Poster deadline for the Keystone Microbiome Meeting in Banff is December 30th www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... Will be a great meeting focused on human microbiomes, spanning basic, mechanistic, and applied. Organized by myself, @amibhatt.bsky.social , and Harry Sokol. Join us!

Behavioural ecology in the 21st century..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asgriffin.bsky.social

We set out to investigate polygenic footprints of altitude adaptation in a moth species, but instead we uncovered a major selective sweep at genes often associated with insecticide resistance @prrnhd.bsky.social @schifanoalexandre.bsky.social @mgda76.bsky.social @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑! Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

There’ll be several opportunities to join the group, starting w/ a PhD studentship via the BBSRC-NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Team up w/ us, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social & @berasymbionts.bsky.social to answer how microbes shape insect behavior: biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mic...

Restoration ultimately aims to recover complex ecological systems with many interdependent species at large scale To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Chemodiversity is an important driver for plant–arthropod interactions 🌿 🪲 🐝. For more info check out this very impressive work by RU members Lina Ojeda-Prieto, @robinheinennl.bsky.social binheinennl.bsky.social and Wolfgang W. Weisser together with Eliecer L. Moreno doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!

#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035 @cscherber.bsky.social

😵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

First paper from our #cnrs neighbours at the #ecotron #Montpellier

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

Miles de activistas han despedido en Barcelona a la flotilla que acaba de zarpar hacia Gaza. Está previsto que otros barcos se unan en el camino a las casi treinta embarcaciones que han salido hoy. Mientras, en Gaza Israel ha matado a más de 100 palestinos desde ayer sábado. 📸 @aminguito.bsky.social

📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability. 🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158 With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

📰Published📰Hungry females deceptively attract males to exploit them as prey🪲 buff.ly/hUpfbP9 🧪🌍

Indirect ecological interactions are everywhere in nature, with species influencing another through a third species or the environment. Such interactions are rarely connected to rapid evolutionary change. Here, aphid-driven herbivory of duckweed drove adaptive evolutionary change in Daphnia.

Beautiful paper with aphids, but not terrestrial ones!

An evolutionary arms race between protective symbionts and parasitoid wasps is taking place inside aphids. But what determines the aphids’ fate? We explore how the origins of symbionts and wasps shape parasitism success: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @youn-henry.drosophila.social.ap.brid.gy et al.

"A third of Palestinians in Gaza are going without food for days at a time, the U.N. World Food Programme's director of emergencies said. About 100,000 women and children were suffering severe acute malnutrition in the territory." www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

In an urgent effort to save Hawaii’s critically endangered native birds from avian malaria, drones are now being used to drop #Wolbachia and thousands of lab-bred mosquitoes into the island forests. What a future come true. www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-l...

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇 📸G. Casbas doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Too poor to science: how wealth determines who succeeds in STEM Thought-provoking read, especially in these times of questioning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 🧪

Reminder: It is next week!

#MicroSky #RNASky

Howard's: evolution of microbial genes, genomes and communities. Can be experimental or computational. If interested, contact Howard Ochman, [email protected] Homepage: web.biosci.utexas.edu/ochman/index...

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses. Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b... #stats #metascience

Pollinator decline has captured global attention, but another plant-animal mutualism is quietly unraveling. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity article synthesizes global evidence on seed disperser decline and what it means for plant biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and climate adaptation. 🧵

Today sees the close of the REID - IMMUNINV conference (reid2025.sciencesconf.org) at @insa-lyon.fr Many members of @inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social were involved in organizing the congress, and some of our PhD and post-doctoral students were able to present their research work brilliantly 👏

Why did Finland's forests change from a carbon sink to a permanent source of emissions in a few years? The reason is simple: emissions from the soil increased exponentially. But what caused this explosion? There are at least three reasons for this, which I will explain in the thread below. 1/9

🦋📉 Insect populations down 75% in <30 years A new study maps 3,385 connections between stressors behind insect decline. Agricultural intensification tops the list – but many impacts remain overlooked. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... #SciComm #Biodiversity #Insects 🧪

Second video in the series: how to spot toxic labs, for example during an interview youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA

🌊 Calling all MSc & PhD students! Apply now for our #Summerschool on #Host-Microbe Symbioses in Aquatic Environments Dive into 5 days of field, lab & computational activities in the stunning Venetian Lagoon + amazing invited speakers! www.unipd.it/en/animals-c... 🗓️ Deadline: May 20

In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic. Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

Our article is out. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Improving gender equity in academia depends on the workplace environment. www.idiv.de/striving-for... The Female Scientists initiative at iDiv is connecting women in science. We learned so much from each other and our community along the way.

New Perspective: Ecological network research typically focuses on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. Here, Brose et al argue that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.

Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of our special section in Current Opinion in Insect Science. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/curr...

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

Elevated extinction risk in over one-fifth of native North American pollinators. 1,600 spp of vertebrate & insect pollinators assessed - one in five at risk of extinction. major threats - climate, agriculture, hydrological & fire regimes, & urban development. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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New paper with Erica Henry & @nickhaddad.bsky.social Q: What happens when butterflies, responding to climate warming, attempt an extra generation as summers get longer? A: Long-term monitoring shows overwinter population growth increases! 🧪🦋🐛https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70018

Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social 📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... 💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj... We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again. Instead...👇

... or, how bears impact minute collembolans feeding on fungi!

We made the cover of TREE!