and Drawbacks
• Advances in Museomics for Biosystematics and Taxonomy
• Are biodiversity and ecosystems the same thing?
• Natural History Collections and their actors
• Taxonomic treatments and revisions and their accessibility in biodiversity databases
• Data-driven research in evolution and biodiversity
• Environmental DNA for species discovery and biodiversity inventory
• Speciation, Adaptation and Phylogeography: Microevolutionary Processes Shaping Biodiversity
• As well as open sessions for anyone who wants to present a topic that does not fit well in any of the above.
An early-career event the day before the main meeting (16 August), free of charge – with two invited speakers, Seraina Klopfstein (NHM Basel) and Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense, Madrid). The event will be followed by some mingling and discussions, and dinner/beers. So don’t miss out!
Post-conference excursion to Linnaeus’ summer house in Hammarby (20 August).
The journal Systematics and Biodiversity will host a ‘meet the editors’ session and are accepting submissions for a special collection of papers arising from the conference.
Conference dinner at Norrland’s Nation – a place that has been the heart of student life in Uppsala for 200 years. The dinner is included in ticket prices.
Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the fifth seminar of the series ”Nature and wars”, supported by the SAFIRE and Biodiverse Anthropocenes research programmes at the University of Oulu (Finland). This event will be online on May 4, 2026 (12:15–14:00, Finnish time). The topic will be “Research and education in wartime conditions”. Our speakers will include Dr. Natalia Shyian (M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine) with the presentation ”Ukrainian Herbaria in wartime conditions”, Dr. Olena Kozak (University of Oulu, Finland, and National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine), and Dr. Oleksandra Mashtaler (Vasyl` Stus Donetsk National University, Ukraine). Please find more details about speakers and their presentations here: https://www.oulu.fi/en/events/nature-and-wars-seminar-5-research-and-education-wartime-conditions
Vid Uppsala universitet finns nu åter igen chansen att gå en fördjupande floristikkurs under sommaren. Det är en fältkurs för dig som vill arbeta med naturvård eller inventering, men också för dig som ska bli lärare eller bara tycker det är roligt med kärlväxter. Under sex veckor (10 hp) reser vi runt i Uppland för att se och lära om så många arter och naturtyper som möjligt. I kursen ingår också ett moment med nyttoväxter och förvildade kulturväxter samt en veckas inventeringsprojekt. Kursen ger dig en stabil grund för arbete inom naturvård och växtinventering.
* Registration is now open * for the 4th European Systematics meeting (BioSyst.EU) to be held in Uppsala, Sweden, 17–19 August 2026. The meeting is hosted by Uppsala University and the Swedish Systematics Society, in partnership with the Swiss, German, Austrian, French and UK societies, as well as the Swedish Species Information Centre (Artdatabanken) and Wallenberg and SciLifeLab Programme for Data Driven Life Science (Evolution and Biodiversity).
More information about the meeting, themed symposia and keynote speakers can be found via the conference website : https://www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026.
The Department of Biology and Environmental Science at Gothenburg University invites applicants to two Botany lectureships, one specializing in Vascular Plant Systematics, the other in Systematics of non-vascular Plants and other Cryptogams. Each of the positions include 40% curational tasks at Herbarium GB. For more information and how to apply, see links below: