Julian Resasco
@julianresasco.bsky.social
Ecologist 🇦🇷🇺🇸 Associate Professor University of Colorado, Boulder Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Insects, Biodiversity Conservation 🐜🐝🦗🌻 🦎🐞🌲 https://www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/
I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...
Our latest work is out @natecoevo.nature.com! We revisit a classic: Are interactions more specialised towards the tropics?🌻🪰 Great to lead this with @robtrop.bsky.social, and our coauthors across the world! Grateful for their collaboration🥳, and hope to continue working with this amazing community!
Robert Tropek@robtrop.bsky.social · 2w agoNew study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8
Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects — for food, shelter, protection and much more. I’ve written about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/30/w...
Want to conserve birds and mammals? Then conserve their insects – our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity sets out the details
It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…
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New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8
Aupa #ESA2026 ! Stop by poster 054 today (Tuesday) 5-6:30pm to learn about how climate change is affecting eguzkilore 🌻 a culturally important plant in the Basque Country
🚨 New preprint! What happens to bumblebee pollination networks as species ranges shift due to climate change? 🐝🪻🕸️ In the Rocky Mountains, we predict these networks are becoming "vertically disassembled" as the ranges of interacting species shift upward in elevation at different rates.
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
Asia Kaiser has been on an incredible streak lately! This new @natecoevo.nature.com paper w @lauradee.bsky.social is the latest. Cool work showing how ecologists can use synthetic control methods to strengthen inference — highlighted using iNat bee data in cities 🐝🌎🧪🌱🌆 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synthetic control methods enable stronger causal inference using participatory science data in cities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Synthetic-control analysis applied to iNaturalist records identifies a decline in bee observations in the 2 years following Hurricane Ida in Philadelphia, while three conventional analyses of the same...
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So proud of Dr. Asia Kaiser for her ESA Murray F. Buell Award & recently defending her PhD! Asia is an outstanding scientist & seeking a postdoc (urban ecology, insect biodiversity, bees, agroecosystems, & synthetic control/stat methods). Please connect w Asia w opportunities. Please boost! 🐝🌎🧪🥒🏙️🌱
Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago🏆 ESA is proud to announce its 2026 award recipients, honoring outstanding contributions to ecology through research, teaching, mentorship, sustainability, and service Learn more about the award recipients in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/WYZX50YVyJI
Evading a warlord on a birding trip... Are birds actually monogamous?... Is birdwatching the original Pokémon?... These are just a few of the topics discussed on INSTAAR fellow Scott Taylor's new podcast, "Okay, But... Birds." Read our Q&A with Scott out today: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026...
What does it take to make a hit podcast about science?
At the end of last year, Scott Taylor launched a new podcast called “Okay, But… Birds.” The ornithology-focused podcast has already attracted thousands of
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Congrats to our multitalented PhD Student Asia Kasier for her category award in Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest! 🐝 🧪 🌎 ... and to a wonderful supporting cast!
Dance Your PhD 2026 | Backyard Bee Biology
YouTube video by Asia Kaiser Research
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I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
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Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications
Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...
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Remember #365papers? I’m doing it again. This time worrying less about falling behind. Otherwise I’ll only read short papers to try to keep up. Last time that meant a Biology Letters heavy list 😅
To start the day @julianresasco.bsky.social takes us through a century of changes in plant-pollinator interactions. #BES2025
ASN VP Symposium: Phenological Shifts in Plants and Pollinators over a Century Disrupt Interaction Persistence by Zoller et al. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Phenological Shifts in Plants and Pollinators over a Century Disrupt Interaction Persistence* | The American Naturalist
Abstract Mutualistic interactions between plants and pollinators play an important role in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem stability. However, these interactions are increasingly threatened by c...
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
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CU Boulder climate researchers compare blooms and pollinators over 100 years above Colorado Springs.
The buds and bees on Pikes Peak indicate climate change is worsening. But it’s not all “doom and gloom.”
Climate change is sending early wakeup calls to buds and bees on the slopes of Pikes Peak, CU Boulder research says.
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Excited to see this paper led by Mica Santos in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B! w/ @dpvazquez.bsky.social The study examines extinction debts of species & their interactions (plant–herbivore, herbivore–parasitoid) in a fragmented landscape in Mendoza 🇦🇷 🧪🌎 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Extinction debt of species and ecological interactions in a fragmented landscape | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Addressing the worldwide biodiversity crisis in fragmented landscapes requires considering both immediate and delayed extinctions—the extinction debt. This debt arises from the gradual loss of species...
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Thrilled to welcome @julianresasco.bsky.social (University of Colorado) on sabbatical with us! 🌿🐝 Ongi etorri! He gave a fantastic talk on how anthropogenic change reshapes plant–pollinator communities across time— from seasonal dynamics to long-term trajectories. #Pollination #GlobalChange
Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:
Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation
Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....
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We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
Touched down in Colorado ✈️🌄 Off to RMBL for a data-theory pollinator workshop 🐝🌸 After years of reading the papers, I get to see the actual place they came from. Pinch me!
Nuestro artículo en @es.theconversation.com sobre los registros de biodiversidad contenidos en las Relaciones Topográficas de Felipe II, finales del siglo XVI, ha superado las 30.000 lecturas Qué bien que sean tantas y que se siga leyendo @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/la-biodivers...
La biodiversidad de hace 450 años: lo que había y lo que hemos perdido
Osos pardos, manadas de cebras, cultivos de seda… Un estudio de ecología histórica describe la flora y la fauna en tiempos de Felipe II. Lo que había, y lo que hemos perdido.
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This afternoon at #ESA2025 👇🏼
Julian Resasco@julianresasco.bsky.social · last yr.At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social
