University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Biology is searching for a tenure track assistant professor in Aquatic Ecology to start August 2027! Application deadline September 28 2026. I am searching chair, please reach out with any questions!! wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Comprehen...

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

I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184

New paper out! Limited evidence that butterflies are capable of changing their thermoregulatory performance or thermal tolerance in response to local climatic conditions. Instead, poorer thermoregulators have shown stronger upwards elevational range shifts in response to climate change rdcu.be/fuSJE

Butterflies with low thermoregulatory capacity show greatest upwards range shifts along an elevational gradient

Communications Biology - Lack of variation in thermoregulatory capacity or thermal tolerance in butterflies across an elevational gradient suggests limited adaptive capacity. Poorer...

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published ahead of print in @asn-amnat.bsky.social, by me et al.: doi.org/10.1086/743270 the first test (I think) of dynamic range models (spatially explicit population dynamic models) for mechanistic forecasting of near-term range shifts. they outperform a traditional species distribution model!

Dynamic range models improve the near-term forecast for a marine species on the move | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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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 · 9mo 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.

Now out in Ecology Letters 🥳

Using Modern Coexistence Theory to Understand Community Disassembly

Community disassembly examines how extinctions reshape ecological communities. Here, we introduce the community disassembly graph, which uses invasion growth rates (IGRs) to identify extinction-drive....

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

Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)

📢 postdoc offer @umrcarrtel.bsky.social, France National-scale modelling of lake warming and water-level dynamics under climate change More: ℹ️ jobs INRAE : jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-29378 👨‍💻 lab website, includes a pdf containing all the information: carrtel.lyon-grenoble.hub.inrae.fr/news/postdoc...

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! 🌐🌱🦠🧬

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

I’m excited to share a new paper from my lab, by former PhD student Ben Schultz! It’s a genome paper for the northern redbelly dace, a small freshwater fish with fascinating biology - stay tuned for more cool work enabled by this resource. doi.org/10.1139/gen-...

The first chromosome-level annotated reference genome for Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace

Hybridization amongst teleost fish species is an ongoing phenomenon with unclear implications Chrosomus eos, the Northern Redbelly Dace, is a species with an especially complex and fascinating history...

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I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Integrating Physiology and Behaviour in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance, 7 – 10 March 2027, organised by Michael Ørsted & Johannes Overgaard Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ma...

For colonization success, should hosts 🌱 and microbes 🦠 travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way? Excited to share a new paper with Jerry Yu and @mfrederickson.bsky.social in which we test how microbial partners alter plant performance upon natural introductions: tinyurl.com/8u4268n6

For colonization success, should hosts and microbes travel alone, together, or swap partners along the way?

Experimental co-introduction of duckweeds (Lemna japonica) and their microbiome in a common pond.

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Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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🧪 New paper alert from our lab! 🔥🧪 Making predictions for competition in a warming world has been a challenge. We find that warming levels the playing field among species, altering competition, even in the benign portion of species niches Check it out here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

General Predictions for the Effects of Warming on Competition

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

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Joey Bernhardt@joeybernhardt.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨New paper alert🚨🔥 I’m thrilled to share new work from our lab in Ecology Letters: we tackle the challenge of making general predictions for competition in a warming world 🌡️🔥🌏 Led by the brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social with @tessgrainger.bsky.social and others tinyurl.com/44hr6bzf

🚨New paper alert🚨🔥 I’m thrilled to share new work from our lab in Ecology Letters: we tackle the challenge of making general predictions for competition in a warming world 🌡️🔥🌏 Led by the brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social with @tessgrainger.bsky.social and others tinyurl.com/44hr6bzf

When Warming Levels the Playing Field: Rethinking Competition in a Changing Climate — Centre for Ecosystem Management

New research led by one of our postdoctoral fellows, Dr. Kaleigh Davis, takes a step toward a more predictive understanding of network interactions in the face of climate warming by combining Modern C...

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Reminder to register for the Unifying Ecology Gordon Conference by next Monday! Lest you miss out on this incredible line up! www.grc.org/unifying-eco... @jennsunday.bsky.social @ewaldoleitao.bsky.social #GRC #ecoevo

Been waiting for someone to write a paper on expectations of how warming impacts Lotka-Volterra-type competition! A great example of how revisiting a classic derivation (consumer resource -> Lotka-Volterra competition) with slight modifications can yield interesting findings. Excited to read it :D .

General Predictions for the Effects of Warming on Competition

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea....

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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! We use Modern Coexistence Theory and Metabolic Theory to get general predictions for the effect of temperature on competition. Led by brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social and @joeybernhardt.bsky.social, with Po-Ju Ke, Patrick Thompson and Mary O'Connor

General Predictions for the Effects of Warming on Competition

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

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Why do species' ranges stop where they do? New theory shows that matching habitat choice can sharpen range boundaries and reinforce limits imposed by competition academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... By Shirani and @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social

Coevolution of species’ range borders: Interactions between interspecific competition, gene flow, and matching habitat choice

Abstract. Existing theory examining the coevolutionary dynamics of species’ range borders assumes random dispersal, which causes maladaptive gene flow from

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Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology & discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale chemodiversity as an emergent, dynamic property of biological communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology and discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale che...

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Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to engagement@pco-bcp.gc.ca by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

What an incredible new paper out today in @science.org, led by Frederickson Lab member @usuitakuji.bsky.social (from his PhD work with Amy Angert)! Competition increased adaptation to warming across replicated miniaturized "landscapes" using duckweeds as a model plant community

Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路@usuitakuji.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community

Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...

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"The need to transition towards a clean energy future demands investment in new infrastructure. However, the way to do it is not to hollow out the scientific processes designed to safeguard communities and the environment." 🌎 theconversation.com/canadas-majo...

Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment

Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.

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“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?” ― Carl Sagan

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Faculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of Victoria

Department: Biology                 &am...

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