Myspace skipped all of that and just let you put the songs on your profile.

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!

I would love a copy! And several for our ecology lab at Colby. Please add me to the list of folks to keep in the loop!

A fluffy three-legged tabby cat stretching and verrrry long.

Long cat.

A nudibranch in a tidepool.

My first east coast nudibranch!

Another gem when screening papers this evening: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Just came across this paper in the journal "Insects" that is mostly about birds eating isopods (which are not insects): www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16.... Apparently, the journal "Insects" has a section called "Other Arthropods and General Topics." More reasons to distrust MDPI ...

Picture of a Chaoborus larvae in water. Photocredit to Viridiflavus/Wikimedia Commons.

The paper features Chaoborus! These phantom midge larvae use modified antennae like the raptorial arms of praying mantises to catch prey! And are `sloppy eaters' that help maintain disease epidemics in Daphnia. Photocredit to Viridiflavus/Wikimedia Commons.

I'm covering disease ecology in class tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to trigger everyone's COVID PTSD with all this talk of R_0's and transmission rates and what not. Luckily we will wrap up with a discussion of this fun disease ecology paper: doi.org/10.1890/08-2...

Congrats! I can't wait to give this a shot!

GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR: Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

Eh. It's fine as long as it is referring to something actually interesting e.g. a counterintuitive or surprising result. I totally get that isn't often the case.

My students last summer also were inspired by a paper we read on yuccas and yucca moths to create this Pokemon coevolution series. We sent their ideas to the authors of the paper, and they were thrilled!

If only I knew Japanese! I grew up in a fairly Christian household, Pokemon was actually my first exposure to the 'evolution'. Obviously evolution works differently in the game, but I still credit Pokemon for some of my original interest in the topic.

The only connection at all to the question is that I mention spiders as an example of generalist predators for whom different insects might act as substitutable resources.

A screenshot from a problem set with the text 'Perfectly substituting spiders' with two images. One of a male and female zebra jumping spider both feeding on the same midge, and another with a famous scene from Lady and the Tramp where two dogs are slurping the same spaghetti noodle.

I sure do love putting questionably relevant images into my problem sets ...

I will definitely incorporate these memes into the lecture. And thanks for the paper link!

It's resource-based competition week! Going to unleash ZNGIs and consumption and supply vectors on the students.

Picture of someone pipetting liquid into a deep-well projection slide.

Probably a stretch, but I'm looking for deep-well projection slides. Picture attached. Carolina used to make these, but it looks like they don't sell them anymore? Maybe not surprising since they were made to use with slide projectors ... I'd be happy for any leads.

I didn't realize they made second years ineligible. Poor students who didn't apply their first year to be eligible to apply in their second year of grad school ...

Like most cliches, that adage about not truly understanding something until you have to teach it sure is true. I'm covering some classic life history models this week (not my forte), and my previous understanding really was surface level ...

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' . Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

Smoke shop, crystals, and incense.

Obviously, this is not how review should work -- experts should be the one reviewing manuscripts.

Maybe a take from my laziness. Honestly, I imagine AI reviews are actually pretty easy to deal with. In my experience, when it comes to research, AI is typically pretty superficial and points out things you probably expected a reviewer to point out or is wrong. These are 'easy' reviews in sense.

Glad I'm not the only one!

As a biologist, I love that I can be looking at a bunch of pictures of sea turtles in my office and that's just totally normal.

a white cat is laying on a person 's lap and the word thinking is next to it Alt: a white cat is laying on a person 's lap and the word thinking is next to it

Crowd-sourcing my #EcoEvo Friends!

What, in your mind, makes a "good" & fundable research proposal idea? I'm talking with my upper-level evolution class about this tomorrow (undergrads only) in preparation for them writing a NSF GRFP-style proposal as a semester long project. Thanks!