Excited to share our paper in Ecology Letters @pzecology.bsky.social@jimjunker.bsky.social ker.bsky.social@wesnerlab.bsky.social! Using ~670,000 body sizes from stream food webs across North America, we show that warming does not necessarily favour smaller organisms, but depends on resource supply🌍🐟
Sicilian sunshine, science, and plenty of new amazing ideas 🌊☀️🔬 A big thanks to @giuliaghedini.bsky.social for spending time with us in Sicily and for sharing her fascinating experimental results on how species size, metabolism, and demography affect phytoplankton community assembly and stability🔬🦠
Teaching position available. Come join us in South Dakota! yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/48451
Instructor/Lecturer
The Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota is recruiting an Instructor/Lecturer to begin August 2026. This is a non-tenure-track, full-time, benefits-eligible, 9-month position.Respon...
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Excited that @pyroscience.bsky.social is supporting our upcoming research cruise aboard Gaia Blu! 🚢🌊 We’ll be measuring zooplankton metabolism to explore how temperature shapes metabolic scaling and spatial metabolic patterns across the waters of southern Sicily and the Mediterranean Sea. 🔬🦐🌡️
It was a real pleasure to host @kratina.bsky.social at University of Palermo, CNR and Stazione Zoologica, for a fascinating seminar on how climate warming reshapes aquatic–terrestrial subsidies. Inspiring science and a memorable visit in homage to Santa Rosalia and Hutchinson in Palermo! Thank you!
Flying changes how metabolism scales with body mass –> NEW META-ANALYSIS of insects and spiders in Ecology Letters with @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social, H. Tan, A. Hirst and D. Atkinson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Locomotion Reveals Contrasting Responses in Body Mass‐Scaling of Metabolic Rates Between Winged and Wingless Arthropods
We test how activity and locomotor mode affect metabolic scaling in arthropods. Only winged insects show increased scaling with activity, likely due to flight-related thermal and biomechanical factor...
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Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments
Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...
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Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne! I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY GROUP
Exciting lab news! In September 2025, the lab will move to the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. We will keep a presence at the Gulbenkian Institute for...
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The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White. #Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics
