Jesse Czekanski-Moir
@jessecm.bsky.social
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, ConBio; Ants, Land Snails, & sundry invertebrates, often in Belau (Palau), Micronesia; PhD from SUNY-ESF; future uncertain
jessecm.org
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With Christmas just around the corner that means it's just ONE WEEK left until our #EvolutionOnIslands special issue closes its call for papers!
If your research focuses on island evolution, biogeography or island endemism to name a few topics, publish with us! 👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
If your research focuses on island evolution, biogeography or island endemism to name a few topics, publish with us! 👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
With Christmas just around the corner that means it's just ONE WEEK left until our #EvolutionOnIslands special issue closes its call for papers!
If your research focuses on island evolution, biogeography or island endemism to name a few topics, publish with us! 👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
If your research focuses on island evolution, biogeography or island endemism to name a few topics, publish with us! 👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
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Looking for a postdoc in a beautiful city, with nice colleagues, a supportive environment and fun research on #EvolutionofSymbioses #Mosses #Cyanobacteria? This may be for you: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie... Deadline is Monday 1st December!
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Looking for a postdoc in a beautiful city, with nice colleagues, a supportive environment and fun research on #EvolutionofSymbioses #Mosses #Cyanobacteria? This may be for you: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie... Deadline is Monday 1st December!
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I have so many questions....
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I have so many questions....
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📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)
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📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.3.1 is now on #CRAN:
- pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️
- fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩
- pattern code/name dictionary 📖
- new logo! ✨
Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/
Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/
#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
- pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️
- fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩
- pattern code/name dictionary 📖
- new logo! ✨
Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/
Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/
#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.3.1 is now on #CRAN:
- pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️
- fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩
- pattern code/name dictionary 📖
- new logo! ✨
Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/
Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/
#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
- pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️
- fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩
- pattern code/name dictionary 📖
- new logo! ✨
Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/
Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/
#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
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Oof…Takashi Komatsu, Taku Shimada, and Munetoshi Maruyama just published a photography book on “The Ant Guests”. The photos are stunning! The book is organized by geographical region, and text is in both Japanese and English. Check it out (and order it) here:
roppon-ashi.jp/en/products/...
roppon-ashi.jp/en/products/...
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Oof…Takashi Komatsu, Taku Shimada, and Munetoshi Maruyama just published a photography book on “The Ant Guests”. The photos are stunning! The book is organized by geographical region, and text is in both Japanese and English. Check it out (and order it) here:
roppon-ashi.jp/en/products/...
roppon-ashi.jp/en/products/...
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look 👀
LOOK at the spider book 🕷️📘👀
gaze at its thoughtful features & reasonable price 💵🔍👀
$9.25 gets you everything you need to start spidering bookshop.org/p/books/spid...
need a more premium experience? i have a limited number of autographed copies available, each with a spider doodle; DM me
LOOK at the spider book 🕷️📘👀
gaze at its thoughtful features & reasonable price 💵🔍👀
$9.25 gets you everything you need to start spidering bookshop.org/p/books/spid...
need a more premium experience? i have a limited number of autographed copies available, each with a spider doodle; DM me
December 17, 2024 at 10:44 PM
look 👀
LOOK at the spider book 🕷️📘👀
gaze at its thoughtful features & reasonable price 💵🔍👀
$9.25 gets you everything you need to start spidering bookshop.org/p/books/spid...
need a more premium experience? i have a limited number of autographed copies available, each with a spider doodle; DM me
LOOK at the spider book 🕷️📘👀
gaze at its thoughtful features & reasonable price 💵🔍👀
$9.25 gets you everything you need to start spidering bookshop.org/p/books/spid...
need a more premium experience? i have a limited number of autographed copies available, each with a spider doodle; DM me
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Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
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🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
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fyi if you want to work with me for some reason
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
fyi if you want to work with me for some reason
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Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
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While this is a bit of a harsh way to put it, it is not a false scare. The importance of resource allocation to health, to health infrastructure, to basic staffing, is misunderstood by the people with the resources.
