Nate Sanders
@natejsanders.bsky.social
Ecologist, Professor at the University of Michigan, Executive Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology, and once claimed to be a former professional wrestler.
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🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
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Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!
Possible topics include:
Determinants of range limits
Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)
The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Possible topics include:
Determinants of range limits
Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)
The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
PhD position opening in community and biogeography
PhD Position in Community Ecology & Biogeography, Montreal, Canada Our research group at Concordia University investigates the forces enabling the maintenance, and governing the distribution, of biol...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!
Possible topics include:
Determinants of range limits
Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)
The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Possible topics include:
Determinants of range limits
Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)
The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage
Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Colorado brought wolves back for the first time in 80 years, but now a few years into the historic reintroduction, many of them are dead.
Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...
Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...
Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying?
A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start.
www.vox.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Colorado brought wolves back for the first time in 80 years, but now a few years into the historic reintroduction, many of them are dead.
Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...
Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.
@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...
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NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb
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BrilliANT time at #Mirmeco2025 in Recife. A meeting full of enthusiasm & passion for #ants. Fabulous to see all my Brazilian and other ant friends again ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BrilliANT time at #Mirmeco2025 in Recife. A meeting full of enthusiasm & passion for #ants. Fabulous to see all my Brazilian and other ant friends again ❤️
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Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!
Professor Ben Sheldon, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social is also the recipient of the Honorary Membership Award.
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!
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Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Res Museum Collection Manager | U-M Careers
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October 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k
👨🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k
August 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k
👨🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k
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August 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!
The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.
August 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!
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🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
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🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
August 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
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Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts
This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts, and finds support that biotic resistance may create a life-stage....
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August 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
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August 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!
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"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦
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July 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦
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"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi
July 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi
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Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size
Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122
Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size
Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122
Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122
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🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
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July 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
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On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...
On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived
This blog post is provided by David Lopez-Idiaquez and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: effects of climate and species chara…
animalecologyinfocus.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...
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There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science
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Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...
The Global Energy Transition: Ecological Impact, Mitigation and Restoration
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July 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...
It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!
The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.
June 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!
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"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL
June 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL
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Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...