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Ruben Sommaruga @rsommalab.bsky.social · Aug 31

just out of the press…a 50-y study of a mountain lake without good news…

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fifty-Year Trends Reveal Reversal from Recovery to Re-eutrophication and Reinforced Anoxia in a Managed Mountain Lake - Ecosystems

Anoxia in lakes has intensified in recent decades, threatening ecosystem functioning. Yet, the mechanisms driving long-term trends in anoxia intensity and duration are complex, especially in managed e...

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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!

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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...

I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Aug 11

Potential implications: (1) intraspecific competition causes plasticity in head allometry, (2) due to altered prey community composition. (3) In low resource environments (ie high intraspecific competition) stickleback consistently invest in their heads, and divert energy from their bodies.

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Aug 11

2 results, and 3 speculations from this paper: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Results: (1) Greenlandic stickleback co-occurring with Arctic char are bigger and (2) have relatively smaller heads than when stickleback are alone in a lake.

Predator-mediated resource limitation shapes body and head size variation in stickleback populations

Abstract. Predator and prey communities are important putative drivers of phenotypic variation in consumers. However, in natural food webs, we often lack a

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 18

Developmentally stunted stickleback? Study of 34 Greenlandic lakes reveals the absence of top predators reduces the available prey biomass, leading to small-bodied, large-headed stickleback populations:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Moosman et al. @brodersenfish.bsky.social @ebmatthews.bsky.social

Predator-mediated resource limitation shapes body and head size variation in stickleback populations

Abstract. Predator and prey communities are important putative drivers of phenotypic variation in consumers. However, in natural food webs, we often lack a

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Janet Hering @janethering.bsky.social · Apr 15

Read leadership insights from social scientist Charmain Levy on the latest post on the @epistimi-stemm.bsky.social blog. See: www.epistimi.org/blog/what-be...

“What being a leader means is to inspire and empower others around you”: Reflections of a social scientist — epistimi

Prof. Charmain Levy, an eminent scholar of international development studies, feminist studies and social sciences from the Université du Québec en Outaouais, shares her thoughts on successful strateg...

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · May 18

AI audio summary of our recent paper on nutritional-based plasticity of isopod pigmentation is not bad… sciencecast.org/casts/o6xg85...

Science Cast

Increase your recognition in the scientific world with short video-casts

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · May 14

A text from my wife (who is a lawyer). Turns out she understands my profession (an aquatic ecologist) better than the NYT.

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · Apr 29

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · May 7

From this super interesting paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change

Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · May 7

"Finally, the regressions of habitat suitability from SDMs versus site elevation have substantially higher R-squared values compared with models of stochastic lambdas versus site elevation for the same populations, which could lead researchers to overestimate the predictive power of these models."

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change

Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

www.science.org

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · May 4

I am looking for a postdoc position! I have experience in host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, sexual selection, science outreach, and science education. Plus, I'm a photographer and illustrator which could come in handy! Please reach out if you have any positions open or know someone.

Long exposure photo of rocks and macroalgae in the intertidal

Watercolor illustration of mangrove rivulus fish

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · May 5

Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · May 1

We still have a few spots left for the GRC Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tuscany this summer (July 13-18). Lots of great speakers already lined up, and we'd love to hear from you! www.grc.org/ecological-a...

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · Apr 26

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy to have served as the opponent for the PhD defense of Jingyao Niu today. Was a fun process to be part of… check out her published papers and those coming out soon. www.researchgate.net/profile/Jing...

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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · Mar 31

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

Join Us! | King Lab

Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 28

I started this paper more than 10 years ago, and am incredibly grateful to Romana Limberger for finalizing it over the past 5 years.

Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 28

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Here, we show how the genetic composition of communities can affect the build-up of environmental heterogeneity over time. Environmental heterogeneity is not always external to organisms. Evolving organisms can shape it through local effects.

Differential effects of Daphnia genotype composition on spatial environmental heterogeneity in experimental metacommunities

Spatial environmental heterogeneity is an important driver of aquatic biodiversity. Ecological and evolutionary theory often consider spatial heterogeneity as being driven by exogenous factors, yet h...

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 15

Postdoctoral fellowship at Eawag, Switzerland. Independent position hosted in one of the research departments, including mine at Kastanienbaum.
apply.refline.ch/673277/1246/...

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 11

And, here is a blue sky shot from my commute…

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 11

In case you missed this last year…I think this is probably the most insightful thread/exchange about the current state of ecology (and some ecologists). It cuts at some of the core issues in the discipline, and asks “are we ok?”. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/a...

Are there big ideas or new big questions in ecology any more?

Jeremy made a compelling case that the typical scientist produces modest contributions to the field but that is enough (it is still leaving the world better than we found it). But several commentor…

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · Mar 9

These (!) marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... are open again for postdocs looking to come to Switzerland… happy to chat about project ideas - www.blakematthewslab.com

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · Mar 9

Post doc in Europe? 🇪🇺🔬💡
It’s open to anyone in the 🌍
Call open 9 April 25
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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