Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Check out our latest paper on breeding hotspots for the migratory monarch butterfly doi.org/10.32942/X2Q.... Led by @jaymelewthwaite.bsky.social, with an awesome team of collaborators across North America. We welcome feedback.

Pretty industrious 🐝

📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below

Two students found an injured butterfly (a broken wing). They then came to my office and asked if it was possible to heal the injury. It can sound like a silly problem at first, but I actually never thought of this before. It gives me so much hope that they actually cared

A 2019 paper that is often used as evidence of the flawed 'windscreen phenomenon' has been retracted. I cited this paper a few years ago in explainers about why this particular anecdote cannot be used as evidence of insect decline. See thread below 👇 retractionwatch.com/2026/06/23/a...

A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction

A study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev…

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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!

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Our little activity for the Global Butterfly Week in Ottawa. Hopefully, the first of many years to come!

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Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.

link.springer.com/article/10.1... nice overview of networks in ecology

Spatial Networks of Habitats, Populations, and Communities: Connecting Approaches to Keep Cutting Edges - Current Landscape Ecology Reports

Purpose of review Spatial networks are extensively used in ecology to represent exchanges among landscape features (e.g., habitat patches, river segments) or biological entities (e.g., individuals, po...

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I wrote an explainer on Carney's pitch to radically alter environmental assessments of projects. It's a big deal and about more than economic zones. It would change rules for extinction of wildlife, fossil fuel and nuclear oversight, First Nations consultations and more thenarwhal.ca/canada-major...

Feds pitch ‘economic zones’ to fast-track major projects | The Narwhal

From pipelines to mines, Carney’s government is proposing big changes to environmental rules and how major projects get approved in Canada

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Very nice review of phylogenetic mixed models doi.org/10.1111/brv.... #statspubs #ecopubs Includes tutorial code with {brms} and {MCMCglmm}

Habitat fragmentation can either increase or decrease with habitat loss link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Habitat fragmentation can either increase or decrease with habitat loss - Landscape Ecology

Context A key aspect of the fragmentation debate in conservation biology is whether fragmentation effects on biodiversity should capture the combined or separate effects of habitat loss and fragmentat...

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Ottawa is really magical - here are some shots from the Canadian tulip festival.

Loving U of T's architecture and spaces

Heading to #CSEE2026 tomorrow - looking forward to connect with many old friends. Please reach out if you want to grab a coffee and chat about science!

Getting understudied taxonomic groups the conservation attention they need can be difficult. Luckily, our new paper shows that community occupancy modelling can reconstruct distribution trends for these species, and help with species-at-risk listing decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multi-species modelling to improve conservation decision-making for understudied taxonomic groups

The rapid and ongoing loss of global biodiversity has led to more species in need of legal protection, and an increasing emphasis on evaluating extinc…

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📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting: ⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!

Woodpeckers in Ottawa's arboretum

Humans understand the world through two things: principles and narratives. Principles and formulas alone can’t get at the significance of things and narratives alone can be deceptive. -Hiroichi Yansae

Our new website is online www.rivaecologylab.com! Please check the Contacts section for job openings, including a new PhD position on global biodiversity change.

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Ecologists what are your favorite papers about scale and choosing an appropriate scale in ecological studies and spatial resolution. 🌎🗺️

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...