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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 1d

Congrats 🎉

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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐 @changyuchang.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to share that I’ll be starting my research group in Nov 2025 at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica in Taipei🎉

We study how eco & evo rules govern complex systems layered by hosts🌱& symbionts🦠 & mobile genes🧬

Recruiting soon at all levels!
🔗 chang-yu-chang.github.io/changlab/

Laboratory of Microbial Symbiosis, Ecology, and Evolution

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Blanca Arroyo-Correa @blancaac.bsky.social · 6d

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.

Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Bridging the gap between individual specialization and species persistence in mutualistic communities

Mutualistic interactions among organisms are fundamental to the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Yet, the study of community dynamics often relies on values averaged at the species level, igno...

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)

Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly

Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...

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Martina Dal Bello @martinadalbello.bsky.social · 13d

Feel free to contact me for info about this open position and the project! Fully funded through @hfspo.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 14d

Postdoc opportunity in Dal Bello Lab at Yale EEB (starting Dec 2025). Focus is on microbial ecology and learning mechanisms. Apply via email to Martina with CV. More info: https://www.dalbellolab.com/ #postdoc

dal bello lab

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 19d

The blog and the comments are very thought-provoking statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/15/t...

The Desperation of Causal Inference in Ecology | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 26d

ICYMI: AmNat Editor-in-Chief Volker Rudolf speaks out: "Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist"

Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist | The American Naturalist: Vol 206, No 2

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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillon 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 26d

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Figure 1A from the paper shows the distribution of black-headed (western) and rose-breasted grosbeaks (eastern) throughout North America. Small illustrations of males of each species are shown. Black-headed has a rusty orange breast and black head, while rose-breasted has a small reddish bib with a bright white belly. There is an inset map of South Dakota showing the transect across the hybrid zone

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · Sep 2

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A truly delightful read by Judith Bronstein reflecting on the state of mutualism studies. It's a thoughtful look at where the field has been and where it's going—and such beautiful writing as well!

The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Aug 30

Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics.

Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time | The American Naturalist

Abstract Ecologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend ...

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Tad Dallas @taddallas.bsky.social · Aug 29

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!!

Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Come work with us!! Great group and super cool work 😎

The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.

The Global Burden of Climate Change Study Working Group

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · Aug 19

Amazing opportunity!

Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thrilled to announce that next year I will be joining @DukeBiology as an assistant professor!

I am excited to recruit postdocs and PhD students to start as early as Fall 2026. If you are interested in plant community dynamics, global change, and/or wildfire, please see details below.

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Nandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Garud Lab

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Theo Gibbs @theogibbs.bsky.social · Jul 21

Happy to share a new preprint! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social. We use a spatially explicit experimental design to ask:

do higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities?

Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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(A) A conceptual diagram of interspecific and intraspecific higher-order interactions among annual plants. (B) Conceptual diagrams (along with pictures of actual annual plants) of two different spatial arrangements of competitors to manipulate the relative frequecy of inter to intraspecific higher-order interactions.

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Jul 20

Label invariance: a guiding principle for ecological models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.15.664968v1

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Jul 18

Last year, I joined a brilliant group of researchers for a 3-week deep dive into host–microbe systems. Each week explored a different theme, led by inspiring lecturers.

I’m excited to share that videos of their talks — along with presentations by several team members — are now on YouTube:

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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

This excellent article by @clsong.bsky.social‬ synthesizes research on the Assembly Graph, a useful conceptual & methodological tool to understand the dynamic assembly of microbial communities and multispecies coexistence.
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Assembly Graph as the Rosetta Stone of Ecological Assembly

This paper introduces the assembly graph as an integrative lens to unify ecological assembly theories across dynamical, informational, and probabilistic approaches. In addition to theory, it also pre....

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · Jun 27

So excited to finally read this paper on parametrizing metacommunities! It's a true breakthrough. I've been looking forward to it since the fantastic talk at APS March Meeting.

bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 27

Modeling and Inferring Metacommunity Dynamics with Maximum Caliber https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660802v1

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Jun 24

Excited to share our new article exploring the eukaryotic diversity and composition in the gut microbiome of wild baboons!

doi.org/10.1186/s425...

Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons - Animal Microbiome

Background Animals coexist with complex microbiota, including bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes (e.g., fungi, protists, and helminths). While high-throughput sequencing is commonly used to characteriz...

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Armun Liaghat @armunliaghat.bsky.social · Jun 20

Host Competitive Asymmetries Accelerate Viral Evolution in a Microbe–Virus Coevolutionary System - Liaghat - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Robust Ecologies Lab @robustecolab.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧵The RELab opens! We explore how diverse ecologies cope with fluctuations while maintaining long-term integrity in space and time. Our motto is: ‘Everything is moving’. Not interested in asymptotics: transient dynamics reigns everywhere, every time. A supertransient thread with an arrow of time:

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Jun 4

Interested in microbiome GWAS and heritability studies? Check out our new Review in Nature Reviews Genetics! We explore key findings, challenges, and future directions of the field.
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@blekhman.bsky.social @sambhawa.bsky.social and Dr. Kelsey Johnson.

Genomics of host–microbiome interactions in humans

Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Review, Ferretti et al. discuss advances in our understanding of interactions between the human genome and the microbiome, including the effects of the microbiome...

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Sergio Picó Jordá @spicjor.bsky.social · Jun 4

Do you want to know if species interactions are more a tool or a limitation when communities try to cope with global change? Check my talk tomorrow at 13:30 in TSB-7. #SIBECOLAEET2025 @eco-aeet.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

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Lucas Medeiros @lucaspdmedeiros.bsky.social · May 20

How do ecological communities respond to pulse perturbations (e.g. storms, wildfires)? We have a solid theory for stable fixed points, but what about cycles, transients, or chaos? In this preprint, we introduce a unified framework for these nonequilibrium cases. 1/7
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