I appreciate the efforts to retain core services.
I appreciate the efforts to retain core services.
WHO plans to terminate 25% of its workforce by 2026, and it'll still be $1bn in the red. Good luck with your next pandemic!
apps.who.int/gb/MSPI/pdf_...
apps.who.int/gb/MSPI/pdf_...
apps.who.int
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
While this is a bit of a harsh way to put it, it is not a false scare. The importance of resource allocation to health, to health infrastructure, to basic staffing, is misunderstood by the people with the resources.
I appreciate the efforts to retain core services.
I appreciate the efforts to retain core services.
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Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after envir...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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hey if you need a pleasant visual experience this AM, consider the exquisite beetle portraiture of Kenji Kohiyama stulab.jp/gallery_cate...
Micropresence Photograph – Kenji Kohiyama
stulab.jp
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hey if you need a pleasant visual experience this AM, consider the exquisite beetle portraiture of Kenji Kohiyama stulab.jp/gallery_cate...
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Byrsax tsushimenis, great example of a species I would like to 3-D print so our visually impaired museum visitors can experience Full Beetle Weirdness for themselves
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Byrsax tsushimenis, great example of a species I would like to 3-D print so our visually impaired museum visitors can experience Full Beetle Weirdness for themselves
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Excited to announce a new preprint out now. Myself and Laurie Balstad led a group of predominantly early career theoreticians (along with Marissa Baskett and Mikaela Provost) to compile a set of guiding principles for data-model integration in theoretical ecology.
10 simple rules for data-model integration in theoretical ecology
Theoretical ecologists have long leveraged empirical data in various forms to advance ecology. Recently increased volumes and access to ecological data present an expanding set of opportunities for th...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Excited to announce a new preprint out now. Myself and Laurie Balstad led a group of predominantly early career theoreticians (along with Marissa Baskett and Mikaela Provost) to compile a set of guiding principles for data-model integration in theoretical ecology.
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In this paper we introduce a novel way to use phylogenetic eigenvectors (PCPS) to assess temporal trends at the assemblage scale. Hope you enjoy it! Congrats @guiseger.bsky.social!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community
This study examined the phylogenetic conservatism of flowering and fruiting in 78 climbing plant species relative to environmental gradients in a South Brazilian forest. Although species-level analys...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In this paper we introduce a novel way to use phylogenetic eigenvectors (PCPS) to assess temporal trends at the assemblage scale. Hope you enjoy it! Congrats @guiseger.bsky.social!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.
Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots.
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction.
bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...
When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit
Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.
posit.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.
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Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
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We've seen our turtle ants, after being bitten, stung and thrown by twig ants, just walk away all nonchalant. What makes them so hard core? Read about our latest exploratory project in Lexie's new blog post: hmcbee.blogspot.com/2025/11/knig... @hmc.edu
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We've seen our turtle ants, after being bitten, stung and thrown by twig ants, just walk away all nonchalant. What makes them so hard core? Read about our latest exploratory project in Lexie's new blog post: hmcbee.blogspot.com/2025/11/knig... @hmc.edu
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Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us!
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
Decoding Nature’s Networks
The Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin
integrativebio.utexas.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Integrative Biology at UT is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist! Happy to answer any questions about the position/dept/UT. Come join us!
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
integrativebio.utexas.edu
cns.utexas.edu
apply.interfolio.com/177547
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Has anyone written a Foundations of Evolution to follow this beauty?
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Foundations of Ecology
Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulati...
press.uchicago.edu
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Has anyone written a Foundations of Evolution to follow this beauty?
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.
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Cool new work by Storch, Ridder, and Okie - Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory #macroecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐
Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory
Historical nonequilibrium processes are often considered the main drivers of global biodiversity patterns. We argue that while biodiversity is often o…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Cool new work by Storch, Ridder, and Okie - Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory #macroecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