Overlooking the North Carolina Mountains from the edge of an overlook blueridge nc northcarolina

North Carolina Mountains. 💙 #edge #BlueSkyArtShow #wnc

Temperature stress slows down the evolutionary arms race between predators and prey as shown by experimental evolution of ciliates and bacteria. This suggests that climate-driven stress may destabilize ecological communities:

🦠 K Plum and @rebeccazufall.bsky.social 2026
🦠 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Basic workflow for community projection and adaptive dynamics analyses using R package adapt3.

Cool:
"Package adapt 3 is available on CRAN and can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation."
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🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Ecology #Macroecology #Paleobio

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum just signed a landmark decree to create a Universal Health Service for all 120 million citizens. Registration starts April 13. Every Mexican will be able to walk into any public hospital and receive care regardless of income, employment, or where they live. 

Priority effects drive fungal and nematode emergence from insect larvae Abstract. Priority effects, in which species arrival history influences community assembly, are increasingly recognized to affect host–parasite systems. Ho

Now accepted for publication. Accepted manuscript can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

Check out our newest preprint! 📝 We find that adaptation on coevolutionary fitness landscapes is highly repeatable, but landscape-specific, and intergenomic epistasis creates coevolutionary fitness load for interacting species due to frequent fitness trade-offs 🏋️

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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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This essay captures what AI for science debates often fail to recognize:
That in many academic fields, people creation is the main goal. That the supervision IS the science. That the real threat is "a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

You need to make AI guidelines for your lab Here's why you should, and how to start

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it.

open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

Call your Program Officer Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.

Wondering what you shouldn't say in a proposal? Call your program officer.

Wondering what happened in panel? Call your program officer.

Wondering how the latest federal stuff may affect your proposal? Call your program officer.

Call your PO. 🧪

scienceforeveryone.science/call-your-pr...

Congratulations!

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

What if plant immunity doesn’t stop bacteria from arriving - but from staying?
Excited to share our new Dangl Lab paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2535583123), asking a fundamental co-evolutionary question: which flagellar function is targeted by plant immunity?
#Coevolution #Plant-Microbiome #PNAS
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SING Canada application are now open! Please share with Indigenous students and community members interested in the science and politics of genomics 🧬 All expenses paid.

Details on this year’s theme will follow in a few weeks. @singcanada.bsky.social

New paper alert!

Science Communication Is Central to the Practice of Science Opinion | Explaining and defending knowledge is as essential to the scientific enterprise as publishing research.

New Op/Ed in Undark Magazine (@undark.org)

"...the authors of rigorous science communication products are conducting an essential activity of formal scientific practice, charged with transfiguring complex ideas and bringing them into the homes and minds of many."

undark.org/2026/03/26/o...

New preprint out with Troy Day!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We unify numerous methodologies of adaptive dynamocs into a single framework we term “structural evolutionary invasion analysis.” If you have a class structure in your evolutionary model, consider applying this method!

Evolutionary invasion analysis for structured populations: a synthesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

At 11am Eastern / 10am Central today, Professor Abdel Halloway from Case Western Reserve University will be giving a talk on eco-evolutionary dynamics of cooperation and mutualism.

Please see below for more information about joining the talk.

Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

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/...

Delighted to share new preprint co-led by @fishychrissy.bsky.social and I! Why do population growth rates vary through time? We develop a robust method to quantify the contribution of environmental fluctuations and transient dynamics to variation in growth rate. 1/6 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on:

⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐

Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍)
Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
See you there!

The American Naturalist classic cover

Evolution is faster with stronger selection, but this may come with a demographic cost. Xu & Osmond characterized conditions when the chance of evolutionary rescue increases with the strength of selection across different scenarios.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Microbes grow in spatially structured communities. Bäcker et al. comprehensively synthesize evidence that spatial organization drives microbial ecological and evolutionary processes across scales. #FEMSMicrobiolRev buff.ly/wceLoPr @bramvandijk.bsky.social

New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Anyone up for this?

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...

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭

To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀

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