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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · Aug 15

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template

Your slides are not your talk.

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Programmer in Ecological Modelling

Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72

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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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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · May 29

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality

Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · May 1

🎓 Early-career researcher?
I wrote down everything I wish I’d known when I was in your shoes.

33 pieces of honest, hard-earned advice on publishing, mentors, rejection, focus, and building a life in research.

🔁 Save it. Share it. Add your own. 👇👇👇

#Academia #PhD #ECR #postdoc

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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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Apr 15

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
uol.de/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral researcher in Plankton Ecology // University of Oldenburg

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · Apr 13

Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1

Joao Pereira @jdpereira.bsky.social · Apr 13

I wonder, for those of us on a tenure clock, how will this situation factor in?

We’re not playing the same game we set out to play.

a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Mar 22

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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James Orr @jamesaorr.bsky.social · Mar 12

In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...

Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa

Classical models from theoretical ecology are seeing increasing uptake in microbial ecology, but there remains rich potential for closer cross-pollination. Here we explore opportunities for stronger ....

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Mar 11

National-scale biogeography and function of river and stream bacterial biofilm communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641783v1

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · Mar 6

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."

New for @undark.org

undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal

Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · Mar 4

Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me.

stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...

From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care

Assistant Professor Elliott White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH ...

stanforddaily.com

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Heike Zimmermann @heikezimm.bsky.social · Mar 3

📣 We are hiring! 📣

Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Three-year postdoc position – Exploring the deep biosphere in Arctic marine sediments

Are you interested in environmental microbiology, the deep biosphere, and Arctic climate change? We are looking for a postdoctoral microbiologist to join our in

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Feb 27

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

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Jay T Lennon @jaytlennon.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on:

"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"

Now out in Ecology Letters:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning

Much of life on earth is at the mercy of currents and flow. Residence time (τ) estimates how long organisms and resources remain in a system based on the ratio of volume (V) to flow rate (Q). We test...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Feb 21

A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on

Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

Apply by 3/21/25:

bit.ly/phageschool2...

Summer School, Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Feb 21

Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Feb 21

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean

Heterotrophic bacteria fix N2 in more diverse environments than previously thought, critical for the oceanic nitrogen cycle.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Feb 18

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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Emanuele Giacomuzzo @ema-giacomuzzo.bsky.social · Feb 14

Interested in the linkage between ecosystems of different trophic types, such as aquatic-terrestrial linkages or benthic-pelagic linkages? 🌊 🐟 🐳 🌲 🌳 🎋

www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems

The flow of non-living resources between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems can impact their ecosystem function. However, ecosystem size is similarly known to influence ecological properties and...

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Chhaya Werner, PhD @restoration.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Fluctation-dependent coexistence of stage structured species" 🌎🌱🧪 Part of a special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/R9RFA...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 5

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is causing major issues for us at the HJ Andrews LTER. Possible disruptions to >40 years of data on water, tree growth and survival, ecosystem response to fire. As well as three long-term employees whose livelihoods are now uncertain.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 30

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

www.statnews.com

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · Jan 31

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity

Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature

Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · Jan 28

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:

Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.

If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

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