New to bsky, trying to (re)connect with eco-evo folks. I'm an evolutionary ecologist who studies how rapid evolutionary dynamics shape community and ecosystem processes. My work integrates experimental evolution, population genetics, and community ecology, with an emphasis on biological invasions.

📢 New Research Alert! No organism can be the best at everything—and now we know why. A new study by our own Dr. @jasonlaurich.bsky.social reveals the hidden limits shaping evolution itself: tinyurl.com/yc8j3434 @integrativebiology.bsky.social @uofgcbs.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don't miss today's Dynamic Ecology interview with @clsong.com. Jeremy wasn't lying when he wrote "Reading this is going to be way more entertaining and thought-provoking than whatever you were planning to spend the next 15 minutes doing." dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/i...

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!! www.amnat.org/announcement...

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

New in @natecoevo.nature.com, we show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations & chaos occur in 81% of marine fish populations worldwide. Nonlinearity was correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations & amplified by temperature variation & in fast-lived species. 🌍🌐 Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

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My annual "DO IT!" encouragement post! Selfishly, my time on CSEE council was the highlight of my PhD, it opened doors and opportunities that research alone did not. And I think we accomplished some good things for the society! 🧪🌎

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.

Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow. Please repost :)

Newly published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, we look within seeds of historic herbarium specimens for changes in the prevalence of beneficial fungal symbionts in response to climate change drivers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

The deadline is one week away! Don't miss out on submitting your symposium and workshop proposals 🎉

A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Fun to synthesize some exciting future directions for spatiotemporal genomics in this Tansley perspective. Check er out!

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change? Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels. With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

Do you like to think about temporal niches and coexistence theory? Or perhaps you want to hear some really quirky natural history of marine insects & the moon? Or both? Read on: a mystery & its potential solution in two papers!

"The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid positions, these hidden costs disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender."

So excited to share our paper on facilitation thinking. Facilitation Thinking for Coexistence Theory - James - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

Macroecological patterns in experimental microbial communities, led by Will Shoemaker & Jacopo Grilli journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky

really cool new paper showing species across the globe are NOT moving upslope any more than you'd expect based on a null model www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A very nice and clean test of the meta-population theory for range limits!

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Thanks to @idiv for funding and hosting our first working group meeting on range edge dynamics (sRED) @kemarshall.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social @juancarvq.bsky.social @shaharchaikin.bsky.social @usuitakuji.bsky.social @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @colingarroway.bsky.social

Even common plants with broad-scale distributions are going to feel the effects of climate change. We modeled plant responses using species distribution modeling and demographic surveys to find that B. stricta is at risk of decline. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interested in flower color evolution? Geographic clines which might be due to selection or drift, or both? Check out this work by @katiemaunder.bsky.social and Chris Eckert. Super excited to see how this has developed. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

Science benefits humanity in countless ways. CSEE condemns the current U.S. administration’s efforts to dismantle science. Read our full statement in support of U.S. scientists and science here: tinyurl.com/ypamt7fy

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

CSEE needs your help! The CSEE equity fund helps send students/postdocs in financial need to our annual meeting. Unfortunately in these difficult times, the need exceeds our resources. Please help a student/postdoc by making a small donation here: gofund.me/ac98009f

Please repost! Want to learn and chat about plant-microbe interactions in beautiful Okinawa? Consider attending and contributing to our upcoming Phyllosphere meeting! Registration is now open, is cheap thanks to a weak yen, and FREE HOUSING is available! www.oist.jp/conference/p...

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mary Delaney began making these botanical paper collages in her 70s! She made almost 1000 of them using paper that she laboriously cut and glued with extreme precision. 😍 🌱 #Botany

Congratulations @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social who wins the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award at #BES2024

I don’t have any big updates, so I’m gonna shamelessly plug my most recent project with @usuitakuji.bsky.social. We used duckweed to investigate how stressful temperatures mediate competitive ability/resource demands. Check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Was Clements wrong? Resasco et al. revisit the Clements and Gleason debate with plant distributions from Pikes Peak, Clements’s life-long study site. Read this new historical perspective now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Postdoc Megan Ruffley just published a preprint in bioRxiv & medRxiv! which deals with a big elephant in the room in climate adaptation studies: will genetic constraints between multiple adaptive traits within a species limit adaptation? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MOILAB

New paper from my lab, led by Pooja Nathan (not on this app yet). We found that extrafloral nectaries (ant-attracting glands on non-floral plant parts) have facilitated legume and ant invasions around the globe royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...