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Ellie Hay

@eleanorhay.bsky.social
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Post Doctoral Associate | University of Miami, FL Macroevolution, macroecology, PCMs, illustration 🐦🪱🌱 PhD @Monash University 🇦🇺 | Bsc(Hons) @University of Otago 🇳🇿 eleanorhay.com

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 01/06/2026
As animals with relatively large mouths, such as tortoises, have been extirpated from or declined on the Virgin Islands, plants with relatively large seeds have become “orphaned.” Without animals able to eat them, the seeds are not dispersed. In PNAS: ow.ly/KJn450Z6hqQ
Critically endangered Puerto Rican amazon parrots (Amazona vittata) consuming fruits of Aiphanes minima, a large-fruited palm endemic to the Caribbean region. 
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Anne Katula @mycorrhizanne.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Check out our new paper, Multilevel selection informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning! This is my very first first-authored publication, and I worked w some incredible folks to make it happen: @meafkhami.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social and Nancy Johnson! doi.org/10.3389/frmb...
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Frontiers | Multilevel selection theory informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form widespread, ancient, and critically important symbioses with plants, but their functioning and beneficial effects are ...
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Check out our new Tansley review on climate, plants, and microbes! I enjoyed working with a team of friendly and knowledgeable scientists. @meafkhami.bsky.social @kerricrawford.bsky.social @aclassen.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social @damianmicroeco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions
Plant microbiomes have the potential to mitigate the impacts of climate change, yet both the complexity of climate change and the complexity of plant–microbe interactions make applications and future....
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Ellie Hay @eleanorhay.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Come check out my talk at #ESA2025 today! I'll be chatting about some of my Postdoc research on mutualisms and how they impact niche breadth and diversification in the Eco-Evolutionary processes session in BCC344 at 1:45pm!
Powerpoint presentation slide for a talk titled "Hidden players in evolution: the impact of fungal endophytes on niche breadth and diversification across Poa (bluegrass)". Contains an image of a grass with a microscope image of an endophyte present in a grass seed.
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Come check out my presentation on what community properties can predict microbiome resistance to drought today! #ESA2025 COS 015 BCC 336 3:30-5:00
Picture of presentation title slide showing a soil landscape.
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Check out this video of our research on soil microbiomes at Archbold Biological Station! news.miami.edu/stories/2025...
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Fábio K. Mendes @fabiology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My 2nd dissertation chapter is out in Plant, Cell, & Environment! We use a model legume to assess how plant host genotype and microbes non-additively interact to shape plant growth and disease ecology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....
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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Wonderful opportunity. So excited for where Sophie and our team have taken the Antarctic program.
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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems! DUE: Feb. 17 WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3 WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer) WHO: 10 UGs $: 7k each Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility! sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪
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Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner @rgoldenkroner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Deep, fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world are urgently needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and safeguard life on Earth Learn more in the @ipbes.bsky.social report on #TransformativeChange: buff.ly/403x65Y #TransformationTuesday 🧪 🌍
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My dissertation chapter is in Ecology Letters! We tested microbiome network theory empirically in nature and found central early colonisers significantly (1) enhanced biodiversity, (2) reshaped assembly trajectories and (3) increased recruitment of non-peripheral microbes. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Central Taxa Are Keystone Microbes During Early Succession
For decades, microbiome network theory has predicted that highly connected ‘hub’ taxa act as keystone species that disproportionately affect their communities. However, this has never been empiricall...
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