2-day Scientific Meeting on "Forecasting ecological dynamics" hosted by the Royal Society in London on 2-3 November 2026. Virtual and in-person attendance available. Advanced registration is essential. Find details at: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

The Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department (home of @weecology.bsky.social) is seeking a new Department Chair. Are you interested in leading a plucky and friendly bunch of ecologists? Here's the ad: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...

Join Our Everglades Wading Bird Research as a Postdoc

Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.

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Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Ah the early 80’s war between experimental and comparative ecologists! It led to this gem by Jared Diamond on the four types of experiments in ecology: lab, field, time series, geo-comparisons. I started every Community Ecology class with it. Highly relevant…again. users.wfu.edu/silmanmr/bio...

Margaret Evans@mekevans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There are ways in which I agree with this (strongly!), yet also, ways that I disagree (experiments are not the end-all be-all solution…scaling problems there!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Antifragility: A Cross-Cutting Concept for Understanding Ecological Responses to Variability by Wickman et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

When I was young I thought true love was Romeo and Juliet. Now that I’m wiser, i know true love is someone scrubbing the toilets when you’re out of town because they know it will make you happy

"Planning to run a workshop under air raids and blackouts required us to think of many things not covered by The Carpentries Handbook." olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...

I’ve bought mine!

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More than 560 items sold and over $12k raised for ACLU/NARF! Taking orders through March 1

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

I don't know who needs a break from the world to read about desert rodents, but I definitely needed a break from the world to write it. Nearly a year has passed, but here's an update on the unprecedented events over the past year at the Portal Project.

weecology@weecology.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New update on the regime shift at our long-term study site from @skmorgane.bsky.social "...our kangaroo rats losing their battle with the forces of dryness, but if you squint real hard you might be able to see them pushing themselves back up. Maybe." doi.org/10.59350/4y0...

I'd like to note that none of these cost $$$

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Would it be terribly annoying if I posted about things that have made my academic work more... efficient?

Oooo, I’m looking forward to reading this!

Colin Kremer@quant-ecology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ecologists recognize the importance of integrating across scales, yet our models often target specific scales. Our new paper presents models of population growth that scale up to explain community-level patterns, including interactions of temperature, light & nutrients. doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

"Sure Googlers [also faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."

Enshittification

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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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

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ooof this feels like most every university rn

Dreamt I was locked inside a ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’ mental hospital that was on fire and I couldn’t escape. Funny how brains create dreams unrelated to reality…oh wait…

It’s finally cooling off here and it’s been a long week, so definitely time for a pot of @sagenatural.bsky.social’s Miracle Max’s Chocolate Elixir

Trying to process a meeting where I feel like leadership basically said: “our ship has been boarded by pirates but other ships are sinking so this is pretty good”

PSA: It’s natural to crave control during unprecedented times. If rearranging deck chairs brings you calm, that’s fine, but please make sure you’re not forcing other people to rearrange deck chairs when they need to be bailing out the ship or helping people into life rafts.

Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.

Join me! We're hiring a TT position for interdisciplinary #DataAnalytics Program @ Denison University. Looking for someone who intersects with #SportsAnalytics in their research -- health, performance, biomechanics, media, economics, education.. Happy to answer Qs! apply.interfolio.com/172731

We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!

Juliano Sarmento Cabral@jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · last yr.

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.

Annalisa Nicholson@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · last yr.

The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!

Ethan White@ethanwhite.weecology.org · last yr.

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

Conversely, if you are not feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, you may need to ease up on the Xanax.

Wyoming Wormboy@wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · last yr.

BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.

Huge congrats to @elenalitchman.bsky.social on being elected an ESA Fellow!! 🧪🌊🦠 She does inspiring and foundational work in trait-based ecology, working across scales from phytoplankton in lake Baikal to the human microbiome. And, she's a super kind and caring mentor -- so, so, well deserved! ✨✨✨✨

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...