Miguel Acevedo

Unique Egg-Laying Behavior Re-Discovered in Culex Mosquito Species Culex antillummagnorum doesn't lay eggs in a tight group like fellow Culex species. Instead, females hover or perch above pools of water in plants and drop in eggs one at a time.

Blog post on some research in the lab thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social. This is undergrad Liz Wynne's big discovery of a non-raft laying Culex. If you didn't catch the original paper in Scientific Reports you can read the blog. 🦟🧪
entomologytoday.org/2025/10/16/u....

It went well!!!

Cancer risk across mammals - Nature An analysis of cancer mortality data for zoo mammals highlights marked differences across mammalian orders and an influence of diet, and shows that mortality risk is largely independent of body mass and life expectancy across species.

Cancer risk across mammals

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fotogalería. Colección de aves de la UNAL, testigo de la mayor diversidad del planeta En una sala de gabinetes metálicos del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) se guardan las huellas más delicadas del país: 45.000 aves que hablan de lo q...

agenciadenoticias.unal.edu.co/detalle/foto... this is us! National Bird Collection 🇨🇴

A laboratory of #ornithology for the most diverse bird country. It's paradise!

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia @vriunal.bsky.social

MEE live! A hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory In this workshop, Ata Kalirad illustrates how the EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies — including complete graphs, random graphs, small-world graphs — as well…

Missed our last MEE live? Watch it now!

In our latest workshop, we were joined by author Ata Kalirad, who talked through their recent paper and illustrated how EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies.

Watch the video and find the paper below📃

🐠🔊 What noise does a fish make? 

Researchers have developed a new tool that combines 360° video with spatial audio to identify fish by their sounds. The result is the most extensive library of natural fish sounds ever published,  including many that have never been identified before.

🌍🧪

ggplot2 hex with tada emoji. Text: Join the v4.0.0 release party with Teun van den Brand and the ggplot2 extenders, Oct 3 at 3pm Et, bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

Heads up! #evolution #ecology #ornithology

Aves de Barbacoas | Blogs El Espectador Entre 1911 y 1914 el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de los Estados Unidos auspició la Expedición Chapman a Suramérica, la intención era observar y estudiar las aves del continente y dejar registr...

Natalia’s paper on morphological changes in forest birds in 100 years is having some coverage on the national news

blogs.elespectador.com/cultura/pazi...

@nataliaperez-a.bsky.social

📖Published📖

Check out this new research article 👉 Quantifying the correlation between variance components: An extension to the double-hierarchical generalised linear model 🧪 🌍

Read the full article here 👇

🏆📚 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨The "Outstanding Publication by an Early Career Ecologist" award, given by the Section every year since 2017, honors exceptional research by an ECE section member published as a peer-reviewed manuscript of particular importance and relevance to the ecological community. 🧵1/19

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

Climate change x alien species =

www.science.org/content/arti...

Flyer How to apply to the NSF-GRFP (in 7 weeks!). Check out our comprehensive guide and timeline for applying to the NSF-GRFP (or any fellowship!) on a deadline. Give it a shot — it’s not too late! Resource by Olivia Goldman, PhD and John Lê. Photos of authors. Cientifico Latino, Inc. logo. Link: cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?

We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨

🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks

#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...

Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤

Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

Slide titled: "Assumptions of the model and model checking" with a scatterplot with axes how much people should worry vs how much people do worry.

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

New postdoc position with Andrew Balmford in the Conservation Science Group at the University of Cambridge.

Come join the thriving conservation community here!

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function Nature - Time-series data from tropical forests tracking weather and declines in arthropod diversity and function show that fluctuations in species were largely dependent on their El Niño...

New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity.

This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics.

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Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors:

We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics.

While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

Some really great resources here like communicating working group results and using AI for literature review.

Come work with us!

The department is an invigorating place and lots of conservation-focused work going on with the Conservation Research Institute and Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The students are fabulous!

Could we use community/citizen/participatory science data to estimate population extinction risk? Our results comparing the estimates from eBird and from a standardized survey suggest we can!!

#ornithology #ecology #conservation

See our detailed tutorial oaccolombia.github.io/vpm_eBird/vp...

Biotropica’s profile text: “We are the scientific journal of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Our authors fear nothing.”

Still the best profile text of any scientific journal.

See you in Oaxaca, @biotropica.bsky.social. #ATBC2025

Anticipated Job Opening - Biodiversity Lab Manager at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Come join our group using technology to monitor biodiversity #AI #Cameratrap #Animaltracking #GPS docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dewlap Drama in the Slender Anole: a Tale of Two Throats Color us intrigued! In the world of Anolis lizards, the dewlap—a colorful throat fan used for communication—is one of the most iconic features. It’s been flaunted, flashed, and filmed in countless …

Dewlap Drama in the Slender Anole: a Tale of Two Throats www.anoleannals.org/2025/06/01/d...

Really honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow.

And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows!

@conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

Really excited to share this new article from the lab.

We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.

Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes

📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists!

Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event:

ropensci.org/events/datas...

Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS

Some updated fragments about analyzing binary survival data (e.g. on nest predation) with power-logistic or log-hazard models, including RTMB examples. Please let me know if you find this interesting/would like to pursue it further ... bbolker.github.io/bbmisc/brant...