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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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Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow.

Please repost :)

07.12.2025 21:54 — 👍 22    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 0

Starting in ~1 hour!

02.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣Tomorrow! Our speaker is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting:

⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐

Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

01.12.2025 10:50 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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📅Our speaker next week is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting:

⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐

Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

25.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Join us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year:

Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences

Sign up to this google form to receive the zoom link and future seminar announcements forms.gle/H6YgMuAgDWYS...

24.11.2025 00:24 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Poster announcing the workshop.

Poster announcing the workshop.

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

19.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 53    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 3
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📅Our speaker today is Violeta Calleja-Solanas
@violetacalleja.bsky.social

⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐

Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Open to all, see you there soon!

18.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

📣Tomorrow! Our next speaker Violeta Calleja-Solanas (Estación Biológica de Doñana) will present: ⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐

17.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📅Our speaker next week is Violeta Calleja-Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social (Estación Biológica de Doñana):

⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐

Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Open to all, see you there!

11.11.2025 10:03 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
2nd OSCARS Open Call concluded with 12 projects selected | OSCARS The OSCARS consortium decided for a complementary second call with a residual budget of only 3 millions €.

Super hyped that our project *PREDICT – Platform for REsilient Data Integration and Coordinated Forecasting Tools* is among the selected ones - oscars-project.eu/news/2nd-osc... We will demystify complex ecological predictions to make them usable for decision makers. @ebdonana.bsky.social

08.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

07.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 79    🔁 86    💬 1    📌 3

Biological modeling is organized inquiry, but how should we think about the process?

My new paper in #EcologyLetters argues that we should model like experimentalists: define treatments, measure responses, validate, perturb, repeat.

👉 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Do you agree?

06.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 17    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0
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Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...

I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...

06.11.2025 15:40 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

📣Today!📣

Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:

⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐

As ever free and open for all!

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

04.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

📣Today!📣

Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:

⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐

As ever free and open for all!

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

04.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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📅 Next week our seminar speaker will be Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:

⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐

As ever free and open for all!

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

See you there!

28.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:

The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants

Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...

23.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles
YouTube video by Theoretical Ecology Microbial cross-feeding: coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiln... 😀

22.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.

20.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 43    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
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📣Tomorrow our next series of online seminars restarts: Chris Klausmeier (MSU) will present:

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

Free and open to all:
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

20.10.2025 10:50 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

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

09.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 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 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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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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