Souleyman Bakker

🐜❌Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations

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Decliningpopulations #Collembola #ExtinctionVortex #FolsomiaCandida, #LongTransients, #EnvironmentalEffects #SmallPopulationParadigm

Happy to announce an open post-doctoral position (24 months) in the ThéMA lab (Besançon, CNRS-Univ.Marie et Louis Pasteur) to work on the coupled modelling of population genetic structure and metacommunity dynamics in habitat networks. Details here: shorturl.at/7muyx
For any questions, contact me!

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The global economy depends on #nature but also has an impact on nature. Learn more about these interactions with this graphic from the @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment Report.

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#BranchingProcesses #Collembola #ExtinctionVortex #FolsomiaCandida, #LongTransients, #EnvironmentalEffects #SmallPopulationParadigm

Our study on extinction risks in small parthenogenetic Folsomia candida populations shows how founder life stage and culling shape survival. Found that extinction risks can persist longer than expected, with transient dynamics mimicking stability prior to an extinction vortex.

Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biology. Small populations can go extinct quickly or can develop into large established populations. Th...

Our article is now out in Oikos! If you are interested in exploring extinction probabilities in small populations ⬇️

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Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them Aim Uncovering the effects of Müllerian mimetic interactions on the evolution of species niches and geographic distributions at a continental scale. Location Neotropics and part of Nearctic. Tim...

Finally published my master’s work in Global Ecology and Biogeography! 🦋🌎Huge thanks to all coauthors for their patience and support during this project. If you’re interested in butterflies/mimicry/biogeography, or just curious, you can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

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This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.

And that's saying a lot.

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Mathilde Viot avance que : « L’affaire Pelicot a eu un impact considérable en dehors du champ pénal : celui d’ouvrir les yeux de la société tout entière sur le caractère généralisé et systématique des violences sexuelles envers les femmes ».

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Me pls 😬

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers **Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

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Big News! 🚨 I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University in the Dept. of Biology this Fall @bionmu.bsky.social

If you are interested in doing an MS (or postdoc) in freshwater ecology, community ecol, how aquatic ecosystems respond to global change please reach out!

Super excited about @eseb2025.bsky.social this year! Thanks to Maëva, José and Bárbara for the invitation!
Join us for a exciting session discussing evolution in small populations 🦜🦉🦅🧬🤓
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📢 We are very pleased to announce the upcoming symposium on evolution in small populations at @eseb2025.bsky.social, with Eva Ringler and
@hernmoral.bsky.social as invited speakers, and co-organized with @naturalselection.bsky.social and Maëva Gabrielli. Submit your abstracts before 25/04!

This Monday @souleymanbakker.bsky.social from our team has defended his PhD thesis on extinction probabilities in changing environments with succes. Congratulations! @ieesparis.bsky.social

Starter packs BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A multi-trait evaluation of patterns & fitness consequences of breeding phenology plasticity with nocturnal warming & food restriction in a lizard Théo Bodineau, Pierre de Villemereuil, Baptiste Lemaire, Simon Agostini, Beatriz Decencière, Matéo Millet, Sandrine Meylan and Jean-François Le Galliard. This is a plain language summary of a Funct…

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A multi-trait evaluation of patterns & fitness consequences of breeding phenology plasticity with nocturnal warming & food restriction in a #lizard
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Preprint out!! 🌡️🌐

This has been a huge project, and I'm extremely happy to finally share it!

If you are into climate extremes, soil biodiversity, elevational gradients and seasonality, take a look and feel free to reach out 😉

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Text and university logos on a white and orange background: Ecological forecasting of tree resistance to pathogens 2-year postdoc (possible +2 year extension, funding secured) Eligibility: PhD in ecology, geosciences, environmental science, or a similar relevant subject; experience in using and/or developing vegetation or land surface models; programming experience (e.g. R, Python, Matlab, Fortran); at least one first author peer-reviewed publication (preprint ok) Start date: March 2025 or as soon as possible, no later than September Deadline: 3rd of March 17.00 GMT

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Come and work with us! 2+2 year postdoc at Trinity College Dublin on modelling plant defence and resistance to pathogens. Going from first principles to near term forecasts and decision tools.

Deadline 3rd of March, start date as soon as possible. 🧪🌏🌾
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📆We are back and excited to announce our all-star lineup for next series of online seminars! Add the dates to your diaries and join theoretical ecologists from across the world - it's free and open to all via Zoom. Details here iite.info/seminar/, including email list signup.

See you in March!

Improving the integration of artificial intelligence into existing ecological inference workflows Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised the process of identifying species and individuals in audio recordings and camera trap images. However, despite developments in sensor technology, m...

Great paper on AI and statistical ecology - well worth a read. Improving the integration of artificial intelligence into existing ecological inference workflows 🌎🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Les affiches de @rogueesr.bsky.social contre les #KeyLabs. Celle-ci ironise sur la manie du président du CNRS de surjouer les cabots virilistes en usant de métaphores sportives moisies. De mémoire, la citation est authentique.

Ecological debts induced by heat extremes Heat extremes have become the new norm in the Anthropocene. Their potential to trigger major ecological responses is widely acknowledged, but their unprecedented severity hinders our ability to predic...

Our review paper on heat-induced ecological debts is published in this month's issue of TREE.

It was a real achievement to put this together, I hope you enjoy it, and hopefully this inspires more research on heat extremes and ecological stability! 💪

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Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.09.622040v1 Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biol

Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.09.622040v1

Extinction probabilities of small structured populations: adequate short-term model predictions in Folsomia candida https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.26.609669v1 Population management requires predictions of extinction risk based on a general understanding of th

Extinction probabilities of small structured populations: adequate short-term model predictions in Folsomia candida https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.26.609669v1