Our experimental design workshop had ~40 participants from >15 countries! @raviranjan.bsky.social and I focused on refining ideas, estimating parameters precisely, leverage in linear & nonlinear regression, and using simulations to compare designs. Presentation & R scripts in next post:

1/n This study led by @aaronferderer.bsky.social tested how 5 diatom species respond to broad ranges of seawater carbonate conditions. Goal was to determine carbonate chemistry niches and to inform Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and Ocean Acidification (OA) 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd. We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals. Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

We find stable coexistence of Rüger's tropical tree demographic strategies (slow, fast, short-lived breeders, and long-lived pioneers) in a model with just competition for light and stochastic small-scale disturbances. Great work, Damla Cinoğlu! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White. #Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics

A couple of forthcoming workshops on experimental design and data analysis, taught by @christinamcgraw.bsky.social, Peter Dillingham, @sineadcollins.bsky.social, Sam Dupont, and me.

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

@icbm-uol.bsky.social offers a fully funded professorship in theoretical oceanography. Join a great team of physicists, chemists, and biologists working on the marine environment. Oldenburg is a truly livable city and connected to a range of marine institutes in NW Germany uol.de/en/job/w2-pr...

No more competing consumers than there are resources can coexist in equilibrium, but have you ever wondered how many consumers actually evolve as resource diversity increases? In our new paper, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and I investigate. (1/3) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station is looking for a new director! careers.msu.edu/jobs/institu...

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.

UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems apply.interfolio.com/158908 Deadline: January 6, 2025

We've written papers/guides about how to improve experimental design so that we learn more from experiments. We also teach workshops and build tools based on these principles. 🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added! (Or if you'd like to be taken off) go.bsky.app/nHLZbD

I don't, but Oliver Pearson created "a mechanical model for the study of population dynamics" (www.jstor.org/stable/1933324) that "resembles a metamerically elongated pinball machine." So, a scientific pinball machine, but not Waddington's . . .

Do you do multiple driver/stressor experiments? 🌊 🧪 @raviranjan.bsky.social and I wrote a paper a few months ago to help you make them even better. annualreviews.org/content/jour... (OPEN ACCESS) (1/n)

This is an amazing program for students applying to EEB PhD programs in the US. If you can help with the PhD app process, please consider signing up as a mentor. If you are applying for PhDs, sign up as a mentee and get some feedback on your application. Reposts are greatly appreciated too.

Can teaching assistants help us build inclusive classrooms? Well yes! They not only consider it part of their role, but also feel confident about their abilities to do so. Short 🧵 about our new paper on work done with Siara Isaac & Helena Kovax at EPFL. doi.org/10.1080/0304...

Delighted to announce our new paper in Science. @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social, @elenalitchman.bsky.social, and I show how power-law scaling at the micro (individual) level is translated by eco-evolutionary dynamics into power-law scaling at the macro (food-web) level. 1/5

We will run a weekly online seminar on resource competition theory and related ecological theories next semester (from the week of January 8 to the week of April 15, time noon-1:30PM Eastern, day TBD).

Below are some of the best theory papers I read this year. Each one expands on an original idea, bringing it to full fruition and addressing long-standing questions in our field.