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Tan @ty-tan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 New research on how artificial marine substrates (wind turbines, solar panels) affect benthic suspension feeders. 💡Do mussels/oysters outcompete zooplankton? We used found refiltration regulates suspension feeder growth, enabling coexistence with zooplankton. 🌊 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
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macbeestje @macbeestje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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The Dynamic Energy Budget Theory | Starrlight Augustine
A radical theory which explains how life is metabolically organised
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on an Australian Research Council Laureate Project on climate change responses, applying a Julia implementation of the NicheMapR package. The work could go in control theory, DEB theory or population process directions unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
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Research Fellow in Biophysical Ecology
Role type: Full Time (1.0 FTE); Fixed term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of BioSciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 p.a. plus 17% super ARC-funded climate ...
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Tan @ty-tan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
(1/3) I’m happy to share a manuscript we wrote entitled “How to build Dynamic Energy Budget models: Practical guidelines for model development“. Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models are widely recognized as useful. However, these models are often perceived as complicated and difficult to implement.
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sylviegaudron.bsky.social @sylviegaudron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
doi.org/10.1038/s415... For the first time, the metabolism of a deep-sea vesicomyid clam living at 3300m deep and of its sulfur-oxidizing bacterial symbionts was modeled using the Dynamic Energy Budget Theory. This is very innovative!
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A novel bioenergetic model outlines the metabolism of a deep-sea clam and that of its sulfur-oxidizing symbionts - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A novel bioenergetic model outlines the metabolism of a deep-sea clam and that of its sulfur-oxidizing symbionts
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Scientific Pascal @scipastips.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, threatens agricultural productivity via crop damage and virus transmission. A novel individual-based model, implemented in #Embarcadero #Delphi, predicts population dynamics and helps to optimise control strategies. #Pascal #programming doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Silverleaf whitefly on a green surface. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silverleaf_whitefly.jpgGraphical abstract from the paper.

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The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, significantly threatens agricultural productivity through crop damage and virus transmission. This study developed and parametrized a dynamic energy budget theory-based toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) model to assess the mortality of immature whitefly stages and the impacts of spidoxamat exposure on fecundity and fertility in adults. The TKTD model was integrated into an individual-based model (IBM) to predict population dynamics and efficacy under field conditions, validated with field trial data from different locations in India, Pakistan, and Brazil. The integrated model identified optimal application strategies across varying pest pressure and temperature regimes. The IBM simulation results indicate that a second application can substantially enhance population control, particularly when timed between 7 and 14 days postinitial treatment, depending on ambient temperature and population structure. This timing is influenced by the efficacy half-life and the developmental duration of immature stages, emphasizing the importance of precise application strategies in managing B. tabaci populations effectively. The findings underscore the importance of integrating empirical data with modeling for a mechanistic understanding of effects and the development of effective pest management strategies in the face of evolving agricultural challenges.
Figure from the paper: Model validation with the field data. Nymph count and efficacy quantified in Field Trial 2. Dots are measured data (means and standard deviation for counts, and efficacy based on mean counts) while the lines and gray shades represent the median and 95% prediction intervals of 100 Monte Carlo simulations.
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
😱 Submission deadline extended! 💥Submit your manuscript to the DEB special issue until the 1st of May. Select VSI_DEB2025 as 'Article type' when submitting your work and to indicate in your cover letter that you wish it to be included in the special issue.👇 👉 www.editorialmanager.com/ecomod/defau...
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Tan @ty-tan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🚨🦪🌊 Renewable energy in marine ecosystems may favor benthic grazers. Using Dynamic Energy Budget theory, we show pelagic grazers mature faster and spend more energy on maintenance, while benthic grazers excel at biomass production— crucial for managing renewable energy impacts.👉 tinyurl.com/4cmd8byy
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📢 Are you searching for a PhD position? Take a look at this PhD opportunity in Zagreb, Croatia! 🌍 The application deadline has been extended until the 15th of December! 🚨
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
PhD position open in Zagreb! Join QPlast - Quantifying the effects of plastic ingestion on aquatic and terrestrial organisms 🐟🦎🦞 This 5-year project focuses on oceanology, and a mechanistic modeling of the effects of plastic ingestion. Deadline: Oct 27 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375961 💻🌍
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Romain Lavaud @romainlavaud.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Bivalves can bioextract about 11 % of riverine nitrogen inputs seasonally" A great implementation of DEB theory in a 3-D physical-biogeochemical model for the Canadian east coast. tinyurl.com/4vh2taye And how fitting when you use a theory that bears your name, Saswati 😉. Great work! #DEBtheory
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Effect of ecosystem stressors on biogeochemical processes and bivalve-mediated bioremediation approaches for estuary resilience
Nutrient loading, derived from human-induced land-based activities, poses a significant risk of anthropogenic eutrophication in most estuaries worldwi…
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨 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...
