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Ellie Hay

@eleanorhay.bsky.social

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Post Doctoral Associate | University of Miami, FL Macroevolution, macroecology, PCMs, illustration 🐦🪱🌱 PhD @Monash University 🇦🇺 | Bsc(Hons) @University of Otago 🇳🇿 eleanorhay.com

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Ellie Hay @eleanorhay.bsky.social · Aug 12

Come check out my talk at #ESA2025 today! I'll be chatting about some of my Postdoc research on mutualisms and how they impact niche breadth and diversification in the Eco-Evolutionary processes session in BCC344 at 1:45pm!

Powerpoint presentation slide for a talk titled "Hidden players in evolution: the impact of fungal endophytes on niche breadth and diversification across Poa (bluegrass)". Contains an image of a grass with a microscope image of an endophyte present in a grass seed.

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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00

Picture of presentation title slide showing a soil landscape.

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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

Check out this video of our research on soil microbiomes at Archbold Biological Station!

news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

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Fábio K. Mendes @fabiology.bsky.social · Jul 12

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · Jun 2

My 2nd dissertation chapter is out in Plant, Cell, & Environment!

We use a model legume to assess how plant host genotype and microbes non-additively interact to shape plant growth and disease ecology.

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....

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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · Feb 27

Wonderful opportunity. So excited for where Sophie and our team have taken the Antarctic program.

Dr Ry Holland @rythemicroguy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Apply for a PhD in Antarctic microbial ecology 🦠🇦🇶❄️ with me, @greening.bsky.social and @arcsaef.bsky.social. We're interested in multi-kingdom interactions in terrestrial Antarctica, including mosses 🌱 with @antarcticmoss.bsky.social. Details www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Please share widely!

PhD in Antarctic microbial ecology at Monash University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD in Antarctic microbial ecology at Monash University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · Jan 27

Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems!
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪

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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · Jan 14

Deep, fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world are urgently needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and safeguard life on Earth

Learn more in the @ipbes.bsky.social report on #TransformativeChange:
https://buff.ly/403x65Y

#TransformationTuesday 🧪 🌍

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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · Dec 31

My dissertation chapter is in Ecology Letters!

We tested microbiome network theory empirically in nature and found central early colonisers significantly (1) enhanced biodiversity, (2) reshaped assembly trajectories and (3) increased recruitment of non-peripheral microbes.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Central Taxa Are Keystone Microbes During Early Succession

For decades, microbiome network theory has predicted that highly connected ‘hub’ taxa act as keystone species that disproportionately affect their communities. However, this has never been empiricall...

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