Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
We are excited to announce that the winner of the 2025 Elton prize is Jeremy Van Driessche!⭐
Read more about Jeremy's research here: buff.ly/OsIGttm
Read all the papers shortlisted for the prize here: buff.ly/WoQhKRb
There's no shortage of folks working in paleo who can trace their careers back to time spent as undergrads working with Bill Sanders in the UMMP prep lab. Learn more in the U-M alumni magazine: alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alu...
🚨 shortlisted candidates for the 2025 Elton prize have been announced!
📝 you can find the full list of papers here: buff.ly/gcWnKyt
🤍 congratulations to our shortlisted candidates, who were selected from over 450 candidates!
🕔️ we've published a new long term study, "environmental phenology drives spring migration timing"
📝 read it here: buff.ly/qsynYqB
📸 : Oleg Bourski
Green sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was one of the studied shrubs and increased in biomass in warmed plots. Stock photo.
Climate change can flip some mountain ecosystems from grasslands to woodlands, according to a study in Colorado. Artificially warmed plots transitioned from mostly herbaceous plants to mostly woody shrubs over 29 years. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vOGH50Yl7JC
How fun! I was invited to write a "Species Spotlight" for Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com and I chose my favorite species the Florida turtle ant Cephalotes varians! rdcu.be/e5EZK Including a stunning photo of ants I collected by @alexwild.bsky.social
📄 A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males 🐜
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www.cell.com/current-biol...
🚨 we're looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial board!
🐜 join some of the world's best animal ecologists and get the chance to handle exceptional submissions to our journal
📝 deadline is 8 March - more information can be found below:
buff.ly/MzIXj6U
Secondly, to Dr Sally Keith @lancasteruni.bsky.social for her research in the field of macrobehaviour, and commitment to advancing of our understanding of whole biological systems of coral reefs 🏆 @salkeith.bsky.social
Analysing the metabolic rate of tiny organisms (ants) at a macro-geographical scale
Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !
#ESA2025
🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!
Possible topics include:
Determinants of range limits
Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)
The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Colorado brought wolves back for the first time in 80 years, but now a few years into the historic reintroduction, many of them are dead.
Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
BrilliANT time at #Mirmeco2025 in Recife. A meeting full of enthusiasm & passion for #ants. Fabulous to see all my Brazilian and other ant friends again ❤️
Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k
Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds
🔗 buff.ly/Uk82xEZ
Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦
"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi
Myrmecia ant carrying an Isopod, photo: François Brassard
Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size
Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122
🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
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