Nate Sanders

Analysing the metabolic rate of tiny organisms (ants) at a macro-geographical scale

Fascinating work by @lilyleahy.bsky.social !

#ESA2025

🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB

PhD position opening in community and biogeography PhD Position in Community Ecology & Biogeography, Montreal, Canada Our research group at Concordia University investigates the forces enabling the maintenance, and governing the distribution, of biol...

Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!

Possible topics include:

Determinants of range limits

Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)

The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage

Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying? A controversial reintroduction program is off to a messy start.

Colorado brought wolves back for the first time in 80 years, but now a few years into the historic reintroduction, many of them are dead.

Restoring predators is never simple and the real test is just beginning.

@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4700...

NSF is open again!

A few comments:

*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.

*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.

*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

🐜New study provides the first examination of social immunity in a supercolonial ant subject to attack by a specialist pathogen. The study directly manipulates the nest template to see how space shapes the outcome of social immune behaviours

➡️ buff.ly/NulFOSb

BrilliANT time at #Mirmeco2025 in Recife. A meeting full of enthusiasm & passion for #ants. Fabulous to see all my Brazilian and other ant friends again ❤️

Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds

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Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

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

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....

Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦

"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi

Myrmecia ant carrying an Isopod, photo: François Brassard

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size

Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122

🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
buff.ly/rqbKPPI

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived This blog post is provided by David Lopez-Idiaquez and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: effects of climate and species chara…

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

The Global Energy Transition: Ecological Impact, Mitigation and Restoration

Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!

"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

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

Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

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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.

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