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INRAE_ecobiop @inrae-ecobiop.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
PhD opportunity in our lab: fully funded 3-year doctoral project (Jan 2026–Dec 2028) focused on reconstructing environmental variation in aquatic ecosystems from fish calcified structures, using Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory. All details here: nextcloud.inrae.fr/s/o8GK6jznnp...
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PhD_E2S_DEBone - EN.pdf
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Leanpub @leanpub.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New 📚 Release! Making sense of chemical stress: Application of Dynamic Energy Budget theory in ecotoxicology and stress ecology by Tjalling Jager #books #ebooks #science Find it on Leanpub! Link: leanpub.com/debtox_book
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Also, I know some paleontologists don't like it, but we really need to bring in more metabolics, bioenergetics, and dynamic energy budget theory into the discussion on fossils.
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨 Job alert! 📣 🐠🧪🔋 Curious about how DEB theory, fish bones, and otoliths can serve as time-resolved biosensors of environmental change? ✔️ Check out this 3-year PhD opportunity at the Université Pau Pays de l’Adour and INRAE, in Saint-Pée-sur- Nivelle! 😱🍷👍 nextcloud.inrae.fr/s/o8GK6jznnp...
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PhD_E2S_DEBone - EN.pdf
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚀 Interested in Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory? Our 📚 Zotero library is a free, curated collection of papers on DEB. We just hit 100 followers! 🎉 Join the growing community of researchers here: 🔗 www.zotero.org/groups/50064...
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Dynamic Energy Budget model for E. coli growth in carbon and nitrogen limitation conditions link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs
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Dynamic Energy Budget model for E. coli growth in carbon and nitrogen limitation conditions - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abstract The simulations and predictions obtained from mathematical models of bioprocesses conducted by microorganisms are not overvalued. Mechanistic models are bringing a better process understandin...
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Estimating algae parameters can be challenging, as these multi-reserve models heavily rely on the quantity and quality of datasets. Maria J. Lagunes explored how different kinds of experimental data help reduce the uncertainty of estimates, thus increasing their identifiability and prediction power
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨 Job alert! 📣 🐠🧪🔋 Interested in marine ecosystem modelling, ecotoxicology, and dynamic energy budget modelling? ✔️ Check out this DEB post-doc opportunity at the MARBEC laboratory in Sète, France! 😱 A 24–39-month postdoctoral position in IRD. 👍 umr-marbec.fr/poste/marbec...
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Postdoctoral position IRD: "Modelling the impacts of pollutions in global marine ecosystems"
We are advertising a 24-month post-doctoral position, extendable up to 39-months, in the framework of the PPR Ocean & Climate project PREVENT (Pre
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Diogo F. Oliveira introduced a new method for initializing DEB parameter estimation at the DEB 2025 symposium. He developed a nearest-neighbor model and a neural network, achieving feasible solutions 99% of the time, aiming for faster convergence by starting closer to true species parameters.
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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Here is a recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Pau Capera-Aragones, Joany Mariño, Amy Hurford, Rebecca C. Tyson, and Eric Foxall on a Whole-Colony Dynamic Energy Budget Model for Bumble Bees: Assessing the Impact of Wildflower Patches on Crop Pollination. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪
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Whole-Colony Dynamic Energy Budget Model for Bumble Bees: Assessing the Impact of Wildflower Patches on Crop Pollination - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Bumble bees are important pollinators of many crops around the world. In recent decades, agricultural intensification has resulted in significant declines in bumble bee populations and the pollination...
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Emily Stevenson @emastevenson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Super happy to announce that the first of my PhD chapters has been published in Ecology and Evolution ✨🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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To What Extent Can Life History Strategies Inform Reptile Conservation Planning?
