We are pleased to be back for another year! Join us next Thursday 1pm AEST.
Deepa Agashe (NCBS) @deepaagashe.bsky.social will present a seminar titled:
Founders, shapers: Colonizing individuals predict trait and population dynamics in new habitats
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🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more!
Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Join us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year:
Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences
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Poster announcing the workshop.
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
Schematic illustrating how species interactions can depend on neighborhood density and identity.
🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Very excited about this work led by Sergio
Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
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Schematic figure from Philipp et al. 2025: Top left panel shows a satellite photo of multiple ponds in a landscape, top right panel shows the plankton community within a single pond as scheme drawing; the bottom left panel shows how the habitat (pond) structure is abstraced to a habiat network; the bottom right panel shows how the local community structure is abstracted to an aggregated food web model. Altogether, this 'trophic metacommunity' can show self-organisation that appear as biomass differences between habitats (denoted as differently shaded nodes of green and blue in the bottom left panel)
What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
Hi Zsófia, it looks like you have your blue sky messages turned off. Feel free to message me
Yup it was a wet start to the season! PJ putting on a show for my last field season 🌸
Back in the field in Western Australia.
I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
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I have a grassland data set that might be appropriate. I will send you a dm
Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
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Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:
"A unified theory of community structure"
Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
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Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
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A photo of seeds that look like dried pieces of clay
Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.
Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
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🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
@zacwalker.bsky.social
An image advertising the seminar as described in the main text but with the following abstract: Microbial communities can perform complex functions that individual microbes cannot achieve alone, but enhancing these collective functions through artificial selection is challenging. Here, we examine a simple microbial system to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the conditions necessary for successful artificial selection on collectives. By analyzing whether artificial selection can effectively drive the community toward a target composition, we predict its likelihood of success under different experimental setups and identify the key parameters that influence successful selection.
Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:
"Artificial selection for collective composition"
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NB. This seminar won't be recorded.
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:
"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"
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NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!
Will this be recorded?
celebrate package:celebrate R Documentation Audio 'announcements' when printing model summaries Description: The only function of this package is to augment the printing of model summaries with appropriate sound effects based on whether you have achieved the magical p<0.05 level of significance for at least one variable (not including the intercept - we have to try to be a _little_ bit sensible ...) Details: Sounds are taken from <http://freesounds.org> To set an alpha-level different from 0.05, you can specify ‘options(celebrate.alpha = <value>)’ • fanfare: user primordiality, <https://www.freesound.org/people/primordiality/sounds/78823/> (CC BY 3.0) • trombone: user kirbydx, <https://www.freesound.org/people/kirbydx/sounds/175409/> (CC0) Examples: ## Not run: m1 <- lm(speed~dist,cars) m2 <- lm(Income~Population,data.frame(state.x77)) summary(m1) summary(m2) ## chi-squared test M <- as.table(rbind(c(762, 327, 468), c(484, 239, 477))) dimnames(M) <- list(gender = c("F", "M"), party = c("Democrat","Independent", "Republican")) (Xsq <- chisq.test(M)) # Prints test summary boring <- matrix(c(6,5,4,5), nrow = 2) (chisq.test(boring)) ## End(Not run)
#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!
Thanks for joining Nadiah :)
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