Excited to share that our study identifying a unifying model of species abundance distributions (SADs) has just been published: rdcu.be/ejYKe. We found that the ‘powerbend’— a bent power law — accurately describes SADs across ~30,000 animal, plant, and microbial communities.

my thoughts on the destructive chaos targeting university research right now. Btw I've left @forbes and moved to @SubstackInc, where all my content is free: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...