@chrisklausmeier.bsky.social
Professor of Theoretical Ecology, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab
Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122
Going to the gym be like…
02.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Figure 5 from the linked paper. It has four panels, and kind of looks nice, and is best described by the paper text and figure caption.
Modeling effects of population heterogeneity on disease spread. #OpenAccess in JTB, with Jeremy Harris , Esther Gallmeier, @beckettstephen.bsky.social and
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
New 📚 Release! Making sense of chemical stress: Application of Dynamic Energy Budget theory in ecotoxicology and stress ecology by Tjalling Jager #books #ebooks #science
Find it on Leanpub!
Link: leanpub.com/debtox_book
📣 Three open positions to work on the thermal vulnerability of lake communities in the context of climate change (ERC Climate Countdown) with Arnaud Sentis @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧪🌐
🌍 Aix-en-Provence, France
🗓️Start Sept-Nov 2025
👉 Apply before September 9
Please share!
You forgot the Dept of Forestry, the Plant Research Laboratory, the Plant Resilience Institute, the Molecular Plant Sciences grad program, and the Plant Sciences Fellowship program!
31.07.2025 00:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monty Python: "Judean People's Front, ha! We're the People's Front of Judea."
30.07.2025 22:49 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whose idea was this?!
30.07.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Wait a minute, you're telling me that #Botany2025 (July 26-30) and #PlantBiology2025 (July 26-30) were two different meetings?
30.07.2025 22:44 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0U.S. Visa Bureaucracy and Its Burdens Among Early Career Scholars https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667220v1
30.07.2025 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
A graph of HIV prevalence vs. Year, showing prevalence increasing rapidly from 1990-1998, then slowly until 2010. A curve follows closely the increasing portion, then shoots off the top of the graph. Text at the top reads R0=5.66
My dynamical modeling slides from the NCTS course on Infectious Disease modeling github.com/dushoff/dise...
30.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Jeremy Fox's new book "The Ecology of Ecologists" is coming soon, and you can pre-order now at a discount. See here for Jeremy's pitch - but I can vouch for this book, it's great! dynamicecology.wordp...
29.07.2025 12:05 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0Unique opportunity for free-ranging research:
"The Santa Fe Institute Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships offer early-career scholars the opportunity to undertake independent research...about the complex systems that matter most for science and society".
apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...
Workshop on "Modelling Diffusive Systems: Theory and Applications" (MoDiS) @ Erwin Schrödinger Institute (ESI), Vienna, Austria
Dates: 26-30 Jan 2026. Apply before 15 September.
sites.google.com/view/modis20...
Major new release from our Science and Community Impacts Mapping Project #SCIMaP - scienceimpacts.org - detailing the core spatial methods that quantify and visualize how "targeted" NIH cuts ripple outwards to communities nationwide. Enabling details & code links below.
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25.07.2025 00:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🍂 Just one week left to apply! 🧪🌐🌍
A fantastic opportunity for students and early-career researchers to dive into cutting-edge topics in theoretical community ecology, exchange ideas, and network with experts in a beautiful natural setting.
Join us for an inspiring week of learning and discussion! 🤯
figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
23.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 65 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 3
Different rules apply in the Arctic
youtu.be/f4wpdbfnBOY?...
Do ectotherms age more strongly in warm environments? And if so, does it mean reduced fitness and population viability in a warmer world? We investigated these questions in a recent study based on an experiment with Daphnia magna (1/7)
@t-ergon.bsky.social
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
These meetings are always amazing, and this one is in…Tuscany, Italy.
Integrating Theoretical Models and Big Data to Understand Predator-Prey Dynamics
www.grc.org/predator-pre...
January 25 - 30, 2026
Come along!
📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣
We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:
”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”
5th Aug @ 9am BST
bit.ly/44SzlwG
Do you like to think about temporal niches and coexistence theory? Or perhaps you want to hear some really quirky natural history of marine insects & the moon? Or both? Read on: a mystery & its potential solution in two papers!
21.07.2025 05:44 — 👍 37 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 4
Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
Trying to develop predictive theory for how biology works in the ocean? Interested in unifying traits? Keen to hang out in a beautiful place with amazing people? Consider joining us in a couple of weeks at the 7th #TraitBasedApproaches workshop in Asilomar! carnegiescience.edu/seventh-trai...
19.07.2025 23:15 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
I am really happy to share that there will be a @nitmb.bsky.social workshop next year on mathematical and biological features of evolutionary game theory.
It was really fun to co-organize this workshop with Olivia Chu, Alex McAvoy, and @jplotkin.bsky.social.
www.nitmb.org/evolutionary...
New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)
Workshop attendees standing on the steps in front of the event venue. The individuals are dressed in casual to semi-formal attire. Image text: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK 13-16 July 2025
The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are?
Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White.
#Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics
The Why Are Cells The Size They Are workshop by @biologists.bsky.social was superb. The attendee list was exceptional and whole thing was inspiring. Chose a special conference to be my first for nearly three years.
16.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward?
At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!
