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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join us for the next PopBio seminar on Thursday 24th September. Eloise Skinner (University of Queensland) will present "Pull one thread: how shifting ecosystems unravel into disease" Sign up link: forms.gle/6DkY5LDgdW7n...

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣We will soon be back for a new run of open online theoretical ecology seminars! We have six exciting speakers covering topics from all corners of the field to add to your calendars: In the meantime, there are 80+ previous talks on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Join us for the next PopBio seminar on Thursday 27 August. Giulia Ghedini (Monash University) @giuliaghedini.bsky.social will present: "Linking species traits to community assembly and stability" Sign up link: forms.gle/e1RYP4bXk3Yw...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The next PopBio seminar will be on Thursday 30 July. Chang-Yu Chang (Academia Sinica) @changyuchang.bsky.social will present: "Unravelling the emergent properties of plant-microbe symbiosis and community assembly" Sign up link: forms.gle/v5kRZKAdauG7...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Join us for the next PopBio seminar this Thursday 28 May! Samay Pande (Indian Institute of Science) @iamsamayp.bsky.social will present a talk titled "Microbial predation as a driver of antibiotic resistance in natural communities" Sign up link: forms.gle/2x8kmq44fpZb...

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Lynette Loke @lynetteloke.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I’m currently recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Melbourne. It’s a 3-year position focused on community ecology and biodiversity in coastal and intertidal systems. More details and how to apply: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External... Please feel free to share.

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Will Godsoe (Lincoln University) @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy will present the next PopBio on the Dark Side seminar: "Is there more to life than information?" Join us online next Thursday 30th April 1pm AEST. Please share widely. Sign up link here: forms.gle/y2Dssbf268bJ...

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting: ⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 10/04/2026

Researchers tracked individual diatoms—unicellular photosynthetic microalgae with rigid silica cell walls—as they glided along a surface using mobile adhesive strands that protrude through slits in their cell walls, known as raphes. In PNAS: ow.ly/3GnU50YFJwL

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Join us online Thursday 26th March. Mayumi Seto will present a seminar titled: A reaction-centric perspective on microbial community networks and ecosystem functions Please share widely. Sign up here: forms.gle/3QTsPyuEnE72...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We are pleased to be back for another year! Join us next Thursday 1pm AEST. Deepa Agashe (NCBS) @deepaagashe.bsky.social will present a seminar titled: Founders, shapers: Colonizing individuals predict trait and population dynamics in new habitats Sign up form below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more! Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Join us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year: Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences Sign up to this google form to receive the zoom link and future seminar announcements forms.gle/H6YgMuAgDWYS...

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics 📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Schematic illustrating how species interactions can depend on neighborhood density and identity.

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 29/10/2025

Very excited about this work led by Sergio

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar: The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...

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Louica Philipp @louzula.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱 "Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #ecology #phdlife #phdchat

Schematic figure from Philipp et al. 2025: Top left panel shows a satellite photo of multiple ponds in a landscape, top right panel shows the plankton community within a single pond as scheme drawing; the bottom left panel shows how the habitat (pond) structure is abstraced to a habiat network; the bottom right panel shows how the local community structure is abstracted to an aggregated food web model. Altogether, this 'trophic metacommunity' can show self-organisation that appear as biomass differences between habitats (denoted as differently shaded nodes of green and blue in the bottom left panel)

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Back in the field in Western Australia.

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar: Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales" Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar: "A unified theory of community structure" Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Save the dates! We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific. Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.

A photo of seeds that look like dried pieces of clay

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar: "Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens" Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST. Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present: "Artificial selection for collective composition" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa... NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

An image advertising the seminar as described in the main text but with the following abstract: Microbial communities can perform complex functions that individual microbes cannot achieve alone, but enhancing these collective functions through artificial selection is challenging. Here, we examine a simple microbial system to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the conditions necessary for successful artificial selection on collectives. By analyzing whether artificial selection can effectively drive the community toward a target composition, we predict its likelihood of success under different experimental setups and identify the key parameters that influence successful selection.

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Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST. Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present: "Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW... NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!

celebrate package:celebrate R Documentation

Audio 'announcements' when printing model summaries

Description:

The only function of this package is to augment the printing of
model summaries with appropriate sound effects based on whether
you have achieved the magical p<0.05 level of significance for at
least one variable (not including the intercept - we have to try
to be a _little_ bit sensible ...)

Details:

Sounds are taken from <http://freesounds.org>

To set an alpha-level different from 0.05, you can specify
‘options(celebrate.alpha = <value>)’

• fanfare: user primordiality,
<https://www.freesound.org/people/primordiality/sounds/78823/>
(CC BY 3.0)

• trombone: user kirbydx,
<https://www.freesound.org/people/kirbydx/sounds/175409/>
(CC0)

Examples:

## Not run:

m1 <- lm(speed~dist,cars)
m2 <- lm(Income~Population,data.frame(state.x77))
summary(m1)
summary(m2)
## chi-squared test
M <- as.table(rbind(c(762, 327, 468), c(484, 239, 477)))
dimnames(M) <- list(gender = c("F", "M"),
party = c("Democrat","Independent", "Republican"))
(Xsq <- chisq.test(M)) # Prints test summary
boring <- matrix(c(6,5,4,5), nrow = 2)
(chisq.test(boring))
## End(Not run)

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

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PopBio on the Dark Side @pop-bio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...

A list of seminar dates, speakers and titles for an online seminar 'PopBio on the Dark Side'.

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Courtney Taylor @courtgt.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Very excited for this online seminar series I am organising with @ecologyisamess.bsky.social @darmitage.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social Lynette Loke, Andrew Letten And Po-Ju Ke. Follow to find out more!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.

PCA can be thought of as fitting a p-dimensional ellipsoid to the data, where each axis of the ellipsoid represents a principal component. If some axis of the ellipsoid is small, then the variance along that axis is also small.

Figure 1b from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08531-5/figures/1

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