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A two-panel map of the Naban River tropical forest plot: left, an aerial photo; right, a canopy height gradient map. Image credit: Yun Deng.

Ma et al. discover that light & soil trumps crowding in young tropical tree growth, but here's the puzzle: while traits help species thrive in different habitats, they don't predict how they handle same-species interaction!

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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Call_Long Island 2027[16].docx The American Society of Naturalists Proposals for Symposia at the ASN stand-alone meeting in Long Island 2027 Due April 30, 2026 The American Society of Naturalists will be holding an East Coast m...

The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social
will be holding our next meeting in Glen Cove, New York on 8-12 January 2027!

Have an idea for a special symposium? We want to hear it!
#ecology #evolution #behavior 🧪 #popgen 🧬
Applications due Apr 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Final call! This how-to session is a great introduction to the process and practice of peer review.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!

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Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

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📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
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@eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀

"Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species"
doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

We understand a great deal about how and why cooperation evolves, but what about its long-term consequences?

Great to see our new review on this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

Behaviour and Eco-Evo - a new paper in Am Nat led by Thibaut Rota

"Behavior and Physiology Outpace Form When Linking Traits to Ecological Responses Within Populations: A Meta-Analysis."

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I’m pleased to share my first publication! 🎉🐦

This work, developed during my Master’s degree, explores what drives shorebird migration, linking climate seasonality, wing morphology, and habitat use.

Very grateful to my collaborators who made this possible! 🪶

#Ecology #Shorebirds

If you have previously received a @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award, we'd love to hear the outcome of your project (no matter how long ago the award was made): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ecology #evolution #behavior

Interactions between mechanisms of reproductive isolation | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

📣 Our new paper just came out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

Are DMIs actors or simple markers of the speciation process with gene flow?

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This was a fun study to be part of:

So nice to see this coming out (nearly). It always feels special to publish in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Such classy formatting.. brings me back to scanning every new paper edition cover-to-cover as soon as it came out when we students. Congratulations again @stuwest.bsky.social on your ASN Award!

A small yellow bird photographed in mid-flight with its wings outstretched, showing the shape of the wing when spread. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin.

Pointy wings are thought to help migratory birds fly efficiently, but which bones and feathers are responsible? Pegan et al. describe morphological variation that contributes to hand-wing index, a common proxy for wing shape.

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Photograph of one southern ground-hornbill flying towards an artificial nest while another individual stands nearby, recorded by a camera trap in the Associated Private Nature Reserves. Photo credit: Kyle-Mark Middleton.

In long-lived southern ground-hornbills, hot-dry conditions reduce reproductive success, but helpers offer no buffering effects. Middleton et al. highlight the role of life-history in shaping cooperative strategies.

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Special Feature: Reciprocal Evaluation of Genomic Offset Predictions of Climate Maladaptation with Independent Empirical Datasets by Verrico et al.

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Simple Seasonal Switches in Food Web Composition Unveil the Complexity of an Arctic Predator-Prey System by Bergeron et al.

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Banerjee et al. propose that the underlying structure of positive feedbacks in an ecosystem may determine the tipping-evasion mechanism relevant to that particular system.

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Satoh et al. identify an evolutionary correlation between egg size and parental care strategies in cichlids inhabiting Lake Tanganyika, one of the African Great Lakes.

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My new office buddy

Nice! Where did you guys go?

Most journals (like @asn-amnat.bsky.social) have clear policies that this is not allowed bc it violates privacy and confidentially rules of the review process and reviewers agree to those terms when they accept a review. so I would reach out to the journal to let them know.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/
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A small group of wading birds showing winter feathers, gathered on a beach in Tasmania. Photo credit: Eric J. Woehler.

What drives shorebird migration? Gutierrez-Zorrilla et al. reveal that climate seasonality, wing shape, & habitat use are key predictors. Novel modeling untangles inherited traits from ecological selection.

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Special Feature: Lind & Lotterhos tested over 800K genomic models, and their findings offer key insights into how data formats shape forecasts of species' futures under climate change.

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Special Feature: Archambeau et al. reveal substantial variability in genomic offset predictions across methods and SNP sets in maritime pine, highlighting the need for further validation of genomic offset models.

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I was just looking for papers on fish spine evolution, how fortunate!