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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 2d

Tenure track assistant professor of biology position in my department just posted!

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · 2d

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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Functional Biology (tenure-track)

The Department of Biological Sciences at Ohio University Biological Sciences Department | Ohio University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Animal ...

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Andi Kautt @akautt.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology

Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 9d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

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#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · 14d

That is a question better left for the AI.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 27d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · 22d

I can only guess that @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social was ecstatic that he got to explain Air Bud in a very serious political article.
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Missouri’s new congressional map may rest on whether lines can be redrawn mid-decade

If redistricting opponents can convince the courts that the constitution doesn’t authorize mid-decade redistricting, then the map passed earlier this month likely won’t go into effect.

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · 22d

Cool and important field study on the environments that terrestrial forest-dwelling salamanders experience.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Fine‐scale measurements reveal microclimate heterogeneity for plethodontid salamanders

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

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Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to have this paper out!
Ecological models of geographic range limits, thoughts on testing them, and sorting out some ideas that might have actually been confusing us for a while.
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The ecology of geographic range limits

Identifying processes underlying species' geographic range limits is currently at the forefront of ecological research, in part due to increasing attention to climate change effects on the distributi...

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hiring editor at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Amazing place!
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Job Details | Dayforce Jobs

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Aug 6

Doctoral work of Lauren Johnson (PhD candidate, WashU); I learned a lot from her during this project!

Light pollution allows Tiger Mosquitoes to shift blood-feeding to later hours when daytime temperatures would be too hot.

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Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nighttime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jul 30

Howdy!
Adjunct atm, but in different stages of doing work on biogeography of salamanders and urban eco/evo of mosquitoes.

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 6

Local journalism is so important, but the specter of having them snatched up by billionaires is terrifying.
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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 4

*across species

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 4

Heat tolerance is less variable across populations than cold tolerance...kind of!
Cool nuanced take here that modifies a long-held "rule" in ecophysiology.

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High thermal variation in maximum temperatures invert Brett's heat‐invariant rule at fine spatial scales

Discovering how species' thermal limits evolve and vary spatially is crucial for predicting their vulnerability to ongoing environmental warming. Current evidence indicates that heat tolerance is les...

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 4

Looking like I was wrong.

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Feb 8

Putting this prediction out there now -

In 2025, Alan Dershowitz will come out of the woodwork to defend Elon Musk and/or DOGE.

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 3

For now I guess 😵‍💫

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · Jun 3

I have a feeling Missouri won't let you guys steal the show.

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 28

And in a way, I think his work has shifted some from thinking "Why are there so many species in the tropics?" to "Why are so many of the few, widely distributed species in temperate areas?" as these are the species that drive the latitude-range size correlation.

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 28

While some might say the ideas of Stevens (1989) have been soundly rejected, it continues to get cited at a high rate.
It contains interesting ideas that provoked great subsequent research.

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 28

Stevens (1989)'s attempts to link climate, range size, species richness, and metapopulation dynamics haven't held up to scrutiny.
Stevens (1989) explained the latitude-range size correlation with the climatic variability hypothesis. But there are other compelling hypotheses linking the two!

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 28

Glad to have this review published! Worked on it on-and-off for roughly 10 years.
Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Revisiting Rapoport’s Rule: The History of an Idea and Alternative Explanations for Latitudinal Variation in Geographic Range Size | The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 100, No 2

Abstract In 1989, George Stevens described a frequently observed positive relationship between range size and latitude, which he dubbed “Rapoport’s Rule.” To varying levels of success, Stevens linked ...

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Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you!

Tom Radomski @tomradomski.bsky.social · May 25

Genuine MO politics question -
If a voter-approved amendment was required to give St. Louis local control of police in 2012, why is voter-approval not required to lose local control in 2025?
@jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social can you help me here?

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