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Jhelam N. Deshpande

@djhelam1.bsky.social
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I am interested in modelling biological system complexity relevant to ecology and evolution. Post doc at UC San Diego. Website: djhelam.github.io Google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=R…

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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I & @satavisha-de.bsky.social , move up the career ladder, the tampons in the bathroom may increase, but the women around us do not. Despite policies meant to patch its cracks, academia continued to sieve out women. We saw it, we heard it from our peers. So we looked for the literature.
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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology
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Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 27/03/2026
Predicting the effect of a #mutation on #fitness is hard. @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social &co use fitness effects of adaptive yeast mutants to show that underlying genotype-phenotype-fitness maps are low-dimensional but context-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dLy2Ez
Two models for the nature of pleiotropy in adaptation. Left: Schematic of the environmental structure in this study. Environments can be mapped onto a multidimensional environment space characterized by chemical and physical compositions. The large green circle represents an environment where adaptive mutants evolved, and the large pink circle is a distant environment. Around each base, a set of identical environmental perturbations (arrows) is applied, generating clusters of similar environments around distinct base environments. Top right: Schematic of fitnotype map for adaptive mutants near their home base environment. By measuring fitness in each of the green environments, one can infer how many fitnotypes matter for this set of mutants in their home environment. Here, only four of the possible 8 fitnotypes matter. Bottom right: When the mutants are moved to the distant base environment, and their fitness is measured in all pink environments (base and perturbations), there are two possibilities. Either more fitnotypes become important and the space appears higher-dimensional (left, pleiotropic expansion), or the set of fitnotypes that matters remains low-dimensional, but shifts (right, pleiotropic shift).
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Universities are meant to model openness and critical thinking. Yet many academics remain silent about injustice within their own institutions. This new article from @ecrlife.bsky.social examines two entrenched mechanisms that may be helping sustain that culture. buff.ly/XRQ7F0R
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Of the Structural Pressures That Silence Academics
Since their inception, universities have been regarded as lighthouses guiding the storm-tossed ship of society. These institutions, tasked with generating ideas that shape and secure the future of…
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
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Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes
Abstract. Spatial network structure impacts the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions. Previous work on host–parasite systems has sh
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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
Ilustration of evolution in ecological communities, feuturing Drosophila
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Will Shoemaker @shoestrapped.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
One of the most unique aspects of ICTP is our Diploma Programme. Pre-PhD students from the Global South spend 1 year in Trieste to gain knowledge and skills necessary to pursue PhDs worldwide. The 2026-2027 call is now open w/ a February 28 deadline. Please circulate. www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...
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Call for Applications, Postgraduate Diploma Programme | ICTP
Are you a student who dreams of earning a PhD in physics or mathematics, but who lives in a country lacking such opportunities? ICTP could be your first step on the path to attaining a PhD.
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
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Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
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Katy Stephenson @kstephensonmd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.
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Jhelam Deshpande - Ecology, Evolution and Networks
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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Excited to share our new preprint! Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges: doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142 #ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling
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From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions
Species distributions are governed by both ecological and evolutionary processes. Traditionally, ecological factors have been the primary focus of species distribution studies, but recent work emphasi...
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems. @efronhofer.bsky.social
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.
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Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems
Abstract. Spatial network structure of biological systems drives ecology and evolution by distributing organisms and their genes. The ubiquitous host–paras
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Glad that the first thing that I share on here is our (@efronhofer.bsky.social , Vasilis Dakos and Oliver Kaltz) work from my PhD thesis at @isemevol.bsky.social on host parasite eco-evolution in spatial networks out now in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems
Abstract. Spatial network structure of biological systems drives ecology and evolution by distributing organisms and their genes. The ubiquitous host–paras
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