Reposting this opportunity!
Review of applications will start in two weeks so there is still time to apply (and we keep the portal open for submissions until the position is filled)
Come work with us!
Banded water snake at Houston arboretum
It’s been a horrible spring for amphibians here in SE Texas (drought) but banded water snakes seem to be doing well regardless…
Oh dang, 🗣️new stability metric! 🗣️
Well, actually seems to be more of a super stability metric that can be used to categorize things like resilience. Excited to dig more into this, seems like a concept that can really help organize some things for community ecologists.
What happens *after* enemy release? In a new paper, we present 7 years of infection & immune trait dynamics in 16 lake populations of stickleback.
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This is definitely the longest-scale study I've done in my career, I'm very excited to see it out.
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Why do invasive species wreak such havoc? Gefen et al. suggest it is a feature, not a bug: ecosystem disruption, even when not directly beneficial, facilitates the invasive species’ success.
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A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15.
www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...
I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.
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Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses.
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Wilson Rankin et al. report the first quantification of nest material kleptoparasitism in a group of native Hawaiian birds of ecological and conservation interest and find strong support for the height overlap hypothesis.
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This was one of the few existing ways to find long term research. That is horrible and a huge loss to all of science. I hope other organizations and university will step up to help this important research.
Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word)
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Antifragility: A Cross-Cutting Concept for Understanding Ecological Responses to Variability by Wickman et al.
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The manifold hypothesis posits that many high-dimensional datasets actually lie near a low-dimensional manifold. Boyko and Rabosky consider phylogenetic comparative methods, which typically assume a flat, euclidean, morphospace.
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Nine chicks begging for food. Photo credit: Shana M Caro.
Caro et al. investigate cognition and metacognition in wild great tit parents deciding which chick to feed. They found that parents change their minds frequently, and the decision time varies with decision complexity and urgency.
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A snail shaped like long island
Deadline for symposium proposals at the @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists stand alone meeting on long island due April 30 www.amnat.org/announcement... Plus check out this cool meeting logo of a snail shaped like long island
I am so very honored to receive this award from @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @asn-amnat.bsky.social , and @systbiol.bsky.social !!!
Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition
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This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇
A spiny Coast Horned Lizard on sandy ground in bright sun. Its body and head are covered with horns and keeled scales, and the background shows a dry, rocky landscape. Photo credit: Saúl F. Domínguez-Guerrero.
Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America.
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Yu et al. propose a measure for stochastic game dynamic: the likelihood ratio of the probability density of phenotypic frequency under selection versus neutral conditions.
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The Forest Service has been an extraordinary public organization. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it.
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Just a heads up that I will soon be advertising for a Postdoctoral position in my group to work on the evolution of cannibalism in Tribolium, starting ~September. Official Job ad to come soon. #academicjobs #postdoc #eeb
Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social
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Happy to announce new paper with @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and @elenalitchman.bsky.social in @asn-amnat.bsky.social in their new Inspiring Perspectives category! (1/4)
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Have a great idea for a symposium at the Jan 2027 meeting at Glen Cove on Long Island? Submit your proposal by April 30, 2026! ASN is looking for cutting-edge topics in evolution, ecology, or behavior and diverse speakers. Up to $5,000 budget for speakers. Details here: www.amnat.org/announcement...
Thanks!
Honored & excited to join the list of @aaas.org fellows, which includes many of my science heroes. Big shout out to the many outstanding new fellows, including my colleagues at @Rice. www.aaas.org/news/aaas-we...
Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Dougherty et al. present evidence that conditions in monsoonal molting areas influence the population dynamics of bird species that breed in western North America.
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The Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Sexual Traits That Increase Mate Encounter Rates by Watts and Fitzpatrick
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This graph shows exponentially increasing publications for the term genomic offsets from 2015 to 2024
Special Feature in AmNat @asn-amnat.bsky.social just out on Genomic Forecasting. "Collectively, the articles underscore both the promise and the limitations of genomic forecasting while [showing] predictive performance is context dependent" 🧬🧪👨🔬🖥️🌲🐋🌿 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...