bob week

@bweek.bsky.social

working on theory of host-associated microbiota diversity ( and a few side-quests ) at the crc1182 in kiel - a kite fellow they/them/dey/deren bobweek.github.io

Interested in doing a postdoc in plankton ecology, on topics of community assembly, trait-based ecological resilience, stressor interactions, harmful algal blooms and others? Contact me to discuss developing a proposal for MSU's EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship (Nov 1 application deadline).

Lars Brudvig@lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

a kewt lil tripartite intxn to observe while waiting for the bus . two of the members dont appear to have any direct interaction , but i wonder if there's any indirect effects mediated by genetic correlations across traits of the host member ⋆˚꩜。

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𝚒 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚣 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝐆-𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚡 𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 ;-; 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔 𝚞𝚖 𝚘𝚞𝚝 ⋆˚꩜。 bobweek.github.io/talks/driftG...

The Response of Genetic Correlations to Drift

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Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

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🌺 PhD position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology! 🌺 There is about two weeks left to apply to come work with me on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies at @unifr.bsky.social ! Contact me or visit here or for more info: tinyurl.com/monoecy Please share! 🌱

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱@thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu". 
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excited to announce v2 of my stochastic eco-evo framework is up ! main text now clarifies links w prev werk and points to an emp test of gen corrs result . supp greatly expanded to include worked derivations and further explanation of mathematical foundations !! hope u enjoi ;) tinyurl.com/stecoevo

STOCHASTIC ECO-EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF MULTIVARIATE TRAITS: A Framework for Modeling Population Processes Illustrated by the Study of Drifting G-Matrices

I derive a novel stochastic equation for the evolution of the additive genetic variance-covariance matrix G in response to mutation, selection, drift, and fluctuating population size. Common wisdom ho...

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