Meta-analysis reveals the tempo of evolutionary parallelism of local adaptation between native and introduced ranges of plant species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.04.674372v1

Just created a stickleback feed so it’s easy to see what other Bluesky users are saying about stickleback in one feed. The post just needs to include the word stickleback in it, even if it’s just in image alt text. ehttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rtgmt535jxnnvolguctkalcy/feed/aaacekwe4gzdk

This primer on infection avoidance was incredibly fun to write with @cr-amo.bsky.social and Mandy Gibson. We cover its taxonomic breadth, mechanisms and evolution, and its importance across fields as diverse as public health, conservation, and agriculture. 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol... #SymbioSky

I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇 simonislab.weebly.com/opportunitie... linking to 🧪 and 🦊

The upcoming International Stickleback Conference (at Bamfield Marine Science Center in late July) still has some openings, but register soon! Stickleback-curious researchers are welcome too! event.fourwaves.com/stickleback-...

How fast can brains epigenetically respond to predation stress? We found that brain DNA methylation in guppies can shift within 30 minutes of predator exposure — with different time courses between males and females. New paper from my PhD now out! 🧠🐟 doi.org/10.1111/mec....

🎉 Congratulations @janayf.bsky.social on winning our 2025 Bruce Cattanach Prize! Janay's talk is on the epigenetic plasticity in response to environmental stress: insights from an evolutionary fish model #Epigenetics2025

Check out our latest paper on phenotypic variation in guppies - led by Alexis Heckley. "Abiotic environmental factors contribute to spatial variation in boldness and exploration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1095...

Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23? I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled “The World Without Evolution?” taking place Wednesday, April 23 at 5 pm in O.C. Marsh Hall. The event is free and open to the public. peabody.yale.edu/news/hendry_...

NEW MSc POSITION! We're starting a new study system on eastern small footed bats in Ontario. Please share widely and/or apply if you're interested in foraging ecology, bats, and conservation! Link to application is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...

bats are immunologically "special", but bat species also differ in their immune response. we gather evidence for interspecific variation in bat immunity, propose hypotheses, and outline future comparative directions. i've really enjoyed working with this ECR team. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Well, I mean come on? #sweet prompt for #JanuArty ? I mean what's next #bats 🦇 ? Hahahahaha! Here ya go! Love you BlueSky -Happy Friday! We Sold Our Souls For Cinnamon Rolls 33×72" #bat #batart #bskyart #painting #art #artwork #wallart #fineart #ArtYear #wildlife #nature #weirdart #cinnamonroll

Quote: "Ecological and evolutionary principles help to explain why both pandemics and wildlife die-offs are becoming more common; [and] why land-use change and biodiversity loss are often followed by an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Jasper experienced a devastating wild fire. Now they need temporary housing - what’s the hold up? The UCP. They won’t allow temporary housing unless it is permanent, and only single detached homes, and they have to be sold…. So temporary not temporary housing. #AbLeg

If you need a distraction and find reading science about weird ponds relaxing, I have a new preprint up with Joe Phillips, Bjarni Kristjánsson, and Camille Leblanc about some cave pond limnology. doi.org/10.32942/X2G... 💧🐟

There's a lot of replies to our new paper talking about how capitalism or overpopulation are the real enemy. Without getting into whether that's true of the climate emergency or the sixth mass extinction (🙃), I want to briefly explain why pandemics are different. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check out our new review, 'Pathogens and Planetary Change', in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social! The paper is nicely summarized in this thread by @ctrlalttim.bsky.social (and another thread I've also re-posted by @colincarlson.bsky.social). Very excited to have been part of this fantastic collaboration!

🦠 NEW REVIEW 🌡️ What does health have to do with environmental change? Well, a lot, but the way that pop-sci describes these relationships isn't always the case: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... So, what does it all mean? We try to answer this in our new review "Pathogens and planetary change" 🧵

Couldn't ask for a better first Bluesky post! Our new paper, "Pathogens and planetary change," is out now in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social. We discuss the linkages between biodiversity loss + pandemics and how we can address these interconnected crises 🧪😷 Give it a read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨New paper out @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social on how pathogens and parasites are responding to global change, and implications for pandemic prevention and biodiversity conservation. Check it out below!

Popular science narratives about pandemics - specifically, that they happen because of disordered relationships with nature - just aren't true. Half of modern pandemics have been one virus (influenza), and only a modest fraction of pandemic pathogens (3 of 10) have jumped from wildlife to humans.

🧪😷 Biodiversity loss and disease emergence share common drivers - meaning that there are opportunities to create shared solutions for biodiversity and health. Global and national governance efforts to combat disease events must be integrated with environmental protection and sustainable development

Carlson and colleagues explore the relationships between emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss, and global environmental change. go.nature.com/4gT0za1

If you take one thing away from our paper, I hope it's this: there's no safe path through the Pandemicene without action on environmental protection, sustainable development, and health system strengthening. Single-issue advocacy and siloed solutions put the world at greater risk from pandemics.

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

Please join our discord so we can make it a vibrant community! Dm me if you want to join 😊

🦠🦟Please check out our review on the landscape of disgust (with @qwebber.bsky.social @allegralove.bsky.social ): ow.ly/ZRKm50UlsiO. There is a formatting issue on the website version that we are trying to fix - so, please download the PDF version if you want to give it a read! @royalsociety.org

🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with @danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence. @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...