really neat opportunity to do a phd in stochastics in berlin !! apps due nov 1

www3.math.tu-berlin.de/stoch/IRTG/2...

the finalized version is live !

[ in case you prefer oup's formatting over mine ;) + we fixed couple typos below eqn ten :B ]

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

In community ecology, this is called the "Appendix XVII of a Peter Abrams paper" effect

Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microbiome #symbiosis

I am happy to announce publication of our new perspectives paper on applying evolutionary theory to host-microbiome evolution - new tricks for old dogs! @bweek.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @transevo.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our perspective on Applying Extended Synthesis Frameworks to Understand Host-Microbiome Evolution is now out in Nature EcoEvo !!!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our Quantitative Genetic approach to Modelling Microbiome-Mediated Host Adaptation is now published in Evolution !!!

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

me hiking in vienna . wait for the french wedge . really brilliant product line

youtu.be/ZAtzN_ScKXY

happy trails ::))

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

hey eseb ppl check out toms talk !

hai eseb people ! come to my talk introducing the quantitative genetics of microbiome mediated traits :) 2:30-2:45 at S07.02

btw our ppr just got accepted at evolution ! amazing and challenging reviews ::)) revised pre-print here

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

im not advocating ai slop . this really shouldn't be a concern anyways . most papers are terribly written , so our filters should be well trained to exclude all slop . we have little to lose and so much to gain from adopting ai assisted writing . seems pretty obvious to me !

scientific vernacular and grammar is algorithmic . llm's are language calculators . lets embrace that to make our fields more inclusive and also not waste precious time and creative energy . lets not play the same game that was played when hp and ti replaced slide rules

aso ! time to get a virtual machine running !!

this is not only expected , it is your civic duty

truly a visceral display of scientific communication

the biggest question i have (aside from the haze of political/cultural turmoil) is ... what software is Bob Holt using for his presentations ??

shares the aesthetics of a theoretical ecology book published around the time jurassic park came out - purple background (pseudo papyrus font?) - legendary

happy priiide !!

but the framework can be used to formally obtain all sorts of novel models (eg, evolutionary rescue and coevolution) and provides a useful direction for understanding the relationship of multivariate traits and eco-evolutionary processes !!!

i was motivated by studying G-matrix evolution , and found drift tends to drive trait correlations to their extremes despite commonly held wisdom that drift merely tends to scale G-matrices !!

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !!

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