For the behavioral ecologists, here's an interactive Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) explorer for classical single-patch case [Tab 1] as well as the multi-patch "temporal portfolio" case [Tab 2]. Good for teaching Optimal Foraging Theory or opportunity cost. tpavlic.github.io/asu-bioinspi...

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Behold this most serious paper, in submission to Acta Prima Aprilia. A three-way collaboration with @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, myself & Laura Revell 🛰️🐄🤠🔭

I know that there are a lot of different ways to be in the world, but I actually cannot comprehend how anyone who uses GenAI to do some of their research and/or writing thinks of themselves as a thinker and writer. The thing that makes me a writer is that I do my writing. I also do my prep for it.

Delighted to be shortlisted by the @britishecologicalsociety.org @jappliedecology.bsky.social for the Southwood Prize 2026! Here's a short article about some reflections from our study ✨ This study was a formative step in my training as an early-career ecologist. Thanks to all my co-authors!

New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes! The problem: physics The solution: physics Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Explore the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology at our upcoming workshop, ‘Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations!’ Travel applications are due Wednesday, April 15th www.nitmb.org/internal-con...

Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply! ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Incredibly pretty

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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/

Join us for a Master's in Evol Bio! We have leading experts in theory (@kokkonut.bsky.social), behavioural genomics (@socialinsectlab.bsky.social, @hibernogruppe.bsky.social), palaeogenetics, and more! Mainz also offers hikes along the Rhine, sporadic Roman ruins, and the most castle rich area of 🇩🇪.

We've had so much fun teaching in this program already. Looking forward to welcoming the next cohort! Might it include you?

new framework for stochastic eco-evo dynamics of multivariate traits now published at jtb 1 new result on response of G matrices to drift , questioning classical wisdom 2 new tools to make measure-valued processes accessible 3 synthesis of classic multvr quant gen ! enjoi :3 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

Fantastic double feature seminar today by @sabinenoebel.bsky.social on tradition, culture and mate copying in #drosophila and a superb theory study of the same by @srishtipatil.bsky.social ! It’s been a pleasure hosting you both here @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Summer School on Stochastic Population Dynamics led by Alex Hening. A great opportunity for anyone interested in learning about stochastic methods and their applications to population dynamics. stochasticsummerschool.com www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/... Please repost.

Honored to serve as co-editor of Journal of Theoretical Biology special issue celebrating Prof. Madhav Gadgil’s profound contributions to theoretical ecology, population biology, following his sad passing. Shripad Tuljapurkar, Arni Rao & I are editing the issue. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Looks really cool!

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

Come visit us at @unil.bsky.social ! 😃

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Me, writing a proof of a "the following are equivalent" theorem: "(2) implies (3) is trivial" No, that's not supercilious enough "Only a nincompoop would fail to see that (2) implies (3)" No, that one would never get past the Editor "(2) implies (3) is, of course, trivial" Perfect

Play isn’t only fun… it’s preparation for danger! Our new paper by @DharanishR in @royalsociety.org shows how protected juvenile environments boost #learning of risky behaviours via a protected early life period across some species. 🦂🦁 tinyurl.com/3w45xvz9 @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Are current methods inaccurate in quantifying ageing & selective disappearance? We compare methods using simulations, analytical solutions, and empirical data, across life histories & methodologies (eg incomplete data). Surprising results & several recommendations. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social

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 ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good & natural thing." Evolutionary biologists have a responsibility to oppose the unscientific, deeply unethical, & immoral promulgations of billionaire-funded, pseudoscientific eugenics pablum glorifying exploitation

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

🪿 Early-life stasis in partial seasonal migration is underpinned by among-cohort variation in migratory plasticity and selective disappearance 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/9mleVea

Some really cool work on what makes (and breaks) an evolutionary individual!

How do temperature regimes shape trait diversity in communities? Does variability promote more specialists or more generalists? Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please join us for a @smtpb.bsky.social panel discussion about publishing theory in biology w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social (Co-Chief Editor of J Theor Biol), Mark Lewis (Advising Editor for J Math Biol & Bull Math Biol), and me (Theor Pop Biol) 13 Feb 2026 9:00AM–10:00AM PST smtpb.org/event-6520871

Today's board work (ft. truly incredible Hagoromo chalk). Anybody wanna guess what @kokkonut.bsky.social and I are working on? ;) (hint: it's a topic in population biology that many non-scientists spend a lot of time worrying about).

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

The greatest addition to my CV so far: I am now officially part of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists improbable.com/2026/01/14/s...

Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order. The stats literature:

👇 Exciting post-doc with a fantastic PI!

I'll admit I don't usually worry about whether my fitness functions are Lipschitz or merely α-Hölder, but a really nice idea here (I've only skimmed it) is that extreme ruggedness ⟹ loss of Lipschitz continuity ⟹ diff. eq. solns can be non-unique because no more Picard-Lindelöf ⟹ contingency Cool!

Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.

excited to announce v2 of my stochastic eco-evo framework is up ! main text now clarifies links w prev werk and points to an emp test of gen corrs result . supp greatly expanded to include worked derivations and further explanation of mathematical foundations !! hope u enjoi ;) tinyurl.com/stecoevo

Before 2025 closes out, I wanted to make a thread on my proudest recent paper! (Ok, it's from 2024, but I haven't done a bluesky thread on it before). Allen et al. (2024) "Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action", PNAS Nexus academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live. Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research. Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!! @sortee.bsky.social

Woohoo! Congratulations, @kokkonut.bsky.social !! 🎉🎉

Abstract submission is now open for the 2026 ISEEC Conference (21st-24th May in Crete). The theme is human-tech cooperation for the evolutionary management of cancer but we welcome submissions on all topics related to evolution, ecology and cancer. Submit abstracts by 10th Jan via www.evocancer.com

Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.

Join us on Tuesday!

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Link in Bio 😉 Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, by PhD students, for PhD students. 📍Oberwiesenthal, Germany 📅8–12 June 2026 🚨Save the date & follow us for updates! #EMPSEB31 #EvoBio #PhDLife #ScienceCommunity #EMPSEB