Feel free to contact me for info about this open position and the project! Fully funded through @hfspo.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn

The blog and the comments are very thought-provoking statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/15/t...

ICYMI: AmNat Editor-in-Chief Volker Rudolf speaks out: "Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist" Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... A truly delightful read by Judith Bronstein reflecting on the state of mutualism studies. It's a thoughtful look at where the field has been and where it's going—and such beautiful writing as well!

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/...

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

Come work with us!! Great group and super cool work 😎

Amazing opportunity!

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Happy to share a new preprint! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social. We use a spatially explicit experimental design to ask: do higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities? Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Label invariance: a guiding principle for ecological models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.15.664968v1

Last year, I joined a brilliant group of researchers for a 3-week deep dive into host–microbe systems. Each week explored a different theme, led by inspiring lecturers. I’m excited to share that videos of their talks — along with presentations by several team members — are now on YouTube:

This excellent article by @clsong.bsky.social‬ synthesizes research on the Assembly Graph, a useful conceptual & methodological tool to understand the dynamic assembly of microbial communities and multispecies coexistence. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

So excited to finally read this paper on parametrizing metacommunities! It's a true breakthrough. I've been looking forward to it since the fantastic talk at APS March Meeting.

Excited to share our new article exploring the eukaryotic diversity and composition in the gut microbiome of wild baboons! doi.org/10.1186/s425...

Host Competitive Asymmetries Accelerate Viral Evolution in a Microbe–Virus Coevolutionary System - Liaghat - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵The RELab opens! We explore how diverse ecologies cope with fluctuations while maintaining long-term integrity in space and time. Our motto is: ‘Everything is moving’. Not interested in asymptotics: transient dynamics reigns everywhere, every time. A supertransient thread with an arrow of time:

Interested in microbiome GWAS and heritability studies? Check out our new Review in Nature Reviews Genetics! We explore key findings, challenges, and future directions of the field. rdcu.be/epoRR @blekhman.bsky.social @sambhawa.bsky.social and Dr. Kelsey Johnson.

Do you want to know if species interactions are more a tool or a limitation when communities try to cope with global change? Check my talk tomorrow at 13:30 in TSB-7. #SIBECOLAEET2025 @eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

How do ecological communities respond to pulse perturbations (e.g. storms, wildfires)? We have a solid theory for stable fixed points, but what about cycles, transients, or chaos? In this preprint, we introduce a unified framework for these nonequilibrium cases. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper w/ Jonathan Levine and @exp-evoeco.bsky.social! We induced plastic responses in annual plants through early-life competition. These responses tended to make subsequent species interactions stronger and coexistence less likely. Link: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How can we understand ecosystem dynamics using information theory? Using Shannon's entropy, this paper by Chuliang Song gives a clever introduction to IT within the context of assembly graphs. @longcy.bsky.social @guimaguade.bsky.social @blaividiella.bsky.social www.clsong.com/assets/pdf/s...

So emotional seeing my first-ever teaching evaluations! 😭 Creating all the materials from scratch was tough, but incredibly rewarding. I put a lot of thought into what students need in the AI era—sharing the complete class materials here in case they're helpful: clsong.github.io/EEB_C234/01_...

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

Just out: A geometric approach to beta diversity esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Led by the brilliant @clsong.bsky.social & Muyang Lu.

Thrilled to share our new paper "A geometric approach to beta diversity" in Ecological Monographs. We propose a fresh perspective to rethink beta diversity and its measurement. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecm.70008

Four #SPLASHY talks from the lab for #APSphysics March meeting next week at Anaheim, from starfish embryos to robotic active matter - looking forward! #ApsDsoft #ApsDbio #PRX_Life

Great news that increases funding levels and the number of awards and opens up PhD and postdoc awards to non-Canadians! Currently recruiting an MSc and a PhD in my lab - see www.tessgrainger.ca

The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits - Zeqing Ma, Thomas N. Buckley, Lawren Sack - New Phytologist @tombuckleylab.bsky.social t.co/EFgmQo1qWy

Excited to see this paper from Mary Van Dyke out in press- she measures how rainfall manipulations alter the timing of the life cycles of California annual plants, and explore implications for species coexistence. Thanks to Sedgwick UCNRS Reserve for facilitating her research! #AJB

Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!

I gave an interview to the BBC at midnight while the #LAfires were raging outside and I couldn't sleep. Turned into one of the most thorough and well-researched articles on wildlife and wildfire I've had the pleasure of contributing to.

Incredible work led by Jeff! As his office mate, I’ve seen firsthand the dedication and rigor he’s put into this project, ensuring the analysis is both thorough and widely applicable. Couldn’t recommend it more!

New review article in @newphyt.bsky.social on nectar bacteria--their evolutionary origin, dispersal mode, effects on nectar chemistry and plant–animal interactions, community assembly, agricultural applications, and their use as model systems in ecological research doi.org/10.1111/nph....

We are thrilled to share that our paper entitled "Inference of the demographic histories and selective effects of human gut commensal microbiota over the course of human history" is officially out in MBE! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Thrilled to share my Perspective piece "Assembly Graph as the Rosetta Stone of Ecological Assembly" in Environmental Microbiology! Huge thanks to @asanchezlab.bsky.social for the invite & reviewers for insightful feedback.

Serguei wrote a beautiful review summarizing the extensive work he and his collaborators have conducted over the past decade on structural stability. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Congratulations to Dr. Haoran Cai!!! @haorancai.bsky.social successfully defended his thesis earlier today in MIT CEE and is moving to UCLA to begin a post-doc.

Interested in active matter/biophysics? Our lab tzerhan.com is looking for motivated PhD students to join our nonreciprocal robotics active matter/chiral jamming/morphogenesis projects. Apply by Dec 18: physics.ucsd.edu/students/gra...

Felt incredibly fortunate to play a small part in this amazing study. Massive respect to the local researchers in Shanxi Providence tracking data spanning 4+ decades. Link to the paper : www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fresh, unique approach to a classic question

There are two open faculty searches in our department: an Endowed Chair in Vert. Bio. (recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09874) and another in Conservation Genomics (recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875). Both are open at the assistant professor or higher (tenured) levels, and both close on Nov 29th. Join us!

Hi all! I'm excited to announce a tenure track faculty position in conservation genomics in EEB at UCLA! We're looking for candidates who use genomic tools to study evolutionary processes related to conservation. Note, the actual application deadline is Nov 29. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875

During grad school, I benefitted tremendously from Science Twitter. Let's rebuild it here. I’ll be sharing thought-provoking papers I come across. Starting with this one: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by Tarnita & Traulsen.

Can confirm, this works really well!

Excited to share our latest preprint! Turns out expression variability may play a key role for retention after duplication, with distinct patterns and mechanisms for small-scale vs whole-genome duplications. #evolution #genetics @evodaveo.bsky.social

Done with Twitter, BlueSky here I come!

Job alert! We are searching for a faculty member to join us @UCLAEEB in the area of Conservation Genomics. I have had very positive experiences here at UCLA and would be happy to chat with you if you are interested! Please apply and be my colleague! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875