My co-authors (Marie-Josee Fortin, Dr Emily Darling, Marco Andrello, Marty Krkošek) and I are hard at work on follow up studies stemming from this work, and we wrote a short think piece about the impact + relevance of this work for Frontiers #FrontiersPlanetPrize
frontiersplanetprize.org/news/blog-post…

Congrats to my former postdoc mentor and awesome dude Richard Ostfeld from Cary Institute on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! He's done really inspiring long term research on small mammals, ticks, and pathogens.

It's time for the highlight of #Atwood2024 !

Dr. Mercedes Pacual presents evidence for frequency-dependent selection and the diversity in host-pathogen systems🦟🦠

Incredibely happy to share this award with Merideth, whose fantastic talk on microplastics was a highlight of the colloquium for me. Thank you Atwood 2024 and all other speakers for their great work!! 🥳🌿🐟🪱

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇺🇦 Does “ecology” include evolutionary biology?

Databases for finding independent biology/ecological postdoctoral fellowships:
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Proud to see this one out! Jurg's summary of our key results below. Huge thanks to the editors & reviewers (it improved tremendously compared to the preprint)!

Cheers to all these amazing students who presented their research today at the 2024 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair! Thank you for all your hard work! You are all amazing!🥳🥳

Abstracts and posters can be viewed at eebuoft.weebly.com

Congratulations Dr. Sophie Breitbart (⁦Sophie Breitbart @[email protected]⁩), who successfully defended her Ph.D. in ⁦University of Toronto EEB⁩ at ⁦University of Toronto⁩ yesterday! #urbanevolution is richer because of your work on milkweeds and its insects

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: Forest edges are becoming increasingly important wsl.ch/en/news/biodiv…

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Ecosystem services at risk from disturbance in Europe's forests

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Judit Lecina-Diaz Rupert Seidl Cornelius Senf Marc Grünig Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management TU Munich Humboldt-Stiftung

🚨 Commentary PNASNews 🚨 Birds of North America are shifting poleward at fast speed west of the 100th meridian west but not east of it! The continental divide in range shifting birds of North America ⬇️ Fantastic study by Martins et al. 🏔 matter

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We tell decision-makers you need to specify objectives accounting for costs. Shouldn't we hold modelers to the same standards? Different models have different benefits & costs. See our new paper on cost-benefit analyses of ecosystem models for fisheries doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…

Want to study a PhD in coral demographics with me Leeds Eco&Evol Res ? Do life histories differ between tropical and marginal reefs? Which corals are more resilient? Looking for UK candidates (Leeds DS) or funded international candidates! Josh Firth Rob Salguero-Gómez
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Today EEB SLC was Royal Ontario Museum for behind-the-scenes tours of the the Plant🌱and Invertebrate Palaeontology 🦴collections with curators Deborah Metsger & Jean-Bernard Caron. Special thanks to Brad for helping coordinate the visit!

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the St. George campus @uoft invites applications for a Departmental Postdoctoral Fellowship.
➡️See eeb.utoronto.ca/employment for full details.
➡️Please share widely!

3 yrs ago today, we lost ecologist David Schindler (1940-2021). He'll never be forgotten by those he inspired, nor by the politicians & special interests he called out. He was a fearless proponent of evidence-based policy making, and an iconic example of speaking truth to power.

📢Nouvelle Chaire UNESCO à l’UQO : l’expertise du professeur Jérôme Dupras Jerome Dupras reconnue à l’international 📢
La nouvelle Chaire UNESCO à l'UQO a été lancée le 26 février au pavillon Alexandre-Taché. Bravo! Chaire de recherche du CA en économie écologique
📢 uqo.ca/nouvelles/1571…