And of course, we used every chance we got to explore the beautiful scenery of the #Federsee and surrounding #nature #reserve. We visited a the #NABU house in Bad Buchau and afterwards took a guided excursion through the area. From watching bearded reedlings from the walkway in the morning sun and randomly spawning deer in the reed to jumping through the notorious #Wackelwald - #YoMos2024 did certainly not only nurture our modeller's spirit, but also our ecologists' ☀️

We also invited more senior ecological modellers to spend the week with us at #YoMos2024: @KorinnaAllhoff , @hagen_oskar & @cwerner held engaging keynote talks about their projects on eco-evo feedabcks, emergence and maintenance of diversity over large timescales, and also on the technicalities of global remote sensing. In the exchange sessions afterwards, we were able to ask all the questions about pathways and mental health in academia, and also, how to best get out of it if necessary 🏃‍♀️

First and foremost, we had more than 20 wonderful participants at #YoMos2024, ranging from Bachelor- to #PhD- level #students all modelling #ecological systems. Everyone had the chance to present their projects and methods and we had vivid question+discussion rounds afterwards. Although #YoMos seems like a niche group already, we heard about a bandwidth of methods including mechanistic #eco(-evo)-models, #SDMs, #climate and vegeation models, network models, #Machinelearning, #AI and much more.