During my PhD with Brian Buma, I was fortunate to get the opportunity to resample plots from his dissertation to see if changes in tree composition caused by multiple, rapid disturbances in a Rocky Mountain forest have persisted through time. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Just a heads up that I will soon be advertising for a Postdoctoral position in my group to work on the evolution of cannibalism in Tribolium, starting ~September. Official Job ad to come soon. #academicjobs #postdoc #eeb

Please share this PhD position in my group - guaranteed funding for a home/UK resident student. (i.e., non competition). Damselfly genetics, plus travel opportunities, fieldwork, and policy internship. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper out led by Sam Fritz Using meta-analysis we quantify evidence for positive interactions between invasive species in freshwaters and identify key knowledge gaps for the study of freshwater invasion meltdowns. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If this gets 100 likes I will sign up to join the editorial board for every spam email I get and write about my experience

Hi folks, there is a high likelihood I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students to start in Spring 2027. Trying to get the word out early; please share broadly with your networks and encourage your students to reach out early. Info can be found on my webpage. fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/

EDITORS WANTED AT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS -QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY -THEORETICAL ECOLOGY -ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY -EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY -MARINE ECOLOGY -PLANT ECOLOGY EDITORS FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES NEEDED TOO

New database paper led by @limnojess.bsky.social Limno‐STOICH: A comprehensive database linking the elemental stoichiometry of organisms with inland aquatic habitats. Grateful to have been part of this large effort! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We're hiring a *post doc*! Are you a global change ecologist (broadly defined) and want to work with Jenny McGuire, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social, me & many others?!🦎🐦🦴⛰️ Come join an amazing, hungry, and very exciting eco-evo group here at GT! careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

Happy to share that our new paper is out and open access - "Adult nutrition strongly affects insect cuticle thickness and injury resistance" This paper was a long-time coming! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds. rdcu.be/e7aUy

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

🚨Deadline extension!🚨 💡 You now have until the 8th of March to apply to join us as an Associate Editor! 🔎Find out more and apply here 👉️https://buff.ly/cIwdUMx 🧪🌍️

New paper led by Tiberiu Sahlean at the Romanian Academy of Science. We used meta-analysis to test for evidence of consistent life history evolution across elevation in squamates. We found little support and discuss why onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We found support for the Rapoport effect in butterflies 🦋 species that live in more variable climates have broader thermal tolerances and larger range sizes. A collaboration with Aaron Yilmaz and @sarahdiamond.bsky.social 🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

New paper out in @jevbio.bsky.social Using 58 years of data, we look at the effect of environmental variation on reproductive trade-offs in great tits. With @jsmartin.bsky.social, @dzchilds.bsky.social, Ella Cole, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @paniw.bsky.social & Arpat Ozgul doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

Happy to share our new paper—led by Ethan Abercrombie in collaboration with Adam Smith @earthskysea.bsky.social and Lyle Usdin @washu.edu—exploring responses of small-mammal communities to a century of climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains 🏔️ 🐿️ doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

Okay, but for #BlueSky to gain a fraction of the value in networking that we once enjoyed over at #Twitter, we all need to be reposting pretty much everything we see. Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

Light-colored peppered moths right now

The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin Cabarzichnus pulchrus n. igen. n. isp. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Join us! @ssenese.bsky.social. @drgodwit.bsky.social jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale

It’s been a cold, snowy winter here in Cleveland. In 2923 and 2024, we caught our first salamanders around February 10th. I am now wondering if we won’t see them until late March this year? What’s your guess?

why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others? then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species the best predictor? latitude academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Heat can make #fruitfly males sterile at temperatures below their lethal limits. We explore if tissue-specific heat shock protein expression can explain why using 6 #Drosophila species: @chsmithson.bsky.social et al. @ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions! Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work? academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social y.social: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)

Happy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 ! Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance doi.org/10.1093/evol...

"You don’t have to, like, put a blanket on them." 🥶🦎🥶🦎🥶🦎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

Have questions about the UW–NPS Small Grants Program RFP? 📣 Join our RFP Q&A event hosted by staff from AMK Ranch. We’ll cover program history, RFP details, and open the floor for your questions! Tomorrow @ 5:30! Join our mailing list for more info: uwnps.org/mailing-list/

When you're working with a mentee's draft manuscript, what kind of feedback should you give? To be both efficient and effective, we suggest suppressing some of your instincts... scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Pro-tips: You can make pretty decent website in Google, please do so using your personal account, not one attached to wherever you happen to work right now - y'know, just in case...

I'm consistently surprised at the number of postdocs who have no website

Editor here: I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper. We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.

This has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.

Shout this from the rooftops! ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!

As someone who is getting her promised alumni "email for life" yoinked in short order (budgets...), I will have to rely on gmail going forward. One way to add legitimacy would be to add this email address to a website outlining professional work, your ORCID account, and other such profiles

I'd echo what some of the other folks have said. I feel like I can usually figure out who is an ECR and so I won't think your not-legit with a gmail. & FWIW I personally don't care where you work/don't work. I'm looking at what you've done. If it's recent & relevant I'm going to reach out

New work in #RESEcolEnt by S.Park, @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & @allikpierce.bsky.social finds heat is deadlier than hypoxia for #Euxoa auxiliaris, an elevationally #migrating #moth. doi.org/10.1111/een.70057 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social Photos by M.P. Moore

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️ Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!

Just a PSA that @drscottataylor.bsky.social, who is an excellent science communicator and hilarious human being as well as an ornithologist, is starting a new podcast called "Okay, But... Birds" and you should definitely check it out. www.okaybutbirds.com

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1