Good to hear the news of LTER's death has been exaggerated!

That would be great! Maybe I'm just normalized to bad news and assuming the worst...

I'm lucky enough to be part of the Sevilleta LTER in New Mexico... I don't know what happens now... there is so much to rebuild once we are able to rebuild. If.

Hmmm - after looking past the cover art, this is my jam. Purchased!

Yeeeesssss

Without knowing anything else about this book, I love the cover art... it's got that '60s Lost in Space vibe

It's also had me thinking that Apollo 8 in '68 and Apollo 11 in '69 occurred during a particularly tumultuous time in the US and around the world, and maybe this moonshot will remind us of the better angels of our nature.

And with the diverse (gender! color!) Artemis team being international (Canada!), this feels particularly relevant and something to celebrate.

I've always loved reading about the moon landings (and early NASA missions generally), and I'm thankful/excited to have something in the news that's exciting and that captivates the imagination...

Check out this very cool new paper by Stephen Hoover, @akfbio.bsky.social , and I’m serving drinks in the back - it’s wild!

It’s truly insane in the best way XD

I’ve gotta credit Robin Traylor for this line of argument :P

Here’s the test - dire wolves have the largest baculum of any canid. Why? If they reconstructed its ecological function, they should know, but they don’t

Generalized dynamics of cross-feeding bacteria Abstract. Bacterial cooperation involves the exchange of metabolites, which can range from costless byproducts of metabolism to intentionally produced and

Check out our new paper on cooperating bacteria led by @janamassing.bsky.social w/ @thilogross.bsky.social and @akfbio.bsky.social, where we explore the costs and benefits of metabolitic trade on stability in non-spatial and spatial contexts... exciting! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

If you like matrices + microbes, have I got the paper for you. Work with @janamassing.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We study dynamics of cooperative bacteria without specifying a conventional model: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

*when art is as valued as the science

Excellent cover…

I guess I should cancel my order?

Clearly life… finds a way…

Probably right - yet nothing in there is that unbelievable, which is a wild place to be

Hahaha - we were thinking it might be an embargoed story broken by this outlet… seems like a made up story would be less conservative in the details, but yea gotta be fake if nothing else comes out in the next few days

@jacquelyngill.bsky.social ?

Wait - is this real??? I can’t find anything anywhere else about it…

www.technology.org/2026/01/30/c...

Very excited to share this new exploration of motifs and their impacts on the dynamics of the entire network in PNAS! I learned a lot working with this crew (as usual)... with @mhab.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social !

Got vaccinated today, mate… I’m an all-in-the-left-arm guy… now I’m walking in circles.

Distilling food web dynamics: top–down and bottom–up drivers of extinction and trophic cascades Quantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on cont...

New paper where we explore how the dynamics of food webs can be explored when populations are ‘distilled’ to high and low states, or Boolean switches… Somehow this leads to a discussion involving Otodus megalodon :D

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

A can of Open Nature cat food and human food (tuna) looking remarkably similar…

Okay Open Nature… are you *trying* to make me eat cat food?

"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution"

Our new article is out in @science.org today

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...