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 empirical evidence on how carrying capacity depends on temperature!

Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry by Anderson et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change by Wieczynski et al. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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/...

Open postdoc position in a great research group in Uppsala, Sweden! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

New research from #SLUAqua - Stronger effect of temperature on body growth in cool than in warm populations suggests lack of local adaptation🦑 🧪🌎 Max Lindmark et al. 2025 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

📣Attending @esa.int's #LPS25 next week? Make sure to catch the 𝐂.𝟎𝟓.𝟎𝟒 session (𝐓𝐮𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 | 𝟏𝟔:𝟏𝟓-𝟏𝟕:𝟒𝟓 | 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝟏/𝐋𝟐), during which I will talk about 🌍 global 🛰️ #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 data availability and how it shapes feasibility of long-term analyses. See you in Vienna!

‼️New potential ant communication just dropped! ‼️ First reported sounds produced by Red Wood ants doi.org/10.1080/0952... We published in #OpenAccess! #acoustics #animalbehaviour #entomology Brought to you by @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Habitat structural complexity increases age-class coexistence and population growth rate through relaxed cannibalism in a freshwater fish

Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology? I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.

One more week to apply for this Leverhulme PhD studentship on wildlife harvests and the social licence of hunting in the UK #ecology #people www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Postdoc on annelid taxonomy at Gothenburg University, Sweden web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

A press release about our recent article at @asn-amnat.bsky.social! amnat.org/an/newpapers...

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile uol.de/en/job/postd...

Are functional response types statistical apparitions? They certainly can be, especially given typically noisy data from foraging trails. This article gives a fresh perspective on how to approach type 2 vs. 3 distinction in FR experiments.

New paper 'Simple, universal rules predict trophic interaction strengths' out in Ecology Letters with Mark Novak and John DeLong: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...

New 🗒️led by Alex Pigot - Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature -Standing biomass increases with richness when large-bodied spp are numerically rare but independent when spp size & abundance are uncoupled. @ucl.ac.uk - Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A postdoc job at Umeå University Global Change Impacts on Northern Lakes umustipendie.varbi.com/what:job/job...

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Here, we show how the genetic composition of communities can affect the build-up of environmental heterogeneity over time. Environmental heterogeneity is not always external to organisms. Evolving organisms can shape it through local effects.

Read the press release here: www.idiv.de/how-elephant...

Does availability of juvenile refuge affect size structure of adults? Uszko et al. show that size of streams used as nurseries impacts growth and size structure of lake trout by controlling the strength of cannibalistic mortality and resource competition. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In this short news piece @leibnizigb.bsky.social 6 experts and myself share recent insights on the multitude of negative effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems 🧪🌡️📈🌍💧🐟🦞🐌🦠

No more competing consumers than there are resources can coexist in equilibrium, but have you ever wondered how many consumers actually evolve as resource diversity increases? In our new paper, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and I investigate. (1/3) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Le Noac'h et al. investigate competition between nanoplankton nutritional strategies. Their modelling approach highlights the viability of a phago-mixotrophic strategy and the intricate network of facilitative and competitive interactions. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Warming can affect many physiological processes. But any attempt to scale up individual-level processes to population-level consequences must assume a relationship between temperature & the strength of density dependence. But what does it look like? In our new paper, we tried to find out.

I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian

1/3 #Booksky I temporarily returned to my older habit of reading SF. First, I tried Alastair Reynold's Pushing Ice. Almost DNFed it twice, somewhere around 30-40% through the book. Plain characters, weird plot development pacing. But it paid off to continue, and at the end it delivered good SF fun.

I completely missed that one! What a delightful read!

An interesting article in @oikosjournal.bsky.social synthesizing the variety of potential warming effects on the stability of consumer-resource interactions. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very interesting article about a new take on the Type I functional response by Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social and John DeLong, with excellent @peercommunityin.bsky.social Ecology editorial work and recommendation by @fredbarraquand.bsky.social ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Does anybody know any articles exploring prey (mass) size vs. raptor (predatory bird) body size (mass) allometry? [with presented equations] I mean, across all predatory taxa, or at least covering the whole size range (excluding scavengers). #Macroecology #Birds cc: @bjenquist.bsky.social ?

A postdoc opening at Umeå University! The assessment of long-term Fennoscandian monitoring data to predict future trajectories of northern lake productivity umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A belated 2024 #YearInBooks: 27 read books; the last two Il Nome della Rosa by Umberto Eco and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, both in Polish translations by Adam Szymanowski and Maria Skibniewska, respectively. A worthy end of the reading year!

Embarrassing :( Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population 🐺 www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🐺 #wolf #unsustainablehunting #carnivore

Just learned yesterday, that there is such a bilogical thing as "obelisk" - replicating life-form of unknown affinity. And it was found this (passing) year! 🧪 #EvoBio #Complexity

In January I'm starting as an Assistant Professor in Ecosystem Ecology, and will be part of @icelabumu.bsky.social ! IceLab is an interdisciplinary center with an open and stimulating environment, and being there is my dream job. Now we are starting a research school with multiple PhDs available 👇

Great read! Tina Heger et al (2024) Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology 🧪🎓 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🔓 @oikosjournal.bsky.social

A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here some very interesting results on food web responses to direct vs. indirect (TSR) warming effects!

Have you ever wondered what kind of research impacts real-world policy and practice? 💭 @jappliedecology.bsky.social 's new Virtual Issue showcases a range of articles that have led to management changes or have been highly cited in online policy documents! 📚 Read more: https://buff.ly/3OE10IY

1/8 Time to wrap up my #HalloweenReads this year! Eight books, Sep 1 - Nov 30. I started with Horror Movie by @paultremblay.bsky.social in the amazing audiobook version. I really liked it! Some scenes will stay long with me.

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social Thanks for reposting! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Interested in grappling with coexistence theory but not sure how it applies to your system or species? 🌎🧪 We explored how coexistence partitions play out across different types of environmental variation and species 🌱🌲🌼 AmNat paper + code so you can try it out too! doi.org/10.1086/733382

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Just published in @asn-amnat.bsky.social: #Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales. 🧵1/3

Took some time to come together, but so happy to have this paper out!

1/4 #JustAccepted @asn-amnat.bsky.social #OpenAccess: Availability of juvenile refuge habitats explains the dynamics and size structure of cannibalistic fish populations, by @wojciechuszko.bsky.social Tobias van Kooten and Pär Byström. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...