We are published! We quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two major waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA is online now!
By mapping the infections we were able to quantify the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over the contiguous US and we also estimated the speed of spread! tinyurl.com/y87tjnmd
I am now an Executive Editor at Palaeontologia Electronica :D Still feeling kinda lost in this new role... anyways, send your manuscript to us! :)
I'm really glad you'll have this legendary wizard working alongside with you
Ultra niche post. Me like it.
Huge congrats, Dr. Stewart! Super well deserved!
Delighted to share new work with a great bunch of collaborators using ancient DNA to study melon domestication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What a time to be alive
New pronoun labeler to replace the one that went down!
Subscribe to it to see others’ labeled pronouns when you interact with them (rather than having to search their profile)
Choose your own pronoun label by liking the correct post in the labelers’ pinned thread (instruction thread here):
Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.
Interested in being an Associate Editor on any of the BES journals? Apply now! 👇
Two 💩🪲 talks this week in Goiania (Brasil)! Don't miss it if you are in the area!
Stony Brook E&E has just posted a postdoc-bridge-to-tenure-track-faculty focused on ecological and/or evolutionary responses to global change. Spread the word!
apply.interfolio.com/178040
The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD is now out, just two weeks before my defense.
Our study shows that agricultural expansion into native forests and grasslands drives strong biodiversity loss in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across the Andes.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
OpenAccess science sounds great! But what if authors have to pay (Gold OA)? Well, clear biases appear: less participation from low and middle-income countries.
Find all about it in our new study led by Pablo Huais and Javi Nori 👇@oikosjournal.bsky.social
shorturl.at/bheb6
@peeer.bsky.social
How to assess the plasticity of a given species across environmental conditions when you've measured tons of variables?
We introduced a simple method that led to a provocative ecophysiological hypothesis about photosynthetic plasticity & leaf resource investment:
academic.oup.com/treephys/art...
I'm so sorry, April. Sending a big hug
We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟?
Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇
shorturl.at/zgKfA
Balancing selection maintains some remarkable biological diversity, but detecting it from genomic data alone can be tricky. This may bias our view of its true prevalence. We investigated what makes balancing selection more or less detectable in genomic scans. + in thread & preprint!
Happy to share that this paper has just been published in Ecology Letters! We hope that our framework can be useful for theoreticians and empiricists working on different systems. Let me know if you hit a paywall and would like a pdf.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain)
I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded).
The project is on environmental health 👇
A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“
A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
📢 Hello!
Slightly unusual request from me, buttt we're likely to need a freelance writer to produce some content in Feb & Mar for the NHM's 'Find Your Climate Action' tool.
If you've experience writing about the climate and inspiring action, please send me a message!
www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...
date: can you take off your work gloves
Jim Henson: they have names
It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones.
To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done:
go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK
Next week I'm heading to Aarhus to attend #tibs2026. If anyone is going too, let me know!
Next week I'm heading to Aarhus to attend #tibs2026. If anyone is going too, let me know!
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
