@efronhofer
ecological and evolutionary dynamics in space: theory, experimental evolution & pond metacommunities #FronhoferLab #CNRS #isemevol #umontpellier #GdRTheoMoDive #IDILProgram https://www.emanuelfronhofer.net/
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#FemmesEnScience 🎉 Fierté pour l'UM! Isabelle Olivieri figure parmi les 72 femmes scientifiques proposées pour être inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. 1ère professeure de génétique des populations à #Montpellier, son parcours d’exception est aujourd’hui reconnu à l’échelle nationale @isemevol.bsky.social
Environmental complexity constrains evolutionary adaptation across taxa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695988v1
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Finally getting off the other site and reengaging with social media. Please follow and suggest good folks to follow on here!
🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining.
We're trying to understand why.
If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins).
👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791...
Reposts welcome!
Our latest work on #biodiversity, #host-parasite dynamics, #EcoHealth and #emergence in the #Camargue: youtu.be/_tkmQV85S60 @isemevol.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @prezode.bsky.social #ZOOCAM #ZACAM
I started a new job in Montpellier, France!
Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US.
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
Do you want to study #Quantitative #Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international #students
Continued support for blue-sky research is essential to fuel the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Carola Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute
It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Experimental Evolution of the Thermal Performance Curve https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.677994v1
I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.
Do you want to study #Quantitative #Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international #students
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Excited to share our new preprint!
Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges:
doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142
#ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling
🌡️ Rares voire rarissimes en France au XXe siècle, les températures dépassant localement les 40 degrés sont devenues fréquentes depuis l’an 2000. Voici une carte animée localisant chaque année où les stations de Météo-France ont relevé ou dépassé 40 degrés (données au 17 août).
New paper from the group by Peter Kamal et al: #Dispersal #evolution can only rescue a limited set of species from #climate #change. In ProcB doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
"The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid positions, these hidden costs disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender."
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.
Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems.
@efronhofer.bsky.social
Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.
Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.
The two pictures are 11 years apart.
On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.
2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.
#Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.
Straight up racism and misogyny.
Let us never forget, their issue with DEI WAS NEVER ABOUT MERIT.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
