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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 1d

This came as a beautiful surprise! What an amazing feeling reading a commentary on your paper, especially if you put soooo much work on it! Thank you @karlandraczek.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social !

Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 1d

Predicting how climate warming reshapes plant communities and their functioning is crucial. But how can we unearth its effects — especially in rapidly warming alpine systems? ⛰️🥵
👉 @billurbektas.bsky.social et al. shed light on this in an inspiring study: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Traits and functions of alpine plant communities respond strongly but not always sufficiently to in situ climate change

Increasing climate warming and summer droughts are known to affect mountain plant communities, their functional traits and life strategies. However, little is known about how strongly and efficientl...

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for inviting me to write this commentary, and to @joanabergmann.bsky.social, and my colleagues at @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social, and @idiv-research.bsky.social for their feedback and support! 🙏🌿

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 1d

I had the honour to write a @newphyt.bsky.social commentary on this fantastic paper — summarizing its key insights and exploring exciting directions for future research. Hope it may spark new ideas and helps the community! ✨
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trajectories of alpine plant communities under climate change.

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 1d

Predicting how climate warming reshapes plant communities and their functioning is crucial. But how can we unearth its effects — especially in rapidly warming alpine systems? ⛰️🥵
👉 @billurbektas.bsky.social et al. shed light on this in an inspiring study: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Traits and functions of alpine plant communities respond strongly but not always sufficiently to in situ climate change

Increasing climate warming and summer droughts are known to affect mountain plant communities, their functional traits and life strategies. However, little is known about how strongly and efficientl...

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · 5d

Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉

BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems

The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 6d

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:

Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.

plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 14d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

tl;dr

Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model.
When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity.
If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

A grassland on a sunny day near Boulder, CO

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · Sep 3

Biology, what are you doing? Follow the rules.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species

Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

www.science.org

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Etienne Lalechère @etiennelalechere.bsky.social · Aug 27

Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very proud & glad to be part of this amazing work led by Étienne on the relevance of lagging dynamics in biotic responses to environmental conditions 🦉🦇🦔🦌🌱🌾🪻🍀🌳🌲

If you interested in modeling species ranges or biodiversity patters in space & time, our paradigm shift should be of interest to you 😉

Etienne Lalechère @etiennelalechere.bsky.social · Aug 27

Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Aug 26

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chatting with @lauradee.bsky.social about how many different groups of #causality #ecology folk we have to share papers, code and discussions with, and wouldn't it be nice if we all had a place to interact..... so we made a Causal Ecology slack. So.... if you want to join, DM me and I'll add you! 🌍🧪

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Aletta Bonn @alettabonn.bsky.social · Aug 24

Artenfinder #citizenscience data set published 🦋🌼🦎
thanks to many volunteers, the #Artenfinder team and #NFDI4Biodiversity Living Atlas - Nature Germany team www.land.gbif.de
@gbif.org @idiv-research.bsky.social @ufz.de

Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · Aug 1

А quality-checked citizen science dataset published on @gbif.org with more than 1 million georeferenced species records with a geographic focus on the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and Berlin: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Trigonometric functions and a unit circle

A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ot now in @natcomms.nature.com: 'Temporal complexity of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and its drivers'. Led by Marcos Fernandez- rdcu.be/eBqev

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Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · Aug 18

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Aug 14

Very excited this is out! Also potentially useful for researchers thinking about biodiversity change attribution @jon-chase03.bsky.social @bio-diverse.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14

With my brilliant and wonderful colleagues: @lauradee.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @econservation.bsky.social @katherinesiegel.bsky.social

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

careers.uoguelph.ca

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 8

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years.

It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat

“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

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Fiona Martin @vizscience.bsky.social · Aug 4

So happy this illustration was accepted into GNSI's annual exhibit! Learn about how trees lock away carbon for centuries—and competing economic interests—in these @seattletimes.com stories: bit.ly/4mwCOqV, bit.ly/4lUk9Fq

Exhibit:
www.gnsi.org/2025-gnsi-ju...

#evergreen #photosynthesis #sciart

Print version of graphic. Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into sugars, using the food to grow. This process, called photosynthesis, allows plants to make their own food, storing the carbon in their tissues as they grow roots, branches and leaves. In this way, trees help fight climate change by absorbing and storing carbon pollution that is heating the planet. Big trees store the most carbon because of their mass, and long-lived species such as Douglas fir and red cedar can lock carbon away for centuries. Trees absorb carbon dioxide gas through openings in leaves or needles called stomata. Chloroplasts within leaves and needles use the energy of the sun to split water molecules drawn up through tree roots into hydrogen and oxygen, released through their stomata. Trees and other green plants create the air we breathe, and shelter and nourish life as we know it.

Mobile version of graphic. Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into sugars, using the food to grow. This process, called photosynthesis, allows plants to make their own food, storing the carbon in their tissues as they grow roots, branches and leaves. In this way, trees help fight climate change by absorbing and storing carbon pollution that is heating the planet. Big trees store the most carbon because of their mass, and long-lived species such as Douglas fir and red cedar can lock carbon away for centuries. Trees absorb carbon dioxide gas through openings in leaves or needles called stomata. Chloroplasts within leaves and needles use the energy of the sun to split water molecules drawn up through tree roots into hydrogen and oxygen, released through their stomata. Trees and other green plants create the air we breathe, and shelter and nourish life as we know it.

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