New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!
Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27...
with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social
📢Low Coverage Genome and Ultraconserved Element Workshop at Washington State University!
👥Target participants: Grad students and postdocs
📆When: June 7-13, 2026
⏳Application deadline: March 16, 2026, link in bio
Why do some islands have more biodiversity than others? In our new paper, published in @ecography.bsky.social , we sought to answer this question for amphibians! 🌐🏝️🐸
@provete.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
Follow the thread 🧵(1/7).
Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples vist.ly/4rq4e #SDM #MaxEnt #NicheModels
We need a geom_snake(...)
#rstats #DataViz #ggplot2
Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
All are invited for this UC Berkeley-UC Merced-California Fire Science Consortium talk 🔥🌱
Thank you CFSC for the flier 😮💨 #fire #wildfire #Indigenous #california
screenshot of the "filters" tab on a search for all observations of the genus Tridacna on iNaturalist, showing different options including a checked box next to "research grade" and "CC0" selected in the "Photo licensing" pull-down menu
just as a PSA to anyone this might be useful for: you can filter searches in iNat by CC licensing, so you can view all phot observations that are free to use. Maybe less AI content up there... for now... although photo quality often includes less beautifully framed images, less clear water, etc...
I at least understand the temptation to use AI to generate images that don't exist... like a clam jousting with a brachiopod, etc, but using it for something so redundant (and getting it spectacularly wrong!)... ugh
but seriously, just *why.* as someone who has searched for images of Tridacna before, there are soooo many amazing photos of the real animals!
An screenshot of an image from Adobe stock which purports to be of "mantle details of Tridacna giant clam shell marine" (text below image) but which actually shows an illustration of a sort of frilly multi-layered fleshy skirt-looking thing in vaguely brown and blue Tridacna-like colours
This is your reminder that stock image sources cannot be trusted as sources for biology any more because what the hell is this shit? I searched "Tridacna" in DuckDuckGo with options to hide AI images and the global AI killswitch turned on. This is on the first page of results
clearly just the phenotypic consequences of a whole genome duplication event
New paper out in MBE! 🧵
"Genomic Perplexity and the Evolution of Context-Dependent Function"
The big idea: genes don't have fixed functions. Function emerges from context - genomic, cellular, environmental. And we can quantify this. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here
Government enforcement of an individual's gene-to-phenotype mapping on the basis of normative and essentialist arguments is eugenics. If you don't see how dangerous that is you know nothing about biology.
...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr
seminar announcement with photos of speakers and talk titles
The integration of speciation seminar series is restarting, with the first session coming up on *Tuesday March 3rd @ 5pm CET*, featuring two talks by @naturalselection.bsky.social and @andreaestandia.bsky.social + career Q&A with @markravinet.bsky.social as part of the ECR in Speciation theme.
Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH
New paper out today in the ISME | International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal and the first product from our ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab) working group on Fungal Dispersal. Check it out!
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.
Best consideration date: 3/14
Job Ad:
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Department:
biology.umd.edu/people
New preprint on a new diversity-dependent biogeographic diversification model using deep learning. Joint work with my amazing advisor @landismj.bsky.social. Details of the paper in the comment section. #evobio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
First ECR Feature of 2026! PhD student at New Mexico State University, Rohit Subhedar, talks about his recent work on the often overlooked tree-tree interactions in shaping savannas, by assessing tree spatial distributions in a south Indian savanna. Read more about his work in our Q+A here:
Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R
Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science
FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research
