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Ecology Professor.
#freshwater
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#foodwebs
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#fish
#subsidies
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#Bayesian
In case you didn't see it the first time...postdoc opportunity in Freshwater Ecology
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Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026:
yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher: A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available at the University of South Dakota in Dr. Jeff Wesner’s lab in the Department of Biology. The NSF-funded project will ex...
https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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True true. We demonstrate the silliness of that prior here…animals bigger than the earth or smaller than an atom. Who knows!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Daniela Rosero-López
8 months ago
Thanks for sharing!
instituto-biosfera.org/biosphere-in...
@freshwaterscience.bsky.social
@agu.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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Biosphere Institute » Postdoctoral Researcher in Freshwater Ecology and Conservation
https://instituto-biosfera.org/biosphere-institute/blog/2025/05/19/postdoctoral-researcher-in-freshwater-ecology-and-conservation/
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Matthew A. Barnes
8 months ago
I'm not an author, but I am extremely proud to have contributed to this recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Continental Scale Biology!
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2728...
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A Vision for Continental-Scale Biology: Research Across Multiple Scales
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27285/a-vision-for-continental-scale-biology-research-across-multiple-scales
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Concerning for sure though I found this quote in the discussion reassuring: “…in the year 2023, the Scopus database included 2,511,962 scientific publications…compared to the number of 89 articles…the problem discussed constitutes only 0.000035% of the total”
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Bob Hall
8 months ago
Coming to Society of Freshwater Science meeting in San Juan, PR? Like beer? Beaches? Join me for a Sunday afternoon beer tour and support student travel funds. Sign up is here:
forms.gle/hxtjnL1uhfwP...
#2025SFS
@freshwaterscience.bsky.social
Bonus if you attend the morning stats workshop.
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SFS San Juan Beer Tour
San Juan beer tour is on. Time is 13:00, Sunday 18 May at the first brewery and we will end by 16:00 to get you back to the plenary starting at 1700. This beer tour is entirely self supported. Ther...
https://forms.gle/hxtjnL1uhfwPmPQy5#2025SFS
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Pavel Kratina
9 months ago
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Angélica L. González
10 months ago
I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04852-w
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Jesper Andersen (318 ppm)
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#MarineEcology
#FreshwaterEcology
#IntegratedAssessments
#WFD
#MSFD
#SynthesisResearch
#BigData
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I’d love to be added
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Very cool by
@zzeynepersoy.bsky.social
@ignasiarranz.bsky.social
@drdanperkins.bsky.social
@vssaito.bsky.social
@pzecology.bsky.social
et al.
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10 months ago
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global
10 months ago
📝'GLOSSAQUA: A global dataset of size spectra across aquatic ecosystems' 🗣️Nuevo artículo done participan miembros del
#IICG
, Ignasi Arranz U.
@ignasiarranz.bsky.social
, Javier Sánchez H. y Zeynep Ersoy. 👩💻Se realizó con el apoyo de las becas de la
#SIBECOL
para jóvenes investigadores.
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Jesper Andersen (318 ppm)
11 months ago
AquaSYNC / NIVA has today announced a call for a new Synthesis Working Group focusing on analyses of existing data on 'biodiversity & climate change' in Arctic and sub-Arctic aquatic ecosystems. AquaSYNC will support a working group in 2025 and 2026. Read more here:
www.aquasync.dk/post/breakin...
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BREAKING NEWS: 2025 ISC Call on Biodiversity & Climate Change
Are you researching the critical links between climate change and biodiversity in Arctic and sub-Arctic aquatic ecosystems? Here’s your chance to be part of a scientific group tackling one of the most...
https://www.aquasync.dk/post/breaking-news-2025-isc-call-on-biodiversity-climate-change
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Ignasi Arranz
11 months ago
👀 Have a look at this new exciting PhD opportunity! Dive into macroecology, body size, and biodiversity while collaborating with an international research network!
