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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 1d

📣We will be back soon for a new series! 🎉

Our first speaker will be Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 October:

⭐Microbial cross-feeding coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐

As ever, free for all to join!
Link+details: iite.info/seminar/

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 4d

The 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 (𝗪𝗪𝗖𝗦𝟮𝟲) has extended its hashtag#deadline for applications to 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵!
For more information 🔗 wwcs2026.github.io
Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu3a8ydd

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 10d

Johannes presented this pathway for complexity reduction in mutualistic model systems through timescale-separation at YoMos this year, so great to see it published! 🦊🌱

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 10d

Another study from within the @yomoseco.bsky.social Eco crew was published just a few days ago:
Johannes Apelt & Volkmar Liebscher: "Tikhonov–Fenichel reductions and their application to a novel modelling approach for mutualism"
doi.org/10.1016/j.tp...

Redirecting

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Martin Jendrischik, Cleanthinking.de @cleanthinking.bsky.social · 10d

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 11d

I've waited 10 long months to finally report to you that YES, it is now finally available: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
The methods/results have not changed substantially since the preprint, but all the wrapping aorund it has transformed so much!

Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco‐evolutionary feedback

Self-organised pattern formation creates heterogeneous growth conditions in spatially extended ecosystems and can support local functional diversity in metacommunities – sets of communities linked by...

doi.org

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 11d

If you're into #ecology, #metacommunity, #network and #diversity #theory, #foodweb models with #dynamic #traits, #ecoevo #feedback, #complexsystems, or perhaps even #Turingpatterns, this might be interesting for you :)

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 11d

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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ESMTB @esmtbio.bsky.social · 15d

MPDEE'26 - International Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution @ Leicester, UK

20 Apr 2026 – 24 Apr 2026

dbearup.github.io/mpdee26/

Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution 2026

MPDEE26 Conference

dbearup.github.io

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Emanuel Fronhofer @efronhofer.bsky.social · 17d

Do you want to study #Quantitative #Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international #students

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Mridul K. Thomas @mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 25d

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd.

We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals.

Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

Poster for 90 minute workshop on HOW TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS, by Mridul Thomas & Ravi Ranjan.

Details: September 23rd 16:00 CEST ; 14:00 UTC

Description:

Experimental designs can make or break an experiment. A good experiment has a clear goal and efficiently uses experimental resources to achieve that goal. In this workshop, we will review what experiments are for, basic and advanced principles of designing experiments, and how to use simulations to evaluate designs before actually doing the
experiment. We’ll do a moderate amount of coding in R and so experience with this would be helpful but is not required. We intend to have small-group discussions to help participants develop their own experiments, and encourage participants to think of a specific question they would like to answer with an experiment.

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 27d

Channel your excitement about network science to engage and educate the public!

The deadline for our annual educational video competition is two weeks away. bit.ly/nss-videos

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · Aug 26

Read now: the 'Carbon Sonk' thriller! It would be so hilarious if it wasn't so terrifying...

#carbonsonk #ecologicalmodelling #publicationfraud #ai #science #ecology #elsevier

Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · Aug 25

Meet fellow Young Modellers in Ecology at the GfÖ Annual Meeting in Würzburg next week! 👯‍♀️ 🌍
Whether you've been to a YoMos workshop or not, you're very welcome at our gettogether on **Tuesday, September 2nd, starting from 7:30 PM in room 2.004!**

#yomos #gfö2025 #ecology #phd #conference #science

A small poster featuring the yomos and gfö conference logos on orange to green fading background. Writing says 'YoMos goes Gfö 2025' followed by the info also detailed in the main text of this posting.

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · Jun 16

What a great crew at the 2025 #YoMos #workshop! If you want to read a #recap of what the workshop was like for us (including more photos!), please check out this #blogpost on our homepage: www.yomos.org/post/yomos-2...

@gfoesoc.bsky.social
#ecology #modelling #phd #phdchat #community #germany

YoMos 2025 Recap

Thank you for a wonderful week at the 2025 YoMos workshop in Oehrenstock, Ilmenau! This text captures some impressions from the week, for all who were there to dwell in fond memories and for all who w...

www.yomos.org

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · Jun 16

Kick-off meeting for 2026 is happening in 2 weeks! Get in touch now if you want to get involved 🦊

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · Jun 16

Now that I've somewhat recovered from @yomoseco.bsky.social - which was fantastic, amazing, inspiring, overwhelming, exhausting, and so full of love and #community - I wrote a short recap of what the week was like from my perspective. Go check it out here:
www.yomos.org/post/yomos-2...
Thx, bye 🌱

YoMos 2025 Recap

Thank you for a wonderful week at the 2025 YoMos workshop in Oehrenstock, Ilmenau! This text captures some impressions from the week, for all who were there to dwell in fond memories and for all who w...

www.yomos.org

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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 · Mar 24

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

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

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:

A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology

Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59

For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Mar 24

Typical introduction of a network science paper:

“Several methods have been proposed for this inverse problem including correlation thesholding [52], phrenology [53], leeches [54], bloodletting [55], Bayesian inference [56], loud banging [57], edge dowsing [58], ...”

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · Mar 24

Organising a (conference-style) #workshop @yomoseco.bsky.social : Getting all kinds of heavy #admin tasks done like coming up with a budget plan or a schedule for the week; but also constantly forgetting that I have to formally apply and send an abstract just like everybody else 😅

#ecology #phd

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · Mar 18

Just finished a fun workshop on 'Social Media in Science', so here's my PhD research topic as emojis:
(🌱-🦆🦆)---(🌱🌱-🦆)

Thanks to @crocodiledunphd.bsky.social and @gkalinkat.bsky.social and to @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social for hosting this!

#phdchat #academicchatter #scicomm #dowestillusehashtags

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · Mar 10

‼️ This week is your last chance to apply for this year's YoMos workshop 🦊
You can register here: www.yomos.org/next-workshop

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · Feb 21

#YoMos are on Bluesky now! Apply for their workshop, it's very nice (and I am 100 % biased) :)

Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · Feb 21

Hello Bluesky! We joined here to advertise our upcoming #workshop for #Young #Modellers in #Ecology from 19th to 23rd of May in #Ilmenau, Thüringen.
Learn more and apply on our website! -> www.yomos.org/next-workshop

#science #ecoloogy #phdlife #phdchat #community