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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Aug 21

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:

"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"

Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:

"A unified theory of community structure"

Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...

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NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · Jun 17

Are you interested in research on microbial communities, how microbes come together and co-exist in nature, and what “community-level” functions they display?

Join us for an upcoming workshop, Microbial Communities: Energetics and Dynamics Across Space and Time!

www.nitmb.org/microbial-co...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:

"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"

Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

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Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University @nclneg.bsky.social · Jun 9

EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e...
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · May 27

Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:

"Artificial selection for collective composition"

Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa...

NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

An image advertising the seminar as described in the main text but with the following abstract: Microbial communities can perform complex functions that individual microbes cannot achieve alone, but enhancing these collective functions through artificial selection is challenging. Here, we examine a simple microbial system to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the conditions necessary for successful artificial selection on collectives. By analyzing whether artificial selection can effectively drive the community toward a target composition, we predict its likelihood of success under different experimental setups and identify the key parameters that influence successful selection.

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 27

👇Today! Our last seminar in this run on metapopulation dynamics:

International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 23

📣Next Tuesday is our final seminar of this term! Maxime Clenet (Sherbrooke) will present:

⭐Beyond the moment T: integrating the temporal dimension of habitats into the study of metapopulation⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

All welcome!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 23

📣Next Tuesday is our final seminar of this term! Maxime Clenet (Sherbrooke) will present:

⭐Beyond the moment T: integrating the temporal dimension of habitats into the study of metapopulation⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

All welcome!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 23

📣Next Tuesday is our final seminar of this term! Maxime Clenet (Sherbrooke) will present:

⭐Beyond the moment T: integrating the temporal dimension of habitats into the study of metapopulation⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

All welcome!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 8

📣Next Tuesday our seminar will be Troy Day (Queen's), presenting:

⭐Modelling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

As ever, free for all get involved, just join the call.
See you there!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 13

👇Today! Do join us for our free and open Theoretical Ecology seminar. Troy Day is presenting:

⭐Modelling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · May 8

📣Next Tuesday our seminar will be Troy Day (Queen's), presenting:

⭐Modelling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

As ever, free for all get involved, just join the call.
See you there!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Apr 29

📣Join us today for our seminar! Gaurav Kandlikar & Anita Simha (LSU) will be presenting:

⭐Soil microbial effects on plant community responses to fire in longleaf pine savannas⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Free for all, see you there!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Apr 24

📣Join us next Tuesday for our seminar: Gaurav Kandlikar & Anita Simha (LSU) will be presenting:

⭐Soil microbial effects on plant community responses to fire in longleaf pine savannas⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Free for all, see you there!

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:

"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"

Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW...

NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Apr 15

📣Today!

Join us for our Zoom seminar with Jacopo Grilli (ICTP Trieste) on:

⭐Competition without contingency and functional convergence⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Free for anyone to join and get involved, no need to register - see you there!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Apr 11

📣Next Tuesday our online seminar is with Jacopo Grilli (ICTP Trieste) on:

⭐Competition without contingency and functional convergence⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Free for anyone to join and get involved, no need to register - see you there!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Apr 1

📣Today! Zoom link here: Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 28

Some other notes for anyone new to our series: we run an mailing list with all the details of our seminars - sign-up here iite.info/seminar-emai... &
we get the vast majority of our talks onto YouTube afterwards: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... - our archive has over 60 talks on it already!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 28

📆Join us next Tuesday for our next free online seminar: Uli Brose (iDiv) will present:

⭐The internet of nature: integrating food webs with information flow⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · Mar 24

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · Mar 24

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:

A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology

Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59

For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 18

📣Today - spread the word! Our online seminar is Hal Caswell (Woods Hole) presenting:

⭐The formal demography of kinship: Demographic stochasticity in the kinship network⭐

Free for all to join.
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

NB Euro time shift...

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 13

📆Join us next Tuesday for our online seminar: Hal Caswell (Woods Hole) will present on:

⭐The formal demography of kinship: Demographic stochasticity in the kinship network⭐

Free for all to join!
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

NB Euro time shift!

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 13

Here is the paper that will be discussed: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Demographic Research - The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network (Volume 51 - Article 39 | Pages 1201–1256)

Volume 51 - Article 39 | Pages 1201–1256

www.demographic-research.org

International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · Mar 13

📆Join us next Tuesday for our online seminar: Hal Caswell (Woods Hole) will present on:

⭐The formal demography of kinship: Demographic stochasticity in the kinship network⭐

Free for all to join!
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

NB Euro time shift!

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