Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template Your slides are not your talk.

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
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Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

🎓 Early-career researcher?
I wrote down everything I wish I’d known when I was in your shoes.

33 pieces of honest, hard-earned advice on publishing, mentors, rejection, focus, and building a life in research.

🔁 Save it. Share it. Add your own. 👇👇👇

#Academia #PhD #ECR #postdoc

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1

Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa Classical models from theoretical ecology are seeing increasing uptake in microbial ecology, but there remains rich potential for closer cross-pollination. Here we explore opportunities for stronger ....

In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...

National-scale biogeography and function of river and stream bacterial biofilm communities www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....

How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."

New for @undark.org

undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care Assistant Professor Elliott White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH ...

Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me.

stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...

Three-year postdoc position – Exploring the deep biosphere in Arctic marine sediments Are you interested in environmental microbiology, the deep biosphere, and Arctic climate change? We are looking for a postdoctoral microbiologist to join our in

📣 We are hiring! 📣

Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬

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Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning Much of life on earth is at the mercy of currents and flow. Residence time (τ) estimates how long organisms and resources remain in a system based on the ratio of volume (V) to flow rate (Q). We test...

Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on:

"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"

Now out in Ecology Letters:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Summer School, Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on

Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

Apply by 3/21/25:

bit.ly/phageschool2...

Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean Heterotrophic bacteria fix N2 in more diverse environments than previously thought, critical for the oceanic nitrogen cycle.

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems The flow of non-living resources between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems can impact their ecosystem function. However, ecosystem size is similarly known to influence ecological properties and...

Interested in the linkage between ecosystems of different trophic types, such as aquatic-terrestrial linkages or benthic-pelagic linkages? 🌊 🐟 🐳 🌲 🌳 🎋

www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Fluctation-dependent coexistence of stage structured species" 🌎🌱🧪 Part of a special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/R9RFA...

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

This is causing major issues for us at the HJ Andrews LTER. Possible disruptions to >40 years of data on water, tree growth and survival, ecosystem response to fire. As well as three long-term employees whose livelihoods are now uncertain.

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity

Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:

Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.

If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

Slower swimming promotes chemotactic encounters between bacteria and small phytoplankton www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

(a) Map showing locations of 157 studies included, and the proportion of natural, agricultural, and urban habitats sampled within the study. Pie size is proportional to the number of sampled sites in each study, ranging from 1 to 368. The density plot indicates the distribution of the studied assemblages (n = 3117) along the latitudinal gradient. (b–d) Diversity changes relative to values of natural habitats, with each panel showing responses of one diversity metric: (b) α-, (c) β-, and (d) γ-diversity. Point estimates represent model predictions of each land use based on fixed effects only, while error bars are 95% confidence intervals. The estimations of α-diversity were obtained by holding other covariates at the mean or mode values. For β- and γ-diversity, the estimation reflects a standardized sampling study with all assemblages having 100% sampling completeness, and other covariates at the mean or mode values. Small letters above error bars indicate results from pairwise comparisons, with different letters representing different groups. *Indicates that the pairwise comparisons included marginally nonsignificant results (p = 0.06).

Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐

Environment‐Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions Ecological interactions are central to our understanding of the composition and function of communities, but attempts to use them as a theoretical foundation for experimental ecology have been confou....

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters!
A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quantitative Genetics of Microbiome Mediated Traits Multicellular organisms host a rich assemblage of associated microorganisms, collectively known as their ``microbiomes''. Microbiomes have the capacity to influence their hosts' fitnesses, but the con...

New pre-print laying foundations for a rigorous Quantitative Genetic framework to study Microbiome Mediated Traits co-authored with Hannah Tavalire, Peter Ralph, Bill Cesko, annd Brendan Bohannan!!

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Looking to hire a postdoc to join the lab to work on coastal microbial ecology in the northern Gulf of Mexico!

Feel free to reach out via email with any questions. Application review starts Jan. 10, 2025.

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