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Zeynep Ersoy
11 months ago
Highly recommended PhD offer 💯
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My statistical journey as an ecologist
When I was in grad school, Ken Burnham gave a seminar in my department about model selection and met with our research group. His book with David Anderson had been out for ~3 years at the time (it …
https://thewesnerlab.com/2019/02/18/my-statistical-journey-as-an-ecologist/
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Brian J. Enquist
12 months ago
Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work."
scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
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Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_individual.html
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Thanks!
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12 months ago
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Pavel Kratina
about 1 year ago
📢 Excited to share our new paper on differences in structuring tropical and temperate biodiversity in riparian forests. Brilliantly led by Liam Nash, with
@gqromero.bsky.social
@tim36chambers.bsky.social
, Victor & Fatima - just published in Proceedings B:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Aquatic–terrestrial linkages drive contrasting biodiversity patterns in tropical and temperate forests | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Riparian ecosystems harbour unique biodiversity because of their close interconnections with adjacent aquatic ecosystems. Yet, how aquatic ecosystems influence terrestrial biodiversity over different ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2423
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Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton.
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/i...
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Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton.
Welcome to our latest author interview post! Today’s interview is with Ian Hatton, first author of Hatton et al. (2024) Science, “Diversity begets stability: sublinear growth and compet…
https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/is-sublinear-growth-the-skeleton-key-to-all-of-community-ecology-or-even-all-of-biology-interview-with-ian-hatton-on-hatton-et-al-2024-science/
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BES Aquatic Ecology Group
about 1 year ago
www.jobs.ac.uk/search/?keyw...
@pennyjohnes.bsky.social
is hiring a Senior Research Associate in Biogeochemistry to work on a ERC Advanced Grant to work on metabolic pathways controlling nutrient and dissolved organic matter uptake in freshwaters (4.5 years)
#biogeochemistry
#aquatic
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jobs.ac.uk - Search
jobs.ac.uk - Search 1000's of science, research and academic related vacancies in the UK and abroad. Updated daily, easy to use job search and a free Jobs by Email service.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/search/?keywords=Senior+research+associate+in+biogeochemistry&location=
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Bob Hall
about 1 year ago
Matt Church and I are hiring 2 Postdoctoral Associates in oceanographic biogeochemistry and modeling. Project info:
tinyurl.com/3vbcnx8j
Job and application info:
tinyurl.com/4pahvet8
. Send me any questions.
#FLBSUM
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Susanne Kortsch
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📢 3-year Postdoc Opportunity ❗❗
#FoodWebs
I am seeking a postdoc to reconstruct energy fluxes in food webs using gut DNA and eDNA in mesocosms under heatwave scenarios
@tvarminne.bsky.social
@coastclim.bsky.social
📅 31. of Jan. 2025 ➡️
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Hanko-3-...
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Andrew Heiss
about 1 year ago
The viridis palettes are great perceptually uniform color maps for
#dataviz
, but sometimes at the extremes they're too pale/dark. With ggplot and
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, though, you can truncate the palette to avoid the paler colors. I wrote a little guide for how
datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-12...
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Ehud Karavani
about 1 year ago
I don't follow baseball 😉 and as a computational biologist I was raised on Benjamini-Hochberg-like approches. but I remember the first time seeing this figure (after reading a pharmacoepi paper by
@zshahn.bsky.social
) and was immediately captured by the logic.
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Justin Pomeranz
about 1 year ago
Come work with us! Hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Colorado Mesa University. Responsibilities: Teaching 12 credits/semester, leading UG research and service. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions and please share widely!
coloradomesa.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
As a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, the person in this position will teach courses for the Poll...
https://coloradomesa.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/1209?c=coloradomesa
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It worked!
