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Jo Latimore @jolatimore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wisconsin study: Herbicide treatments for invasive Eurasian watermilfoil in lakes harm native plants and may even intensify the impact of the invasion. Whole-lake treatments, most likely to control invasive plants, are also most likely to harm native plants. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nqx614Z6t...

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Petra Levin @redrockcity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

4 years (!) in the making, in this review Jade Wang and I detail the fundamental processes underlying growth, the cell autonomous nature of homeostatic control, and the contribution of stochasticity to both. TL;DR Bacteria are more like teenagers than you think. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bacterial growth rate in populations and single cells - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Levin and Wang give a brief history of bacterial growth rate and discuss how it is connected to nutrient availability and macromolecule synthesis, with a focus on (p)ppGpp as a ce...

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We (ecologists) should probably be talking about structural uncertainty much more than we currently do.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not typically a celebrity death poster, but this is my favorite author and I am very, very sad to hear this and very, very happy that she published the work that she did.

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great collection of Shiny apps (and R package) for #teaching #ecology. Apps come in different languages (including Spanish) ecoevoapps.gitlab.io

Partial list of Shiny apps designed for teaching ecology, hosted at https://ecoevoapps.gitlab.io/

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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🎉 New paper (and data) on editorial & peer review at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. With a wonderful team! @samzhang.bsky.social, @nicklaberge.bsky.social, Quinten and @aaronclauset.bsky.social. 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Elite general science journals shape scientific discourse, public policy, and scientific careers. However, expectations of confidentiality in most editorial proceedings has limited efforts to understand and improve the review process. Here, we describe and release deidentified data on 110,303 manuscript submissions over 5 years at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. Analyzing evaluation dynamics across the initial editorial review and subsequent peer review stages, we find strong selective effects associated with higher institutional prestige, larger team size, and certain topics and countries. Corresponding authors who are men exhibit a small but significant advantage at Science, while authors based in China have a significant disadvantage. These associations are generally stronger in editorial review than in peer review, even as final editorial decisions correlate strongly with reviewer advice. These patterns highlight the complexity of multistage evaluations at elite journals and the importance of open data to better understand them.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Question from a disgruntled ECR: Where are the groups/organizations working toward more radical academic reform? I’m particularly interested in alternative publishing models that divest from big academic publishing companies.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Influenza spreads faster in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when hospital beds run short. A new paper in Biology Letters, led by SFI's Brandon Ogbunu, introduces "structural causal influence," quantifying how social inequality shapes disease spread and whether interventions work.

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Modeling social inequality in epidemics

For decades, researchers have rigorously documented the way social inequality shapes the spread of disease. In parallel, mathematical models have emerged for forecasting epidemics and weighing differe...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Better yet: stop publishing scholarly journals w/ commercial publishers! One issue is prob the editorial assumption that one has no power. Someone else founded a journal yrs ago. You took over editorship. Ask to see a contract! Talk to your predecessor! Ask: Why are we here? You don’t have to be!

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The issues in this article are, to me, some of the more root sources of the current, pervasive rot of academia. Collectively, academics hold much more agency than we have exercised to remedy these issues. The time for platitudes is over.

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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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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Stealing this to explain to my ecologist colleagues why I spend so much time simulating stuff

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Mridul K. Thomas @mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Paul Ehrlich is remembered for a bet that he lost, and a population prediction that went wrong. Many environmental scientists seem to remember him warmly for 'raising awareness'. They should not. His legacy is both stupid and vile beyond imagination. (1)

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Folks, the use of AI to write reviews is a clear violation of peer review ethics + it endangers the authors' intellectual property rights. Don't do it.

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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

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GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR: Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems

Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

97% of the papers archived the data but only 35% archived the code. Most people are writing code but not sharing it. Time to bring up this again: scispace.com/pdf/publish-... (and if the code isn't good enough yet, maybe it's too early to publish the paper) #openscience #reproducibility #ecopubs

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

📣Next week, we restart our online series with Theo Gibbs (NYU) @theogibbs.bsky.social, who will present: ⭐Do higher-order interactions promote coexistence in diverse ecological communities?⭐ Free and open! Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global time checker: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2026

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“Ultimately (in our view), this happens because the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge.” Been thinking a lot lately about the systemic consequences of publishing slop.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Seeing myself in a post on the internet

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Will definitely give the linked paper a read! I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot for the past couple months (or years). Been grappling with my absolute refusal to think about one thing and the cost I’ve incurred to my career. *queue worlds smallest violin for Jeremy’s intellectual pity party*

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#Bayesian and #INLA folks: I’m just starting to dig into the INLA world, so I have plenty more reading to do on the nuts and bolts.. but im wondering why I’m not seeing any joint species distribution modeling using INLA. Is the multivariate response an issue for defining the model as a LGM?

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology

Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Keep thinking about this and the core problem, of course, isn't the use of AI tools for science. It's the fact that we have established such a system of scientific norms and incentives that generated literatures-full of junk science that we're scared of a tech capable of scaling that up real fast.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

General career update for folks: I recently started a new position as a researcher with the New York State Natural Heritage Program. I’m stoked to be back involved in northeastern conservation biology and using my quant skills in new and fun ways :)

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

Photo of a large number of scarlet monkeyflower plants growing in southern California (photo by MC Moazed).

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Reviewing a revised submission of a paper I reviewed awhile back, and I noticed that 1) other reviewer clearly LLM'd their whole review and 2) the authors' responses read as though they were partly LLM-generated... I love reviewing papers, but this feels like I'm conversing with two robots.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A probability matrix is not conscious. For fucks sake.

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Posterior predictive checking of binary, categorical and many ordinal models with bar graphs is useless. Even the simplest models without covariates usually have such intercept terms that category specific probabilities are learned perfectly. Can you guess which model, 1 or 2, is misspecifed? 1/4

Useless posterior predictive checking bar graphs for Models 1 and 2

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Stochastic Forces in Microbial Community Assembly: Founding Community Size Governs Divergent Ecological Trajectories www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

An algorithm that scientists can use to code up analyses... that is often wrong but prioritizes getting some output out... and is programmed to speak with utter confidence in the output... terrifies me to my core. Systematically... what do we even do about this?

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Elizabeth McCarthy @emccnicotiana.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

#Botany2025 ! My talk is in Smoketree D/E today (Mon) at 11:45am, but more importantly, these FANTABULOUS @sunycortland undergrads have posters tonight! Come learn about how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers! :) 💖

Slide advertising SUNY cortland undergrad posters at Botany 2025 on how polyploidy affects Nicotiana flowers: posters 181, 184, and 186

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

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Maira Cardoso @mairacardoso.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

📢New paper alert ‼️ Excited to share our new paper out now in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social We evaluated how oil palm plantations affect the community structure of Amazonian birds, with a focus on functional and phylogenetic diversity. Read more here tinyurl.com/4ubwjr7s

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

While writing There Is No Place for Us, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried throughout my reporting—the outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure. This review by @lilysanca.bsky.social says everything I hoped the book would convey, and more:

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You’re Not Angry Enough About Homelessness in America

Homelessness is increasingly caused by soaring rents and low wages, not laziness or personal failures. The solution is strong government intervention to house everyone and to end landlords’ control ov...

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Here is an article highlight for this recent #BulletinMathBio paper, with a short summary of the paper written by the authors. smb.org/news/13519509

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Society for Mathematical Biology - BMB Article Highlight: Pierre Monmarché et al. (2025)

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Writing papers like I'm the Carrie Bradshaw of ecology.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So now that I have the doctorate, I get to just be a weirdo, right? That’s how it works? Cause I’m gonna go ahead and be weird now if thats cool.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Idk guys, the idea that 'nature' is some entity that intrinsically heals seems similarly reductionist to medieval European ideas that subjugate the 'wild' as an abode of evil. What if we wrote rich literature that reflects the infinite feelings/relationships one may have w/ their surroundings.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I've got a lot of thoughts about this blog post (love it). This topic is actually one that I obsess over daily. The metaphorical machine that pumps out unbelievable, sloppy papers that get read as as Truth terrifies me. The senior researchers that act like this isn't the case make me deeply m/sad.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I think that I’ve decided to give up entirely on statistical ecology. My new method of inference is going to be putting my hand on a tree and intuiting the parameter values.

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Jeremy Collings @jeremycollings.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Late to the party, but love the Stan forum's pride logo. Never been a better time to be a gay Bayesian statistician.

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Justin Luong, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🌾 @justinluong.com · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride from California Native Plants!

Progressive Pride Flag made in 2022 by Dr. Justin Luong from photos taken by Justin Luong of California Native Plants.

#Pride
#Pride2025
##CaliforniaNativePlants

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Your occasional reminder that I maintain a curated list of resources for scientific writers. Is it exhaustive? Heck no. It is useful? I think you'll find it so. scientistseessquirre...

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Writing Resources

Writing is a huge part of any career in science, and for many writers – no, for most writers – it’s a daunting challenge. But it’s not a challenge that you have to tackle alone. That’s a lesson I w…

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