The Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Ecology. Come join our lively community, in a fantastic city!! apply.interfolio.com/192136

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

What a great opportunity to work on a new exciting project with the fantastic @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social !!!

Emma-Liina Marjakangas@emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation

Sympatric species often exhibit permeable reproductive barriers, yet many of them coexist as phenotypically distinct entities. One way to account for this apparent paradox is that selection on loci th...

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Come work with me! We are hiring a Research Program & Operations Coordinator to administer a new CREATE training program and support other EEB initiatives at U of T. Please circulate to great people in Toronto looking for an academic admin position: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

Now out in @newphyt.bsky.social, led by postdoc @usuitakuji.bsky.social with former undergrad Jerry Yu. Plant microbiomes affect colonization success in the wild!

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Usui et al. @usuitakuji.bsky.social @mfrederickson.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For colonization success, should hosts 🌱 and microbes 🦠 travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Excited to share a new paper with Jerry Yu and @mfrederickson.bsky.social in which we test how microbial partners alter plant performance upon natural introductions: tinyurl.com/8u4268n6

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way?

Experimental co-introduction of duckweeds (Lemna japonica) and their microbiome in a common pond.

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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! We use Modern Coexistence Theory and Metabolic Theory to get general predictions for the effect of temperature on competition. Led by brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social and @joeybernhardt.bsky.social, with Po-Ju Ke, Patrick Thompson and Mary O'Connor

General Predictions for the Effects of Warming on Competition

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

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It was fun to work on this meta-analysis of resurrection studies involving plants with Lillie Pennington, Steven Franks, Jill Anderson, and @elenahamann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Two decades of resurrection studies: What have we learned about contemporary evolution of plant species?

Premise Global climate change has altered the eco-evolutionary trajectories of plant species, leading to observed shifts in phenotypes, such as earlier flowering. However, disentangling the contribu...

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Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community

Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...

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"The need to transition towards a clean energy future demands investment in new infrastructure. However, the way to do it is not to hollow out the scientific processes designed to safeguard communities and the environment." 🌎 theconversation.com/canadas-majo...

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.

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New to bsky, trying to (re)connect with eco-evo folks. I'm an evolutionary ecologist who studies how rapid evolutionary dynamics shape community and ecosystem processes. My work integrates experimental evolution, population genetics, and community ecology, with an emphasis on biological invasions.

📢 New Research Alert! No organism can be the best at everything—and now we know why. A new study by our own Dr. @jasonlaurich.bsky.social reveals the hidden limits shaping evolution itself: tinyurl.com/yc8j3434 @integrativebiology.bsky.social @uofgcbs.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

EDITORS WANTED AT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS -QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY -THEORETICAL ECOLOGY -ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY -EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY -MARINE ECOLOGY -PLANT ECOLOGY EDITORS FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES NEEDED TOO

ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The "Ecological Monographs" editorial board is growing! We're now accepting applications from ecologists interested in serving as subject-matter editors🙋 Visit our website for more information: esa.org/publications... And fill out this form to apply: www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8R8CTX

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought

Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...

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Don't miss today's Dynamic Ecology interview with @clsong.com. Jeremy wasn't lying when he wrote "Reading this is going to be way more entertaining and thought-provoking than whatever you were planning to spend the next 15 minutes doing." dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/i...

“If you keep your mind too open, your brain falls out”: interview with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song

Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent(ish) interesting paper. Today’s interview is with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song. I asked Chuliang about Song & Levine 202…

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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

Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!! www.amnat.org/announcement...

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

New in @natecoevo.nature.com, we show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations & chaos occur in 81% of marine fish populations worldwide. Nonlinearity was correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations & amplified by temperature variation & in fast-lived species. 🌍🌐 Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Temperature variation and life history mediate nonlinearity in fluctuations of marine fish populations worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity i...

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Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes

Abstract. Spatial network structure impacts the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions. Previous work on host–parasite systems has sh

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Jhelam N. Deshpande@djhelam1.bsky.social · last yr.

Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems. @efronhofer.bsky.social

10 out of 10 bug

lucci®@greatestjubilee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i love finding out about a new bug we have to get his name out there (toxodera integrifolia)

My annual "DO IT!" encouragement post! Selfishly, my time on CSEE council was the highlight of my PhD, it opened doors and opportunities that research alone did not. And I think we accomplished some good things for the society! 🧪🌎

CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Do you want to help advance the profile of #ecology, #evolution, & #conservation in Canada? Do you want to be part of a team that gets things done on behalf of a broader community? Run for CSEE Council! Nominations due April 26. Learn more here: csee-scee.ca/elections/

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry by Anderson et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.

CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy holidays from CSEE! ☃️ Now’s a great time to (re)join. Learn more: csee-scee.ca. Faculty: consider gifting CSEE memberships to students & postdocs! They're just $30/person and grant-eligible.

Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow. Please repost :)

Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026