New preprint posted! If you're at ESA, come here me talk about it today at 10:45 in OOS 33 - "Dynamic Thermal Ecology: Physiological Limits, Performance, and Persistence in a Variable Climate"

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bridging physiological responses to population outcomes under variable thermal stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.28.741380v1

Second dissertation chapter just dropped at Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70441 Across theory, stochastic models, and protist microcosms, we show how rising temporal autocorrelation drives predictable increases in extinction risk under warming (ft. coauthor @mtkummel.bsky.social!)

Temporal Autocorrelation Increases Temperature‐Driven Extinction Risk by Clustering Stressful Conditions

Extinction risk forecasting typically relies on comparing thermal tolerance data to predicted shifts in thermal distributions. However, changing temporal sequencing of temperatures may exacerbate the....

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I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

We can help make your experiments better! 🌊🧪🌎 🧮➕📏 @raviranjan.bsky.social and I have been thinking about how to improve experimental design. We have a preprint with maths, simple rules-of-thumb, and R code and Shiny apps ready to help you. 

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I guess I'm Dr. Cody Limber now!

news.yale.edu/2026/06/22/s... Ph.D candidate, @nathaliealomar.bsky.social woodland salamander study featured by Yale News and published in PNAS. Congrats, Nathalie!

The secret lives of salamanders

A new Yale-led study finds that while the outward appearance of woodland salamanders has changed little over millions of years, their physiology has evolved in striking ways.

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Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Big milestone completed last week! Happy to share that my PhD dissertation has been successfully defended (ft. my fanciest PowerPoint yet and the longest LaTeX document I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of compiling)

We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Extreme Heat as the New Normal: A Methodological Roadmap Incorporating Behavior, Physiology, and Species Distributions

Abstract. A defining feature of climate change is the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events. Among them, extreme heat is

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Excited to share a new paper doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... We suggest that tradeoffs between infection costs and the benefits of sociality are dynamic, context-dependent, and likely asymmetric within dyads. We then propose hypotheses about how these tradeoffs might shape social responses to parasites...

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

New preprint up with an awesome coauthor team!

Diego Ellis Soto@diegoellissoto.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!

Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity

We used single cell sequencing to investigate the cell types of developing chicken feathers. From these data, we are able to describe the transcriptional profile of feather cell types, look at their ....

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