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they/them | phd student yale eeb and behavioral disease ecologist | sociality🐃🍻, parasites🪱🦠, immunity💉, and movement 🛰️ will-rogers.github.io

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Please help spread the word: Wilkinson lab at U Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join our collaborative ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress, epigenetic and immune function across bat lifespans.” umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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Post-Doctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Wilkinson lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join an ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/08/2026
Female sperm whales form large groups which usually contain between ten and one hundred members. New research in #BiologyLetters studies the costs and benefits of group size for sperm whales of the open ocean: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #ecology
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us
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Baptiste Sadoughi @bsadoughi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW RESEARCH 🔍 #Aging and early life adversity are associated with increased mortality risk. But how similar are they at the molecular level? We investigated #epigenetic profiles across tissues in macaques and you can find the full story in our @science.org article! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Age and early life adversity shape heterogeneity of the epigenome across tissues in macaques
Age and early life adversity (ELA) are key determinants of health, but whether they affect similar physiological mechanisms across tissues is unknown. We generated DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles acro...
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New paper is out! Disease is often seen as a cost of social life. But can it also shape how complex societies evolve? Here, we use mathematical models to study social immunity: collective disease defence in ants, termites, bees and other group-living insects. 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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Daniel Becker @danjbecker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.
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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
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Journal of Statistical Ecology Journal of Statistical Ecology
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Jenny McKee @jennymckee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Come be my (remote) work colleague! Dr. Ellen Aikens and Dr. @wyokauffman.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to lead analyses on a new migration ecology and climate resilience project with 152 mule deer herds and >44 million GPS points! Apply by July 15th! eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Post Doc Res Assoc - Aikens Lab
Postdoctoral Researcher — Migration Ecology and Climate Resilience in Mule Deer
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Smith Fellowship @smithfellows.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Check out this article written by Smith Fellows in support of our federal scientist colleagues, past and present. The letter is framed around the country's 250th anniversary and the role of federal science in supporting the nation's success: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleagues
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Member action is needed. Please read the email, review the proposed SSE response, and consider signing on before the June 15 deadline. **Importantly, submit your individualized comment to OMB by July 13!** Screenshots of the full message below. ⬇️
Dear SSE Community,

I hope this message finds you well, wherever the new season has taken you. I'm writing with news that requires our community's immediate attention and action.

On May 29, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a proposed rule — the largest overhaul of federal grant regulations since 2013 — that would fundamentally restructure how scientific research is funded in the United States. The comment deadline is July 13, 2026. That gives us six weeks, and we need every one of them.

