New paper out now in Theoretical Ecology, led by @theogibbs.bsky.social in collaboration with me, @kjmd.bsky.social, @cynthiasilveira.bsky.social, and Lisa McManus 🥳🕺

Coexistence of bacteria with a competition-colonization tradeoff on a dynamic coral host - Theoretical Ecology

Many macroscopic organisms enter tightly linked symbioses with microbial communities. Although experimental work has demonstrated the importance of these symbioses, a theoretical understanding of stab...

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Biological modeling is organized inquiry, but how should we think about the process? My new paper in #EcologyLetters argues that we should model like experimentalists: define treatments, measure responses, validate, perturb, repeat. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ele.... Do you agree?

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school. www.calebscholars.org

Check out the SMB Membership Booth near the coffee stayion. We are selling SMB water bottles, t-shirts, and the SMB baseball cards. #SMB2025

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities

Growing insight into microbial symbioses highlights the need to model these systems mathematically. We discuss three areas requiring theoretical advan…

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Seconding this call for support! BHL hosts the archive for the American Mosquito Control Association journals – key sources to inform my 🦟 work. I use it to find free PDFs of foundational research multiple times a week.

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Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

With NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya dismissing my reporting as "false" and "spreading rumors" hours before releasing a policy that confirmed said "rumors," I feel compelled to respond. Here's an inside look into how this story was reported. It was a weird one. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To whomever left the unsolicited note on the Herbaria door this morning stating that we shouldn't be proud of our flag, I say this: Don't worry, I got a bigger one! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ And it's endorsed by the administers of your collegiate, yet somewhat lacking, education. 🚂⬆️🔨⬇️

Excited to share our latest paper with Kyle Dahlin and colleagues on temperature-dependent models of mosquito-borne transmission. We've updated the classic Ross-MacDonald model to address its limitations and uncovered significant findings: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...