Shikhara Bhat
@shikharabhat.bsky.social
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Theoretical evolutionary ecologist. Fond of math, coffee, natural history, and metal music. Kokkonut and PhD student at Uni Mainz, Germany. Past: BS-MS at IISER Pune, India. MS thesis at CES, IISc. Webpage: https://thepandalorian.github.io he/him
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Our (@vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis of the effects of demographic stochasticity on eco-evolutionary dynamics is now out in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Feel free to message/email me if you need a copy or want to chat about the paper :)

🧬🌍🧪
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scgriffith.bsky.social
from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation

- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications
shikharabhat.bsky.social
"When asked by the BBC whether he thought it might be a trick that his wife might play on him, Dr Ramsdell said: "I have a lot of friends, but they're not coordinated enough to pull off this joke""

Incredible
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szymekdr.bsky.social
Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno
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biologyjoe87.bsky.social
Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly
Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...
www.biorxiv.org
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eivimeycook.bsky.social
A fantastic few days of ageing talks, great people, and excellent food!

Massive thanks to (Hanna!) @kokkonut.bsky.social, Margaux Bieuville, Victor Ronget, and the fantastic people at The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences
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popgroup2026.bsky.social
Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !
Population Genetics group 59
populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
shikharabhat.bsky.social
yes but have you considered
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liamtaylor.bsky.social
Understanding the tradeoff between the tradeoff between the tradeoffs between current and future tradeoffs between future and current reproductive success is critical for evaluating long term trends in tradeoffs between current and future reproductive success.
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michaelgbertram.bsky.social
Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing

New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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jonothingeb.bsky.social
I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...
Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist, 
When and Where
Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm
Music Room (218)
Goldring Student Centre
150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom
shikharabhat.bsky.social
Oh my
thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
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hannajohannesson.bsky.social
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
su.varbi.com
shikharabhat.bsky.social
Insane 🤯

From the paper: "Besides revealing a reproductive mode under which one species needs to clone another, such a ‘two-species superorganism’ challenges the usual boundaries of individuality."
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jrossibarra.bsky.social
Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Register for the next MEE live!

Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recently accepted paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪

Find out more about the online workshop and register here 👇

buff.ly/axWOiyl
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eivimeycook.bsky.social
We’ve got seven places left!

Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!
iqcb-mainz.bsky.social
Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on the Evolution of Ageing!

Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...

#ageing #evolution #lifesciences
The Gutenberg Workshop on the Evolution of Ageing is organized by Margaux Bieuville, Hanna Kokko and Victor Ronget from the University of Mainz together with Edward Ivimey-Cook from the University of Glasgow. The Workshop will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 at Wasem's Monastery Engelthal Ingelheim.
shikharabhat.bsky.social
wtf
cdicanio.bsky.social
Two UB biomedical engineering students from Sri Lanka were taken by ICE in Williamsville today. @ubuffalo.bsky.social
devoevomed.bsky.social
Fucking ICE just disappeared two of our neighbors from their car; they had the courtesy to put the car back in the driveway , but left their 5 lb dog inside the house to die. Is America great again now‽ #MAGA
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cdicanio.bsky.social
Two UB biomedical engineering students from Sri Lanka were taken by ICE in Williamsville today. @ubuffalo.bsky.social
devoevomed.bsky.social
Fucking ICE just disappeared two of our neighbors from their car; they had the courtesy to put the car back in the driveway , but left their 5 lb dog inside the house to die. Is America great again now‽ #MAGA