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Creating an integrated platform to promote visibility, applications, teaching, funding, and advancement the of science of theoretical ecology. https://iite.info/ Follow for seminar series updates

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Past talks are available on our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@theoretical...

09.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣Our line-up for our next theoretical ecology series (crossing three continents!),

It will have been 5 years since we started, and still all our seminars are fully open on Zoom (iite.info/seminar/).

There is no need to register, but you can sign up to email updates here iite.info/seminar-emai...

09.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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📣We will be back soon for a new series! 🎉

Our first speaker will be Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 October:

⭐Microbial cross-feeding coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐

As ever, free for all to join!
Link+details: iite.info/seminar/

09.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

21.08.2025 11:20 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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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...

24.07.2025 00:48 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

17.06.2025 19:12 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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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...

20.06.2025 05:16 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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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.

09.06.2025 14:22 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 4
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.

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.

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.

27.05.2025 00:48 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

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

27.05.2025 08:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📣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!

23.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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📣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!

23.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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📣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!

08.05.2025 09:53 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

👇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...

13.05.2025 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣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!

08.05.2025 09:53 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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📣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!

29.04.2025 09:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📣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!

24.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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!

21.04.2025 01:49 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1
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📣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!

15.04.2025 09:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣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!

11.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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📣Today! Zoom link here: Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/

01.04.2025 08:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

28.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📆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!

28.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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 🤩

24.03.2025 04:52 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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📣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...

18.03.2025 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📆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!

13.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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

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

13.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📆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!

13.03.2025 10:27 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Yes - all of our seminars are on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/c/Theoretica...

05.03.2025 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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📣Join us in 2 hours for our seminar: Virginia Domínguez-García (EBD-CSIC, Seville):

⭐Complex Networks to Understand Persistence in Empirical Plant-Pollinator Communities⭐

No need to register, just join the Zoom call - link: iite.info/seminar/
Times:
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

04.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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