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vonschmalensee.bsky.social
Postdoc under @dbergerbiol.bsky.social working on insect thermal evolution and macroecology at @animecol-uu.bsky.social. Also interested in many other things, like which wines are good, how to predict stuff, and what's truly compressible in the world
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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.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

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 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

submitted 76 days ago • 45 comments

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 🤓❄️

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

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 🧪🌎🌾

submitted 108 days ago • 107 comments

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.... )

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 104 days ago • 34 comments

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.?

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 284 days ago • 1 comment

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....

submitted 322 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 347 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 351 days ago • 1 comment