just out of the press…a 50-y study of a mountain lake without good news… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

2 results, and 3 speculations from this paper: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Results: (1) Greenlandic stickleback co-occurring with Arctic char are bigger and (2) have relatively smaller heads than when stickleback are alone in a lake.

Developmentally stunted stickleback? Study of 34 Greenlandic lakes reveals the absence of top predators reduces the available prey biomass, leading to small-bodied, large-headed stickleback populations: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Moosman et al. @brodersenfish.bsky.social @ebmatthews.bsky.social

Read leadership insights from social scientist Charmain Levy on the latest post on the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog. See: www.epistimi.org/blog/what-be...

AI audio summary of our recent paper on nutritional-based plasticity of isopod pigmentation is not bad… sciencecast.org/casts/o6xg85...

A text from my wife (who is a lawyer). Turns out she understands my profession (an aquatic ecologist) better than the NYT.

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

"Finally, the regressions of habitat suitability from SDMs versus site elevation have substantially higher R-squared values compared with models of stochastic lambdas versus site elevation for the same populations, which could lead researchers to overestimate the predictive power of these models."

I am looking for a postdoc position! I have experience in host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, sexual selection, science outreach, and science education. Plus, I'm a photographer and illustrator which could come in handy! Please reach out if you have any positions open or know someone.

Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Happy to have served as the opponent for the PhD defense of Jingyao Niu today. Was a fun process to be part of… check out her published papers and those coming out soon. www.researchgate.net/profile/Jing...

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

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.

Postdoctoral fellowship at Eawag, Switzerland. Independent position hosted in one of the research departments, including mine at Kastanienbaum. apply.refline.ch/673277/1246/...

In case you missed this last year…I think this is probably the most insightful thread/exchange about the current state of ecology (and some ecologists). It cuts at some of the core issues in the discipline, and asks “are we ok?”. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/a...

These (!) marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... are open again for postdocs looking to come to Switzerland… happy to chat about project ideas - www.blakematthewslab.com

Post doc in Europe? 🇪🇺🔬💡 It’s open to anyone in the 🌍 Call open 9 April 25 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

We are hiring a postdoc at Umeå University in aquatic ecosystem ecology. See the link for details! www.umu.se/en/work-with... @grocherros.bsky.social

Portraitmoded head shots of some of the attendees of our recent evolutionary-ecology workshop in 🇨🇭 (Eawag, Kastanienbaum)… a mashup of philosophically inclined evolutionary biologists and professional philosophers of science!

Job: Come work with me! Please repost! We're seeking a faculty colleague whose research, teaching, and outreach focuses on water quality and freshwater ecosystems in the context of climate change. Review of applications will begin April 15, 2025. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size. Mol Ecol e17670. doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

This has been a consistently fun course to be a part of… highly recommend it! biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

To paraphrase Frederic Truten about his life as an artist, I share the notion that at the core of being a scientist is a yearning for curiosity, autonomy and generosity, alongside like minded people interested in discovering and making beautiful things together. To me this is thriving in science.

This looks very interesting. Browsed website: www.rebeccaoester.com. Will review to help in our practice of landscape architecture. We essentially are trying to heal the land in our work. Thank you for sharing.

I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while… there is something energizing about holding a freshly completed PhD thesis. So much goes into these. They embody the best of what scientists do, and… are precious collectibles. Thanks Rebecca and congratulations!

We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇

Less than a month and a half until the Speciation Gordon Research Conference in Ventura CA. We have a great line-up of speakers, and still have room for attendees to present posters. A few poster abstracts will be chosen for talks. www.grc.org/speciation-c... The theme of the meeting is ...

The Holy Grail of Evolutionary Biology? We are ramping up to start a new series of posts on @ecoevoevoeco - so I want to share again one of my favorite posts - which was also the last post. ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-25...

I'm very grateful for the support from the Swiss Polar Institute that funded my 2024 field trip to Southern Greenland... here is a field note about the trip: swisspolar.ch/2024/12/the-...

Global Diversity of Glacier-Fed Stream Microbiomes Under Threat ! 👉 by @layeb.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 Glacier-fed streams harbor unique microbiomes, 62% specific to mountain ranges. Retreating glaciers threaten this biodiversity and its role in mountain ecosystems. 🌐🌍

What is the role of emergence and broken symmetries in biological complexity? Why is quantum mechanics not enough to explain biology? Check this paper by @theosysbio.bsky.social, on the classic paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social Phil Anderson on "More is different" cell.com/action/showP...

An intriguing new evolutionary story has just dropped, from my friend and colleague Leif Andersson: a discrete population of large predatory herring in the Baltic Sea, apparently in the process of evolving into a new species. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

It’s a good morning commute when the Swiss working dog poses in the sunrise for you.

Enrollment is OPEN now for Summer Session 2025 @ Flathead Lake Bio Station! Lakes! Scholarships! Mountains! Bears! Credits! Rivers! Forests! Please REPOST and help spread the word about our transformative and immersive field courses. Even take a class with me! #flbs25 flbs.umt.edu/apps/educati...

A day of limnologying in Southern Greenland this past summer 🇬🇱 youtu.be/PhdyyNgUoNk?...

One year on, we’ve heard little reaction to our paper conceiving #species as process-bound, historical, and without natural rank. Integrative #taxonomy and #phylogenetics should love the concept; #speciation biology might not, but it could. #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio

The Guarda Summer School was one of the most stimulating and rewarding weeks of my academic life! MSc and PhD students in EvoBio, apply! You won't regret it!

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Ecology-Evolution scientific societies on Bluesky: ESEB: @eseb.bsky.social SSE: @sse-evolution.bsky.social ASN: @asn-amnat.bsky.social SMBE: @official-smbe.bsky.social BES: @britishecolsoc.bsky.social CSEE-SCEE: @csee-scee.bsky.social and joining us today, welcome!: SFE2: @sfecologie.bsky.social

I don’t love engaging in semantics arguments in evolutionary ecology… but… can we please just settle what niche construction (NC) is and what it is not.

Long-term data is critical for understanding how ecosystems work and how they might look in the future. But it's getting harder and harder to do due to funding limitations. We need to prioritise this sort of research and to stop cutting funding for it.