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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 22d

Come to work with us! We are looking for neuroscientists with AI expertise. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience (RISE AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 15

Amazing! Congrats!!

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hey would be great to catch up with you there!

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hey Lucas, we should catch up there! Gmail me?

Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 8

Who is going to #ESA2025? Would be great to meet people there!

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marina alberti @malberti.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The effects of urbanization on species interactions - Nature Cities

Cities are renowned for catalyzing human interactions, but their effects on urban species are less clear. This Perspective argues for such a focus, and proposes a framework for studying interactions b...

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jul 29

Really excited to see our perspective on how urbanization affects species interactions out in Nature Cities, hoping to inspire more research on this topic. Hard team work led by former postdoc Pablo Moreno-García. Feel free to discuss! rdcu.be/eyjBj www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Living Earth Collaborative @livingearthcollab.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢 Just out in Nature Cities: Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology with co-author LEC postdoc Dr. Carlen

🔗 rdcu.be/ewmqV

#UrbanBiodiversity #Evolution

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · Jun 20

New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jul 2

In this review at Nature Cities, led by @ecarlen.bsky.social we explored how religion, politics and war drive urban wildlife evolution by shaping environmental conditions and selective pressures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities

Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jul 2

Really cool work!

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hey, good to see #Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea ) at the Desert Laboratory on #TumamocHill, in #Tucson featured on the cover - work from several colleagues on role of microsite variation on regeneration bsapubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/toc/15372197... 🌾🧪🌵

"Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea Britton & Rose) featured against blue sky and Catalina Mountains ... picture also featuring buildings of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, in Tucson, Arizona, site of more than 100 years of plant research and 60 years of repeat saguaro survey data. In this issue's article by Breslin et al. (“Establishment patterns of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration and distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats”),"

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jun 30

📖Published📖

Dinnage et al. describe PhenoVision, a new machine learning modelling pipeline utilizing iNaturalist occurrence records and associated field images of plants to enable scalability of phenology data via the automation of flower and fruit annotations 🌸 🍒

🌍 🧪

buff.ly/biapYFR

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover

Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 23

Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024) - Hotchkiss - 2025 - The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024)

Click on the article title to read more.

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 22

Yes! Here is a recent paper raised a similar question www.nature.com/articles/s41... though I am also skeptical about the current data availability to rigorously test this, particularly for cities in developing countries.

Tree species composition governs urban phenological responses to warming - Nature Communications

Cities serve as climate change laboratories for phenology studies. Here, the authors show that results of such studies should be interpreted with caution, as urban-rural phenology gaps are primarily d...

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 21

Same thought. Haven’t read their methods yet but I am skeptical about the effect size.

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · Jun 19

Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen

Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

www.uni-goettingen.de

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thinking about swinging by #Evol2025 next Monday. Who else will be there?

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 19

Excited to share this paper led by @rdinnager.bsky.social. It is truly years of team effort to get to this point. We are currently finalizing the data, which will be included in PhenoBase and will be open early next year. @er1ngrady.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhenoVision: A framework for automating and delivering research‐ready plant phenology data from field images

Plant phenology plays a fundamental role in shaping ecosystems, and global change-induced shifts in phenology have cascading impacts on species interactions and ecosystem structure and function. D...

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · May 14

It is so fun to record my first Youtube short video with others (keywords: phenology, community science) @er1ngrady.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/HnwBh...

Asking scientists about their favorite season-related nature-finds

YouTube video by iNaturalist

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 17

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 16

Sorry to hear this!!

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 10

👍👍👍

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Russell Dinnage @rdinnager.bsky.social · Jun 2

New to Bluesky! I'm Russell Dinnage, developing AI foundation models for organismal biology @FIU (moving to @UAlberta July 2025)

My mission: Create AI systems that understand life from molecules to ecosystems, bridging computational innovation with biological insight 🧬🤖

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