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Is fragmentation bad or good for biodiversity? Yes! We use a classical competition-colonization metacommunity model to show that fragmentation can increase or decrease diversity depending on the total amount of habitat in the landscape. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This week, embattled UCLA EEB Professor Priyanga Amarasekare faces additional disciplinary hearings. She offers a thorough defense of herself--and transparency on the history of charges & outcomes in her cases--here: pamarasekare.org

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After 6 years of postdoc-ing with us at iDiv, the Synthesis group says goodbye to Emma Ladouceur. She had such an incredible influence on us all, scientifically and personally. We will miss her, but wish her well and onto bigger and better things at the University of Prince Edward Island!

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For those following the ongoing saga of Priyanga Amarasekare—a major update. She speaks out, addressing all charges! This would make for a dramatic novel or Netflix series. But no, it’s the life of our brilliant and deeply caring colleague and friend. www.pamarasekare.org

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Congrats to all! But super pleased to see the early career list has Melissa Guzman, whom I was privileged to help nominate (and work with; she’s a 🌟) and Diogo Provete, who is spending the next year at IDiv in my research group, on a Humboldt foundation sabbatical! www.esa.org/blog/2024/04...

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🧪🌎 super important post from Brian McGill. ➡️We know academic publishing is broken; ➡️We know for profit publishers are driving us to a breaking point; ➡️We know we’re publishing too much; ➡️We are complicit! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/t...

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Congrats to Zhonghan Wang for leading this great study in Ecology looking at habitat fragmentation effects on the Thousand Island Lake islands across multiple trophic levels. Was great having him visit iDiv on a CAS scholarship from China. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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Nice new modern take on the old pseudoreplication problem (here discussed much more accurately as subsampling) in experimental design. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

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"Amarasekare knows she could get in trouble for talking about any of this, especially to a reporter. But she said she’s tired of feeling muzzled by confidentiality rules and wants to restore her reputation." www.chronicle.com/article/ucla...

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🚨New paper! Is homogenization really that more common than differentiation? - not really, our latest work shows that one pattern can be as common as the other. Another great work and collaboration led by this amazing team👇

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The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time just published in Science Advances 🧪🌎🐟🌳🦋 🐦🦌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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So it seems that UCLA, on top of punishing a POC professor for speaking out against racism, has also done nothing against professors for engaging in racist behavior

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We have a new call for 'Synthesis' projects at iDiv. Looking forward to more great 'community-driven' synthesis work happening here. Feel free to reach out with questions, etc. www.idiv.de/en/sdiv/calls

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As Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare's heartbreaking saga at UCLA drags into another year, I've compiled a thread of articles written about the situation. My sardonic take: Some people didn't like to be accused of racism and decided to destroy her career over their hurt feelings. 1/21

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🌍 #ecoevo

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Good editorial from Holden Thorp, EIC of Science, on science in the future and our collective responsibility 2024 looms | Science 🧪#AcademicSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn5404

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An informative article about the career, contributions, and ongoing saga of award-winning ecologist, Priyanga Amarasekare! Nice write-up from Andy Dobson and Ottar Bjornstad. doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

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Join our lab! Applications are open for 1 graduate student and 1 postdoc positions to work in the area of AI and Biodiversity Change. Collaboration with ecologists and computer scientists in US, Canada, UK, Europe, & Australia. Please share. Info on how to apply: www.jarzynalab.com/news/open-po...

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🚨Call open in a range of departments! Great opportunity to submit your own #PhD research proposal on the theme Biodiversity Gains & Resilience or apply to the other 8 Fully funded projects at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (York, UK) Apply here👇 www.york.ac.uk/professorial...

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Yes I will offer my online science-focused Statistical Rethinking course again starting in January 2024. Registration going up at the end of this month. All the course materials are already online though, so why wait? Update your posterior starting today 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnM...

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Nice to have our Ukrainian 🇺🇦 colleagues back for another #sDiv workshop at iDiv on the scaling of grassland biodiversity. This week, traits and the dreaded beta-diversity! Expertly led by Oksana Buzhdygan and Anna Kizemko

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Do plants and microbes show the same response to fragmentation? Are the mechanisms similar? It was a pleasure exploring these questions in a paper led by Yueqing Song, Ling Wang et al in the J. Ecology in degraded grassland remnants in China. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Come join us @ iDiv👇

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So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827

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Come work with us (Hall Cushman and myself) at U Nevada, Reno! We are seeking a PhD student and post-doc to work on Whitebark pine in California. We are interested in its recruitment dynamics and interactions with fire and fuels treatments. We have 3 years of solid funding!

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IITE talk tomorrow: 9am California, Noon New York, 5pm London, 6pm Paris Eric Pederson (Concordia University): "How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics". Zoom link: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287

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Hi all; I’m the ‘Synthesis’ editor at Ecology Letters. I’m always on the lookout for outstanding ‘synthesis’ papers (could be conceptual, theoretical, meta-analytic, etc). If you have something in the works, or know of something relevant, let me know! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Oh my! Coffee, mangos, chocolate! All at risk! 😱😱😱 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The effects of urbanization on bird diversity (from eBird data) across scales in the U.S. appears to be largely due to changes in abundances of individuals and sampling effects. New paper from Corey Callahan, Dan McGlinn and myself.

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The ASN Executive Committee and Mark McPeek have authored a statement recognizing the research and contributions of the society's Vice President, Dr. Priyanga Amarasekare: www.amnat.org/announcement...

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