Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits 🧪🌐🌾 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits

Climate change increases plant species richness in alpine ecosystems. However, to what extent this diversity enrichment masks extinction dynamics of resident species remains elusive. In this study, we...

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Local extinctions of cold-adapted plant species on mountain tops are happening. And they're accelerating! That, and much more interesting nuance, in our new paper - just out, and on the cover of, Science! More on the story on my blog: the3dlab.org/2026/09/03/p...

Proving extinction is hard. But we can do so now.

For decades, climate change ecology has mostly been a story about shifts: species moving upslope, poleward, tracking the climate they’re adapted to as it slides out from under them. It’…

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Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

Congrats to @reginafairbanks.bsky.social on a wonderful body of work during their thesis. Excited to for their future work and our future collaborations (if the projects ever leave the “oh yea, we should do that” phase :p)!

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congrats to @reginafairbanks.bsky.social for successfully exiting their PhD (we have exit seminars not defenses)! From ARGs to archaeology Regina has been fantastic and fun to work with. They are off next month to start a pdoc with @jmkreiner.bsky.social!

This is as good a time as any to say that I'm about to start as an Associate Editor at @asn-amnat.bsky.social, and I'm as nerdily excited as you might expect

Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · last mo.

Thinking about mission statements, as one does

IUCN statement of support for natural history museums. We need them iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... An amazing paper led by Jamie on the feedback between competition and evolution!

Eco-evolutionary feedback reshapes competitive dynamics in an orchard fly system

The feedback between competition and evolution is central to hypotheses about the origin and maintenance of species diversity. Yet, whether competition-induced evolution is sufficiently rapid, consist...

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Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4w ago

If a fish was a schoolteacher would they wear a short sleeve button up shirt and a tie, or JUST a tie?

Ten simple rules for equitable pedagogy in BIG classes! Great stuff by CPB postdoc Julia Harencar, @robindecker.bsky.social and others! osf.io/preprints/ed...

Trait flexibility mediates island extinction dynamics 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Zhang et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Vito Volterra, father of theoretical #ecology, joined the opposition to the fascistMussolini regime & was one of only 12 of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty - he wrote "Empires die, but Euclid’s theorems keep their youth forever" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Vo... 🧪🌐

Vito Volterra - Wikipedia

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Excited for @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social’s new preprint on the Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation

The relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)...

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I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

and what if I said that genome browsing is natural history #HotTakeOfTheDay @reginafairbanks.bsky.social

As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · last mo.

New 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci

The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.04.742829v1

Well deserved award for @katelaskowski.bsky.social ! I am honored to have her as a mentor at UC Davis and to learn from her what it means to produce rigorous and just science 🥳

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last mo.

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

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 · last mo.

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 gentle reminder to type 600 DPI instead of 6 #badplot

Please help us spread the word about a postdoc position on population and demographic modeling in Tom Miller’s lab at Rice University. It is part of our SERDP-funded project on habitat-based conservation of threatened and endangered species in the Mariana Islands. app.box.com/s/5804wjthga...

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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...

If heading to #ESA2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social, come check out my talk to learn about sustainable wetland management & biocontrol of mosquitoes! 🦟🪲🪰🕷️ COS 013-06-Leveraging integrated wetland management to co-manage wetlands for the biological control of mosquitoes and wildlife conservation

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

Hopefully we see an increase in these sorts of article sections across all subfields of ecology!

Kate Laskowski@katelaskowski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For anyone that missed my talk at @isbe2026.bsky.social - never you fear! You can watch my talk and read more about the new Replication Studies section at @behavecol.bsky.social right here! laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2026/07/22/r...

Heatwaves strengthen historical contingency in yeast--bacterium interactions in floral nectar https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739338v1

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...

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A great paper by three leading experts on this topic (also super cool figures!

From Lotka-Volterra Dynamics to Community Assembly: Theory, Topography, and Empirical Applications

1. Community assembly graphs (CAGs) summarize which species combinations can coexist and how single-species invasions drive transitions between them, encoding the pathways, alternative endpoints, and...

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Out now in PLOS Computational Biology!

Eight quick tips for data-model integration in ecology

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Joe Brennan@biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 10mo 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.