A square graphic broken into four quadrants, with the NatSci logo and text "2025 College Awards" in the top left corner, a photo of Emily Josephs receiving her award from Eric Hegg in the top right, a photo of David Lowry receiving his award from Eric Hegg in the bottom left, and a headshot of Sue Rhee in the bottom right.
PRI is proud to highlight the extraordinary achievements of 3 faculty recognized with awards from the College of Natural Science:
Emily Josephs: Teacher-Scholar Award
David Lowry: Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
Sue Rhee: Research Leadership Award
Read more: plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...
04.12.2025 18:29 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 4
2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
There is STILL TIME to register for the 2026 Predator-Prey Gordon Conference. It's happening in late January in Tuscany. The meeting has a single session attended by everyone, poster sessions, and encourages finding new collaborations. See the program and register below.
www.grc.org/predator-pre...
04.12.2025 21:07 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Cal Poly Humboldt SPF
Inside the World of Pitcher Plants: How Tiny Ecosystems Reveal Big Insights on Biodiversity
A little video of our work with pitcher plant microbial communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvI...
04.12.2025 22:05 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Out now! 🌿🎙️ In this month's episode of #InsideBiodiversity, Prof Marten Scheffer explains critical transitions and tipping points.
Together with iDiv's Dr Volker Hahn, he explores whether local tipping points can be scaled up to a 🌍 biospheric planetary boundary.
🎧✨ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io
04.12.2025 13:16 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
What? How?!
03.12.2025 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
some stuff about graphics formats
I found these notes from #BenBolker about file formats for plots and diagrams to be pretty useful. Your mileage may vary.
bbolker.github.io/bbmisc/graph...
03.12.2025 22:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Much wisdom within
03.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi everyone! I'm co-organizing this retreat/workshop June 15-19 for those looking to get started in mathematical/computational modeling of biological processes. Location is a beautiful farm in NC. Please share with students and others who want to build modeling skills. Interdisciplinarity welcome!
02.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 41 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1
A challenge in epidemic forecasting is that ML models overfit while mechanistic models miss changing transmission conditions. Our new JR Soc Interface paper tests whether physics-informed neural networks—which embed an epidemiological ODE system inside a neural net—can address this.
01.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Great opportunity for those interested in fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and mathematical models: postdoc opening in Laurent Lehmann’s group @unil.bsky.social. We have a lively community of theorists here in Lausanne with good interactions across groups. Join us ! Please RP
01.12.2025 08:01 — 👍 18 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
📣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
Collective movement and pattern formation: Biology, modelling and analysis - ICMS
Workshop Template
Workshop on "Collective movement and pattern formation: Biology, modelling and analysis" @ International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK
Dates: 27 – 30 Jul 2026
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
30.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Such an interesting sketch!
27.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m working on a manuscript that mentions a fair number of standard distributions and their properties, and I’ve been wondering if there’s an equally standard reference. For context for my question, while Wikipedia often has what I need if I want to appeal to some function and its properties, the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (https://dlmf.nist.gov/) provides a peer-reviewed standard alternative. Is there someplace similar where I could point for properties of a Gumbel, Dirichlet-multinomial distribution, etc.
A colleague is looking for an open-source/online (pref. peer-reviewed) reference for properties of probability distributions. Any ideas? (NIST gives *very* basic properties e.g. www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handb... but I think they're looking for something more complete ...)
25.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Carve it into the shape of a turkey and we'll put it in an overfilled deep fryer.
26.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 858 🔁 115 💬 15 📌 9
INTP - Appel à résidences
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We still have room in the lab if you want to experience a writing retreat next month ! A great occasion to visit the (maybe) snowy french Pyrenees.
- From 8 to13 december
- From 15 to 20 december
All infos here : 👇
intp.science/fr/content/r...
19.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
📅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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Looking fancy 😸🎀
23.11.2025 03:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...
17.11.2025 09:27 — 👍 33 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 1
New FSOL album dropped
21.11.2025 04:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Applications, Postgraduate Diploma Programme | ICTP
Are you a student who dreams of earning a PhD in physics or mathematics, but who lives in a country lacking such opportunities? ICTP could be your first step on the path to attaining a PhD.
One of the most unique aspects of ICTP is our Diploma Programme. Pre-PhD students from the Global South spend 1 year in Trieste to gain knowledge and skills necessary to pursue PhDs worldwide.
The 2026-2027 call is now open w/ a February 28 deadline. Please circulate.
www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...
20.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Had a great day visiting Michigan State and looking forward to another tomorrow at Kellogg Biological Station! Thanks Morgan Clark for the seminar art! 👌🏻
21.11.2025 02:22 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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 — 👍 44 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 1
It was a great talk .. be sure to watch it on YouTube if you missed it!
18.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by PopBio on the Dark Side
Meghna Krishnadas - Demographic responses of plants to abiotic and biotic drivers
Our most recent seminar from Meghna Krishnadas is now available to watch 🌳🦠🌳
youtu.be/zzOS16wA9YU?...
18.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
The Ecology, Evolution and Behavior graduate program at The University of Texas at Austin is top-10 ranked.
Like math and plant community ecology?
I am recruiting one or two new Ph.D. students to work on theory and its integration with data in the areas of forest dynamics, species coexistence, or plant community ecology more generally.
Deadlines for the EEB and Plant Biology programs are Dec. 1.
17.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 29 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0
Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research & the Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health; Professor, University of Michigan Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and School for Environment and Sustainability
Life is better with ecology, ocean, microbes, food webs and modeling - new PI! The MMAR Lab - Marine Microbial Adaptive Responses themmarlab.com
Assistant Professor @ucsantabarbara Global Change Forest Ecologist @switzernetwork @SmithFellows @PeaceCorps #BLM
marine ecologist, online bon vivant, dad, ❤️ teaching #datasci & #rstats, byrneslab.net | floatingforests.org #BlackLivesMatter @jebyrnes in other places https://linktr.ee/jebyrnes
HMEI Postdoc, Princeton university.
PhD '24 Stanford university.
Interested in population dynamics, theoretical ecology, and traditional farming landscapes.
Hi everyone | Bonjour tout le monde!
A doctoral student at MSU, studying species - community level responses to anthropogenic change along the pond permanence gradient 🌱💧🐟
Ecology, conservation, ecotoxicology, natural science and art, and la belle langue
Associate Prof at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, MSU. Thinking about evolution and conservation in small populations. she/her 🏳️🌈
Zettlemoyer Integrative Plant Ecology Lab at the University of Montana. Plants, pollinators, phenology, eco evo, wildfire, snowmelt.
Appreciator of nitrogen, microbes, and lakes. Lover of mountains, morning coffee, and chacos in spleisure mode.
Simons Postdoc Fellow at Carnegie Science Stanford, CA
Professor of Theoretical Biology at the University of Würzburg
Exploring complex marine biological systems through math, models, and lab experiments | Postdoc @ MPI & MARUM Bremen | Marine biologist turned interdisciplinary scientist
Professor studying the evolutionary genetics of weeds and invasive plants at North Carolina State University. Lab website: avanwallendael.github.io
ecologist studying how historical legacies impact plant communities and our discipline
https://ashwini-ramesh.com · smitten by parasites, poetry, and the musings that lie in between· incoming Hutchinson Postdoc Fellow at Yale.
Infectious disease · Withinhost Coinfection · Coexistence · Community Ecology · Niche Theory for Coinfection
