This paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social 🦀🦑🧪

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

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

New preprint on a new diversity-dependent biogeographic diversification model using deep learning. Joint work with my amazing advisor @landismj.bsky.social. Details of the paper in the comment section. #evobio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...

The last paper of my PhD is out! Together with @duarteldas.bsky.social and Gabriel Nakamura, we investigated how in situ diversification and lineage dispersal have shaped assemblage level diversity in the Atlantic Forest.

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Lovely stuff, congratulations!

An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Catherine L. Peichel, Åke Brännström, Daniel I. Bolnick, Ulf Dieckmann, and Rebecca J. Safran. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spr...

Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game Side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) play a biological rock-paper-scissors game in which three differently colored male morphs utilize alternative mating strategies. We identified the genetic basi...

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

Storch et al. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
Cradles, museums & disequilibria: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m5jLcZ3X3...
Equilibrium dynamics clarify biodiversity patterns: tropics may now sit above equilibrium, while temperate zones act as today’s cradles
@cts.cuni.cz @graceridder.bsky.social

We examined the differences in richness patterns in this group by integrating biogeography, diversification and community phylogenetic approaches.

This work was in collaboration with Navendu Page and Jahnavi Joshi, and others who helped with the data generation and different facets of this study.

(PDF) In‐Situ Diversification and Regional Attributes Shape Asymmetric Diversity of Miliusa (Annonaceae) in Tropical Asia PDF | Aim We examine biogeography and speciation patterns in Miliusa Lesch. ex A. DC. (~65 species) distributed in tropical Asia to understand the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

Happy to share our work on Miliusa out in JoB!

"In‐Situ Diversification and Regional Attributes Shape Asymmetric Diversity of Miliusa (Annonaceae) in Tropical Asia"

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Miliusa #Annonaceae #WesternGhats

Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota Mountain biodiversity reorganizes rapidly as species shift upslope to track temperatures. Pervasive species redistribution poses substantial threats to mountain ecosystems, a phenomenon sometimes desc...

Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota

Chen et al., 2025, Science

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Distinguishing species boundaries from geographic variation | PNAS In an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss, the need for standardized practices to describe biological variation is becoming increasingly importa...

Distinguishing species boundaries from geographic variation

Chambers et al. 2025 PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plant–soil microbial interactions as modulators of species coexistence and productivity Plant coexistence and diversity–productivity relationships are often studied separately, yet both are shaped by the same biotic interactions. Here we focus on how host-specificity among soil pathogens and mutualists alters niche and fitness differences among plant species, subsequently modifying biodiversity effects on productivity. Specialist pathogens can generate niche differences through density-dependent processes, thereby stabilizing plant coexistence and enhancing complementarity effects. Specialist mutualists can instead destabilize coexistence and lead to variable effects on productivity. The effects of generalist microbes are less predictable, depending on relationships between plant traits determining microbial interactions (e.g., defense traits) and those determining competitive ability and biomass production. This review underscores the significance of plant–microbial interactions in bridging the mechanisms underlying species coexistence and biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships.

Online now: Plant–soil microbial interactions as modulators of species coexistence and productivity

Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...

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Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥

The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal:

We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data.

read on ...