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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Are you voting in the Swedish Election? You know how political actors might say/signal one thing and then do the opposite? This, of course, muddies the waters for tools that are supposed to help you make an informed decision. But fear not! A PhD student @ Stockholm Uni has the solution. Read more ↓

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Mats Ittonen @matsittonen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New review: we discuss how the continuous nature of insect diapause induction and termination responses (which are often seen as binary threshold decisions) offers phenological robustness and evolutionary flexibility that can reduce vulnerability to climate change–driven seasonal timing mismatches.

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Rethinking diapause timing thresholds in a warming world

Diapause lets insects synchronize their life cycles with seasonal environments, but climate change challenges its effectiveness by reshaping thermal r…

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Interested in insect phenology? @matsittonen.bsky.social and and I argue that population-level diapause responses, which form smooth distributions despite binary individual decisions, are key to understanding climate change responses and range shifts. Just out in #COIS: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Just skimmed through it, but this looks like really fun and interesting read! With pictures of the game team and all!

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Hi all! I've been inactive here for a while (all that's going on in the world kind of saturated my bandwidth), so maybe the algorithm won't favor me. But! I'm curious if anyone of you have been using/thinking about using explainable AI method (xAI) for identifying complex ecological patterns.

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Environmental cues indicating abundant resources reduce the difference between inbred and non-inbred beetle lines in finding those resources, and thus the fitness gap. We argue that environmental predictability could be masking the effects of otherwise deleterious alleles via behavioral plasticity.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I was corresponding with a scientist last week who was skeptical that a biased estimate could be better than an unbiased one. I cited the usual reasons. And here is Numberphile right on time with a new episode about Stein's paradox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQw...

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The Stein Paradox - Numberphile

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper @natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen @annahandreassen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🐟🦑

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Models of pest impact predict that climate warming will alter growth rates and distributions of insect pests. 🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱 How do trait-specific evolutionary responses affect predictions? Have a look at our new paper rdcu.be/d6G2u in @naturecomms.bsky.social to find out. Short summary below.

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Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest

Nature Communications - Current statistical projections of pest impact under climate change neglect the role of rapid genetic adaptation. Here the authors show that evolutionary responses in pest...

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Quantifying temperature’s effect on #diapause #termination requires fitting #TPCs to binary biological data. In our new paper, out now in #PNAS, we show how to do this, revealing the sequential nature of diapause termination and post-diapause development. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Global Ecology starter pack is now curated! ✨ and some slots are open 😊 Studying global biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, or conservation across terrestrial and marine realms ? 📚 Published in these fields? 👉 You are welcome to join ! just reply to be added. go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Combining some mechanistic knowledge and Occam's razor appears to me to be a very powerful tool for getting closer to the truth! Let me show an example that I believe is related to this, which I found while writing my last published paper. It's on the underlying temperature-dependence of diapause 🤓❄️

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Changing the solid Earth's temperature is *really* hard. Day-to-night temperature variations, what we're used to, stop being relevant at about half a meter depth--this is why animals burrow. (Link for figs: geothermal-energy-journal.springeropen.com/articles/10.... )

Soil temperature for hottest day in Jamshedpur, India as a function of depth plotted at the surface, 5 cm (about 2 inches), 10 cm (~4 inches), 20 cm (~8 inches), 30 cm (~12 inches), and 40 cm (~16 inches) below the surface. The day to night variation at the surface goes from 27°C at ~7:30 am (just at sunrise) to 57°C at ~2 pm, for a difference of 30°C between high and low. The difference between high and low temperature decreases with depth, and 5 cm below the surface it's already down to a difference of 21°C. By 40 cm below the surface, the difference between high and low temperature is a less than a degree. It's about 36.5°C all day at that depth.

Soil temperature for coldest day in Jamshedpur, India as a function of depth plotted at the surface, 5 cm (about 2 inches), 10 cm (~4 inches), 20 cm (~8 inches), 30 cm (~12 inches), and 40 cm (~16 inches) below the surface. The day to night variation at the surface goes from 13°C at ~9 am (just at sunrise) to 37°C at ~3 pm, for a difference of 24°C between high and low. The difference between high and low temperature decreases with depth, and 5 cm below the surface it's already down to a difference of 16°C. By 40 cm below the surface, the difference between high and low temperature is a less than a degree. It's about 23°C all day at that depth.

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Mridul K. Thomas @mridulkthomas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added! (Or if you'd like to be taken off) go.bsky.app/nHLZbD

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Feels good to commit fully to migrating here. Anyone got any tips for how to best manage your account to find relevant stuff? For example, does anyone know of any good "feeds" for evolutionary ecology/macro ecology/thermal biology/etc.?

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

In our latest paper, led by Isabelle Siemers and me, we demonstrate that four butterfly populations along a 750 km latitudinal cline display distinct local adaptation in their photoperiodic reaction norms, but /not/ in their thermal performance curves! 🦋🦋🦋 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

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Predictable local adaptation in butterfly photoperiodism but not thermal performance along a latitudinal cline

<em>Ecosphere</em> is an open access journal publishing research in all areas of ecology, spanning multidisciplinary fields, from computer science to social sciences and eco-education.

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Glad to see this comprehensive microclimate perspective paper out! This is a great team effort spearheaded by Julia Kemppinen and others! I'd recommend this paper to anyone looking for an overview of the current state of microclimate research in ecology. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Axel Jensen @axeljensen.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

New preprint on a wild Y chromosome introgression between 6 my divergent primate species! Guenons are a diverse group of African primates that hybridized a lot in the past. In this study, we looked at patterns of Y introgression… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Breaking the rule: An exceptional Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Loke von Schmalensee @vonschmalensee.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Figured I can use my first post here to plug my (yet to be cited 🥲) short paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, showing how a decades-old interpolation technique can be used to almost magically interpolate temperature regimes (and other stuff that fluctuates)! doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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