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Kyle E. Coblentz

@kecoblentz.bsky.social
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Lifelong student of ecology and evolution. Assistant Professor in Population Ecology at Colby College. For more: kylecoblentz.weebly.com

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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sometimes Buster tries to scratch with his non-existent back leg and I find it so funny. I've only managed to capture it on video once though. You're welcome.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I declined a review today, and, for the first time, there was no option to recommend other potential reviewers? I always do, because I feel bad about declining, but this was new for me.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Another rotifer just spinning around.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Asplanchna!
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Has anyone hired an illustrator for a conceptual figure for a paper? Unfortunately, art is not one of my talents ... @tessgrainger.bsky.social You hired someone for the figure in the Theory for Empiricists paper, right?
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'm just a pond water account now.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My students and I found some colonial rotifers today.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Buster by the apartment fan today. We survived the heat wave!
A shaved long-haired three-legged cat laying on his back.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just finished my poster for the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference! I'm very excited to show some new work (very new!) about predator adaptation to varying prey densities and the emergence of macroecological scaling laws!
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Found this mite today and couldn't help myself.
Picture of an aquatic mite with a smile drawn on it to make it look like a smiley face.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Students and I have been struggling to keep paramecium alive from the campus pond. Today we looked at the conductivity and it is 15x higher than other local ponds. Nearly 1ppt salinity!
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Jenn Sunday @jennsunday.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...
Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference, July 12-17, 2026. Image depicting the themes and ideas at this years' conference. List of topics explored in 2026: 
Scaling temperature-performance from organisms to ecosystems, Counting humans in a unified ecology
Do microbes make or break the rules in ecology?
Applying network concepts to predict ecological change
Principles for understanding scaling of time in ecology
Observational vs. theoretical frameworks for ecological prediction
Evaluating whether species traits advance predictive ecology
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Y'all better watch out. I have access to the college's high performance computing cluster now.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just had a minor panic attack because I thought I screwed up the units in a paper I published. Luckily, I didn't. But, wow, how do people fabricate data?
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Biannual Buster shaved pic.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I was so jealous as I went to work this morning of how cozy Buster was ...
A very fluffy three-legged cat curled in a heated cat bed.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What a weird guy.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just registered for my favorite conference -- the Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference (www.grc.org/unifying-eco...). Can't wait for a week of some best ecology discussions you will find anywhere!
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2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Seminar on Unifying Ecology Across Scales (GRS) will be held in Easton, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Long cat.
A fluffy three-legged tabby cat stretching and verrrry long.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My first east coast nudibranch!
A nudibranch in a tidepool.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Another gem when screening papers this evening: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just came across this paper in the journal "Insects" that is mostly about birds eating isopods (which are not insects): www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16.... Apparently, the journal "Insects" has a section called "Other Arthropods and General Topics." More reasons to distrust MDPI ...
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm covering disease ecology in class tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to trigger everyone's COVID PTSD with all this talk of R_0's and transmission rates and what not. Luckily we will wrap up with a discussion of this fun disease ecology paper: doi.org/10.1890/08-2...
doi.org
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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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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I sure do love putting questionably relevant images into my problem sets ...
A screenshot from a problem set with the text 'Perfectly substituting spiders' with two images. One of a male and female zebra jumping spider both feeding on the same midge, and another with a famous scene from Lady and the Tramp where two dogs are slurping the same spaghetti noodle.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It's resource-based competition week! Going to unleash ZNGIs and consumption and supply vectors on the students.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Probably a stretch, but I'm looking for deep-well projection slides. Picture attached. Carolina used to make these, but it looks like they don't sell them anymore? Maybe not surprising since they were made to use with slide projectors ... I'd be happy for any leads.
Picture of someone pipetting liquid into a deep-well projection slide.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Like most cliches, that adage about not truly understanding something until you have to teach it sure is true. I'm covering some classic life history models this week (not my forte), and my previous understanding really was surface level ...
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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿 @kristennolting.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢
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three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .
Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
As a biologist, I love that I can be looking at a bunch of pictures of sea turtles in my office and that's just totally normal.
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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿 @kristennolting.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Crowd-sourcing my #EcoEvo Friends! What, in your mind, makes a "good" & fundable research proposal idea? I'm talking with my upper-level evolution class about this tomorrow (undergrads only) in preparation for them writing a NSF GRFP-style proposal as a semester long project. Thanks!
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a white cat is laying on a person 's lap and the word thinking is next to it
Alt: a white cat is laying on a person 's lap and the word thinking is next to it
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Trying some old school lecturing this semester. Just me, the white board, and my notes (+ some R vignettes).
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Saw my first Bohemian waxwings today in a spectacular fashion. A flock of 100s descended on campus!
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Truly settling into Assistant Professor life sending a reference letter at 11pm.
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New paper with @mhab.bsky.social @jdyeakel.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social out now in @pnas.org! We show when and why you can know something about an entire network, just by knowing the behavior of it's building blocks: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS
When studying a complex system, it is often useful to think of the system as a network of interacting units. One can then ask if some properties of...
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New Preprint with Francis Biagioli and John DeLong: Predator interference imposes similar foraging time costs compared to handling time across taxa www.authorea.com/users/925774... (1/x)
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Predator interference imposes similar foraging time costs compared to handling time across taxa
F. P. Biagioli1,a, K.E. Coblentz2,b, J.P. DeLong1,c1.School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA2.Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA    a. fb...
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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Attending the Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC was one of the highlights of my PhD, and this year's edition is going to be excellent! All biologists interested in integrating diverse approaches to further our understanding of the natural world are welcome. Register early! shorturl.at/rIjWx
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A great conference to go to this summer – who could oppose unifying ecology on multiple scales?
I just finished attending a great conference (Island Biogeography Society), which reminded me how fun and intellectually stimulating a really good conference is. So here’s my recommendation f…
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I had a great time today introducing my Honor's thesis advisee to Bayesian statistics and implementing a hierarchical model for phenological changes.
Picture of a white board illustrating a hierarchical model for phenology with and across years.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in Neurobiology in the Biology Department at Colby! See the ad here: apply.interfolio.com/179919. I can try to answer any questions that interested folks might have, and please share if you know someone who might be interested! 🧪 🧠📈 #NeuroJobs
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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 27/10/2025
Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
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Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
That's right, folk! THREE TENURE TRACK JOBS IN BIOLOGY AT UMASS BOSTON! You might even be a good fit for more than one! Check 'em out! We'd love to have you!
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Shaved Buster being a weirdo.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Buster got his biennial shave.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Buster is getting high.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We are hiring an immunologist in the Biology Department at Colby! apply.interfolio.com/173466 Please apply or share!
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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Vadim Karatayev @lifenonlinear.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Interested in theory and looking for a postdoc or grad school? Come talk to me at #ESA2025! resiliencelab.github.io/join/
resiliencelab.github.io
Join Us
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Just an upside down Buster apparently dreaming about food.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Made it to Maine. Now to get finish preparing for the Fall semester!
Cat in a crate moving to Maine.The ocean at Hendrick's Head Beach.
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Kyle E. Coblentz @kecoblentz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?
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