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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 10d

What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....

#ecology #phdlife #phdchat

Schematic figure from Philipp et al. 2025: Top left panel shows a satellite photo of multiple ponds in a landscape, top right panel shows the plankton community within a single pond as scheme drawing; the bottom left panel shows how the habitat (pond) structure is abstraced to a habiat network; the bottom right panel shows how the local community structure is abstracted to an aggregated food web model. Altogether, this 'trophic metacommunity' can show self-organisation that appear as biomass differences between habitats (denoted as differently shaded nodes of green and blue in the bottom left panel)

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Zsófia, it looks like you have your blue sky messages turned off. Feel free to message me

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 17d

Yup it was a wet start to the season! PJ putting on a show for my last field season 🌸

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 17d

Back in the field in Western Australia.

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 18d

I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:

Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming

Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 18d

I have a grassland data set that might be appropriate. I will send you a dm

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Aug 21

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:

"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"

Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Jul 26

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:

"A unified theory of community structure"

Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jul 14

Save the dates!

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.

Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.

A photo of seeds that look like dried pieces of clay

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:

"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"

Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jun 11

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍

We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Jun 12

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · May 27

Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:

"Artificial selection for collective composition"

Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa...

NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

An image advertising the seminar as described in the main text but with the following abstract: Microbial communities can perform complex functions that individual microbes cannot achieve alone, but enhancing these collective functions through artificial selection is challenging. Here, we examine a simple microbial system to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the conditions necessary for successful artificial selection on collectives. By analyzing whether artificial selection can effectively drive the community toward a target composition, we predict its likelihood of success under different experimental setups and identify the key parameters that influence successful selection.

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Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social · May 20

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Apr 27

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:

"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"

Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW...

NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Apr 21

Will this be recorded?

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · Apr 1

#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!

celebrate package:celebrate R Documentation

Audio 'announcements' when printing model summaries

Description:

The only function of this package is to augment the printing of
model summaries with appropriate sound effects based on whether
you have achieved the magical p<0.05 level of significance for at
least one variable (not including the intercept - we have to try
to be a _little_ bit sensible ...)

Details:

Sounds are taken from <http://freesounds.org>

To set an alpha-level different from 0.05, you can specify
‘options(celebrate.alpha = <value>)’

• fanfare: user primordiality,
<https://www.freesound.org/people/primordiality/sounds/78823/>
(CC BY 3.0)

• trombone: user kirbydx,
<https://www.freesound.org/people/kirbydx/sounds/175409/>
(CC0)

Examples:

## Not run:

m1 <- lm(speed~dist,cars)
m2 <- lm(Income~Population,data.frame(state.x77))
summary(m1)
summary(m2)
## chi-squared test
M <- as.table(rbind(c(762, 327, 468), c(484, 239, 477)))
dimnames(M) <- list(gender = c("F", "M"),
party = c("Democrat","Independent", "Republican"))
(Xsq <- chisq.test(M)) # Prints test summary
boring <- matrix(c(6,5,4,5), nrow = 2)
(chisq.test(boring))
## End(Not run)

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thanks for joining Nadiah :)

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Mar 27

Not ecology specific but as an ecology PhD student myself trying to learn basic math 3 blue 1 brown videos are great www.3blue1brown.com

3Blue1Brown

Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.

www.3blue1brown.com

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Giulia Ghedini @giuliaghedini.bsky.social · Mar 24

Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne!

I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com

FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY GROUP

Exciting lab news! In September 2025, the lab will move to the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. We will keep a presence at the Gulbenkian Institute for...

giuliaghedini.com

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