We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

I got "sentimental" and was almost tempted 😬

I'll spare you my own comments, just two excerpts to entice you to read it "typical sample size of an ecological correlation coefficient has decreased slowly since WW II" "median sample size of ... 16 000+ correlation coefficients is just 30 observations" doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Annual meeting of the French thematic network on Biodiversity Theory and Modelling (TheoMoDive, theomodive.cnrs.fr) in Bordeaux, 1-3 December 2025. Preliminary programme and submission / registration indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/15159/ Open to contributions until the end of October.

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇

What does the future of Canadian research look like? We invite papers on funding, collaboration, Indigenous knowledge, open science, and more for our 10-year anniversary collection. Submit by Dec 31, 2025. Details ▶️ buff.ly/KckQq4b #AcademicSky #SciPol

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

📜Forum: A trait-based framework for adaptive phenotypic plasticity under global change vist.ly/48kss #BehavioralPlasticity #ClimateChange #ExtremeEvents #GeneByEnvironmentInteractions #IntraspecificVariation #MorphologicalPlasticity #PhysiologicalPlasticity #Stochasticity #Variability

Excited for our 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship tomorrow at @concordia.ca 🇨🇦 oscanada.github.io/en/

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

An incredible resource:

"It is said that Freddie (Mercury) once said "do what you want with my music, just don't make it boring". 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUE...

I often realize that my quantitative work is supported by analytics from very diverse fields. The paper below about political advertisement helped some of the analytics of onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Read broadly has been important to me and I highly recommend it.

From the editor's desk: "The manuscript has improved substantially during its review at Oikos, and I am glad we chose to submit this work here." @oikosjournal.bsky.social

From the editor's desk: "We identified Oikos as the most meaningful venue for this work, not only due to its central role in the field of ecology and its high scientific standards, but also because of its long-standing tradition of editorial integrity and its commitment to equity in science"

An impressive simulation illustrating a leading hypothesis on how our moon was formed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlh...

From the editorial desk:

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

From the Editor’s Desk: When submitting your manuscript, please remember to include 6–10 potential reviewers. Suggesting a list of experts helps ensure a faster and more efficient review process. Thank you authors. Back to the desk!

There are many rewards to being an editor; among them, receiving messages like: “We are very excited to publish in Oikos, and thank you wholeheartedly for supporting us throughout the revision process.”

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

(Edited) Our cover for July! 🦜 ㅤ Chesini et al. (2025) evidences how recently and long-ago burned areas show reduced species and interaction richness, raising concerns about long-term impacts of human disturbances on ecosystem resilience. vist.ly/3yysp

Frontiers of Biogeography (the flagship journal of @biogeography.bsky.social, now with an impact factor!) has recently published some cool papers. Check them out and consider publishing your work in our journal.

I often wonder what will it happen to multilingualism when real-time translation through phones and ear pieces becomes a common reality! There will be good and bad consequences.

🐻‍🗺️Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe vist.ly/3n8fg7a #BiologicalInvasions #IntroductionPathways #Mammals #PotentialRange #PropagulePressure #RangeFilling #SocioeconomicVariables

Gotta love French humour!!

🌾🟩Influence of plant neighborhood on patch dynamics vist.ly/3n8cttc #Drylands #Grazing #PatchDynamics #PatternProcesses #Shrubs #VegetationMosaic

Exciting news! Our society journal has been included in the Clarivate Journal Citation Report for the first time, with an impact factor of 2.5! It's an excellent option for fully open access publication of biogeographical research! biogeography.pensoft.net

Excited to announce the 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship — happening at Concordia University, Montreal, on October 9–10, 2025! Join us! #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #OpenResearch #Montreal2025 oscanada.github.io

This is growing; let me know which journals we're missing. Add this to your browser's bookmarks for easy access to explore their publications (see posts of each journal in the pack) or to discover potential outlets for your research: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

As a Canadian, it’s a fun fact that the Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in Canada. Even funnier to think that pineapple on pizza is highly contentious - a non-Canadian trait after all 😊

🌲☀️Shade tolerance controls the spectrum of crown sizes and its response to local competition across European and North American tree species. Implications for light interception strategies vist.ly/3n7xmxc

🌍 Excited to be part of the Global Ecology Starter Pack - a great way to discover and connect with people interested in ecology at large scales! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj 👉 If you’d like to join the next pack (Vol_3 is in the works), DM @global-ecology.bsky.social. 🌐

🌳🌍Drought response of trees: differences across mycorrhizal type at the global scale vist.ly/3n7sd7c #ArbuscularMycorrhizalFungi #Drought #EctomycorrhizalFungi #Forest #Global #GrowthRecovery #GrowthReduction #Mortality

Interested in predator / prey / collective behaviour in fishes? With or without anthropogenic change? I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch! Please spread the word! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... @erc.europa.eu @asab.org

And from the books that you may not like but make you think deeply. The Library of Babel from Borges made me think deeply about what’s knowledge and that rediscovery is as important as discovery.

🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com

There’s a strange sense of poetic justice in their mutual unraveling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That time of the year (in Montreal) where we can do theory indoors and have a beer outdoors! Cheers!

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Congrats to Gabriel Khattar & @comecology.bsky.social

Gifted people are those that can sleep within a minute from closing their eyes! 😬😬

Some truth👇

Before I forget: One of the greatest joys in my career is writing promotion letters for people in my field whose work I deeply admire and continue to learn from. I'm grateful to those who consider me for this honour—thank you.

I feel that I was extremely well mentored. That said, I feel that it’s important that individuals build systems that allow them to progress without way too much “supervising”. Though I do recognize that there are different needs from mentees & open dialogues about those are critical.

Excited to announce our newest #Immunology recruitment 🎉🥳 This is for a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)🇨🇦, a position that isnt offered often when 7yr term incl full salary (+renewable)! Please share widely when broad immunology focus. Happy to answer any dept Q & note date 👇 @umanitoba.bsky.social

Diffusion of constructed resources and specialism promote facilitation in spatial systems https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11025 #Competition #Facilitation #Resources #NicheConstruction #Modeling #MetaEcosystem