2-day Scientific Meeting on "Forecasting ecological dynamics" hosted by the Royal Society in London on 2-3 November 2026. Virtual and in-person attendance available. Advanced registration is essential. Find details at: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

The Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department (home of @weecology.bsky.social) is seeking a new Department Chair. Are you interested in leading a plucky and friendly bunch of ecologists? Here's the ad: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...

Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Ah the early 80’s war between experimental and comparative ecologists! It led to this gem by Jared Diamond on the four types of experiments in ecology: lab, field, time series, geo-comparisons. I started every Community Ecology class with it. Highly relevant…again. users.wfu.edu/silmanmr/bio...

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

When I was young I thought true love was Romeo and Juliet. Now that I’m wiser, i know true love is someone scrubbing the toilets when you’re out of town because they know it will make you happy

"Planning to run a workshop under air raids and blackouts required us to think of many things not covered by The Carpentries Handbook." olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...

I’ve bought mine!

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

I don't know who needs a break from the world to read about desert rodents, but I definitely needed a break from the world to write it. Nearly a year has passed, but here's an update on the unprecedented events over the past year at the Portal Project.

I'd like to note that none of these cost $$$

Oooo, I’m looking forward to reading this!

"Sure Googlers [also faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ooof this feels like most every university rn

Dreamt I was locked inside a ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’ mental hospital that was on fire and I couldn’t escape. Funny how brains create dreams unrelated to reality…oh wait…

It’s finally cooling off here and it’s been a long week, so definitely time for a pot of @sagenatural.bsky.social’s Miracle Max’s Chocolate Elixir

Trying to process a meeting where I feel like leadership basically said: “our ship has been boarded by pirates but other ships are sinking so this is pretty good”

PSA: It’s natural to crave control during unprecedented times. If rearranging deck chairs brings you calm, that’s fine, but please make sure you’re not forcing other people to rearrange deck chairs when they need to be bailing out the ship or helping people into life rafts.

Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.

Join me! We're hiring a TT position for interdisciplinary #DataAnalytics Program @ Denison University. Looking for someone who intersects with #SportsAnalytics in their research -- health, performance, biomechanics, media, economics, education.. Happy to answer Qs! apply.interfolio.com/172731

We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!

Conversely, if you are not feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, you may need to ease up on the Xanax.

Huge congrats to @elenalitchman.bsky.social on being elected an ESA Fellow!! 🧪🌊🦠 She does inspiring and foundational work in trait-based ecology, working across scales from phytoplankton in lake Baikal to the human microbiome. And, she's a super kind and caring mentor -- so, so, well deserved! ✨✨✨✨

Really honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow. And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows! @conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social

The University of Florida canceled a nearly complete search for a new dean. A spokesman for the governor's office stated they were involved & implied the cancellation was related to claims the four finalists were "ALL radical DEI progressives." Primary reporting: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

Shout out to all the hard working program officers and administration staff holding on at the NSF (and other federal agencies). Your work is appreciated and more meaningful with every passing day.

A UF student is being deported for traffic violations and the number of “we are aware of…”messages from our administration is…zero. www.alligator.org/article/2025...

I'd really like better coverage of protest numbers from yesterday. I'm seeing estimates of 1 to 5 million, but then news headlines that say "thousands protest across America." Please update with your city info if you have a published estimate: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Of all the institutions/organizations I'm part of the one most rising to the moment to defend scholarship and education is the @aaup.bsky.social. They are organizing & in court defending campus speech, the Dept of Ed, & grant funding. US Faculty - please join today to help defend higher education.

Hundreds of Columbia students in the streets demanding Trump release Mahmoud Khalil & Leqaa Kordia — and demanding that Columbia repeal its expulsion of Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW

Until universities realize that their only hope is collective action and hiding will not save you, we're going to see them go after waves of institutions.

What a fun read this afternoon of the wonderful Christensen et al (2018). Just really cool use of a tool based on word concordance to characterize community change! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎

Please call and write to your congresspeople to emphasize the importance of NSF to basic science, education, and businesses. Here's a link to a handy document you can use to look up NSF dollars and impact in your state!

Join me in signing this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk

Do you know any students that might be interested in ecological forecasting? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social student/early career association is hosting two workshops on how to get involved. Both are targeted to early career (e.g., undergraduate) audiences, but open to all!

Fellow Mammalogists. As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.

The show must go on. What I told my students: the only thing we can do is focus on our work and help each other. This is the Uncertainty Era. We've been here before, this won't end soon, we will get through this together. A draft manifesto coming.

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

We finally got a ChatGPT generated review on a manuscript. So I wrote about how we handle these reviews is a sign of whether we have given up on peer review altogether.

Really appreciating @lizneeley.bsky.social's weekly newsletters this past month... buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities