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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New paper just dropped! In a collaboration led by @jdyeakel.bsky.social, we explored how body size and the bioenergetics of trophic interactions constrain coexistence and shapes the evolution of body size and diets in mammalian carnivores. 🐺🦊🐅🐆🐻🦁

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Bioenergetic trophic trade‐offs determine mass‐dependent extinction thresholds across the Cenozoic

Body size constrains trophic interactions, shaping the feasibility of species' populations. Over macroevolutionary timescales, these constraints feed back to shape selection on body size and diet. We...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Good to hear the news of LTER's death has been exaggerated!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm lucky enough to be part of the Sevilleta LTER in New Mexico... I don't know what happens now... there is so much to rebuild once we are able to rebuild. If.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Without knowing anything else about this book, I love the cover art... it's got that '60s Lost in Space vibe

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I've always loved reading about the moon landings (and early NASA missions generally), and I'm thankful/excited to have something in the news that's exciting and that captivates the imagination...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Check out this very cool new paper by Stephen Hoover, @akfbio.bsky.social , and I’m serving drinks in the back - it’s wild!

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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If you like matrices + microbes, have I got the paper for you. Work with @janamassing.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We study dynamics of cooperative bacteria without specifying a conventional model: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Very excited to share this new exploration of motifs and their impacts on the dynamics of the entire network in PNAS! I learned a lot working with this crew (as usual)... with @mhab.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social !

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

New paper where we explore how the dynamics of food webs can be explored when populations are ‘distilled’ to high and low states, or Boolean switches… Somehow this leads to a discussion involving Otodus megalodon :D nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Distilling food web dynamics: top–down and bottom–up drivers of extinction and trophic cascades

Quantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on cont...

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Okay Open Nature… are you *trying* to make me eat cat food?

A can of Open Nature cat food and human food (tuna) looking remarkably similar…

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution" Our new article is out in @science.org today www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New paper in Science! Luke Fannin and Nate Dominy on the bridge; I'm some kind of assistant science officer or asking the chief engineer where the bathroom is, but hey I'm part of the fleet -- Also, it's just a really awesome project, so check it out... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

Dietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My book drops in 2 months! “This is an essential, long-overdue guide, and a wonderful read.” -Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter @sgj.bsky.social Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/7576/97988... Barnes: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feral-and-...

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READING GUIDE TO DARK AND DISTURBING
FICTION BY WOMEN

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Exciting opportunity for prospective grad students wanting to study the science of science w/ @culturologies.co … check it out! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

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Career Opportunities: PhD in Social Networks and Information (14282)

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Looks like Elon flew too close to a bloated orange giant ☀️

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

How is your day going? for k in 1:length(ksdvec) ksd = ksdvec[k]; ksdname = ksdstrs[k]; ksd = 1.5; ....(long simulation).... end

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Jim Estes was one of my PhD advisors at UCSC… a generator of great ideas and discussions, always angling positive when others tried to tear down, a rockstar who didn’t act like a rockstar. This was my slide for Jim in my dissertation seminar… thanks for the good conversations and caribou sausage

Was Jim Estes Indiana Jones? Pretty much, but with sea otters 🦦

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New paper on food-cleaning monkeys showing some true grit. Led by Jessica Rosien, Nate Dominy, Luke Fannin, Suchinda Malaivijitnond and Amanda Tan - this was a fun collaboration :D 🐒 elifesciences.org/articles/98520

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Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returns

Monkeys are sensitive to foods coated with tooth-damaging sand and will invest time and energy to eliminate sand, but dominance rank affects the effort allocated to cleaning behaviors.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I resigned because of a profound breakdown in governance, transparency, and accountability at the NSF—issues I felt obligated to bring to public attention.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The dynamics of microbial cooperation... Cheap metabolites make for shaky friendships; but pricier ones can keep the peace... 🦠 Thanks @janamassing.bsky.social for leading the charge! And great working again w/ @akfbio.bsky.social & @thilogross.bsky.social

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Sergey Kryazhimskiy @skryazhi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A new preprint from the lab. Might be of interest to people who use barcode lineage tracking to catch de novo adaptive mutations. #popgen #evolbiol

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Excited to be included on this - a very exciting project and I learned a lot working with @mhab.bsky.social @thilogross.bsky.social and @akfbio.bsky.social (as usual) 😀

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Real life is apparently Jurassic Park, but without [non-avian] dinosaurs…

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Favorite pop-sci book outside of my field (far far outside)… read this in grad school in 2009 and need to revisit sometime soon.

Black holes and time warps book by Kip Thorne

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Julie K. @jklingen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Congrats to @wsj.com for breaking this news yesterday. In a word: egregious. @brianstelter.bsky.social pushes this quid pro quo story forward.

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm submitting a paper to a journal that uses double blind reviews... all well and good. But they also want the data/code, which I store in GitHub and archive to Zenodo... of course this is linked to me... not to mention the code is replete with self-identifying snippets... ideas?

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Research Lab Tech Lead - Baucom Lab | U-M Careers

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New preprint! Population sizes are unknowable for many species... but is low-res information still useful for exploring dynamics? We model species as either high or low in abundance—a useful way to explore how food web structure impacts extinction risk and trophic cascades: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11220

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Coarse-Graining Cascades Within Food Webs

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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 17/02/2025

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