New course to be taught this summer at Bamfield Marine Science Center by Andrew Hendry and collaborators (e.g., me), on rapid evolution in the anthropocene: bamfieldmsc.com/education/pr... with a focus on both marine & freshwater stickleback, intertidal organisms, & more

Applications for our upcoming Summer School have been extended until January 15! 🤝 Apply now: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum... @olkcampbell.bsky.social @maximederex.bsky.social @lfitouchi.bsky.social @cmolho.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social

I'm not the only one with a new book released over the holidays! Here's Jeremy Fox's new book, 'The Ecology of Ecologists'. I read it in MS; it's excellent. If you're an ecologist, work with ecologists, or are interested in science studies - this is for you!

Curious to learn how bacteriophage are far from perfect predators & challenges in connecting cellular infection and population outcomes... Will be talking about 'The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Inefficient Viral Infections', 2pm, Room 207B, #JMM2026 jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...

Now accepting applications for SFI’s 2026 CSSS program, a 3-week experience for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to explore foundational theory, engage in collaborative projects, and connect with a global research community. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 www.santafe.edu/csss

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

Thrilled that the Smithsonian has renamed the AMNH trail, thru some beautiful forest on Barro Colorado Island, after one the great tropical biologists—and friend and mentor—Dr. Lissy Coley.

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

Merry Catmas

With your help, we're creating connections, extending the reach of our research beyond the lands of KBS and seeding conversations in fields, classrooms, and community spaces. Thank you for your support in 2025. Read the KBS annual report: bit.ly/KBS-report20...

excited to announce v2 of my stochastic eco-evo framework is up ! main text now clarifies links w prev werk and points to an emp test of gen corrs result . supp greatly expanded to include worked derivations and further explanation of mathematical foundations !! hope u enjoi ;) tinyurl.com/stecoevo

“One tentative take-home is that a combination of movement and stability might help” Never thought I’d see the day when Jeremy Fox supported the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/d...

What's *your* Ant Navigation style? When you're lost, do you make like an Argentine ant and follow the crowd, or like a desert ant and look for landmarks? Read more about the different ways ants find their way in Paul's latest student blog post: hmcbee.blogspot.com/2025/12/ant-... @hmc.edu

An incredible ICTP initiative is our Postgraduate Diploma Programme. Rigorous one-year pre-PhD training for students from the Global South. I have personally seen this program transform the lives of those in the quant life sciences. Due Feb. 28 2026. Please share widely. www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...

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.

New paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, led by undergrad superstar Laina Weiss! An experimental test of theory on the effects of temperature and resources on carrying capacity. So proud 🥹 tinyurl.com/yvmzmt9a @integrativebiology.bsky.social

At #AGU25 this afternoon, I have a poster on a fun, new project: "Global patterns of optimal photosynthetic strategies" (B23R-1986; 14:15-17:45) I could use some input from the community on this! Come chat with me about "why photosynthesis be like that"! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

At #BES2025 in Edinburgh, Takahisa Ueno will give a poster presentation entitled "Synthesizing modern coexistence theory (MCT) and biodiversity-ecosystem functional stability (BEFS)" on Tuesday! whova.com/embedded/ses...

New paper by Laurie Wojcik et al. where we show that response to a pulse perturbation has a hump-shaped relationship with top-down control royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

🏆We are pleased to announce that our Eminent Ecologist for 2025 is Angela Moles! ✨Angela has collected a few of her favourite Journal of Ecology papers together here: buff.ly/86uQ6v5

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

The COBS working group is offering an experimental design workshop before Ocean Sciences in Glasgow in Feb 2026! 🌊 Join us for a day of learning about designing and analysing multiple stressor experiments without getting multiply stressed out. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Where does ecology fall? I see evo, not eco…

Jeremy Fox's new book, 'The Ecology of Ecologists', is now shipping. I've read it (and I blurbed it) - it's a thought-provoking treatment of how the field of ecology works as a science. You want to read it! dynamicecology.wordp... 🧪🌎

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see our analysis on scaling up temperature x nutrient interactions from populations to communities published in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social! 📈

We published a new paper in Ecology @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social entitled "Measuring competition coefficients in an ant community: Implications for intraspecific adaptation load" doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

A terribly sad day. After hours of testimony to the contrary, the Regents could not find the will to support Nebraska. Our Earth and Atmospheric Science, Stats, Textiles, and Education Admin programs are gone. Along with the faculty and their creativity, knowledge, and passion. Sorry, students.

PRI is proud to highlight the extraordinary achievements of 3 faculty recognized with awards from the College of Natural Science: Emily Josephs: Teacher-Scholar Award David Lowry: Postdoctoral Mentoring Award Sue Rhee: Research Leadership Award Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...

There is STILL TIME to register for the 2026 Predator-Prey Gordon Conference. It's happening in late January in Tuscany. The meeting has a single session attended by everyone, poster sessions, and encourages finding new collaborations. See the program and register below. www.grc.org/predator-pre...

A little video of our work with pitcher plant microbial communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvI...

Out now! 🌿🎙️ In this month's episode of #InsideBiodiversity, Prof Marten Scheffer explains critical transitions and tipping points. Together with iDiv's Dr Volker Hahn, he explores whether local tipping points can be scaled up to a 🌍 biospheric planetary boundary. 🎧✨ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

I found these notes from #BenBolker about file formats for plots and diagrams to be pretty useful. Your mileage may vary. bbolker.github.io/bbmisc/graph...

Hi everyone! I'm co-organizing this retreat/workshop June 15-19 for those looking to get started in mathematical/computational modeling of biological processes. Location is a beautiful farm in NC. Please share with students and others who want to build modeling skills. Interdisciplinarity welcome!

VERY excited to start my own lab today at @IISERPune! Please check out our new website and keep an eye out for some cool #tropical #savanna #ecology research sites.google.com/view/nsel/ho...

A challenge in epidemic forecasting is that ML models overfit while mechanistic models miss changing transmission conditions. Our new JR Soc Interface paper tests whether physics-informed neural networks—which embed an epidemiological ODE system inside a neural net—can address this.

Great opportunity for those interested in fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and mathematical models: postdoc opening in Laurent Lehmann’s group @unil.bsky.social. We have a lively community of theorists here in Lausanne with good interactions across groups. Join us ! Please RP

📣Tomorrow! Our speaker is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting: ⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐ Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... See you there!

Workshop on "Collective movement and pattern formation: Biology, modelling and analysis" @ International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK Dates: 27 – 30 Jul 2026 icms.ac.uk/activities/w...

A colleague is looking for an open-source/online (pref. peer-reviewed) reference for properties of probability distributions. Any ideas? (NIST gives *very* basic properties e.g. www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handb... but I think they're looking for something more complete ...)

Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.

We still have room in the lab if you want to experience a writing retreat next month ! A great occasion to visit the (maybe) snowy french Pyrenees. - From 8 to13 december - From 15 to 20 december All infos here : 👇 intp.science/fr/content/r...

📅Our speaker next week is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting: ⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐ Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... See you there!

👾👾👾

Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

One of the most unique aspects of ICTP is our Diploma Programme. Pre-PhD students from the Global South spend 1 year in Trieste to gain knowledge and skills necessary to pursue PhDs worldwide. The 2026-2027 call is now open w/ a February 28 deadline. Please circulate. www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...