Christian Liriano

Students at #Evol2025 @evolmtg.bsky.social can stop by the University of Chicago press/American naturalist booth in the poster area to sign up for a one year free membership to the American Society of naturalists with the many benefits that entails

Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00056-7This Perspective provides guidance about how to select the most appropriate type of interaction network for different research questions in ecology. Networks can vary according to the extent of node aggregation and the information that links represent; each kind of network formulation has advantages in different contexts.

New online! Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions

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Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...

You are forgetting context. Some of our parks can benefit from it.

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

It's the Atlantic which means it's BS.

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌

300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.

Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our new analysis shows Biden's plan for atrazine greenlights harmful levels of pollution in 99% of the nation’s 11,249 contaminated watersheds, so we just sent the Trump admin comments urging it to ban atrazine for good. Will they #MAHA or was that just talk?
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

📆We are back and excited to announce our all-star lineup for next series of online seminars! Add the dates to your diaries and join theoretical ecologists from across the world - it's free and open to all via Zoom. Details here iite.info/seminar/, including email list signup.

See you in March!

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment - Communications Biology Warming reduces zooplankton size by up to 57% at +8° C, with some nonlinear trends and breakpoints. This large-scale mesocosm study highlights the importance of intergenerational responses to warming ...

📢 I am very excited to share our new paper in
@commsbio.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/s42... . 🔥 🌍🧪How does #warming affect #plankton #bodysize distributions? We used one of the largest outdoor #mesocosm experiments to test our hypothesis 1/

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures.

*Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

Extinction of experience among ecologists Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.

Where are all the field studies?

This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.

A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Don't get cancelled in Bluesky. It's a liberal paradise.

Ok bluesky lefty.

If only.

Great! Let's go Pierre!

A photo of flowers and lichen with a caption that says "Now Hiring Statistical Ecologist"

Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative!

Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG

Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities Soil fungi are critical for plants and ecosystems but are also affected by the vegetation itself. Here, we show how an experimental gradient of plant species richness and community fine root traits d...

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A causal inference framework for climate change attribution in ecology As climate change increasingly affects biodiversity and ecosystem services, a key challenge in ecology is accurate attribution of these impacts. Though experimental studies have greatly advanced our u...

Wow - really great new preprint from @dudney-joan.bsky.social and co. walking through how impact attribution studies can look in ecology and ecosystem science!
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

What is the role of complexity, nonlinearity and phase transitions in conservation biology? What kind of lessons from maths can help preserve biodiversity? Here's my last paper on Biological Conservation. @ftmaestre.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children As their diets worsen, young people are suffering increasing levels of malnutrition and obesity. Can the UK turn the tide?

The idea that healthful diets are expensive has gotten deeply entrenched in our collective food psyche and it's JUST NOT TRUE.

Everyone compares fruit & veg with processed & fast food.

But grains & legumes, the backbone of a healthful diet, are dirt cheap.
www.ft.com/content/b503...

Started a Theoretical Ecology starter pack. For from complete. Respond if you want to be added or removed.

go.bsky.app/PwpvZLb

Fauci Fraud.

Effectiveness of freezing temperatures on dormancy release of temperate woody species AbstractBackground and Aims. Spring phenological change of plants in response to global warming may affect many ecological processes and functions. Chillin

🎉🆕📰🎉: Effectiveness of freezing temperatures on dormancy release of temperate woody species

The lack of understanding evolutionary medicine is real!

Such as? Green new deal? The gender stuff?

Blame it on scientists.

RUSSELL REVIEW Soil carbon stewardship: Thinking in circles The words we choose to describe our research ultimately directs its course. A dominant term in soil science now, is ‘sequestration’, referring to the removal of carbon (C) from air and its irreversib....

Now that I am here on Bluesky, for any new followers interested in soil organic matter, here is my recommendation of a recent review by Henry Janzen- his papers are always worth reading for wisdom and insight. Open Access bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Left wing news sources you meant.