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Lesley Lancaster

@lancasterlt.bsky.social

Professor of biology at U Aberdeen. Senior editor of J Animal Ecology. Into macroecology, biogeography, genomics, niche evolution, odonates, plants, global change biology. Here for the science πŸ¦‹

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Exciting findings in the side-blotched lizard system, which I studied for my PhD. It was a joy working with several of these authors all those years ago, and especially the late great Barry Sinervo, who would have loved to see and help interpret these results. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

02.01.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

24.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Thermal Ecology Alliance is approaching 1000 members! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

09.12.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎πŸ§ͺ 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

10.12.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting new data on movement strategies of high-Andean bird pollinators, using a novel radio telemetry grid system in a challenging and complex environment! Amazing work by @cristinaruedau.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

08.12.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Thursday 11th December, at 3 PM CET, we will present results from our #CESAB working group #BIOSHIFTS on species range shifts in response to climate change πŸŒ‘πŸ“ˆπŸŒ³πŸ¦”πŸ¦‰πŸπŸ¦ŽπŸŸπŸšπŸ¦ˆ

CESABINAR #12

Find the Zoom link on the webpage of #FRB below & attend 😊

shorturl.at/p7J2R

@frbiodiv.bsky.social

πŸ§ͺπŸŒπŸŒπŸŒŽπŸŒπŸ”β›°οΈπŸ—»

07.12.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Genomic evidence of local adaptation in Scottish freshwater pearl mussels - Conservation Genetics Conservation Genetics - Climate change is a global threat that is already impacting populations and species across diverse ecosystems. Local adaptation of populations, identified through...

I’m so thrilled to share @vicgillman.bsky.social first first-author paper just published in Conservation Genetics πŸŽ‰πŸ§¬πŸ¦ͺ (not a FW mussel). This is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come from Victoria - stay tuned!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

04.12.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Durham cathedral

The Durham cathedral

A male smoky rubyspot damselfly

A male smoky rubyspot damselfly

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Get in touch if you want to chat!

10.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Publish open access with the BES - British Ecological Society At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. Find out how you can get your open access fees covered here.

At the BES, we believe cost should not be a barrier to publishing. We have outlined how you can use resources like funding, waivers and agreements – including our own BES waivers – that cover the fees for processing and publishing your research.Β Β 

Find out more hereπŸ‘‡Β 

26.11.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're hiring!
A Post-doctoral fellow in Eco-evolutionary shifts in bumblebee communities. You will be working within @beccsweden.bsky.social w/ Professor Bengt Hansson at The Department of Biology.

πŸ‘‰https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:867222/
Please apply no later than 19 December!

26.11.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Please share with potentially interested candidates!

24.11.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cosupervised by @gretabocedi.bsky.social, David O'Brien (NatureScot) and Gemma Beatty (Quuens U Belfast).

24.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

24.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Temperature‐dependent pollinator‐mediated selection on floral thermoregulation The thermal environment is one of the most pervasive agents of selection. Most plants cannot choose their microclimate, so understanding how they cope with thermal variability is of critical concern...

phenotypic selection on flower thermoregulation depends on air temperature. huuuuge effort by many lab members past and present.

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

17.11.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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10.11.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 377    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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#job at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU):

Professor in Forest Entomology

Duty station: Uppsala, Sweden
Closing date: extended to 1 December 2025

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #entomology

10.11.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Session IND11

Consider joining our session at the World Biodiversity Forum (WBF) 2026 in Davos:

Spatial models for biodiversity: Exploring state-of-the-art applications

Details and abstract submission are here meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

10.11.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hot off the press! From the PhD thesis of @lopezreyeska.bsky.social where we explored the connection between biogeographic processes and climatic niche dynamics in spiny lizards πŸ‘‡

07.11.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Journal of Animal Ecology Call for Proposals Implications of Changing Snowscapes for Animal Ecology <em>Journal of Animal Ecology</em> publishes animal ecology research that advances ecological theory, generates ecological insights, or addresses broad ecological principles.

Submit your article proposals now, for our new special feature on Snow Ecology β„οΈπŸ”οΈπŸ‡
@animalecology.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

04.11.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph...

Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.11.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

03.11.2025 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Submit an abstract to our #EGU2026 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere"(meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...) @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu

03.11.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➑️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd

@blancaac.bsky.social

28.10.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

πŸ“’ We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

27.10.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Congratulations on this conceptual development, @saismit.bsky.social ! It was wonderful to meet you at ESEB- look forward to reading this in depth.

11.09.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am also very excited!!

10.09.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🌍 Species on the Move 2026 #SOTM2026 will come to Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan! 🀩This is an amazing conference with themes from ecological mechanisms to social adaptation + great atmosphere + birding, hiking, and hot springs!
πŸ‘‰ www.speciesonthemove.com
✨Abstracts due November 10, 2025 – don’t miss it!

10.09.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026

Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026

πŸ“’ Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026

@smbe-idea.bsky.social invites all SMBE members to propose initiatives for 2025/2026 to reduce inequities in our field.

Categories:

πŸ’‘ IDEA ($25k)
πŸͺ‚ Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
πŸ—£οΈ Outreach ($10k)

Deadline: Oct. 10 2025

More info: smbe.org/idea-initiatives

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🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
πŸ“ The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

04.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts, and finds support that biotic resistance may create a life-stage...

Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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