Chris Klausmeier

It's resource-based competition week! Going to unleash ZNGIs and consumption and supply vectors on the students.

Prey depletion by a predator guild suggests spatial differences in competitive ability, but not prey partitioning, consistent with functional trade‐offs The top left image shows a gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) perched in the vegetation (photo by Amber Wright), while the bottom left image shows a brown anole (Anolis sagrei) perched on the g...

On a more serious note, have you seen this paper by Amber Wright, Kyle Edwards & colleagues? Lizard ZNGIs!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Kermit vs Evil Kermit meme: Stable Coexistence vs Founder Control

Mugatu meme: ZNGIs: So Hot Right Now

What I think most people don't appreciate is that the 1% of top labs that do the most cutting edge research actually inextricably depend on the remaining 99% of the research community. Most PhD students who do the cutting edge research in these top labs come from undergraduate programs in the 99%.

Well deserved!

A new preprint with Matthew Schmitt, @kiseokmicro.bsky.social and Vincenzo Vitelli makes a huge step forward in learning functional groups of components in complex biological systems. It's dimension reduction that speaks to biological function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

⏳ Two weeks left to apply to our Summer School, and benefit from the early-bird rate!

Don’t miss this opportunity to join us for a week of inspiring lectures and discussions with an exceptional community of researchers - all set in the beautiful Pyrenees ⛰️ ☀️
We look forward to welcoming you!
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A pictures of Colleen wearing a green vest next to a chalkboard with a root and her seminar title.

Thank you to the Evans lab and @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social for being such fantastic hosts! And for the amazing #SciArt on my seminar topic. I’ll always be a Michigander at heart. ❤️

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling.

Highlights:
🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80%
🔺Fixed-term for 2 years
🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L

📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026

www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

For the MMEE 2026 in Cork www.ucc.ie/en/matsci/ev... note the updated deadline!

Submission of talks and poster presentations: March 30th, 2026.

YouTube video by Michigan Nature Association (MNA) Michigan Nature Presents: Ephemeral

Happy Vernal Pool Season everyone! The Michigan Vernal Pools Partnership is an incredible organization that works to survey, monitor and conserve MI vernal pools (ephemeral freshwaters that host hundreds of species, see the video below for a closer look) 🧪#citsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJD...

Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents - npj Complexity npj Complexity - Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents

Can AI be programmed to make others play nice? Evolutionary Game Theory says you can! But not how you might think. Paper out at npj Complexity www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Blog post about the paper: adamilab.blogspot.com/2024/12/can-...

🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more!

Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/

📣Next week, we restart our online series with Theo Gibbs (NYU) @theogibbs.bsky.social, who will present:

⭐Do higher-order interactions promote coexistence in diverse ecological communities?⭐

Free and open!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global time checker: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

How does salinity affect growth?

@fryderheim.bsky.social & I developed a model to describe this, and he's parameterised it for >100 species. We can now model how salinity changes should affect population & community dynamics!

Check out his poster on Monday afternoon at #OSM26

50 NSFs extra!

The Burmeister Lab: Studying Microbial Evolution and Extinction ​Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. ​ ​We study microbial evolution, a...

Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).

“Ultimately (in our view), this happens because the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge.”

Been thinking a lot lately about the systemic consequences of publishing slop.

‘The Ecology of Ecologists’: what, if anything, is ecology? (book review) What, if anything, is ecology? You would think I’d know that – I’ve been a practicing (academic) ecologist for about 40 years. But I don’t. Sure, I know some stuff. I know that ecology isn’t the sa…

Jeremy Fox has a new book out, 'The Ecology of Ecologists'. What's that about, and should you read it? (Quick answers: how ecology's chaos of approaches is a feature, not a bug; and YES.) scientistseessquirre... 🌍🧪

About NSF GRFP's being rejected without peer review:
[from submitted info to Grant Witness]
"12 RWRs as involving ecology, six in cell biology, five in psychology, four in neuroscience, and 14 in other subfields of biology"
www.science.org/content/arti...

A poster for the symposium described in the post. It lists the dates of 8-11 of September. It has a photo of the Durham castle, and a list of the invited speakers (which is also on the website linked in the post). It also has the application deadline of March 31st. The ICMS logo and Durham University logos are both displayed at the bottom.

Join us this September 8-11th for the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology! Organized with @gcelora.bsky.social @valeriagiunta.bsky.social and Denis Patterson. This will be an exciting and interactive discussion-driven event!

sites.google.com/view/durham-...

Job opportunities...

Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14.

Full Details:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

'Modeling evolutionary rescue' doi.org/10.32942/X25...

This feels straight out of an intense dream about our switchgrass diversity panel experiments.

Google map showing TCH

Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway

Appropriate soundtrack

📣We will be back soon with a new series of online theory seminars!

As ever, free and open for all via Zoom. Follow us on here, or join our email list (iite.info/seminar-emai...) for details.

In the meantime, all our past talks are on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@theoretical...

See you there!

We've got a little more info on this upcoming panel discussion on Feb 13th on the @smtpb.bsky.social events page (see below).

Looking forward to seeing some of you all there!

Don't let anybody tell you what your academic-life balance is supposed to be You do you. And please stay healthy.

Your time for doing science waxes and wanes throughout your career. Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re doing it wrong. You get to decide what’s right for you (as long as you meet your basic commitments). 🧪

Yep should be great!