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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 2h

INKTOBER 2025
Day 11 Sting

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sting

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 2d

📣Our line-up for our next theoretical ecology series (crossing three continents!),

It will have been 5 years since we started, and still all our seminars are fully open on Zoom (iite.info/seminar/).

There is no need to register, but you can sign up to email updates here iite.info/seminar-emai...

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 1d

Nominations due December 1 for the Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination package today: shorturl.at/p70wY

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 1d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 10 Sweep

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sweep

Pen and ink drawing of a fantasia broom smoking

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 9 Heavy

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Heavy

Pen and ink drawing of Gossamer with both hands gesturing “the sign of horns”

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 8 - Reckless
#inktober2025

This wreck less pun brought to you by @croneliz.bsky.social

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 7 - Starfish (catching a butterpi)
#inktober2025 #starfish #pi

pen and ink drawing of Patrick Starfish trying to catch a flying Pi symbol

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Come and work with us! Review of candidates will begin ~1 October with rolling consideration thereafter. If you are unable to apply early, contact the search committee chair (me) to discuss timelines.

MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · Aug 28

Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling Position Available at Penn State.
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 10d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Steve Lucas @steve-lucas.bsky.social · 4d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 7 - Starfish

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sketch #ink #Art #Day7 #Starfish

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 5d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 4 - MURKY
#inktober2025

pen and ink drawing of an octobus in a fountain pen ink bottle with some of its tentacles reaching outward to hold onto a quill

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うんの @abara71628.bsky.social · 5d

気まぐれゆるゆるインクトーバー
5.Deer/シカ
6.Pierce/突き刺す、貫通する
#inktober2025

よし…アレでいくかっ…！合体！！

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 5d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 3 - CROWN
#inktober2025

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Steve Lucas @steve-lucas.bsky.social · 9d

INKTOBER 2025
Day 2 - Weave

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Sketch #ink #Art #Day2 #Weave

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 9d

We use invasion growth rates to develop the "Community Disassembly Graph". Nodes represent coexisting communities and directed edges represent transitions from one community composition to another due to extinction. We can use this graph to identify possible secondary extinctions. (4/X)

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 9d

We apply recently-developed techniques from dynamical systems theory and modern coexistence theory to identify (1) WHEN and WHY secondary extinctions occur. We demonstrate that invasion growth rates (per capita growth rates of species when rare) can achieve these goals! (3/X)

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 9d

Coexistence outcomes often depend on the complex interplay of species interactions. Consequently in some cases, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of another, a process known as secondary extinction, as explained by a plaque I came across at the Bronx Zoo. (2/X)

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)

Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly

Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 9d

#inktober2025 Day 1: Mustache

Pen and ink drawing of Sheldon plankton with a monocle and mustache

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now available ahead of print! "Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation" by Karmakar et al.

Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation | The American Naturalist

Abstract Understanding and identifying factors influencing the likelihood of sudden transitions in ecological systems is a significant area of scientific research. Environmental fluctuations are parti...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 21d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 15d

🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 28d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 14d

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 13d

Applications are provided to serial transfer models, data-based Lotka-Volterra models with mortality pulses, & spatial models of consumers with reproductive pulses. They illustrate the storage effect, unexpected extinctions, and the importance of the timing between reproductive pulses. 5/5

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 13d

When the invasion graph is acyclic, coexistence occurs iff every subcommunity has at least one missing species with a positive invasion growth rate (IGR). Alternatively, if a subcommunity is permanent and all missing species have negative IGRs, there is an extinction attractor 4/5

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