We’re thrilled to announce Michael Stemkovski as the winner of Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize! 🏆

Michael develops "ecological acclimation" as a framework for synthesizing work across biological scales and disciplinary areas, as well as time scales🌍️🧪

@mishastemkovski.bsky.social

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Me as well!

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Huge congrats to Tess!!!

HUGE CONGRATS to my colleague @tessgrainger.bsky.social on her election as an ESA Early Career Fellow!!!! Tess is being recognized for her contributions to global change science and eco-evolutionary dynamics -- so richly deserved! I'm so lucky to have her as a colleague, friend & office-neighbour 🌿🌡️

A photo collage of ESA's 2026 class of fellows and early career fellows

🎉 Congratulations to ESA’s 8 new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows! These honorees are advancing ecological science through research, leadership, and service.

Learn more about these individuals in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/Ao1V50YK00I

Figure demonstrating how the ordering of temperatures through time determines whether an ectothermic population experiencing those temperatures will go extinct

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!)

@esajournals.bsky.social

Finally managed to get a new version of rTPC (v1.1.0) onto CRAN, with @franwin.co.uk driving most of the changes. There are now 49 models included.

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

And parallel fitting of TPCs can be done using mirai and purrr.
padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...

🧪 #rstats

The department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph is seeking to hire an assistant professor with a research program focused on the intersection of geospatial analysis and artificial intelligence. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... #academicjobs

📢 New Research Alert!

No organism can be the best at everything—and now we know why. A new study by our own Dr. @jasonlaurich.bsky.social reveals the hidden limits shaping evolution itself: tinyurl.com/yc8j3434

@integrativebiology.bsky.social @uofgcbs.bsky.social @joeybernhardt.bsky.social

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)

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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/...

Thanks for the shoutout, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social! I had an absolute blast chatting with Jeremy about my research and sharing some opinionated views on theoretical ecology.

Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...

Out today in @science.org our paper on how evolutionary adaptation to warming will reduce fisheries yields. Please let me know if you need me to send you a copy. Summary of the paper coming soon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks for visiting us and for a really inspiring discussion @cathmckenna.bsky.social 🍃

Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is so cool! Looking forward to reading it :)

I am a little behind in sharing the newest pre-prints from the lab. First, Ariel Favier (an incredible graduate student) sampled bacteria (Gammaproteobacteria) all over California to evaluate if there was signs of local adaptation to temperature: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Joyeuse Journée internationale des femmes! Nous sommes reconnaissants envers les femmes extraordinaires qui dirigent (et qui ont dirigé) la SCEE, ainsi qu’envers toutes les femmes écologistes et biologistes de l’évolution à travers le Canada pour leur travail essentiel.

Happy International Women’s Day! We are grateful to the incredible women who lead (and have led) the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, & to all the women ecologists & evolutionary biologists across Canada for their important work. You help make our society, country, & planet a better place!

Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits Vast study in Peru and Kenya confirms limited defenses against rising temperatures, redoubling climate concerns

🧪🌎🔬🌡️Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits www.science.org/content/arti...

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!

We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.

His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

Text: The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Outlines of cartoon heads with speech bubbles.

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

Diel thermal variability does not always have detrimental effects on the performance of ectotherms Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New paper 😀 in @funecology.bsky.social, 'Diel thermal variability does not always have detrimental effects on the performance of ectotherms'. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dr. Francisco Bozinovic. Thanks @britishecologicalsociety.org
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Faculty Positions

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position.

Please circulate widely among your networks:
www.sfu.ca/rem/about/em...

#academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Trading Away Blue Nutrients In Pacific Island Countries, blue foods play a central role in diets, culture, and livelihoods. However, global trade patterns often redistribute seafood - and thus blue nutrients - away from where th...

New paper 🐟 Ever wonder how blue nutrients found in #seafood flow through international #supplychains? We explored how trade redistributes blue nutrients across borders blogs.edf.org/edfish/2026/...
@envdefensefund.bsky.social @keikonomuraa.bsky.social @jahwaiian.bsky.social @jagephart.bsky.social

New publication @thermal-biology.bsky.social!
We show that non-invasive thermal cameras can measure thoracic temperatures in wild bees in the field. New tool to ID potential heat stress under #climatechange.
Congrats to undergrad Mei McFeely on publishing her thesis #microclimate #pollinators 🐝🎉🌻

Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities Spatial structure naturally emerges in microbial communities, shaping growth, interactions, and evolution, and revealing how microscale processes scale up

Most microbes don't live in shaking flasks; spatial structure shapes how microbes interact and evolve at every scale, as we discuss in our recent review @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @simonvanvliet.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social and others
academic.oup.com/femsre/artic... 🧵👇

Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!

#science #evolution #microbiology