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...

My TEDxNewEngland talk is live and was selected for Editor's Pick - so honored! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1_m...

I must confess that before the World Cup, I did not even know where Cabo Verde was on the map, except that I knew it was off the coast of Africa. It may have lost to Argentina, but it won many hearts with its soccer and resilience.

Lawd, the replays of the Lopes Cabral goal 🤌🏼

Although Priyanga was fired, the story very much continues for her as she is struggling to make ends meet without a job or prospects. She recently sold her home to move into a small apartment in LA. She made some mistakes...but the punishment so far exceeds the "crime" (see: gender and race)

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence

In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

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Huge thanks to @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social for the excellent lectures & the most fun learning I have had in a long time! glimpses of his gorgeous illustrations attached! Thanks also to Alex and Zhongwei for the great lectures + organizing the stochastic dynamics summer school. Highly recommend!!

Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · last mo.

Finished my 825 minutes of lectures at the Texas A&M workshop and finally had time to draw !!! ✍️ Snivy :) I will get a good scan when I am back home #pokédex #penandink #snivy

Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!

An old sketch of Flaco from a picture via Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social. The most endearing part of 2023/early 2024! #sketch #owl #EurasianEagleOwl

My @ucdavis.bsky.social colleague Laci Gerhart is doing extraordinary work: teaching natural history and participatory science in CA prisons, with a new $1.9M NSF grant to scale it statewide. The participants' curiosity and engagement shine through in this piece. biology.ucdavis.edu/news/trainin...

Training Naturalists Behind Prison Walls

A kestrel swoops to grab a smaller bird on the wing and eats it, right in front of a group of men in the garden at California Health Care Facility, or CHCF, a prison in Stockton, where the garden has ...

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Our paper on transient dynamics and nonlinear fitness it out in Ecology! We present a matrix framework that links pulse (one-time) and press (sustained) perturbations, showing how transient nonlinearities and demography shape fitness. (1/3) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transient dynamics and nonlinear fitness: A matrix approach to pulse and press perturbation

Disturbances can occur as short-lived pulses (e.g., storms) or sustained presses (e.g., chronic drought). Much work in ecology has developed methods to help predict how natural populations respond to...

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Late to this but congrats to all co-authors and awardees! Super grateful to have our paper receive the 2026 ESA Sustainability Science Award! We examine the ecological traits, genetic diversity and cultural/nutritional significance of traditional high-altitude crops in the western Himalaya. 1/5

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 3mo 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

And of course Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden www.ucpress.edu/books/evolut...

Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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What have we actually learned from empirical applications of Modern Coexistence Theory? We reviewed 84 studies from the last two decades to find out. Read our new synthesis in Ecology Letters here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Billie Goolsby’s experience with hearing loss helped her to develop a robotic tadpole for deciphering the secret lives of amphibians go.nature.com/4tTtlxb

How I eavesdrop on frog conversations

Billie Goolsby’s experience with hearing loss helped her to develop a robotic tadpole for deciphering the secret lives of amphibians.

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Noise and determinism in Trinidadian guppy population dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.17.725717v1

Excited to share our new preprint on noise and determinism in Trinidadian guppy population dynamics! Thanks to all collaborators: Ron, Joe, Arshed, Dave & Simon. We develop a framework for quantifying how stochasticity alters equilibrium structure, stability and vulnerability to perturbations. 1/5

Arshed Nabeel@arshed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our new preprint on the stochastic population dynamics of Trinidadian guppies is out! Proud to have been part of this collaboration, led by @harmanjaggi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

a quick blue tit sketch inspired by @cthonicyouth.bsky.social 's art! want to do this more often.

📣Tomorrow (Tuesday)📣, our final speaker this term: Harman Jaggi (Princeton) will be presenting: ⭐Noise and determinism across systems: insights from Trinidadian guppies and Soay sheep⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... We hope to see you there!

International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology@iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📅Next week, our online seminar speaker is Harman Jaggi (Princeton) @harmanjaggi.bsky.social: ⭐Noise and determinism across systems: insights from Trinidadian guppies and Soay sheep⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Open to all - see you there!

A robust method for quantifying the contribution of transient dynamics to variation in population growth rate. doi.org/10.32942/X2MT1V

Delighted to share new preprint co-led by @fishychrissy.bsky.social and I! Why do population growth rates vary through time? We develop a robust method to quantify the contribution of environmental fluctuations and transient dynamics to variation in growth rate. 1/6 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🗓 Extended schedule for this term, now with Harman Jaggi @harmanjaggi.bsky.social joining our lineup of speakers! All details and Zoom link here: iite.info/seminar/ Also, don't forget we have 75+ previous talks archived on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical...

Summer School on Stochastic Population Dynamics led by Alex Hening. A great opportunity for anyone interested in learning about stochastic methods and their applications to population dynamics. stochasticsummerschool.com www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/... Please repost.

Honored to serve as co-editor of Journal of Theoretical Biology special issue celebrating Prof. Madhav Gadgil’s profound contributions to theoretical ecology, population biology, following his sad passing. Shripad Tuljapurkar, Arni Rao & I are editing the issue. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Here is a blog post on our recently published paper on collective movement with stopping: arshednabeel.github.io/blog/flockin... (Short thread follows)

Our new paper in @pnas.org (co-led by @theogibbs.bsky.social) demonstrates that spatial patterns can modify interactions in plant communities of more than two species! (1/8)

Theo Gibbs@theogibbs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Psyched to share a new paper out today in @pnas.org! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social, we showed that spatial clustering modifies the strength of competition in a diverse annual plant community. Check it out here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

The Princeton Field Workshop is great opportunity for undergraduate students to learn ecological field skills and explore career paths! tinyurl.com/PFEW-2025

Had a great interaction with Sahana Ghosh from Nature India about our black pea research. Here's her excellent story on our paper: www.nature.com/articles/d44... @nature.com @ornithoale.bsky.social @stanforddoerr.bsky.social

An ancient pea holds lessons for a warming Himalaya

Nurtured for millennia in the Trans-Himalaya, the hardy black pea outperforms cash crops in resilience and nutrition — and could reshape how science values farmers’ knowledge and forgotten foods.

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Happy to share our research was featured in Stanford reports. @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @ornithoale.bsky.social news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

The ecological promise of the Himalayan black pea

Stanford researchers discovered a nearly forgotten variety of black peas from the northwest Himalayas that excels in climate resilience and nutrition.

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Excited to see our work on 🔥 in industrial forests featured in the @sfchronicle.com this morning. Article by @kurtisalexander.bsky.social: www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...