by Albina Bugarcheva #art

'a silent moment everything held as it is' -Akari **** Kawase Hasui Boshu Kamo River, 1934

My friend Ben wrote this extremely cool paper that looks incredibly useful: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ukrainian artist, Alexandra Velichko

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.

Gifu prefecture shifts their freshwater conservation focus from stocking to habitat conservation: such a great payoff when my research was used in this important decision making - www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/page/488101....

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

LTERがアーカイブされただと。。。？それは流石にヤバいぞ。。。。

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

Quantifying the Magnitude of Biological Invasions Using Total Biomass url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

This heartbreaking footage of Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk preparing for tournaments amid air raid sirens and missile attacks is a stark reminder that russians shouldn't be allowed to participate in international sporting events until they stop their genocidal war and are brought to justice

随分強気のプレスリリースだなぁと思った

A microbiome gut-brain pathway influenced by intestinal metabolites, innate immune responses, vagal nerve signaling and hippocampal memory encoding, impacts the rate of cognitive decline. Many potential points of intervention are described. #Science 🧪

The year is 2395. Humans live in a post-scarcity world. Wars have ended. People life in harmony with each other and nature. Formatting tables in Word still sucks.

Out today in @science.org our paper on how evolutionary adaptation to warming will reduce fisheries yields. Please let me know if you need me to send you a copy. Summary of the paper coming soon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

New paper out from our group - Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes - LaRoque - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Modeling and inferring metacommunity dynamics with Maximum Caliber | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Catalysts and inhibitors of critical transitions in ecological systems | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I painted this in 2020 following a tutorial. It seemed so silly to paint a puddle but by the time I was done, the puddle became one of my favorite pictures.  Nice how something so mundane can be beautiful. #art #artsky #landscape #bskyart #painting

アメリカに9年もいることに気がつき驚愕している。英語のコンプレックスが消えることはない。

Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with @jwinkfish.bsky.social. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social 👇 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This is when I realize I can’t even pronounce my own name right

アユ遡上数が２０年で５倍に！　漁協、研究者、ダム管理者が連携　産卵場造りに効果　高知県の奈半利川（高知新聞／会員記事） www.kochinews.co.jp/article/deta... ｜「研究者や上流のダム管理会社と連携して取り組むアユの産卵場造りが、開始から２０年」「ダムの影響で一時は激減した奈半利川の遡上数は５倍まで回復」

Sending off the first Ph.D from my lab is such a grateful experience, though bittersweet. Best wishes Dr. LaRoque!

<DATA ARTICLE> #OpenAccess GFID: A Global Fish Invasion Database Phillip J. Haubrock et al, @skatsanevakis.bsky.socia doi.org/10.1111/1440... aquatic ecosystems/ biogeography/ biological invasion/ global database/ invasive species

25051 ‘mixglm': an R package for estimation of stable states, tipping points, and ecosystem resilience using mixture models nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968

Delighted to announce our new paper in Science. @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social, @elenalitchman.bsky.social, and I show how power-law scaling at the micro (individual) level is translated by eco-evolutionary dynamics into power-law scaling at the macro (food-web) level. 1/5

How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rにまつわる怖い話をいくつか書いてみました。lmerのデフォルト設定がREML=TRUEとなっており、モデル選択できない使用になっているのに気づかず、やらかしてしまっている論文はかなり多いのでは、、と思ってます。 ecological-stats.netlify.app/2025/10/26/r...

Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social

データやコードのバージョン管理もまともにしていないプロジェクトをみるとオエッてなる。

一年近くかけてScienceにRejectされた悲しみを何にたとえよう。

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

25052 Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams - Lopes - Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

25-051 Parasites alter community structure | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

25050 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

25049 Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit - Gillies - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

25048 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

2025047 This is the most interesting one among those I've read this year - novel idea, solid data, and clear writing - a lot to learn from this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales" Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...

25046 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!