@wojciechuszko
Ecologist studying size-dependent food web interactions under environmental change. Researcher at Umeรฅ University ๐ธ๐ช Otherwise books. Aspiring writer. Animal rights advocate. He/him. ๐ต๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule.
Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.
New empirical evidence on how carrying capacity depends on temperature!
Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry by Anderson et al.
Available now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change by Wieczynski et al.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Hollingโs classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics.
Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Open postdoc position in a great research group in Uppsala, Sweden!
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
New research from #SLUAqua - Stronger effect of temperature on body growth in cool than in warm populations suggests lack of local adaptation๐ฆ ๐งช๐
Max Lindmark et al. 2025 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
๐ฃAttending @esa.int's #LPS25 next week?
Make sure to catch the ๐.๐๐.๐๐ session (๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก | ๐๐:๐๐-๐๐:๐๐ | ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐/๐๐), during which I will talk about ๐ global ๐ฐ๏ธ #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 data availability and how it shapes feasibility of long-term analyses.
See you in Vienna!
โผ๏ธNew potential ant communication just dropped! โผ๏ธ
First reported sounds produced by Red Wood ants
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We published in #OpenAccess! #acoustics #animalbehaviour #entomology
Brought to you by @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Habitat structural complexity increases age-class coexistence and population growth rate through relaxed cannibalism in a freshwater fish
Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology?
I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.
One more week to apply for this Leverhulme PhD studentship on wildlife harvests and the social licence of hunting in the UK #ecology #people www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Postdoc on annelid taxonomy at Gothenburg University, Sweden
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A press release about our recent article at @asn-amnat.bsky.social!
amnat.org/an/newpapers...
We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
uol.de/en/job/postd...
Are functional response types statistical apparitions? They certainly can be, especially given typically noisy data from foraging trails. This article gives a fresh perspective on how to approach type 2 vs. 3 distinction in FR experiments.
New paper 'Simple, universal rules predict trophic interaction strengths' out in Ecology Letters with Mark Novak and John DeLong: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A photo collage of the 2025 class of ESA's fellows and early career fellows. Click through the link for a full list of fellows and their individual bona fides.
๐Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!๐ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...
New ๐๏ธled by Alex Pigot - Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature -Standing biomass increases with richness when large-bodied spp are numerically rare but independent when spp size & abundance are uncoupled. @ucl.ac.uk - Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A postdoc job at Umeรฅ University
Global Change Impacts on Northern Lakes
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aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Here, we show how the genetic composition of communities can affect the build-up of environmental heterogeneity over time. Environmental heterogeneity is not always external to organisms. Evolving organisms can shape it through local effects.
Read the press release here: www.idiv.de/how-elephant...
Does availability of juvenile refuge affect size structure of adults? Uszko et al. show that size of streams used as nurseries impacts growth and size structure of lake trout by controlling the strength of cannibalistic mortality and resource competition.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In this short news piece @leibnizigb.bsky.social 6 experts and myself share recent insights on the multitude of negative effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems
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No more competing consumers than there are resources can coexist in equilibrium, but have you ever wondered how many consumers actually evolve as resource diversity increases? In our new paper, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and I investigate. (1/3)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Le Noac'h et al. investigate competition between nanoplankton nutritional strategies. Their modelling approach highlights the viability of a phago-mixotrophic strategy and the intricate network of facilitative and competitive interactions. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Warming can affect many physiological processes. But any attempt to scale up individual-level processes to population-level consequences must assume a relationship between temperature & the strength of density dependence. But what does it look like? In our new paper, we tried to find out.
I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well
github.com/benjamin-ros...
#stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian
I haven't heard about this one before. Sounds really interesting! I wonder how "strong" the science part is. Let me know what you think afterwards! ๐
3/3 After a longer hiatus in reading SF, I got a feeling I wonโt like it anymore in a pure literary sense. I havenโt made up my mind on that yet.
