Evolutionary rescue in a phage community! New paper from former PhD student, Sam Greenrod, with brilliant colleague @craigmaclean.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Eye-opening work by @olimeacock.bsky.social (former postdoc, now PI in Sheffield). He presents an exact mapping from steady-state consumer-resource to generalized Lotka-Volterra models, revealing that cross-feeding can lead to competition for other limiting resources. Feedback pls!

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

A common complaint many people have about wind turbines: they don't like the look of them. But what lies beneath that dislike? Read more here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Was great to be at the @hometreecharity.bsky.social conference last week! Not the usual suspects in the room, which made for some interestingly left-field discussions. These events are really important and they actually run it at a loss - so fair play to them for creating the space. Some thoughts 👇

PLEASE SHARE. PhD Opportunity with me, Ben Raymond and Jan Engelstaedter and Andrew Letten at University of Queensland. Experimentally testing mechanisms of how temperature may change selection and spread of AMR in E. coli. Coupled with some advanced modelling and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky

The first Eco-Onco Exchange seminar has been postponed by one week, to Apr 22nd! Register here: forms.gle/B77tZmyzCzmp...

great summary of our newest paper - led by Abby Gilson #seaweed #MarineLife 🦑 #AlgalAwesomeness! #oceanfarmers

MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI

New paper by Laurie Wojcik et al. where we show that response to a pulse perturbation has a hump-shaped relationship with top-down control royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

This is a real loss. Few people did as much as Manchán Magan to connect the Irish landscape to its language and culture. His books are impressive works of accessible scholarship and will hopefully be read for many years to come. #SpeirGorm

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.

Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social. Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Wolves were treated as a threat to livestock and hunted to extinction in Ireland, aided by bounties. Portrait of John Watson with hound at his side and skin of ‘last wolf in Ireland’ 1786 under their feet. Royal Dublin Society collection #InternationalWolfDay

Was great to attend a Summer Academy of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Really creative and clever students - enjoyed the seminar with the students and felt honored to give an evening talk in such a nice location on trends in insect populations. #Neubeuern #Studienstiftung #Insectdecline

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Thrilled to announce our webinar series: 🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱 We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts. Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

Final version published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Kong et al. Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Online now: Making sense of (sublinear) density dependence

Please share. 2 tenure-track T&R math/stat jobs at the University of Queensland, Australia. Amazing weather, gorgeous campus & lifestyle. 17% employer retirement contribution, lots of leave. Strong global reputation. Supports diversity @stevenstrogatz.com uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Honoured to receive the 2024 Robert May prize !! 😊 🎉 Many thanks to the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

🚨Jeremy Barr discusses how he began studying #bacteriophages, the historic use of the T-series #phages, and how they have shaped the field. #MicroSky #PhageSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to see this paper out, wonderful collaboration with Gaowen Yang and @jamesaorr.bsky.social & other friends Kong et al. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have announced the 2024 Robert May Prize shortlist, our award for early career researchers! 🏆 Follow the link below to see our shortlisted authors and their papers 🌎 🧪 👇

Reminder: application deadline upcoming for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025 Apply by 3/21/25: bit.ly/phageschool2...

We are looking for a #PhD student to work on the impacts of multiple stressors on native #oysters as part of the BRICONS Project co-supervised by @annikaclements.bsky.social - contact me for details on how to apply @tcddublin.bsky.social

Happy to share our new paper! We tested how species evolve in response to #competition. We tracked the evolution of 3 #phytoplankton species, evolved alone or together. Our main finding is that #density-dependence weakens through #evolution to increase population production. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Check out our dispatch on apicomplexans that infect corals! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... These parasite-like partners have lost photosynthesis but retained chlorophyll... are they friend or foe? @currentbiology.bsky.social #protistsonsky #symbiosky #microsky #coralreefs

In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...

We are excited to announce our new seminar series highlighting research on population biology and theoretical ecology from academics and post-grads based in the Asia-Pacific. We have a great line up of speakers for the next few months. Stay tuned for more info!

Now accepting applicants for 25-26 intake of our #StatisticalEcology MSc: bit.ly/3ooHNyc. A unique opportunity to develop skills at the interface of #statistics and #ecology (some partial scholarships available too). Please help me share!

#ESAus2024: alcohol/food didn't affect guesses on the number of species observed in our house (answer 1,168, average ESA guess 200). An excuse to indulge at tonight's dinner. Find Andrew Rogers if you want to chat about our house biodiversity study 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 🌍 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

🔥 in Ecology Letters 🔥 #Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

New paper that may be of interest to ecologists studying global change, disturbances, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, or response diversity: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Excited and humbled to be awarded a Discovery Project Grant on the value of data and models to improve the management of diseases, biodiversity, and food production with @katehelmstedt.bsky.social, & @hugepossum.bsky.social & Katriona Shea. Keep an eye out for new postdoc and PhD positions. 🦤🧪

Just back from a great trip to the University of Canberra’s Institute of Applied Ecology for a seminar on multiple stressors. Loads of cool research going on there including some amazing breeding programs for critically endangered species

I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) on understanding how temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of AMR. Might suits someone with a microbiology/wet lab background who wants to expand into ecoevo. Or vice versa! But interest more important than experience.

University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago

I’m really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems that’s just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

My newsletter is now ten posts old. I think I can sustain this pace: one article every 1-2 weeks. Biodiversity-climate nexus, with a touch of water resource management: predictions, redirections, adaptations. If you're interested, go check in out. It's free. predirections.substack.com

we are recruiting for two Assistant Professor positions: Assistant Professor in Zoology (Animal Behaviour) my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... deadline May 9th and Assistant Professor in Wildlife Distribution Modelling my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... by May 16th enquiries [email protected]

Teaching Mathematical Methods in Population Biology again this Winter. Thought it would be fun to provide a thread about the weekly content here. #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology 1/n

Amazing to see this finally out!!From competition to collaboration: we show how 2 bacterial species that compete for a carbon source can interact positively in a toxic environment, with one species removing ROS to the benefit of the other plos.io/3SOvRnZ congrats Aurore Picot & Rita Di Martino

Here’s our new paper just published in Freshwater Biology where we used process-based models and large biomonitoring datasets to study multiple-stressor interactions at a landscape level: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

We have a new call for 'Synthesis' projects at iDiv. Looking forward to more great 'community-driven' synthesis work happening here. Feel free to reach out with questions, etc. www.idiv.de/en/sdiv/calls

I have a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship available, as part of the Fish Futures research programme. Focus: #forecasting #freshwater #fish community responses to #climatechange. @UCNZ @UCNZbiology @UCNZscience #postdocjobs #postdoc #ecology jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

🦇🧪🦠 Can we take clues from the way coevolution works to think about the where new viruses may emerge? Norma Forero (from my group!) says yes! With @viralemergence.bsky.social, we looked at betacoronaviruses in bats, and the paper is now out in Virus Evolution: academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...