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Saismit Naik

@saismit.bsky.social
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she/her | PhD at ISEM, University of Montpellier | ex-IISER, Pune 2023 | Theoretical evolutionary ecologist

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Krishna Girish @krishnasg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Using BlueSky has helped me find so much incredible research, but also caused my to-read list, a bunch of open tabs, to balloon in size. So I built a widget to track papers and share them with friends. Introducing Marginalia, a social reading shelf for academics! marginalia-papers.netlify.app
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Marginalia: a reading shelf for papers
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My colleague @saismit.bsky.social and @satavisha-de.bsky.social write about the lack of female representation in STEM and how this is a bigger problem even for women of color.
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Rosen de Almeida @errrferrr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an emergency appeal following the devastating flood in Nepal 🖤 pls consider supporting their work. their partners are already on ground and working hard in helping the affected. www.ifrc.org/emergency/ne...
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Nepal: Flash Floods 2026 | IFRC
Flash floods tore through northern Nepal on 26 August, claiming hundreds of lives, destroying homes, roads and bridges, and leaving entire communities displaces and cut off. The Nepal Red Cross Societ...
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Claudio Paganini @thehappyproton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The real brain drain in the US academic institutions isn't the superstar scientists who leave, it is the students who never come.
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Krishna Girish @krishnasg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My brilliant friends Saismit and Satavisha wrote an article for Times High Education about being a more effective and active ally to women and underrepresented minorities in academia! Synthesizing evidence across different aspects, they then trace out actionable steps as to what to do to address it.
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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I & @satavisha-de.bsky.social , move up the career ladder, the tampons in the bathroom may increase, but the women around us do not. Despite policies meant to patch its cracks, academia continued to sieve out women. We saw it, we heard it from our peers. So we looked for the literature.
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Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b
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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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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 03/06/2026
The @sse-evolution.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign for student research grants is at 10% of its $30k goal! Chip in here to help evolutionary biologists in the first stages of their scientific careers: gofund.me/70d1ce65e
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Donate to Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!, organized by SSE Communications
The Graduate Research Excellence Grants are awarded by the So… SSE Communications needs your support for Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!
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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here is a short thread summarising our new paper: "From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions" with @efronhofer.bsky.social now available @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎
Drawing shows a group of chimeric species at the center, from which three spirals of diversity loss lead to a single form: a bird, a fish, or a fox. Image credit: Tereza Nekovarova.
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 05/05/2026
From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansion doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Biophysics #Ecology #Evolution
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
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Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes
Abstract. Spatial network structure impacts the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of species interactions. Previous work on host–parasite systems has sh
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Are you a grad student or postdoc who needs financial assistance to attend #Evol2026 in person? SSE offers registration waivers for the early registration rate - apply by March 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
The 2026 Evolution meeting logo. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Student and Postdoc Registration Waiver, Apply by March 15.
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Jhelam N. Deshpande @djhelam1.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.
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Jhelam Deshpande - Ecology, Evolution and Networks
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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Excited to share our new preprint! Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges: doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142 #ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling
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From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions
Species distributions are governed by both ecological and evolutionary processes. Traditionally, ecological factors have been the primary focus of species distribution studies, but recent work emphasi...
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Saismit Naik @saismit.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Hello! I'm Saismit, a Cornell EEB PhD student exploring rapid eco-evolutionary feedbacks through theory. Excited to connect with fellow researchers! 🌍🧪 🦠 #WomenInSTEM #evosky, #evolution, #evobio, #phylo, #popgen, #ecoevo #molevol, #popgen #complexity #PhDSky #pydata #rstats
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Landscape structure drives eco-evolution in host-parasite systems. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Landscape structure drives eco-evolution in host-parasite systems. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563775v1
As all biological and many artificial systems, hosts and their parasites are most often spatially st
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