A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎓 Early-career researcher? I wrote down everything I wish I’d known when I was in your shoes. 33 pieces of honest, hard-earned advice on publishing, mentors, rejection, focus, and building a life in research. 🔁 Save it. Share it. Add your own. 👇👇👇 #Academia #PhD #ECR #postdoc

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...

Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...

National-scale biogeography and function of river and stream bacterial biofilm communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641783v1

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me. stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...

📣 We are hiring! 📣 Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply! 🧪🦑🧬 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on: "Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning" Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025 Apply by 3/21/25: bit.ly/phageschool2...

Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Interested in the linkage between ecosystems of different trophic types, such as aquatic-terrestrial linkages or benthic-pelagic linkages? 🌊 🐟 🐳 🌲 🌳 🎋 www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Fluctation-dependent coexistence of stage structured species" 🌎🌱🧪 Part of a special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/R9RFA...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

This is causing major issues for us at the HJ Andrews LTER. Possible disruptions to >40 years of data on water, tree growth and survival, ecosystem response to fire. As well as three long-term employees whose livelihoods are now uncertain.

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

Slower swimming promotes chemotactic encounters between bacteria and small phytoplankton www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New pre-print laying foundations for a rigorous Quantitative Genetic framework to study Microbiome Mediated Traits co-authored with Hannah Tavalire, Peter Ralph, Bill Cesko, annd Brendan Bohannan!! 1/n biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico! Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025. explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

REU programs are starting to come out across the LTER Network! See all the postings below. REU opportunities will continue to come out through the winter, so check back often for the most up-to-date postings. lternet.edu/education-an...

My department is hiring a disease modeler!! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02021

Happy International #Mountain Day, everyone! Without them, our climates, biodiversity, food systems, societies, lives would be very different (and imho, less enjoyable!) @fao.org #UN @ipbes.bsky.social @ipcc.bsky.social @unep.org www.un.org/en/observanc...

Excited to share our new preprint looking at microbial cross-feeding networks with @thilogross.bsky.social : Cross-feeding Creates Tipping Points in Microbiome Diversity doi.org/10.48550/arX... (1/5) #MicrobialEcology #TippingPoints #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

We compiled seed dispersal networks for the five altitudinal vegetation belts of the Tenerife Island (0 - 3718 m asl) 🌋 🐦‍⬛🌿 We found that seed dispersers offer pathways for plants to colonise upper belts! Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... 🌏🌐🍁🧪

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

Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds. Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini. Thread 1/2 rdcu.be/d1Tyg

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

Come join us in Tucson!! I am excited to announce a tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Read more about the position in the updated link below! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

The first review article from my lab, helmed by @celiasouque.bsky.social, "From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance" is now online and open access at Annual Reviews Microbiology: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Still a few spots left on the Early Career Ecologists starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale. #metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems Reply to be added, and SHARE to spread ! I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky ! go.bsky.app/3v5o8nf 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

I have been on Promotion and Tenure Committees for several years now. Here are some things I wish candidates knew. A thread! Complete with ridiculous gifs 😀 PTR committee members, please add to this thread! 1/x

Using Generalized Additive Models in #rstats but unsure how to interpret them? The {marginaleffects} 📦 by @vincentab.bsky.social is your friend ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/interpr...

New preprint on "spatial microbial flows" in meta-ecosystems. Microbes perform key functions within ecosystems, but they also frequently disperse across ecosystem boundaries, where their functional impacts depend on their survival and metabolic activity. Preprint -> doi.org/10.32942/X2B...

We have 5 postdoc positions open at @hifmb.bsky.social on how spatial connectivity affects the potential for critical transitions in marine ecological dynamics. The call includes posts for theoretical, pelagic, benthic, paleoecological & governance approaches to this theme. Please spread widely

As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

Please share: collaborative postdoc opportunity in microbial ecology and evolution at Indiana University Bloomington NSF Biology Integration Institute (BII) on "Genomics and Eco-evolution of Multi-Scale Symbioses (GEMS)”   @GEMS_BII: tinyurl.com/4vyf6erd indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/23270