Yale snagged a great one 🤩 congrats @usuitakuji.bsky.social !!

Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路@usuitakuji.bsky.social · last mo.

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! 🌐🌱🦠🧬

Did a fun little write up about this book, which (spoiler alert) I enjoyed and recommend

Arvid Ågren@arvidagren.bsky.social · last mo.

New book review in BioScience: @gerlame.bsky.social takes on Jeremy Fox's interesting “The Ecology of Ecologists: Harnessing Diverse Approaches for a Stronger Science". academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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!

hmu if you're going to Evolution in Cleveland ✨️

What are best practices for citing R packages in papers, given that citations cut into word length? For one we used 17 packages. A separate supplementary package citation list would be nice.

Five of us are headed to CSEE next week - come hang out with us!

My fav memory was a road trip with @tessgrainger.bsky.social and Natalie Jones from San Diego to the Victoria meeting, and running out of gas (like, pedal stopped working) while driving in the fast lane of a highway. How many PhDs does it take to remember to fill the gas tank 🤔

CSEE_SCEE@csee-scee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

Huge congrats to Tess!!!

College of Biological Science@uofgcbs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Tess Grainger @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the Ecological Society of America! The fellowship recognizes ESA members who have advanced ecological knowledge & applications within 8 years of their doctorate. www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

Who here is going to CSEE in Toronto???

March in Northern California - plant phenology is advanced by about a month!

A graph articulating my thoughts on hybrid meetings

Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...

Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Catherine L. Peichel, Åke Brännström, Daniel I. Bolnick, Ulf Dieckmann, and Rebecca J. Safran. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spr...

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[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦. All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions. Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed! www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

Looking for a paper for lab meeting/a discussion group? Look no further!

Tess Grainger @tessgrainger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

I wish there were more (any??) graduate fellowships that are based more on improvement or recent record of success, ignoring an initial rough start

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

I can't remember the last time I successfully logged into NSERC or the CCV portal without needing support to manually unlock my account, due to being unable to remember which childhood best friend I used as a security question when I made my account 15 years ago

Closing in on @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social !

Is @tessgrainger.bsky.social trying to tell me something 🤔

Today in lab meeting we are going to do a workshop for each student to develop an organizing conceptual schematic for their thesis (e.g., to be used for the thesis introduction or exit seminar). Anyone here willing to share theirs for inspiration? Here's mine as an example of what I mean 👻

Ecologists are obsessed with linking process and pattern, but quantifying the core processes of community assembly (and their interactions) in a natural setting is extremely hard. But we've done it! Using a fun new method. Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳

Megan Szojka@megan-szojka.bsky.social · last yr.

Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social #PlantScience

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

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Reports of USA border officials demanding access to people's devices and denying entry due to evidence of political leanings...this post alone will probably get me banned 😆

I simulated a fake dataset with a binomial distribution and used that fake data in a glmmTMB with A. a binomial error distribution and B. a beta error distribution (to test the consequences of my choice) The beta distribution had a hugely lower AIC. Anyone know why??

Hot tip for fellowship applications (imo): I see a lot of people being vague about their TAing load/other activities that take up time. Reviewers sometimes use this information to weight productivity. e.g., if two people have the same output but one person TAed way more

$3400 cad to publish a paper with the currency conversion 😬 i.e., 10% of my nserc

The default smiley on outlook changes the vibe in a way I don't love - it's almost dead in the eyes, can't put my finger on it

Peer review is nothing compared to 300 students carefully scrutinizing every sentence, word, symbol, choice of formatting in a midterm exam

Gotta love that the reason for threatening tarriffs keeps changing over time 🤔