So proud for Nonno, the first PhD awarded in our lab! おめでとう!

We are pleased to be back for another year! Join us next Thursday 1pm AEST. Deepa Agashe (NCBS) @deepaagashe.bsky.social will present a seminar titled: Founders, shapers: Colonizing individuals predict trait and population dynamics in new habitats Sign up form below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

🌱 Ignoring spatial heterogeneity biases estimates of competition & leads to incorrect predictions of competitive exclusion instead of species coexistence. 🔍 Read: buff.ly/Wnpb4DO

Multiple signalling increases both prey response and diversity in a carnivorous pitcher plant - Martin‐Eberhardt - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow. Please repost :)

Join us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year: Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences Sign up to this google form to receive the zoom link and future seminar announcements forms.gle/H6YgMuAgDWYS...

A 🆕 Contribution in the ESA Bulletin: Thinking about grad school? Here are 15 questions that can help you find the right lab fit — and avoid surprises along the way 📄Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology! 🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇 buff.ly/tki7aJ2

Finally settled in at OIST! Welcomed a wonderfully helpful lab technician and equally helpful administrative staff members, two enthusiastic rotation students (one of whom joined our unit as our first PhD student, yaaay!), a motivated internship student, and even a NEW BABY!!🙌✨

Independent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...

🏔️ Using a novel source of abundance data, we forecast population spread across landscapes. Our results suggest that biotic processes likely play a critical, but often underappreciated role in driving range shifts over decadal time-scales🌏 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn

Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar: The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...

New preprint on reciprocal nutrient exchange between pitcher plants and their prey. Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝

Having too much fun making 3D scans of pitcher plants

Major congrats to our lab’s first PhD recipient, Nonno Hasegawa. Her work on the population genetics of Darlingtonia will help us better manage and protect the objectively coolest plant on earth

Full article: Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Linking Individual Performance to Density‐Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature‐Mediated Genotype Coexistence - Bruijning - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar: Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...

Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology! apply.interfolio.com/172075

Dynamic connectivities of plant metacommunities at a millennial time-scale: the Beringia testbed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671027v1

⏰Time is running out to submit your proposal for our cross-journal Special Feature Novel communities in response to global change! 🌏 Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh

Understanding plant-microbe symbiosis is essential in tackling global challenges like food security and ecosystem restoration. In ISME Journal, OIST researchers describe the unique symbiosis between T. azollae cyanobacteria and Azolla ferns: www.oist.jp/news-center/...

#OpenAccess #SuzukiAward Temporal beta-diversity patterns are highly dependent on fundamental parameters of neutral dynamics Ryosuke Nakadai, the recipient of the 9th Young Scholar Award of The Ecological Society of Japan doi.org/10.1111/1440... community composition/ demography

Pleasantly surprised how my first attempt at scanning pitcher plant leaves turned out. Considering 3D printing it to wear as a bonnet

New visiting programs at OIST for experimentalists and domestic visitors! Application deadline: Sep 15, 2025. www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...

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Our paper on the Azolla leaf pocket microbiome is out! A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

📆 Workshop Opportunity 📆 The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems. Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026 More info: andinaspain2026.com

Save the dates! We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific. Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy

Epiphytic moss coexistence links to macroclimatic niches at forest scales, shifting to species relatedness at moss pad levels. Positive interactions dominate across scales, especially at moss pads, suggesting they may be more crucial for bryophyte coexistence than competition. 👉 buff.ly/D8JD1ex

Good time to remind my fellow scientists that Nature Communications has increased their APC to USD$7000 for a projected annual siphoning off the shrinking global scientific budget of around $55000000. Please consider submitting your work to almost any other journal.

🔍 How do common & uncommon plants coexist? This study extends the Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography, showing island area & isolation shape trait strategies. Common species thrive via high ITV; uncommon ones face extinction risks. 🏝️ 👉 buff.ly/VHC5tQ5

Which of these forests do you think has the highest level of biodiversity? Research published today in @peopleandnature.bsky.social finds that people’s intuitive perception of biodiversity through visual and audio cues is remarkably accurate.

Ong et al. explore how landscapes of fear emerge from consumer-resource interactions in patchy landscapes, producing dynamic landscape-scale halo patterns than may signal critical transitions to alternative stable states. Now open access ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In our journal "Ecology"!👇

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

So excited to finally read this paper on parametrizing metacommunities! It's a true breakthrough. I've been looking forward to it since the fantastic talk at APS March Meeting.

Great workshop this morning led by Mike Dawson on navigating scientific publishing and responsibility and opportunities we have at making it better. Includes great examples of long lasting impacts of society run journals (love seeing @asn-amnat.bsky.social at the top!) #Evol2025

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar: "Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens" Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

Discovered a mysterious box in the lab today

New postdoctoral opportunity in my lab www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...

Thus concludes the 2025 Phyllosphere conference at OIST in Okinawa Japan! Tons of incredible talks and posters. Already looking forward to Quebec 2030 🫎

#Viewpoint: Bring back the #phenotype César Marín & Michael J. Wade 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

🪿Goose grazing in an Arctic wetland alters the chemical root traits of a dominant sedge species. These changes to root chemistry lead to greater carbon emissions during decomposition🧪🌍

Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...