Ashlee Mikkelsen
@ashleemikkelsen.bsky.social
Mostly an ecologist that dabbles in physiology, theory, evolution, chemistry, demography, or anything else that catches my fancy.
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs
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@biologists.bsky.social offers 10 funded places for ECRs (PhD, postdocs and PIs in the first 3 years of first appointment) to attend our Workshops along with 20 invited speakers, so don't miss this fabulous opportunity to join this incredible workshop on energy compensation
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@biologists.bsky.social offers 10 funded places for ECRs (PhD, postdocs and PIs in the first 3 years of first appointment) to attend our Workshops along with 20 invited speakers, so don't miss this fabulous opportunity to join this incredible workshop on energy compensation
coms.app/BiologistsWS...
coms.app/BiologistsWS...
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Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026!
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026
👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026
👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026!
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026
👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026
👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
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📅Our speaker next week is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting:
⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
📅Our speaker next week is Ágnes Móréh (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary) presenting:
⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
⭐Simultaneous invasion by two species: consequences for their success and for the resident community⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
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PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026
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The latest @ologies.bsky.social is Owls! It's brilliant (as are all Ologies). It's with the awesome Rocky Guitiérrez, who was PhD supervisor of @jonathanslaght.com (Owls of the Eastern Ice book!) who we got to meet & show owls to when he came to Brisbane a few years ago.
pca.st/episode/573b...
pca.st/episode/573b...
Strigiformology (OWLS) Part 1 with R.J. Gutiérrez
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November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The latest @ologies.bsky.social is Owls! It's brilliant (as are all Ologies). It's with the awesome Rocky Guitiérrez, who was PhD supervisor of @jonathanslaght.com (Owls of the Eastern Ice book!) who we got to meet & show owls to when he came to Brisbane a few years ago.
pca.st/episode/573b...
pca.st/episode/573b...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Focussing on the positive from this issue’s Science, work by our museum colleagues in Oslo led by the wonderful
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Focussing on the positive from this issue’s Science, work by our museum colleagues in Oslo led by the wonderful
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
@aubronectes.bsky.social Aubrey Roberts.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Get in touch if you want to chat!
Get in touch if you want to chat!
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📰Published📰 Thirsty lizards may miss danger: how water and energy costs affect predator detection🦎
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Thirsty lizards may miss danger: how water and energy costs affect predator detection
Chloé Chabaud, Jean-François Le Galliard, Simon Agostini, Olivier Lourdais This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Lizards, like many anim…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📰Published📰 Thirsty lizards may miss danger: how water and energy costs affect predator detection🦎
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📅Our speaker next week is Violeta Calleja-Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social (Estación Biológica de Doñana):
⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Open to all, see you there!
⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Open to all, see you there!
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📅Our speaker next week is Violeta Calleja-Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social (Estación Biológica de Doñana):
⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Open to all, see you there!
⭐The effect on stability of the temporal variability of species interactions⭐
Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Open to all, see you there!
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📰Published📰When a mom needs a break: Weddell seals that skip having a pup get a hormonal reset🦭
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When a mom needs a break: Weddell seals that skip having a pup get a hormonal reset
Amy L. Kirkham, Michelle R. Shero, Gregg P. Adams, Robert McCorkell, Donald Thompson Jr., Roxanne S. Beltran, Shannon Atkinson, Jennifer M. Burns This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ec…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📰Published📰When a mom needs a break: Weddell seals that skip having a pup get a hormonal reset🦭
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I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
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www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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🔥 This review introduces a novel organismal trait-based conceptual framework to connect the disparate literature about non-additive effects of species combinations on different specific ecosystem processes
🔍Article: buff.ly/4CJOfVO
📰Blog: buff.ly/TUAcPV4
🔍Article: buff.ly/4CJOfVO
📰Blog: buff.ly/TUAcPV4
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🔥 This review introduces a novel organismal trait-based conceptual framework to connect the disparate literature about non-additive effects of species combinations on different specific ecosystem processes
🔍Article: buff.ly/4CJOfVO
📰Blog: buff.ly/TUAcPV4
🔍Article: buff.ly/4CJOfVO
📰Blog: buff.ly/TUAcPV4
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🦭 New study reveals overlooked intraspecific variation in prey quality and its influence on predator energy budgets. By identifying key ecological drivers, they emphasize the need to integrate such variability into bioenergetic models.
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🦭 New study reveals overlooked intraspecific variation in prey quality and its influence on predator energy budgets. By identifying key ecological drivers, they emphasize the need to integrate such variability into bioenergetic models.
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/vecdcwH
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New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
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The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
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🌳🦊 Nuestro nuevo artículo en @oikosjournal.bsky.social muestra cómo la recuperación del lince está reconfigurando las interacciones ecológicas.
📄 Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: How apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
📄 Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: How apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🌳🦊 Nuestro nuevo artículo en @oikosjournal.bsky.social muestra cómo la recuperación del lince está reconfigurando las interacciones ecológicas.
📄 Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: How apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
📄 Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: How apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
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Does functional community structure mitigate the impacts of climatic anomalies on productivity in grasslands? In our next seminar, @danielahoss.bsky.social leverages 25 years of global grassland data from the sPlot database to examine this question.
Join us!
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Join us!
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November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Does functional community structure mitigate the impacts of climatic anomalies on productivity in grasslands? In our next seminar, @danielahoss.bsky.social leverages 25 years of global grassland data from the sPlot database to examine this question.
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
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🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🚨 The climelab.net lab is seeking a postdoc in ecophysiology for 2-years to work on drivers of animal thermoregulation in a phylogenetic and global context. #ecophys
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
📷 Stellenbosch, South Africa
Closes: 26th Nov 2025
Submit app directly to Prof Clusella-Trullas.
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
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We are looking for new graduate students! Feel free to repost or pass along to prospective students
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We are looking for new graduate students! Feel free to repost or pass along to prospective students
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Harvard University is hiring:
Stipendee Postdoc – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Stipendee Postdoc – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Harvard University is hiring:
Stipendee Postdoc – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Stipendee Postdoc – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology