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Ecology Professor. #freshwater, #foodwebs, #fish #subsidies, #Bayesian

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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Teaching position available. Come join us in South Dakota! yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/48451
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Instructor/Lecturer
The Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota is recruiting an Instructor/Lecturer to begin August 2026. This is a non-tenure-track, full-time, benefits-eligible, 9-month position.Respon...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In case you didn't see it the first time...postdoc opportunity in Freshwater Ecology
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher: A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available at the University of South Dakota in Dr. Jeff Wesner’s lab in the Department of Biology. The NSF-funded project will ex...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
True true. We demonstrate the silliness of that prior here…animals bigger than the earth or smaller than an atom. Who knows! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Choosing priors in Bayesian ecological models by simulating from the prior predictive distribution
Bayesian data analysis is increasingly used in ecology, but prior specification remains focused on choosing non-informative priors (e.g., flat or vague priors). One barrier to choosing more informati....
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Daniela Rosero-López @danielarl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thanks for sharing! instituto-biosfera.org/biosphere-in... @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @agu.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @aslo.org
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Biosphere Institute » Postdoctoral Researcher in Freshwater Ecology and Conservation
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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 16/05/2025
I'm not an author, but I am extremely proud to have contributed to this recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Continental Scale Biology! nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2728...
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A Vision for Continental-Scale Biology: Research Across Multiple Scales
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Concerning for sure though I found this quote in the discussion reassuring: “…in the year 2023, the Scopus database included 2,511,962 scientific publications…compared to the number of 89 articles…the problem discussed constitutes only 0.000035% of the total”
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Bob Hall @biogeobob.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Coming to Society of Freshwater Science meeting in San Juan, PR? Like beer? Beaches? Join me for a Sunday afternoon beer tour and support student travel funds. Sign up is here: forms.gle/hxtjnL1uhfwP... #2025SFS @freshwaterscience.bsky.social Bonus if you attend the morning stats workshop.
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SFS San Juan Beer Tour
San Juan beer tour is on. Time is 13:00, Sunday 18 May at the first brewery and we will end by 16:00 to get you back to the plenary starting at 1700. This beer tour is entirely self supported. Ther...
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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Angélica L. González @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
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Jesper Andersen (318 ppm) @2xges.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#MarineEcology #FreshwaterEcology #IntegratedAssessments #WFD #MSFD #SynthesisResearch #BigData
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’d love to be added
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very cool by @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social @ignasiarranz.bsky.social @drdanperkins.bsky.social @vssaito.bsky.social @pzecology.bsky.social et al.
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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global @iicg-urjc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📝'GLOSSAQUA: A global dataset of size spectra across aquatic ecosystems' 🗣️Nuevo artículo done participan miembros del #IICG, Ignasi Arranz U. @ignasiarranz.bsky.social , Javier Sánchez H. y Zeynep Ersoy. 👩‍💻Se realizó con el apoyo de las becas de la #SIBECOL para jóvenes investigadores.
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Jesper Andersen (318 ppm) @2xges.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
AquaSYNC / NIVA has today announced a call for a new Synthesis Working Group focusing on analyses of existing data on 'biodiversity & climate change' in Arctic and sub-Arctic aquatic ecosystems. AquaSYNC will support a working group in 2025 and 2026. Read more here: www.aquasync.dk/post/breakin...
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BREAKING NEWS: 2025 ISC Call on Biodiversity & Climate Change
Are you researching the critical links between climate change and biodiversity in Arctic and sub-Arctic aquatic ecosystems? Here’s your chance to be part of a scientific group tackling one of the most...
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Ignasi Arranz @ignasiarranz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
👀 Have a look at this new exciting PhD opportunity! Dive into macroecology, body size, and biodiversity while collaborating with an international research network!
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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Highly recommended PhD offer 💯
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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My statistical journey as an ecologist
When I was in grad school, Ken Burnham gave a seminar in my department about model selection and met with our research group. His book with David Anderson had been out for ~3 years at the time (it …
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
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Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thanks!
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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢 Excited to share our new paper on differences in structuring tropical and temperate biodiversity in riparian forests. Brilliantly led by Liam Nash, with @gqromero.bsky.social @tim36chambers.bsky.social, Victor & Fatima - just published in Proceedings B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Aquatic–terrestrial linkages drive contrasting biodiversity patterns in tropical and temperate forests | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Riparian ecosystems harbour unique biodiversity because of their close interconnections with adjacent aquatic ecosystems. Yet, how aquatic ecosystems influence terrestrial biodiversity over different ...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/i...
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Is sublinear growth the skeleton key to all of ecology? Or even all of biology? Interview with Ian Hatton.
Welcome to our latest author interview post! Today’s interview is with Ian Hatton, first author of Hatton et al. (2024) Science, “Diversity begets stability: sublinear growth and compet…
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BES Aquatic Ecology Group @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/search/?keyw... @pennyjohnes.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Research Associate in Biogeochemistry to work on a ERC Advanced Grant to work on metabolic pathways controlling nutrient and dissolved organic matter uptake in freshwaters (4.5 years) #biogeochemistry #aquatic #freshwater
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Bob Hall @biogeobob.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Matt Church and I are hiring 2 Postdoctoral Associates in oceanographic biogeochemistry and modeling. Project info: tinyurl.com/3vbcnx8j Job and application info: tinyurl.com/4pahvet8. Send me any questions. #FLBSUM
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Susanne Kortsch @skortsch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
📢 3-year Postdoc Opportunity ❗❗ #FoodWebs I am seeking a postdoc to reconstruct energy fluxes in food webs using gut DNA and eDNA in mesocosms under heatwave scenarios @tvarminne.bsky.social @coastclim.bsky.social 📅 31. of Jan. 2025 ➡️ jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Hanko-3-... Please share post ❗❗
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 04/12/2024
The viridis palettes are great perceptually uniform color maps for #dataviz, but sometimes at the extremes they're too pale/dark. With ggplot and #rstats, though, you can truncate the palette to avoid the paler colors. I wrote a little guide for how datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-12...
When you use scale_fill_viridis_d() or scale_color_viridis_d(), ggplot chops the viridis color map into evenly spaced colors along the range of the gradient. For instance, if you have a plot with 4 categories, you’ll end up with these colors:

Figure showing 8 viridis palettes chopped at 0%, 33%, 66%, and 100%R code for creating a bar chart four four continents, with one of the bars filled with a really really pale yellow from the viridis magma paletteFigure showing the 8 viridis palettes, but starting at 10% and ending at 80%, resulting in colors at at 10%, 33%, 57%, and 80%R code for creating a bar chart four four continents, with the bars filled with colors from a truncated viridis magma palette because of scale_fill_viridis_d(option = "magma", begin = 0.1, end = 0.8)
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Ehud Karavani @ehudk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I don't follow baseball 😉 and as a computational biologist I was raised on Benjamini-Hochberg-like approches. but I remember the first time seeing this figure (after reading a pharmacoepi paper by @zshahn.bsky.social) and was immediately captured by the logic.
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Justin Pomeranz @pzecology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Come work with us! Hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Colorado Mesa University. Responsibilities: Teaching 12 credits/semester, leading UG research and service. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions and please share widely! coloradomesa.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
As a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, the person in this position will teach courses for the Poll...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It worked!
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Eric Harvey @ericharvey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In a new study, we develop a framework to identify nutrient hotspots in the landscape. We also discuss how nutrient spatial distribution can be indicative of underlying ecological processes. This could thus be useful to identify target habitats for conservation purpose (🧵👇) 🧪🌎 tinyurl.com/577jajvm
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Quantifying elemental diversity to study landscape ecosystem function
The movement, distribution, and relative proportions of essential elements across the landscape should influence the structure and functioning of biol…
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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
Holiday macroecology: body size distribution of one hundred limpets
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Prolonged low flows and non-native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Prolonged low flows and non-native fish operate additively to alter insect emergence in mountain streams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.03.621706v1
Climate-induced flow alteration is subjecting mountain streams to more frequent and severe low-flow
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Job Alert: We’re hiring…Asst Professor in Genomics! yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/40657
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Assistant Professor, Biology
Assistant Professor of Biology – The Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Ecological Genomics to begin August 2025. Responsibilities: ·      ...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
With a nice summary here www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Salmon’s moveable feast of nutrients with a side order of contaminants
The scale of nutrient and contaminant transport by migrating salmon.
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Check out our recent work on nutrient and contaminant transport by Pacific Salmon. It's a big followup on the concept of the "dark and bright sides" of ecological subisidies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Continental-scale nutrient and contaminant delivery by Pacific salmon - Nature
Pacific salmon transport of nutrients and contaminants to freshwaters increased by 30% and 20%, respectively, between 1976 and 2015, an increase dominated by pink salmon, which had the highest nu...
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Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com · 01/10/2024
Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Paul Bürkner - The brms Book
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
2/ Just run grateful::cite_packages() and you'll get a report with formatted citations and references for all the #rstats packages used in your analysis, ready to paste into your manuscript or report
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Remember MOOCs? Remember NFTs? Remember crypto? No? Neither does your provost--they're working on AI now
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Why stop now!
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
These are funny. It says my department has 1 ecologist. We have 5.
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Looks cool
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Come see our poster at #ESA2024!
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Love that quote
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
“Ask questions, get feedback, listen to what others think and advise, but in the end, do what works for you, and what makes the research and the job more broadly most fulfilling.” 100% agree.
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Great #SFS2024 talks from @pzecology.bsky.social and Savina Gjoni!
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Justin Pomeranz @pzecology.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Starting today (with my talk!) at 10:30 in salon 3/4 will be a special session on body sizes in freshwater ecosystems. We have a number of great speakers lined up in the morning session and will be back after lunch for the early afternoon session. I hope to see you there! #sfs2024
Screen shot of the annual meeting program for a talk in salon 3/4 titled: "SEARCHING FOR A UNIVERSAL 
INDICATOR OF STREAM STATUS: 
COMMUNITY SIZE STRUCTURE 
ACROSS LATITUDES AND 
HUMAN IMPACTS" by Justin Pomeranz and others.
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Our work on modeling size spectra with hierarchical ISD's is out (with an issue and volume): with @pzecology.bsky.social , Savina Gjoni, and Jim Junker besjournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.usd.idm.oclc.org/share/ZSU8N4...
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The Wesner Lab @wesnerlab.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Interesting paper on different scientific cultures from @bjenquist.bsky.social et al. I saw myself in each of the cultures (variance, exactitude, course-grained) at different points in my career.
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Justin Pomeranz @pzecology.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
🚨New paper alert 🚨 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... We find that ice phenology of Yellowstone Lake has been unresponsive to local climate warming so far, but when comparing with similar lakes in Europe, a "tipping point" may be coming soon. 🧪
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Despite a century of warming, increased snowfall has buffered the ice phenology of North America's largest high-elevation lake against climate change - IOPscience
Despite a century of warming, increased snowfall has buffered the ice phenology of North America’s largest high-elevation lake against climate change, Lusha M Tronstad, Isabella A Oleksy, Justin P F P...
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