Our new work (bit.ly/4nlB0RU) demonstrates how environmental cue reliability can drive the evolution of adaptive maternal effect plasticity. We evolved nematodes in random environments and populations receiving a reliable cue adapted to an otherwise unpredictable environment.

#Asilomar2025 @asn-amnat.bsky.social Set up and ready for you to register!

The American Naturalist conference at Asilomar starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #AmNatAsilomar

There is still time to register for the coziest, chat by the fire with your colleagues sort of EcoEvo conference, the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. The meeting is Jan 3-6, 2025, and you still have a few weeks (until Dec 1) to get your abstracts in! asnasilomar2025.org

guess i'll just leave the halloween decorations up.

It is 4 pm pacific time, which means the cats have been eagerly awaiting the closing of the refrigerator signaling the food bowls are about to be revealed.

🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

If you haven't yet registered, now is your chance! The best meeting to have a fire side chat with a vibrant group of scholars!

Coming to the super social at #Evo2024? Don’t forget to bring your badge – it’s your ticket to the social! See you at the Grand Quai!

#Evol2024 IDEA plenary by @coreywelch.bsky.social starts by tracing his preparation as a field biologist to his Indigenous heritage, "seeing what you see" and "scanning" the landscape around him.

Excited to attend my 1st in-person @sse_evolution meeting since 2017. Check out postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social’s talk about dissertation work Sun 28 July, 3:30 PM in 520B “Adaptation to environmental variation and manipulation in a cosmopolitan plant” #Evol2024

So excited and proud of all the #MoreauLab talks happening at #Evol2024 this year! Be sure to check them all out! #ProudPI

Attending this weekend’s @evolmtg.bsky.social #Evol2024 ? Pass by room 525AB on July 28th 11:20-11:45 for some nice results and discussions surrounding virulence evolution and parasite transmission presented by yours truly :) from my postdoc in Koella lab

Please join us at the Evolution2024 meeting in Montreal to discuss why we cite who we cite and why it matters. #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Happy to be in Montreal for #Evol2024 ! Stop by the @evo-journal.bluesky.social booth during the Monday afternoon coffee break to say hi or talk about the Evolution journal (I’m an AE). And my talk is Tuesday morning - great symposium on evolutionary rescue!

I'm excited to give an @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Investigator talk at #Evol2024! Come check out the award talk session on Sunday from 4:15-5:45pm (Rm 516C) to learn about what I've been up to during my postdoc and what my lab will be working on now that it's open!

We are very excited for the kick-off of the in-person part of the Joint Congress this week in Montreal! Safe travels everyone and follow @evolmtg.bsky.social for conference updates #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

We're excited to see in-person attendees in Montréal on Friday! Don't forget to download the conference app and check out the schedule. #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today! We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations. It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work! doi.org/10.1086/731477

This year’s SSE Presidents’ Award goes to Dr. Samarth Mathur for his paper, “An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations.” Congratulations Dr. Mathur! shorturl.at/f45PN @journal-evo.bsky.social

Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.

The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm excited to see "Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields" out today — it's a comprehensive evidence review and policy report from a think tank event I joined last year My quick intro post: lab.jbyoder.org/2024/06/12/p... And the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1mjFr...

IITE webinar William Campillay-Llanos (University of Talca, Chile): Body size impact on trophic dynamics: mathematical modeling and biological control in a three-level food chain 11 June, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 Web: iite.info/seminar/ 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

The SafeEvolution initiative is recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for everyone (1/2).

IITE webinar Géza Meszéna (Eötvös University, Budapest): What is niche-space? The exact and intuitive theory. 28 May, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 Web: iite.info/seminar/ 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

Spread the word! Note that the committee is particularly receptive to proposals from early career scientists and that it can be a great way to get a exposure for a developing research area!

2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space www.molecularecologist.com/2024/05/15/2...

Storz et al. report the discovery of multiple species of Andean mice living at extreme elevations that far surpass previously assumed range limits for mammals. These discoveries contribute to a new appreciation of the environmental limits of vertebrate life: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation

IITE webinar Robin Snyder (Case Western): The role of luck in reproductive skew and individual success 26 March, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo

Every time I mention the 3rd edition of my book, people throw money at me and ask when it will be published. Here are some evasive answers and broad details:

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New paper out today: An "unprecedented" range map of the eastern and western Joshua tree, based on Google Maps satellite imagery for more than SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND quarter-square kilometer grid cells Blog post rundown: lab.jbyoder.org/2023/12/14/n... And the paper: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

Undergrads! Thinking of attending the Evolution meeting in Montréal w/ ASN, ESEB, SSB, & SSE? You may be eligible for financial assistance, lodging, and more. The societies aim to create a diverse pool of student attendees! Applications due Jan 29, 2024: www.evolutionsociety.org/education/un...

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

This is really cool - using the distribution of cells in a pipette tip for CFU quantification: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Truly epic preprint from @amywebster.bsky.social : Epigenetic context predicts gene expression variation and reproductive traits across genetically identical individuals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So it was a frequent twitter topic but what's the consensus of how to deal with coauthors you're no longer able to contact? I'm about to submit a revision and I haven't been able to contact a UG coauthor. They last saw a draft about two years ago and have been out of contact since.

You can find all the training material (slides, lecture recordings, workshop tutorials) of our week-long summer school on open science in this repository: osf.io/nymr5/ Happy self-learning! #OSCSummerSchool23

It's nice to be back at UCSB! Today I start an exciting new postdoc with @mixotrophe.bsky.social and @evoecodynamics.bsky.social, working on mathematical models for siderophore production. Is this part of some quest to explore every corner of metallophore research? Stay tuned to find out!

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT. cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...

International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology (IITE) just announced their fall seminars over at the old place. "As ever, all our Zoom seminars are free and open to all around the world - for more information: iite.info/seminar/ See you next week!"

In this case, it's actually not :) Fungal fairy rings can be quite different from vegetation rings (the one pictured is of a blue grama ring; quite common in NM). Here's our paper studying the exact phenomenon if you're interested!