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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026

Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This @asn-amnat.bsky.social conference will feature some excellent afternoon symposia (with no conflicting sessions), including one organized by my grad student Emma Choi, on using spatial & landscape population genomics to detect coevolution!

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beckyfuller82.bsky.social @beckyfuller82.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ASN standalone meeting is this January! Tons of fun! Be there or be square!

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*rings the bell* FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...

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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s not you, it’s your song. In a new study, Luo et al. show that song and morphological differences may reduce gene flow between white-crowned sparrow subspecies. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Funk et al. argue that gene knockouts, organisms with traits nullified via gene editing, could aid biologists who study selection and develop conservation interventions. Read about gene knockouts and whether they could enhance your research ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whenever I give an interview, I ask how long a piece the journalist is aiming for. Then I TRY to keep myself to reasonable length....but I often fail, because nature and science are SO COOL. Thanks @elisecutts.bsky.social for making me feel better about it!

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We couldn't be happier to welcome Kate to this new role!

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you know me, you know that Am Nat 🐌 is one of my fav journals. So I am delighted (and a little terrified) to say I've recently accepted a role as one of its Senior Editors! Be sure to keep us in mind as home for your favorite work (including behavior) 😉! @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Screenshot of masthead for the journal The American Naturalist - lists Volker Rudolk as EiC and my name has been added as one of the Senior Editors (along with Jill Anderson and Sebastien Lion).

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The code does not have to be beautiful or clever, but it should run. The data needs to be formatted in a comprehensible way. The ReadMe file needs to guide readers regarding units, variable names, and how to run any R scripts.

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Comparative Biogeography of Marine and Terrestrial Microbes and Macrobiota Using Environmental DNA by Ruiz-Ramos et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fontana et al. propose a new way to think about leaf litter selectivity as a process-related trait, defined by trait-mediated interactions across trophic levels. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rock-paper-scissors dynamics and intransitive competition maintain diversity in evolutionary and ecological contexts. Delgado et al. use this to understand eco-evolutionary coexistence through intransitive feedback loops. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🆕Noticia sobre el estudio realizado por Ciro Cabal Ruano, investigadore del @iicg-urjc.bsky.social y @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social publicado en The American Naturalist @asn-amnat.bsky.social sobre la posibilidad de que algunos paisajes abiertos de Gredos podrían ser vestigios de una antigua sabana. 👇

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 23/08/2026

This is as good a time as any to say that I'm about to start as an Associate Editor at @asn-amnat.bsky.social, and I'm as nerdily excited as you might expect

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Transgenerational and Intergenerational Maternal Age Effects Exhibit Complex, Genotype-Specific Patterns of Inheritance by Liguori et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 11/08/2026

Trail-side Eucalyptus at the Scorpion Ranch campgrounds on Santa Cruz Island 🌿 buff.ly/dQn5iY3

A trail shaded by a big tree with smooth pale bark peeling in strips to reveal red under-layers; down the sun-dappled trail a small shed is visible, and sunlit hills beyond

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Smith develops theory showing that aggregation caused by habitat structure can make Janzen–Connell effects and habitat partitioning work together as a powerful mechanism promoting coexistence in tropical forests. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gaughan et al. suggest that the preference of insect herbivores may play an important yet under-appreciated role in the destabilization of plant diversity. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Chokechaipaisarn & Hitchcock develop new models of sex allocation tailored to non-standard forms of arrhenotoky, revealing the distinct effects of asymmetric ploidy upon patterns of relatedness and sex allocation. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The 2025 bestseller Abundance argues that scarcity is an artificial political construction. Borrowing the concept, this article from The Supreme Court Review highlights recent Court decisions that fall under a pro-abundance perspective. ow.ly/NFuX50Zq3Ta

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Stop by our booth at the Botany 2026 conference in Tucson, AZ to learn about the International Journal of Plant Sciences, our other journals, and to grab some giveaways. Can’t make it in person? Discover our science journals here: ow.ly/QH7u50ZiiQO International Journal of Plant Sciences

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

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EEB Mentor Match

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Caitlin MacKenzie @cmacmtns.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just read and really enjoyed "Spark, Scaffold, Substrate" (the @asn-amnat.bsky.social paper on natural history in EEB research recommended by @hormiga.bsky.social) and I have two notes...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Kework & Pierson studied fine-scale spatial variation in reproductive tactic frequencies in two-lined salamanders and found that "searching" male frequencies were higher in small tributaries than in larger stream reaches. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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c milagros @bibibivalve.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think about the backstories alllllllll the time - it informs the data & direction of research (and wider systems too). I’m so excited to read this 🥰

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weiss et al. use field observations, experiments, and simulations to demonstrate that periodical cicada nymphs use skototaxis (orientation and movement towards dark objects), to march unerringly to their molting trees at night. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

published ahead of print in @asn-amnat.bsky.social, by me et al.: doi.org/10.1086/743270 the first test (I think) of dynamic range models (spatially explicit population dynamic models) for mechanistic forecasting of near-term range shifts. they outperform a traditional species distribution model!

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Dynamic range models improve the near-term forecast for a marine species on the move | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

PSA to all authors: If you want to quote yourself from your previous publications, please use quotation marks. Just copy-pasting is not okay.

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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’ll be heading to #ESA2026 end of the week. If you will also be there, and want to chat about your science or publishing in @asn-amnat.bsky.social (or just hang out) shoot me DM or email. I’m happy to chat.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

An important and beautiful paper on the central role of natural history in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Have you seen Christopher Nolan's new *Odyssey* film adaptation yet? Watch here, as Odyssey translator Daniel Mendelsohn speaks with CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS about the new movie and its relationship to Homer's epic:

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Fareed Zakaria GPS - GPS - Daniel Mendelsohn

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Abundance and Functional Roles, Not Richness, Govern Wood-Fall Degenerative Ecosystem Function in the Deep Sea by McClain et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 16/07/2026

🌟📣 Congratulations to KLI alumni Hari Sridhar and Joyshree Chanam on their recent publication! 💐 Spark, Scaffold, Substrate: The Multiple Hidden Roles of Natural History in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Arnold et al. developed a novel extension of mechanistic home range analyses (MHRA) that is able to predict both territorial shifts following harvest and non-territorial behaviors in the elusive felid Canada lynx (Lynx Canadensis). Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Cissell & McCoy reveal that spatially heterogeneous predation may contribute to asynchronous community extinction, stabilizing cyanobacterial mat metacommunities despite extensive community-scale instability. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#TheOdyssey movie is out Friday! Go see it for the story, then read our book to TRULY understand the poem and Homer’s world. 30% off w/code UCPNEW: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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The Odyssey

The most accurate and poetic translation of the world’s greatest epic—soon to be a film by Academy Award winner Christopher Nolan!“This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."—Edith Hall, The...

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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

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Violeta Calleja Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Very proud of this project! @oscar-godoy.bsky.social @langa71.bsky.social

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In this new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social , Swapna Subramanian asks whether the performance of an ecological community can be predicted by the performance of its dominant member, using wild yeast on apple orchards. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Godoy et al. explored whether cooperation gives rise to mechanisms of coexistence that competition does not promote and found that cooperation promotes three unique mechanisms that diversify the pathways to coexistence. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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