We are accepting proposals for a Special Feature celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton's Animal Ecology. We're interested in contributions that return to Elton’s text and use it as a starting point to ask what we have learned over the past century. buff.ly/PMAqfUC

A promise is a promise. Now, you can read about my research explained in plain English, listen to the #coqui #frog from #PuertoRico, and see how tiny they are at hatching. You can access the articles published today in #TheConversation.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last mo.

These baby frogs are so small they hatch at less than half an inch long – smaller than your pinky nail! 🐸 From the start, they’re balancing two big jobs: growing up and fighting disease. And new research shows they often can’t do both at full strength. theconversation.com/how-young-co...

Young frogs prioritize rapid growth over immune defense, only shifting energy toward fighting infection when disease becomes severe. The study shows how these energy trade-offs—shaped by environmental conditions and timing—affect survival, development, and broader population health.

Young frogs

New research from the University of Florida shows that young frogs prioritize growing quickly even when infected with a deadly pathogen, shifting energy toward immune defense only when infections beco...

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🚨New publication alert🚨 Life starts as a 👾strategy-game under pathogen pressure: grow or fight. We show that 🐸investing ⚡energy into growth during mild 🦠infections can 📈increase fitness, but whether this pays off depends on the ☀️❄️season they hatch. #coqui #chytrid #PuertoRico #science #infection

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · last mo.

New research📖 Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics🧪 🦠 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/XofOXf2

Young frogs "play it safe" when disease strikes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Young frogs "play it safe" when disease strikes

Young frogs prioritize growing quickly even when infected with a deadly pathogen, shifting energy toward immune defense only when infections become severe.

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Read about our publication in @animalecology.bsky.social in the UF CLAS news! #amphibian #coqui #frog #chytrid #fungus #puertorico #CienciaPR @ecological-nich.bsky.social, Travis Klee, @brittbuchanan.bsky.social, @colettestm.bsky.social, @miguelacevedo.bsky.social, Patricia Burrowes, and Ana Longo

UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences@uf-clas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Young frogs take a “grow first, fight later” approach to disease, UF researchers found. They prioritize growth and only ramp up immune defense when infections become severe, showing how early-life trade-offs shape survival. Read more: news.clas.ufl.edu/young-frogs-...

I am happy that this is out!

Orlando Acevedo-Charry@oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Young frogs “play it safe”; when disease strikes, UF researchers find news.clas.ufl.edu/young-frogs-... @zuaniacolon.bsky.social @miguelacevedo.bsky.social

Hace dos fines de semana estuve hablando sobre mi camino en #ciencia con El Consorcio de Historia Natural de #PuertoRico (elconsorcio.org) en español. Puedes verla en www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pZ.... El sábado 23 de mayo, le toca a @oacevedocharry.bsky.social. Stay tuned; vienen con #podcasts.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Hey! Anyone attending SICB in January or the Latinamerican Congress of Herpetology in February? Alguien por aquí piensa ir a SICB en enero o almCongreso Latinoamericano de Herpetologia en Febrero?

Many mixed emotions. Getting ready for my defense on Monday!🤭😲🤗🥰🥹 Demasiadas emociones encontradas. Aquí estoy preparándome para defender mi doctorado el lunes! 🤭😲🤗🥰🥹

ESTRENO. Visualiza #GRATIS Webinar: Explorando el Potencial de las Series Temporales. #SpatialLab www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJQ...

Webinar Explorando el Potencial de las Series Temporales

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So sad! 🤮

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Are you a PhD student interested in expanding your modeling skills and building your #international scientific network? Apply to the YSSP program to spend 3 months next summer working on a #research project with IIASA scientists.

IIASA@iiasa.ac.at · 2y ago

🌟 Calling all Young Scientists Summer Program applicants! Join us for the YSSP Webinar on 26 November 2024 at 3 PM CET! 📍 Location: Zoom This is your chance to connect with us, hear from former YSSPers, and ask any questions. 👉 Register at yssp.admin@iiasa.ac.at #YSSP2025 #IIASANetwork

❗️New paper alert❗️ We did a huge evolution experiment to study the effect of high fat and high sugar diet in housefly. High sugar diet causes the loss of beneficial microbiota and lower developmental success. #evolution #microbiome academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

For a while now, @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

👩‍🔬Now it’s official. I’m proud to be one of the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Awards winners. Looking forward to go to Puerto Rico to measure 🐸🎵, nutrients in the 🥚, and 🔬🍄! Emocionada por esta oportunidad! #womeninSTEM #coqui #100x35

Casey terHorst@ecoevolab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out the amazing winners of this year's Student Research Awards from @asn-amnat.bsky.social: www.amnat.org/announcement...

☺️I was one of the 10 inductees from UF into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. It recognizes doctoral students and others who embody the values of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy by which Bouchet lived and worked as a scholar, educator, and physicist. 👩‍🔬🐸🔬🍄

Excited to share my interview in Defector about a mushroom🍄 on a frog🐸 in India! Thanks for including me, Sabrina @sabs.bsky.social! Come for the 🐸🍄, stay for the pun by Joyce Longcore! defector.com/mushroom-gro...

We have a lab tech position open starting in June. Gain hands-on xp in frog & fly husbandry, genomics, and experimental research. Collab w/ @berkeleyIB @MVZUCB. Get prof development support in a welcoming env! Please RT 🧪🌎🧬 Apply by Mar 15: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)

Non-definitive guides on developing a reading habit & generating project ideas

Note from Meghan: This is a guest post by my colleague Gina Baucom on a topic that's sure to be of interest to lots of readers! *** I lead a graduate-level professional development seminar* where we r...

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Proud mentor moment! Congratulations to all the undergrads (Bella, Faith, Emilio, Anja, and Thien) from the @anavlongo.bsky.social lab, who presented today at the #UF Undergraduate Research symposium! 🐸 🦎 #caecilians and 🐢!! @AmphibiArik @oacevedocharry.bsky.social

Sometimes more important than the content is the story behind. Congratulations on passing your Quals. Felicidades candidato! 🥰

Orlando Acevedo-Charry@oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 2y ago

It seems I’ll be able to discuss philosophical scientific questions in ecology after all! Today I passed my quals and became a PhD candidate #UFSNRE #UFWildlife @floridamuseum.bsky.social!! Thanks terrific advisors and committee #MiguelAAcevedo, #ScottKRobinson, #BetteALoiselle & #EbenNBroadbent