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:

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform.

I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

Lost art of illustration: Géza Entz jr. 1908 Tintinnid cilates

I wrote a commentary about the recent paper by @deepaagashe.bsky.social and @vrindarvkm.bsky.social

Also go have a look at the original paper if you haven't !

The timeframe of prediction for eco-evolutionary dynamics | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

More for the lab .. or yourself!

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📃

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community

@natcomms.nature.com from @oventurelli2.bsky.social

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

The emphasis isn’t on professional level cooking, but strangely bingeable

www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0...

@elenalitchman.bsky.social gave a fascinating keynote talk on “How can microbial traits help understand and predict ecosystem functions”?
#SAME18 @same18-bcn.bsky.social

The #DAIDD2025 deadline has been extended to 10 Oct!

MPDEE'26 - International Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution @ Leicester, UK

20 Apr 2026 – 24 Apr 2026

dbearup.github.io/mpdee26/

I appreciate the age-appropriate gif here

I'm developing a grad course on experimental design (study design generally) & data analysis in biology. What topics, papers, etc. do you think are most important? If you teach something similar, I would love to hear what/how you teach (if you are willing to share a syllabus that would amazing!).

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614

A must-read special issue: “Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy”
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
I: Determinants of diversity & resilience.
II: Measuring the state of biodiversity
III: Biodiversity & natural capital
IV: Future scenarios for nature

Kind of… we have a menu of ecology courses that students can choose from, including Population & Community Ecology

Jimmy Kimmel is coming back! Does this mean I can watch the rest of the new season of 'Only Murders in the Building' guilt-free?

Looking for openly available:
- before-after data in space
- with a restoration measure inbetween (e.g. dam/invasive spec. removal, urban green space creation...)
- min. 10 sites (quadrats / random places along a stream / ponds...)
- species data, env. data of some sort, GPS coordinates

Join us at SFU for a 2-year Mekler Postdoctoral Fellowship in mathematical biology to work with me and Ailene MacPherson. Apply at www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27... by Nov 15.

Geographic distribution of human toxoplasmosis

🚨 Great news! The DEB special issue in Ecological Modelling is now open for submissions! 📝🌍 Submit your DEB paper now! 🎯
🔗 Check the call:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Job Alert! Looking for a PhD student and a postdoc in quantitative ecology
Deets here: resiliencelab.github.io/join/