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Akira Terui

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Quantitative Ecologist. aterui.github.io/aquaecolab

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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Microbiology at UNC Greensboro: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
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Assistant Professor Microbiology
The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look - Sara Sarna 🎨 Elana Weust
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." Cormac McCarthy Kevin Kia artwork
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
© Elena Wuest. 'Airy Garden.' Oil on canvas, 2025. 180 x 110 cm.
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A functional-trophic pathway links riparian land use intensification to riverine community stability | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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A functional-trophic pathway links riparian land use intensification to riverine community stability
Intensive land use is transforming river corridors worldwide, with the agricultural and urban land use intensification being most prominent. Understanding how these pervasive pressures affect function...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NSF releases some NOFOs for some directorates. Staff say they've been held up at OSTP for a while.
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August 2026 Notices of Funding Opportunity for Foundational Research
Learn about new NSF funding opportunities prioritizing foundational research across the sciences and engineering.
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
© Daniel Loveday. 'Goldfish.' Oil on canvas, 2021. 40 x 50 cm.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
By Heyshiro Matsuoka
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore. I shall roll on and on and on, and break upon your lap with laughter. - Rabindranath Tagore 🎨 Louis Cylkow (1877 - 1934)
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A wonderfully appropriate Banksy
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Doug Eifrid @dougeifrid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” — Loren Eiseley John Morris, Irish artist oil on canvas painting
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
by Josef Kote
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The superposition method for the reconstruction of food webs - Barbieri - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The superposition method for the reconstruction of food webs
Understanding trophic positions is essential for analysing complex food webs. While calculating these positions can be straightforward when feeding relationships and their proportions are known, d...
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems
A long-standing hypothesis of microbial ecology is that simple patterns might persist despite community complexity or even emerge because of it. However, the concept of “emergent simplicity” remains p...
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Pirates The pirate’s galleon drifts— Away from the shore To her daily toil In quest of spoil To waylay some wanderer of the sea. - Sadakichi Hartmann 🎨 Keith Thompson
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Anatolily Lucash
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Painting #ReadingOnBeach #Summer They float over the sand like sets of musical notes The waves tempt me from the soft adventure of reading on the beach. 🎨 Karen Hollingsworth
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Robust coexistence in competitive ecological communities - Nature Communications
Species compete intensely with their own kind, and this self-limitation shapes how species coexist within communities. This study shows that in large competitive ecological communities, coexistence is...
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community
Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Karen Mathison Schmidt (American, born 1957) "A Quiet Morning in Spring", 2012. Acrylic on Cradled Gessoboard, 18 × 24 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
and I got something out of it -
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Really cool - "Stocks must therefore be orbiting the [shared] attractor asynchronously to produce the observed uncorrelated fluctuations." Inspiring statement.
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Ecological stability through nonlinear fluctuations and the portfolio effect | PNAS
Much ecological theory has pursued understanding the mechanisms that stabilize communities, yet empirical analyses reveal deterministic nonlinear d...
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sometimes, the math in bifurcating river networks gets CRAZY. From Shreve 1967..."the # of links of magnitude mu in this population, which in turn is the # of ways that the N(mu)..." :) :) :)
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Integrating network and stable isotope approaches to reveal food web structures - Vagnon - Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Integrating network and stable isotope approaches to reveal food web structures
Progress in food web ecology relies on assessing the strengths, limitations and complementarity of different approaches to characterize food web structures. We determined whether the network approach...
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Christine Code @christinecode.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“Atmospheric Impressions” has been selected by the jurors for the NOAPS 2026 Spring International Online Exhibition. Thank-you! #noaps #paintingexhihition #sunsetpainting #skypainters #oilpainting
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ignat Ignatov (Bulgarian/American, born 1978) "Early Start", 2020. Oil on Canvas, Pallette Knife, 10" × 11". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#Poetry #Painting #MemorialDay It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Jean Pierson
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ART @art.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
by Albina Bugarcheva #art
by Albina Bugarcheva
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
'a silent moment everything held as it is' -Akari **** Kawase Hasui Boshu Kamo River, 1934
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My friend Ben wrote this extremely cool paper that looks incredibly useful: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The allometry of vertebrate pursuit predation | PNAS
Pursuit and evasion dynamics are a general phenomenon observed in predator–prey interactions across terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial domains. Diffe...
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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ukrainian artist, Alexandra Velichko
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz
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Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie
There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Gifu prefecture shifts their freshwater conservation focus from stocking to habitat conservation: such a great payoff when my research was used in this important decision making - www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/page/488101....
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生物多様性ぎふ戦略(令和8年3月改定) - 岐阜県公式ホームページ(自然環境課)
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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
LTERがアーカイブされただと。。。?それは流石にヤバいぞ。。。。
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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Quantifying the Magnitude of Biological Invasions Using Total Biomass url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This heartbreaking footage of Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk preparing for tournaments amid air raid sirens and missile attacks is a stark reminder that russians shouldn't be allowed to participate in international sporting events until they stop their genocidal war and are brought to justice
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
随分強気のプレスリリースだなぁと思った
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A microbiome gut-brain pathway influenced by intestinal metabolites, innate immune responses, vagal nerve signaling and hippocampal memory encoding, impacts the rate of cognitive decline. Many potential points of intervention are described. #Science 🧪
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Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline - Nature
Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this g...
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Scott F Collins @streamnerd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The year is 2395. Humans live in a post-scarcity world. Wars have ended. People life in harmony with each other and nature. Formatting tables in Word still sucks.
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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Out today in @science.org our paper on how evolutionary adaptation to warming will reduce fisheries yields. Please let me know if you need me to send you a copy. Summary of the paper coming soon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields
Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New paper out from our group - Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes - LaRoque - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Body Size and Local Density Explain Movement Patterns in Stream Fishes
We evaluated whether body size (intrinsic) and intra- and interspecific densities (extrinsic) have an impact on the movement rates of four fish species in a small stream. We found that larger individ....
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Modeling and inferring metacommunity dynamics with Maximum Caliber | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Catalysts and inhibitors of critical transitions in ecological systems | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Mercurial Muse Art @mercurialmuseart.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I painted this in 2020 following a tutorial. It seemed so silly to paint a puddle but by the time I was done, the puddle became one of my favorite pictures.  Nice how something so mundane can be beautiful. #art #artsky #landscape #bskyart #painting
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Akira Terui @mlaevis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
アメリカに9年もいることに気がつき驚愕している。英語のコンプレックスが消えることはない。
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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon-bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding. A wonderful collaboration with @jwinkfish.bsky.social. @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social 👇 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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