Very happy to see our article comparing the responses of hybrid poplars in 17 common gardens, out now in @newphyt.bsky.social! We estimated reaction norms to predict how warming winters could change where different ancestries are favored. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Fun PhD! 🚨 Fieldwork in UK botanical hotspot - Upper Teesdale - cool tech (telemetry, drones, LiDAR) & microclimate modelling to understand land-use*climate interactions. With me & Sean Twiss @durham.ac.uk, Sarah Greenwood @stir.ac.uk & CASE partner @naturalengland.bsky.social Link: rb.gy/vex2tm

Two great PhDs on invertebrates being advertised here is OnE!

Tom Rhys Bishop@tbish.bsky.social · 10mo ago

TWO PhDs in my lab at Cardiff Uni being advertised! Co-supervision from @drlucyalford.bsky.social. 1. Physiological Entomology: www.bit.ly/PhysioAntsPhD / www.bit.ly/PhysioAntsApply. 2. Ecological Entomology: www.bit.ly/MountAntsPhD. Get in touch for more details! 😀🐜⛰️🔬❄️🔥

TWO PhDs in my lab at Cardiff Uni being advertised! Co-supervision from @drlucyalford.bsky.social. 1. Physiological Entomology: www.bit.ly/PhysioAntsPhD / www.bit.ly/PhysioAntsApply. 2. Ecological Entomology: www.bit.ly/MountAntsPhD. Get in touch for more details! 😀🐜⛰️🔬❄️🔥

This is going to be a really cool project! Thermal tolerance, hoverflies, nutrition, pollination. Lots to love! Please apply!

Lucy Alford@drlucyalford.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking for a PhD project supporting beneficial insects in a changing climate? 🪰🐝🌱 Then join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with @tbish.bsky.social of Cardiff University, and industrial partner Olombria. DEADLINE 03 December More information here 👉 bit.ly/4p9Pcyk Apply here 👉 swbio.ac.uk

Looking for a PhD project supporting beneficial insects in a changing climate? 🪰🐝🌱 Then join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with @tbish.bsky.social of Cardiff University, and industrial partner Olombria. DEADLINE 03 December More information here 👉 bit.ly/4p9Pcyk Apply here 👉 swbio.ac.uk

Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional trait dissimilarity drives arboreal ant community assembly while competitive trait hierarchies shape colony performance in experimental mesocosms

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We need more provocative papers like this …

John Alroy@johnalroy.bsky.social · last yr.

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🦠 New Research - The gut microbiome shapes latitudinal differences in host immunity and pathogen load in a damselfly ➡️ buff.ly/0f99mq4

🚨New paper out in PNAS🚨 Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬 We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵.... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟 New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social 🧪🌍🪶

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

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Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

NERC policy on resubmissions

This policy only applies to research grant applications.

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Awesome to see our paper exploring competing hypotheses in macro/metabolic ecology out in PNAS. Led by the all star @lilyleahy.bsky.social with a range of amazing folks including @funkyant.bsky.social @natejsanders.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size | PNAS

Metabolic rate dictates life’s tempo, yet how ecological and environmental factors integrate to shape metabolic traits remains contentious. Conside...

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Phylosignal celebrates its 500 citations! 📦🎉 I've written a short blog post to celebrate and reflect on this 10-year old #rstats project. 👨‍💻 www.pieceofk.fr/phylosignal-...

Phylosignal, 500 citations later

My first R package, phylosignal, that I started more than a decade ago, has just passed its 500th citation. So I decided to take a little time to celebrate (we definitely don’t celebrate enough). I…

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Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology

Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war

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It's the last day to apply for #BESMacro2025 ! Come join us in beautiful York for two days of awesome macro-scale science (plus an optional pre-conference workshop on scientific storytelling) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

BES Macro 2025

A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career stage.

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So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Closing tomorrow! Last chance to apply for postdoc to explore the role of animals in savanna ecosystem productivity & nutrient cycling! Link to job: tinyurl.com/53dy4584 #savanna #termites #largemammals

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

In February, Yadvinder & Eleanor traveled to South Africa to collect trait data at collaborator, Kate Parr’s @funkyant.bsky.social field site for her new ‘The Green Stuff’ Project. @naturerecovery.bsky.social We cover this visit in a visual way on our blog www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/explori...

Exploring Nutrient Cycling in the Waterberg, South Africa

Ecosystems researchers travel to the Waterberg in South Africa to collect baseline trait data with collaborators from Liverpool University and University of Pretoria

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our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications

Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...

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Excited to have kicked off our @hfspo.bsky.social project MicroMaze with Andrew Davies, Charlene janion-Scheepers and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social in the Cederberg mountains. News update and pics on my website here: www.bishoptraitslab.com/news.html

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A very busy month in the Traits Lab! Tom and Phil were establishing the new MicroMaze  project in the Cederberg mountains of South Africa and figuring out our new physiological experiments in...

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Registration is OPEN for #BESMacro2025, the best conference in town. This year we're in York: 10-11 July main conference, 9 July pre-conference scicomm workshop. If you do macroecology or macroevolution, please join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

BES Macro 2025

A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career stage.

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Rochelmeyer et al. investigate the use of drone-based surveys to count and assess tree hollow accessibility in a tropical savanna south of Darwin, Australia 🌳📈 Check out their findings 👇 https://buff.ly/3WCSvT0 🌎🧪

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How do urban rivers recover from historical pollution and what could be applying the brakes to ongoing biological recovery? #PhD opportunity at Cardiff Uni with Steve Ormerod and me, plus UKCEH and other partners 🌍🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Linking the changing chemical environment to biological recovery across formerly industrial rivers. at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Linking the changing chemical environment to biological recovery across formerly industrial rivers. at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Fully-funded PhD with @seanrands.bsky.social, Emma McKinley, Rupert Perkins and myself on saltmarsh management and ecosystem service provision 🐝 Apply here 👉 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk