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Rodrigo Granjel
@granjel.bsky.social
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Ecologist • postdoc at Basque Centre for Climate Change • diversity × interactions × stability × function • 🌱🌊 — he/him Formerly: Fulbright @ncstate.bsky.social, Santander Iberoamérica UNESP-Río Claro, FPU @unisevilla.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Granjel @granjel.bsky.social · Nov 17
Assembling my community on these 💙 skies! If you're into community ecology, check out my @newphyt.bsky.social paper with Oscar Godoy and Eric Allan. 🌱 We explored how nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens drive plant multispecies coexistence: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens affect the mechanisms of multispecies plant coexistence
Changes in resources (e.g. nitrogen) and enemies (e.g. foliar pathogens) are key drivers of plant diversity and composition. However, their effects have not been connected to the niche and fitness...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 4d
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 5d
Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments
Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 5d
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
Joining the lab
2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…
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Fernando Ojeda @ojedacopete.bsky.social · 7d
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis:

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Vídeo presentación Tesis Doctoral Álvaro Pérez Gómez
YouTube video by Álvaro Pérez Gómez
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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...
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Blanca Arroyo-Correa @blancaac.bsky.social · 9d
What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.
 
Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.
 
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Bridging the gap between individual specialization and species persistence in mutualistic communities
Mutualistic interactions among organisms are fundamental to the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Yet, the study of community dynamics often relies on values averaged at the species level, igno...
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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 11d
🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being.
🔗 rdcu.be/eIL2g
Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem...
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Rodrigo Granjel @granjel.bsky.social · 11d
Last week, my first MSc student successfully defended his thesis at @ehu.eus! Together with @sciencey-mark.bsky.social, we looked at how land use change transforms soil fauna communities across Europe. We dug up some interesting results! 🪱🐜🪳🐌 More asap.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 19d
#Viewpoint: Exploring the importance of aromatic #plants' extrafloral volatiles for #pollinator attraction

Kantsa et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Known and proposed ecological functions of aboveground aromatic emissions (i.e. constitutive volatile emissions from vegetative plant tissues) in mediating biotic interactions with arthropods, other plants, and microorganisms.
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CREAF @creaf.cat · 21d
🚀 Do you work with #data analysis, maps, #GIS or #climatemodels?

We need you!

Together with the European Space Agency - ESA @esa.int we are developing a new High-Resolution Land Cover product of ALL the planet 🌐

And... 👇
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 28d
Okay, but Claude's commentary while helping me set up a ray cluster on National Research Platform (NRP) is pretty entertaining:

Claude: (proposes 2 worker-config)

Me: why two workers?

Claude: (queries resources)
Claude: "HOLY MOLY! Your cluster has nodes with 57TB of memory and 13,800 CPUs!"
Dialogue from Claude in VSCode Copilot agent mode, reading: Let me update the Ray cluster to be more aggressive. What's your cluster's capacity? Let's check and then scale accordingly: WOW! This cluster has MASSIVE resources! I can see nodes with: 256 CPUs per node (multiple nodes) 128 CPUs per node (multiple nodes) 96, 64, 56, 48, 32 CPUs per node Let me check memory too: HOLY MOLY! Your cluster has nodes with 57TB of memory and 13,800 CPUs
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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Sep 2
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.
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Tad Dallas @taddallas.bsky.social · Aug 29
We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!!

Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14
Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology
Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Aug 6
A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can:

👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏
👉reduce pollinator richness🧪
👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝
...all with minimal benefits to crop yields!

Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · Aug 5
Happy to be at BC3: Basque Centre for Climate Change for my sabbatical! Excited to connect and collaborate with my host @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social and other great colleagues at here at BC3.
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Fernando Ojeda @ojedacopete.bsky.social · Jul 22
Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste.

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He visto un lindo asesino
YouTube video by Guillermo Ojeda Muñoz
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David García Callejas @callejas.bsky.social · Jul 12
Desde el grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET hemos creado un punto de encuentro para las personas que trabajamos con el medio natural y usamos herramientas computacionales - únete a la comunidad respondiendo a este mensaje o contactándome por privado!

go.bsky.app/FWR2yEM

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 7
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jul 4
By combining theory, modelling and empirical work, Luo et al. show that species synchrony decreases with time series length and its relationship with diversity switches from positive to negative www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Short time series obscure compensatory dynamics in ecological communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Species synchrony is considered a major mechanism of biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships. Here, by combining theory, modelling and empirical work, the authors show that with time series len...
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Jul 3
{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.

v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jul 3
🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

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Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation
Decision-makers need to act now to halt biodiversity loss, and ecologists must provide them with relevant species interaction indicators to inform abo…
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 3
When colleagues ask me what I'm working on now, I mutter about "scientific workflow". Good scientific projects are entangled networks of assumptions and models and measurements in which the logic of each connection is transparent and can be checked. Working on 2 books and an ERC about this. >>
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Seraina Cappelli @serainacappelli.bsky.social · Jun 30
🚨📃🧪 New paper out: "Impacts of diverse undersown cover crops on seasonal soil microbial properties". Rashmi Shrestha used the #TWINWIN experiment to show that undersowing crops with diverse plant mixtures, particularly including legumes has beneficial effects on soil microbial life and function 1/6
Aerial view on the 60 plots of the TWINWIN experiment surrounded by grass and agricultural fields. The plots vary in color that represent the different undersown treatments. In the background is a road, buildings and forests. The sky is blue with some white clouds.
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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · Jun 30
A bit late but excited to see our new TREE paper out on integrating PSFs with resilience theory!
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Integration of plant–soil feedbacks with resilience theory for climate change
The resilience of ecosystems to climate disruption requires internal feedbacks that support the stability of ecosystem structure and function. Such feedbacks may include sustained interactions between...
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