Read the proposed rule.
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
📖 New research Integrating infection intensity and aggregation into the dynamics of pathogens with within-host replication🦠 🧪 🖥️ 🔎 buff.ly/bkW5Lm4
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/05/2026
While regulations.gov incorrectly lists this action as "closed for comments", you can submit your comments directly here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... My response is below, but don't feel that you need to draft anything nearly so long-winded. A short statement will also be very helpful.
For the better part of a century, US science has been the envy of the world, propelled by Eisenhower-era
investment in every level of research and education, up through and including the American research
university system. The best and brightest from around the world have come to the United States to study and
work. Some stayed, bringing their exceptional talent here; others returned home, often carrying with them
professional norms, institutional ties, and democratic ideals encountered in the United States, a process that
has been a critical form of US soft power for many decades. This vibrant ecosystem of science, technology,
engineering, and medicine has led the US through its transformation from a manufacturing economy to a
technology and information economy, and ensured US prosperity and economic power up to the present day.
Our funding agencies have not only promoted the technological discoveries and medical breakthroughs that
transform our world and extend our lives, but also have been instrumental in developing the human capital
that flows into our commercial science and technology sector and generates the growth and innovation that
has given US businesses a worldwide competitive advantage.
These proposed changes to the Regulations for Federal Financial Assistance undercut all of this. By
transferring decision-making authority from scientific experts to political appointees in the grantmaking
process, we lose the competitive edge and innovative capacity provided by the most eHective research
funding system in history. The numerous provisions allowing administrators to exclude individuals and
institutions based on political litmus tests serve to squander the diverse talent available in this country,
undermine basic principles of free speech, and run counter to the very ethos of science as described by
Robert Merton in 1942.
Science costs money, and scientific research is planned out on the scale of years. When any grant can be
terminated at any time for any …
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Because much of what the OMB is proposing is illegal, Congress needs to know about it. Yes, even the conservative ones you think don't care-- they know how much their states benefit from federal science funding, and I promise you, they do in fact care. Contact them!
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Immune variation and host ontogeny constrain pathogen virulence and transmission in a helminth parasite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
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Extreme Heat as the New Normal: A Methodological Roadmap Incorporating Behavior, Physiology, and Species Distributions
Abstract. A defining feature of climate change is the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events. Among them, extreme heat is
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📖 New research Detecting disease progression from animal movement using hidden Markov models Identifying infection before mortality occurs offers a valuable early-warning tool for population managers🦠 📈 🌍 🔎 Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Activity budgets, social behavior, and fitness outcomes associated with a baboon group fusion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 05/05/2026
Animals can learn by copying others, which helps them find food and survive. The Great tit, a small passerine is good at social learning. This #RSOS paper tested whether two common parasites affect how quickly the #birds could learn a new feeding task by watching others: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Movebank @movebank.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Watch how tracking animal movements gives us an intimate view of their lives (and deaths) and how they connect across one of the world's most intact wildlife corridors. Thanks to the Room2Roam team, @y2y.bsky.social, and #422south for bringing this story to life!
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 04/05/2026
What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq
A sulphur-crested cockatoo foraging on a novel food item (coloured shelled almond). Image credit: Julia Penndorf
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 01/05/2026
What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq
A sulphur-crested cockatoo foraging on a novel food item (coloured shelled almond). Image credit: Julia Penndorf
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Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
ABSTRACTS OPEN! We have an incredible line up for our Avian Disease Ecology conference next year. This is such an exciting field right now - if you’re working on avian pathogens, parasites, AMR, immunity, or non-infectious disease (pollutants, etc) then consider submitting an abstract!
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 01/05/2026
Now accepting applications for our 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards support students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs to conduct #ecology and #evolution research. Deadline is June 30, 2026: bit.ly/4umYKZd #science
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Applications for 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Now Open
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now accepting applications for its 2027 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution.
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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
Leeks Lab is recruiting. We study social evolution in viruses. We're recruiting for two fully funded PhD or MSc positions, starting from September 2026. Evolutionary theory / experimental microbiology / viral bioinformatics. Experience optional / enthusiasm essential. asherleeks.com/apply
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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Come see me talk about how we are using desert cacti and mesquite trees to try and understand coinfection dynamics
Full grown Saguaros stand as solitary sentinels watching over the desert, but young Saguaros require help and protection to achieve this state. 'Nurse trees' are trees like palo verdes, mesquites, and ironwoods that help 'nurse' the young cacti. This means that they give the baby saguaros a chance at a good start by providing a better microclimate with shade, better soil, and a degree of protection during their young susceptible years. Eventually the grown Saguaros outlive their nurse plants to become the mature solitary cacti you see.
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EEID forum @eeidforum.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Join us next Thursday May 7th at 1 U.S. Eastern Time for the EEIDforum seminar: Once infected, twice infected: Understanding synergistic interactions among coinfecting parasites Fletcher Halliday, Oregon State University Register for access to the seminar: www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261
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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We have some exciting new work pre-printed this week. Read on if you're interested in #behavioural responses to infection and some cool analysis of high-resolution behavioural time-series data in #Drosophila. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Experimental setup and locomotor activity across immune challenge treatments.
(A) Schematic representation of experimental setup. (B) Individual fly activity timeseries (faded
lines) and treatment mean (bold line) plotted as mean activity (number of beam breaks per
minute) over 400 hours post-infection for each treatment group (naive, injured, immune stimulated,
injured). Sample sizes per sex are annotated in each panel (F = females, M= males).
Treatment: naive (blue), injured (orange), immune stimulated (heat-killed Pe - green), infected
(live Pe – pink).
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
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Discovery Immunology @discovimmunol.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Measuring immune function in the wild is key to understanding resilience and disease. New open‑access research presents a practical immune toolkit for wild ungulates, revealing variation across individuals, populations and landscapes in bighorn sheep. vist.ly/4z6gk
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Out of the shed and into the field: an immune toolkit for measuring wild ungulate immune phenotypes at multiple scales
Here we demonstrate the utility of our field-tested “immune toolkit” in describing the immune phenotypic heterogeneity of bighorn sheep (Ovis Canadensis) a
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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Two PhD positions in ancient pathogen genomics are available through the ERC project EpidemioCene. Interested applicants can apply by May 7th. Details: www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/article/r…. #phd
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Reconstructing the long-term dynamics of human infectious diseases
Arthur Kocher receives ERC Starting Grant to study ancient pathogen dynamics
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Yuko Ulrich @yukoulrich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)
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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Read our perspective piece on a brilliant new piece of work out in @pnas.org studying public goods in an insect. Congratulations to the team! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @caritalindstedt.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social
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An insect that cooperates like bacteria | PNAS
An insect that cooperates like bacteria
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Differing effects of parasite-parasite interaction types on the spatial epidemiology of co-circulating parasites www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities
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Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘 Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility. 🔗 animalmobilities.org #HistSci #AnimalMobilities
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Teaching Animal Mobilities
Animals in history moved through landscapes, cultures, and systems of power. Our adaptable teaching modules bring the dynamic lives of animals into classroom conversations. Primary visual sources enco...
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Will Rogers @willrogers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited to share a new paper doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... We suggest that tradeoffs between infection costs and the benefits of sociality are dynamic, context-dependent, and likely asymmetric within dyads. We then propose hypotheses about how these tradeoffs might shape social responses to parasites...
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now with pages @systbiol.bsky.social ! "Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds" with @pseudacris.bsky.social and Rick Prum Some comparative support for the hypothesis that the evolution of complex social contexts restructure life histories doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds
Abstract. One puzzling feature of avian life histories is that individuals in many different lineages delay reproduction for several years after they finis
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New paper in TREE co-led w @jennakohles.bsky.social: We explore how resource variability shapes the value of social information for maximizing resource gain & minimizing variance. This eco-evolutionary lens helps us explain why collective sensing emerges in dynamic ecosystems! 🧪 tinyurl.com/2rurcry7
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Resource variability shapes the ecology of social information and collective sensing
Social information expands individual sensing of resources in dynamic ecosystems, yet why social strategies evolve in resource pursuit remains unsettled. We posit that resource variability along three...
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior
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Alison Robey @alisonrobey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social
Figure demonstrating how the ordering of temperatures through time determines whether an ectothermic population experiencing those temperatures will go extinct
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EEID forum @eeidforum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Up next on the EEIDforum is Ayesha Mahmud at UC Berkeley (Mar 5th at 1pm US eastern time) presenting: Infectious diseases in an era of global climatic and demographic change You can register here for the seminar link: www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261
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2026 Seminar Registration – EEID Forum
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/02/2026
Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26
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Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
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I. Bottom Line Up Front
The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would:

Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for

Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families

You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP).

You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.
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