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about 1 year ago
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Eric Harvey
about 1 year ago
In a new study, we develop a framework to identify nutrient hotspots in the landscape. We also discuss how nutrient spatial distribution can be indicative of underlying ecological processes. This could thus be useful to identify target habitats for conservation purpose (🧵👇) 🧪🌎
tinyurl.com/577jajvm
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Quantifying elemental diversity to study landscape ecosystem function
The movement, distribution, and relative proportions of essential elements across the landscape should influence the structure and functioning of biol…
https://tinyurl.com/577jajvm
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tomjwebb
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Holiday macroecology: body size distribution of one hundred limpets
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bioRxiv Ecology
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Prolonged low flows and non-native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.03.621706v1
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Prolonged low flows and non-native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.03.621706v1
Climate-induced flow alteration is subjecting mountain streams to more frequent and severe low-flow
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.03.621706v1
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Job Alert: We’re hiring…Asst Professor in Genomics!
yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/40657
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Assistant Professor, Biology
Assistant Professor of Biology – The Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Ecological Genomics to begin August 2025. Responsibilities: · ...
https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/40657
about 1 year ago
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With a nice summary here
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out our recent work on nutrient and contaminant transport by Pacific Salmon. It's a big followup on the concept of the "dark and bright sides" of ecological subisidies.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Continental-scale nutrient and contaminant delivery by Pacific salmon - Nature
Pacific salmon transport of nutrients and contaminants to freshwaters increased by 30% and 20%, respectively, between 1976 and 2015, an increase dominated by pink salmon, which had the highest nu...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07980-2
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Paul Bürkner
over 1 year ago
Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online:
paulbuerkner.com/software/brm...
Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Paul Bürkner - The brms Book
http://paulbuerkner.com/software/brms-book/
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez
over 1 year ago
2/ Just run grateful::cite_packages() and you'll get a report with formatted citations and references for all the
#rstats
packages used in your analysis, ready to paste into your manuscript or report
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Ryan Boyd
over 1 year ago
Remember MOOCs? Remember NFTs? Remember crypto? No? Neither does your provost--they're working on AI now
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Why stop now!
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These are funny. It says my department has 1 ecologist. We have 5.
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Looks cool
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Come see our poster at
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Love that quote
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“Ask questions, get feedback, listen to what others think and advise, but in the end, do what works for you, and what makes the research and the job more broadly most fulfilling.” 100% agree.
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Great
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talks from
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and Savina Gjoni!
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Justin Pomeranz
over 1 year ago
Starting today (with my talk!) at 10:30 in salon 3/4 will be a special session on body sizes in freshwater ecosystems. We have a number of great speakers lined up in the morning session and will be back after lunch for the early afternoon session. I hope to see you there!
#sfs2024
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Our work on modeling size spectra with hierarchical ISD's is out (with an issue and volume): with
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, Savina Gjoni, and Jim Junker
besjournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.usd.idm.oclc.org/share/ZSU8N4...
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https://besjournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.usd.idm.oclc.org/share/ZSU8N4SJI7IJUNR9WUEB?target=10.1111/2041-210X.14312
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Interesting paper on different scientific cultures from
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et al. I saw myself in each of the cultures (variance, exactitude, course-grained) at different points in my career.
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over 1 year ago
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Justin Pomeranz
over 1 year ago
🚨New paper alert 🚨
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
We find that ice phenology of Yellowstone Lake has been unresponsive to local climate warming so far, but when comparing with similar lakes in Europe, a "tipping point" may be coming soon. 🧪
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Despite a century of warming, increased snowfall has buffered the ice phenology of North America's largest high-elevation lake against climate change - IOPscience
Despite a century of warming, increased snowfall has buffered the ice phenology of North America’s largest high-elevation lake against climate change, Lusha M Tronstad, Isabella A Oleksy, Justin P F P...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3bd1
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Alex Holcombe
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This policy will "cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as APCs, and mandate the use of preprints while advocating for their review" -Gates Foundation
www.cgdev.org/blog/advanci...
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Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement?
Today marks a significant milestone as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announces a new Open Access policy, representing a departure from traditional practices. This policy will cease suppor...
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/advancing-equity-and-innovation-research-publishing-time-new-era-open-access-movement
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