I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at Carnegie Science, now based at Caltech in Pasadena. If you're interested in land-atmosphere interactions and how they're influenced on small scales by microclimates, please take a look at the ad! apply.interfolio.com/190703

A new website experience for the next phase of NITMB We’re thrilled to welcome our community to the newly redesigned NITMB website! Advancing Biology. Inspiring Mathematics. Visit nitmb.org for a refreshed experience, featuring a new look and new features

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Network of the day: Network of lemurs from Japan Monkey Center. The edges represent the inter-monkey sentiments and can be very different:

One of ecology’s oldest questions - how does population growth change as density increases? - remains surprisingly contentious. In our new @plosbiology.org paper we contribute to the ongoing debate by applying the idea of “Growth-Density Inversion”: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... 1/6

Growth-density inversion in Escherichia coli reveals superlinear, not sublinear, density dependence

Sublinear density dependence has been widely reported empirically, but this is at odds with resource competition theory. This study uses a tightly controlled test in a microbial model system to reveal...

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Thanks to everyone who joined us to talk about engaging with theory! It was a fantastic discussion. You can find the slides and exercises from the workshop here: farriorlab.github.io/theory-works...

Midwest folks, please retweet! And please register and join us in Ann Arbor for your local hub! Next Week -- AAHHH

MEEhubs@meehubs.bsky.social · 2w ago

One week left to register for MEEHubs2026 taking place Aug 3-5!! Please join us in Montreal, Ann Arbor, Irvine, Morelia, Zurich, Manchester, Chernihiv, or online. Register here: meehubs.org

Brian Enquist (@uarizona.bsky.social) receives the Robert H. MacArthur Award for his work linking plant traits to ecosystem function, exemplified by his contributions to Trait-Driver Theory and Metabolic Scaling Theory

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Excited to be presenting at #ESA2026 this week in Salt Lake City! I will share some work on how assembly may change with shifting abiotic conditions. Info below 👇. COS 147-04 - Warming can increase the length and variability of assembly to a climax community Thu, Jul 30 8:45 – 9:00 AM MDT

Spread the word! My lab group is hosting a workshop tomorrow at #ESA2026: Ecological Theory for Everyone: A practical introduction to engaging with theory in your own research for those with little or no theoretical experience 1:30pm, Room 254B events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Has it been an hour since I last reskeeted this? Fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway. Whole piece is well worth a read. And for those of you who don't regularly read Science magazine, um, no, this is NOT the way they normally express themselves. www.science.org/content/blog...

HL Eisthen, defective human product@hleisthen.bsky.social · 2w ago

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My exploration into the background of a classic monograph written by one of the most influential figures in ecology remains a career highlight for me. Even more so because this book inspired me to view bioinvasions as a form of human-driven global change. I can't resist reposting the story.

Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2020 Dan Simberloff & I published an annotated 2nd edition of Elton's classic 1958 monograph Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants, the book that inspired me as a student. We added 9 chapter forewords, an introduction & conclusion that placed Elton's ideas into a 21st century context. ...1/🧵

Global change can have huge consequences for human nutrition via the care and feeding of our microbiome. Some first rate work by Dr. Elena Litchman.

Elena Litchman@elenalitchman.bsky.social · last yr.

How will climate change affect human gut microbiomes? In a new @thelancetplanet.bsky.social paper, I analyze the main mechanisms — changes in food availability & nutritional quality, environmental microbiomes, enteric pathogens, increased host stress — and their interactions. tinyurl.com/27kny9z9

E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5c7kv #ECR #MonetaryPrize

The next PopBio seminar will be on Thursday 30 July. Chang-Yu Chang (Academia Sinica) @changyuchang.bsky.social will present: "Unravelling the emergent properties of plant-microbe symbiosis and community assembly" Sign up link: forms.gle/v5kRZKAdauG7...

My students and I found some colonial rotifers today.

New preprint with @biologyjoe87.bsky.social and Jürg Spaak: a mathematically rigorous method for building community assembly graphs from Lotka-Volterra models, which map which species coexist and how single species introductions shift community composition. 1/14 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨New GMD publication alert!🚨 🌊 Amalia Papapostolou and colleagues (incl. @kenandersen.bsky.social) have published a new #plankton model - NUM v1.0 - that structures ecological relationships around organism size, and includes chemostat, water column and global configurations. Check it out ...

Computational library for the nutrient-unicellular-multicellular plankton modeling framework v. 1.0

Abstract. The nutrient-unicellular-multicellular (NUM) model is a trait-based model of unicellular and multicellular plankton that uses body size as the main structuring variable for community composi...

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What about this banger? youtu.be/P7qc2RTp3pw?...

Pinball Number Count (DJ Food Re-Edit) (AI upscale)

YouTube video by Scotto Moore

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Mike Kaspari@mikekaspari.bsky.social · 2w ago

That I remembered this tune—and had some trouble finding it—is a testament to how original and powerful Sesame Street was to us “early adopters” in its first few years. youtu.be/rzmoF-nJtOo

Out now in PLOS Computational Biology!

Eight quick tips for data-model integration in ecology

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Joe Brennan@biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited to announce a new preprint out now. Myself and Laurie Balstad led a group of predominantly early career theoreticians (along with Marissa Baskett and Mikaela Provost) to compile a set of guiding principles for data-model integration in theoretical ecology.

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 contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Beautiful new pre-print by @lambdapp.bsky.social! Rather than asking whether microbial interactions are mainly positive or negative, Prajwal asks: how strong or weak are they and why? The answer: not Gaussian, but skewed. This is similar to larger organisms, but not for the same reason. Read it!

Prajwal Padmanabha@lambdapp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very happy to share that the work I've been doing with @saramitri.bsky.social is now out on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We broadly ask how are microbial interactions distributed, is there a common shape across datasets, what drives it, and why it matters. Summary thread below 🧵 1/17

Had a great time at the #SIAM2026 in #Cleveland . Met colleagues, heard great talks, & gave a talk about "bounded environmental stochasticity drives secondary allee thresholds" based on recent JTB paper (see bsky.app/profile/seba...) Main conclusions shown below. More details in this thread. 1/n

Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A paper plagiarizing my JTB article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... has been officially retracted in Physica A www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Grateful to the editors for taking this seriously. 1/3

‘Inhabiting the data’ is how CalTech Professor Ellen Rothenberg describes her process for coming up with a new idea, in the very first episode of the Night Science Podcast. (@nightsciencepod.bsky.social)

For the past 10 years, Kara Haas has coordinated the K-12 Partnership here at @kbslter.bsky.social! Earlier this summer she successfully defended her dissertation! With @llseedsull.bsky.social and a team of teachers, Dr. Haas will work to create a distributed research network in schoolyards!

I'm so #sciencehappy that I wanna do it all again. Let's go for Year 5 of fig-a-day! Starting with the best science week of my life at @nitmb.bsky.social, producing some very cool models for multispecies mutualism, including the #SSRImodel -- because it makes us happy. #figaday 5.001 #year5

Save the date! The next SMTPB conference will take place May 3-6, 2027, at Stanford University. Make sure you're on the mailing list to stay in the loop for updates - reach out to info@smtpb.org.