Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨
Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)
Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
New in @natecoevo.nature.com, we show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations & chaos occur in 81% of marine fish populations worldwide. Nonlinearity was correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations & amplified by temperature variation & in fast-lived species. 🌍🌐
Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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...
10 out of 10 bug
My annual "DO IT!" encouragement post!
Selfishly, my time on CSEE council was the highlight of my PhD, it opened doors and opportunities that research alone did not. And I think we accomplished some good things for the society! 🧪🌎
Photo of a large number of scarlet monkeyflower plants growing in southern California (photo by MC Moazed).
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
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.
Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.
Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow.
Please repost :)
Newly published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, we look within seeds of historic herbarium specimens for changes in the prevalence of beneficial fungal symbionts in response to climate change drivers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
My labmate @kevinricks.bsky.social and I decided to complete a side project during the last year of our doctorate programs, and I'm happy to say that it's finally been published in New Phytologist !! doi.org/10.1111/nph....
The deadline is one week away! Don't miss out on submitting your symposium and workshop proposals 🎉
A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Fun to synthesize some exciting future directions for spatiotemporal genomics in this Tansley perspective.
Check er out!
Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews
What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change?
Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels.
With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.
Do you like to think about temporal niches and coexistence theory? Or perhaps you want to hear some really quirky natural history of marine insects & the moon? Or both? Read on: a mystery & its potential solution in two papers!
"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."
So excited to share our paper on facilitation thinking.
Facilitation Thinking for Coexistence Theory - James - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130
Macroecological patterns in experimental microbial communities, led by Will Shoemaker & Jacopo Grilli
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky
really cool new paper showing species across the globe are NOT moving upslope any more than you'd expect based on a null model
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A very nice and clean test of the meta-population theory for range limits!
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Thanks to @idiv for funding and hosting our first working group meeting on range edge dynamics (sRED) @kemarshall.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social @juancarvq.bsky.social @shaharchaikin.bsky.social @usuitakuji.bsky.social @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @colingarroway.bsky.social
Even common plants with broad-scale distributions are going to feel the effects of climate change. We modeled plant responses using species distribution modeling and demographic surveys to find that B. stricta is at risk of decline. @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wow much congratulations to you too, Joey!! 🥳🎉🍾
