One of ecology’s oldest questions - how does population growth change as density increases? - remains surprisingly contentious. In our new @plosbiology.org paper we contribute to the ongoing debate by applying the idea of “Growth-Density Inversion”: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... 1/6

Growth-density inversion in Escherichia coli reveals superlinear, not sublinear, density dependence

Sublinear density dependence has been widely reported empirically, but this is at odds with resource competition theory. This study uses a tightly controlled test in a microbial model system to reveal...

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Seventh paper acceptance of the year to #wundergrad Alan Sheu, who learned to code in FORTRAN as a first-year undergrad, implemented fully metabolically plastic mixotrophs in a full-on upper ocean biogeochemical model (COBALT), and wrote a 38 page, beautifully formatted response to reviewers!

My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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We are at #ESA2026! Our group is presenting some very exciting work across theoretical and quantitative ecology throughout the week. 🧵👇

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...

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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Three hours ago on our weekly walk, my friend Martha said she hoped France and England would make a pact to run up the score and keep Messi from winning the golden boot, and honestly... I think the Humanities profs are much smarter than the rest of us.

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

Southern Ontario is covered in smoke today from the devastating wildfires that have already destroyed multiple towns up by Thunder Bay 😰

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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Plastid endosymbiosis without gene transfer - dinoflagellates can do it #ProtistsOnSky #Kareniaceae #plastids

Recent plastid replacement in Karlodinium ballantinum (Kareniaceae, Dinoflagellata) challenges the paradigms of endosymbiotic gene transfer

Abstract. Plastids, the photosynthetic organelles of eukaryotes, arose via endosymbiosis of cyanobacteria by a eukaryotic host and were subsequently spread

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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

I'm so #sciencehappy that I wanna do it all again. Let's go for Year 5 of fig-a-day! Starting with the best science week of my life at @nitmb.bsky.social, producing some very cool models for multispecies mutualism, including the #SSRImodel -- because it makes us happy. #figaday 5.001 #year5

ICE killed a person they weren't even looking for AGAIN. Second time in the past week.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...

New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

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Hot temperatures devastating the livestock on the Tour

Just saw a kid carrying his scoliosis brace in O'Hare. I told him that was me at his age, and to keep it up 💪 because my brace probably made me a few inches taller. His dad thanked me, and I shared how hard it'd been on my dad to strap me in to mine 🥺... Grateful for every part of this journey 🥹.

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)

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria, USA. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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🦤🌐🧪 Not all mixotrophs are equal prey; well-fed Ochromonas attract more predators. New work unpacking how metabolic strategy shapes predation risk in marine mixotrophic nanoflagellates. bit.ly/meps15173 @mixotrophe.bsky.social

We're immensely grateful that our team has been given the nod from our Army program officers for #MEFCON (Manipulation and Encryption of Fungal Communication Over Networks; proud of that acronym honestly), a 5-year MURI trying to decode tree-fungal VOC communication.

Completely sold on Chicago honestly. I mean, hagoromo chalk with a view, shoreline running and lake dips after work, and science with some of my favourite people? Just gimme one more week to crack the Oak Street volleyball scene. #UnicornJob🦄

Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Oh boy someone please reassure me that this is recognizable as a zebra finch bc we gotta fly to Chicago tomorrow...

Elise did gorgeous and, more importantly, easily interpretable and emotive work illustrating our manuscripts. Cannot recommend her or her work highly enough!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last mo.

Need an illustration? Contact Elise Cypher (Booth 316!) @elisecypherart or elisecypher.weebly.com Elise is a science illustrator with recent projects including botanical illustrations for the Jepson eFlora and a Native Plants coloring book! Thank you to Elise for being a sponsor of #Botany2026!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We're seeking technicians and postdocs interested in working on decrypting plant-fungal communication as part of a "Fungalphabet" MURI team! (see RFP language below) Official job ads to follow, but please get in touch with me if this sounds like you or someone you know!