Conservation planners must effectively target interventions to reduce the extinction risk of species. If we can use a species' life history strategies to predict their responses to interventions, thi...
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🇬🇷 The DEB 2025 Symposium was a big success. 🥳 Presentations ranged from theoretical developments, the evolution of traits and biodiversity, stress ecology and ecotoxicology, to metabolism across levels of organization. 🤯 DEB theory is now actively used on several fronts of applied science. 🍀🐄⚗️
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
And so it begins! The DEB 2025 symposium kicked off with a presentation entitled "The evolution of how life harnesses energy and elements, from the big bang to biodiversity" by Gonçalo Marques @g-m-marques.bsky.social
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🇬🇷 This was the amazing team of students and teachers from the DEB School 2025! 🤯🧠🙉 🚨Stay tuned for the DEB Symposium ⚠️
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🏝 We had an amazing DEB School field trip to the island of Spinalonga. 🐠🦭🤩
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🙉 The DEB School 2025 is being held in Heraklion, Greece! 🌊🏖 Some amazing lectures by Nina Marn @ninamarn.bsky.social , Bas Kooijman, Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social and Tan Yeuw @ty-tan.bsky.social 🫰
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🤯 Kick off lectures from the DEB school 2025 in Heraklion, Greece! 🏝 We had some amazing lectures from Gonçalo Marques @g-m-marques.bsky.social, Dina Lika, Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social, and Bas Kooijman! 🧠
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Mélanie Debelgarric @melaniedebelgarric.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My first paper as first author is finally out! Our article explores evolutionary constraints at the physiological level using DEB theory. ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... #EvolutionaryBiology #DEBtheory #Bioenergetic #EcologicalModelling
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🚨 The abstract submission deadline for the DEB 2025 Symposium is March 14th! Don't forget to send yours 📢🐠🐸 The symposium will be held in Heraklion, Greece! 🇬🇷 Find out more at the website: deb2025.sciencesconf.org #creteregion #περιφερεια_κρητης
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Ninth International School and Symposium on DEB theory for metabolic organization - Sciencesconf.org
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨⚠️ Abstract submission deadline for the DEB Symposium extended 🥳! The new deadline is march 14th. Find out more at deb2025.sciencesconf.org
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Ninth International School and Symposium on DEB theory for metabolic organization - Sciencesconf.org
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The DEB School and Symposium will be held in the amazing island of Crete this year! Registration and abstract submissions are open. Are you joining? deb2025.sciencesconf.org
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Ninth International School and Symposium on DEB theory for metabolic organization - Sciencesconf.org
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Interested in learning the essentials of DEB theory? We have a new completely open and online course starting soon! Find out more at courses.elearning.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/courses/cour...
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Dynamic Energy Budgets
This course focuses on modelling metabolism at the organism level, covering the full life-cycle, using the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) Theory which is applicable to all species.
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Did you see the latest papers from the DEB special issue in Ecological Modelling? Check them out: bit.ly/EcoModelling
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Ecological Modelling | Metabolic organization across scales of space and time | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
As we enter the anthropocene and are now crossing dangerous planetary boundaries, numerical modelling is a critical tool that scientists, managers, and stakeholders need to assess the effects of these...
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Add-My-Pet curator workshop is taking place at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. The curators are discussing developments in AmP project and preparation for DEB2025 School and Symposium. Stay tuned for more! Thanks EU /NextGenerationEU program for sponsoring this meeting!
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Dynamic energy budget model for a bumble bee colony: Predicting the spatial distribution and dynamics of colonies across multiple seasons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Dynamic energy budget model for a bumble bee colony: Predicting the spatial distribution and dynamics of colonies across multiple seasons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.05.583508v1
Bumble bees are important pollinators of many crops around the world. In recent decades, agricultura
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Daniele (Dani) Wiley @dlfwiley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"The question arises: #Wildlife (like humans) may be surviving with #climatechange & infectious #disease, but are they thriving?" Evaluation of the energetic cost to surviving during these uncertain (🦠) & stressful (🌡️) times through a dynamic energy budget (DEB) framework. 👏 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Non‐lethal effects of climate change and infectious disease: An energetics approach to understanding population impacts
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Dynamic Energy Budget @debtheory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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