Ravi Ranjan

Wonderful, thanks!

Hi Sebastian, thanks for organising this! Looks really interesting. Is there registration or anything else like that or do we just join the Zoom link on the page on the day? Just wanted to double check if I missed a link somewhere.

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

YouTube video by GLEONetwork Limnoseries: How to Design Better Experiments

Our experimental design workshop had ~40 participants from >15 countries!

@raviranjan.bsky.social and I focused on refining ideas, estimating parameters precisely, leverage in linear & nonlinear regression, and using simulations to compare designs.

Presentation & R scripts in next post:

Congrats Sebastian!

Some self-promotion 😬: @mridulkthomas.bsky.social and I did some work that might be relevant. We re-emphasise Cottingham 2005's msg & also use some statistical theory to generate efficient designs for multiple-driver experiments. Happy to answer any questions!
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Carbonate chemistry fitness landscapes inform diatom resilience to future perturbations Diatom growth rates are determined by concentrations of CO2 and H+ across broad carbonate chemistry landscapes.

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This study led by @aaronferderer.bsky.social tested how 5 diatom species respond to broad ranges of seawater carbonate conditions. Goal was to determine carbonate chemistry niches and to inform Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) and Ocean Acidification (OA)

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A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

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Poster for 90 minute workshop on HOW TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS, by Mridul Thomas & Ravi Ranjan. Details: September 23rd 16:00 CEST ; 14:00 UTC Description: Experimental designs can make or break an experiment. A good experiment has a clear goal and efficiently uses experimental resources to achieve that goal. In this workshop, we will review what experiments are for, basic and advanced principles of designing experiments, and how to use simulations to evaluate designs before actually doing the experiment. We’ll do a moderate amount of coding in R and so experience with this would be helpful but is not required. We intend to have small-group discussions to help participants develop their own experiments, and encourage participants to think of a specific question they would like to answer with an experiment.

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd.

We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals.

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Hi! This is such a nice way to get a variety of speakers. I would love the opportunity to share my work. I am a postdoc doing mathematical models of community ecology, eco-physiology and the links between them. Mostly focused on phytoplankton, but thinking about primary producers broadly.

We find stable coexistence of Rüger's tropical tree demographic strategies (slow, fast, short-lived breeders, and long-lived pioneers) in a model with just competition for light and stochastic small-scale disturbances.

Great work, Damla Cinoğlu!
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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.

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A couple of forthcoming workshops on experimental design and data analysis, taught by @christinamcgraw.bsky.social, Peter Dillingham, @sineadcollins.bsky.social, Sam Dupont, and me.

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...

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

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@icbm-uol.bsky.social offers a fully funded professorship in theoretical oceanography. Join a great team of physicists, chemists, and biologists working on the marine environment. Oldenburg is a truly livable city and connected to a range of marine institutes in NW Germany

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The effects of trade-off shape and dimensionality on eco-evolutionary dynamics in resource competition Organisms invariably experience trade-offs in their capacities for interacting with their environments. In resource competition, this often means that…

No more competing consumers than there are resources can coexist in equilibrium, but have you ever wondered how many consumers actually evolve as resource diversity increases? In our new paper, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and I investigate. (1/3)

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*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Institute/Center Director-Management - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States Position Summary Questions regarding this position may be directed to the Search Committee Co-Chairs, Dr. Richard Kobe (kobe@msu.edu) and Dr. Andrea Case (caseand4@msu.edu). The position will remain o...

Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

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Institute/Center Director-Management - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States Position Summary Michigan State University seeks a resident Director for the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) to provide leadership and promote a creative environment that fosters innovation and...

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station is looking for a new director!
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Hi Rodrigo, thanks for putting this together. Could you add me as well?

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Hi, could you add me here as well? Thanks!

UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems
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Deadline: January 6, 2025

Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change—A review Marine life is controlled by multiple physical and chemical drivers and by diverse ecological processes. Many of these oceanic properties are being altered by climate change and other anthropogenic p...

We've written papers/guides about how to improve experimental design so that we learn more from experiments.

We also teach workshops and build tools based on these principles. 🌊

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

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A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added!

(Or if you'd like to be taken off)

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Thank you for putting this list together Brian! Could you add me to it?

"Essentially the model consists of a long inclined plane into which a large number of holes has been drilled and down which balls are permitted to roll. It resembles a metamerically elongated pinball machine (Figure 1). As long as it remains on the surface, the ball represents a living animal; when it falls through a hole it represents a dead animal. Balls that "survive" long enough are permitted to "reproduce," thereby contributing to the maintenance of the population. Numerous embellishments, however, are necessary before the model becomes rewardingly analogous to a wild population, and these will be described below."

I don't, but Oliver Pearson created "a mechanical model for the study of population dynamics" (www.jstor.org/stable/1933324) that "resembles a metamerically elongated pinball machine." So, a scientific pinball machine, but not Waddington's . . .

Thank you for doing this! Could you add me as well?