This Thursday, 8:30 pm: Talk by HIFMB director @hillebr1.bsky.social about phytoplankton and why it is so important for the balance and health of our oceans. Tune in: www.youtube.com/live/SpdrqXC...
Just registered for my favorite conference -- the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference (www.grc.org/unifying-eco...).
Can't wait for a week of some best ecology discussions you will find anywhere!
Graphic including the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station logo, a QR code, and a photo of an aerial view of KBS, with the words Dessert with Discussion: Research and Teaching at Field Stations, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, KBS Academic Building Auditorium and online.
Join us in person or online Wednesday, April 29, to hear from our new director, Dr. Bryan Foster, at our spring Dessert with Discussion talk! Register for free: bit.ly/kbs-DwD-spri...
Tess Grainger
Congratulations to Dr. Tess Grainger @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the Ecological Society of America!
The fellowship recognizes ESA members who have advanced ecological knowledge & applications within 8 years of their doctorate.
www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...
Far Side Comic of a man at a desk: Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
When you see "Anonymous Duck" in your Google Doc all day
and I'll be in Toledo Thursday night to discuss novel and emerging cyanobacterial toxins; free and open to the public.
Come join us in Ann Arbor for the mid-west hub!
We'll have keynote talks from Will Harcombe, @beabasel.bsky.social, and @relenski.bsky.social on site, and many others on simulcast.
Abstracts are due next week! We'll have a bit of travel funds for students that need them.
Network of the day. From pin.it/4k3aQ9JZ0
pHake Lake, there a name I haven’t heard for a while
Join us at the LS2 #Theory #across #Biology chalk talk symposium! 12 June 2026 in Bern, CH. @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social
No movies that fail, no Mac to PC issues. Only the best ideas and exchange across biology from evolution and ecology to physics of life.
meetings.ls2.ch/theory-acros...
#WaterWednesday: CIGLR & NOAA GLERL deployed a glider in L. Michigan. These robotic “underwater explorers” collect data from surface to depth, helping track algal blooms, ecosystem change & improve forecasts for navigation, water quality & management: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/project/grea... #GreatLakes
Hey y'all. Love all the love for the program (we're pretty proud of it too). But the fact that the solicitation is archived does NOT mean that the program is shutting down. We're hanging in there, struggling through the uncertainty with everyone else.
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
LTER has been archived for about a year now. It’s normal between solicitations. LTER is still here.
🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker will be Andrea Tabi (ICM-CSIC, Spain) @andreatabi.bsky.social, presenting:
⭐Stochastic Origins of Metabolic Scaling Laws⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Fully free and open to all - see you there!
It’s true
forecast going from 44 degrees to 67 degrees
Looks like we'll get the same warmup a few hours before you... I'll report back later (sorry for the Freedom units 😂)
Spring is here and Piglette is getting ready to swim in Liebig's barrel while reading about it in the brand new chapter on Microeconomics of cell metabolism by Jumpei Yamagishi and Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama. Find it here in the new edition of our textbook principlescellphysiology.org/book-economi...
Panel 1: Men with guns posing next to painted sign, "LOTTERS WILL BE SHOOT ON SIGHT". Panel 2: A beret-wearing otter saying "L'Otters are not afraid."
Comparison of maxent and logistic models
Do you like Maxent? You can now use it within SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl 🎉
We have also added a bunch of dataviz functions, including bivariate and value-suppressing maps. Oh, and conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification. And more coming soon.
poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
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Isabelle Olivieri entre dans l’histoire ✨ L’écologue montpelliéraine rejoint les 72 femmes scientifiques désormais inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. Une reconnaissance pour ses travaux en écologie évolutive & son héritage scientifique durable. @isemevol.bsky.social
👉 www.umontpellier.fr/hall-of-fame...
Today I'm teaching about responsible AI usage in my Computer Science capstone class. I regularly emphasize the need to understand code and to cite anything AI generated. But how can I make the point that AI is reducing depth of understanding because students no longer have to dig for answers? (1/6)
What I learned at the AMS Special Session on Evolutionary Game Theory this weekend.
Thank you to @danielcooney1.bsky.social, Alex McAvoy, Thomas Zdyrski, @julieblackwood.bsky.social, Olivia Chu, Jonathan Touboul, Phil LaPorte, and everyone else for a great session!
Review: What happens when it gets too hot – the vulnerability of plant reproduction in a warming world plantae.org/review-what-...
Congrats to all the new fellows of AAAS, including three of my great #MSU (@michiganstateu.bsky.social) colleagues: Elena Litchman (@elenalitchman.bsky.social), Dohun Pyeon, and Elise Zipkin!
Our Hands On Growth Laws Theory Cookbook is out today!
journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
It covers cell growth models through step-by-step recipes, bridging theory and practical applications, from basic to complex settings. Happy cooking!
With @micalilab.bsky.social and @lciandrini.bsky.social
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
Explore the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology at our upcoming workshop, ‘Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations!’
Travel applications are due Wednesday, April 15th
www.nitmb.org/internal-con...
🗓️Next Tuesday our online seminar speaker is Purushottam Dixit (Yale), presenting:
⭐Niche dimensionality drives microbial community structure⭐
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Free and open to all. See you there!