Andrew Beckerman
@beckerhopper.bsky.social
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology
University of Sheffield
#rstats, #Julia #mtb, #foodweb, #openresearch
🧪 🚵🏽 𝄢
University of Sheffield
#rstats, #Julia #mtb, #foodweb, #openresearch
🧪 🚵🏽 𝄢
New paper out: Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs. #openaccess, using #opensource software, and delivering novel insights into biodiversity-stability relationships. Bravo to the team lead by Dr. Alain Danet.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Global change constitutes a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and
places the temporal stability of ecological communities at risk. Classic theory identifies
species richness and foo...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New paper out: Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs. #openaccess, using #opensource software, and delivering novel insights into biodiversity-stability relationships. Bravo to the team lead by Dr. Alain Danet.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
** PhD in Food Web Modelling, Pharmaceuticals & Soils **
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Quantifying Pharmaceutical Effects on Microbial and Aboveground Trophic Ecology using Food Web Models at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Quantifying Pharmaceutical Effects on Microbial and Aboveground Trophic Ecology using Food Web Models at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
** PhD in Food Web Modelling, Pharmaceuticals & Soils **
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📢 Dryad & @openrxiv.bsky.social are excited to announce a new partnership & integration. Beginning today, authors posting #preprints to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will have the option to upload #opendata to Dryad at the same time.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
September 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
📢 Dryad & @openrxiv.bsky.social are excited to announce a new partnership & integration. Beginning today, authors posting #preprints to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will have the option to upload #opendata to Dryad at the same time.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
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Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement.
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith | TGS 192
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement.
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
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Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
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🎊We’re excited to share that @beckerhopper.bsky.social has been elected chair of the Dryad Board of Directors. Beckerman takes over from @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, who continues to serve as a board member.
Read more→
Read more→
Leadership news: Andrew Beckerman named Chair of the Dryad Board | Dryad news
We’re so pleased to announce that Andrew Beckerman has been elected Chair by the Dryad Board of Directors. Andrew is Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Faculty Director of Education for Science at...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎊We’re excited to share that @beckerhopper.bsky.social has been elected chair of the Dryad Board of Directors. Beckerman takes over from @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, who continues to serve as a board member.
Read more→
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12 PhD opportunities: Deadline 4th April 2025.
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
ECOSOLUTIONS
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? Interested in creating non-toxic urban spaces that benefit society and nature alike? The NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Training Progra...
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 6:38 AM
12 PhD opportunities: Deadline 4th April 2025.
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Curious about #modelling complex ecological communities to address #globalchallenges related to #biodiversity & #ecosystemfunction? Check out our #openaccess, #opensource software, EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl. Kudos to past efforts in support.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Curious about #modelling complex ecological communities to address #globalchallenges related to #biodiversity & #ecosystemfunction? Check out our #openaccess, #opensource software, EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl. Kudos to past efforts in support.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“Musk is amplifying a slew of incorrect and misleading information. His concern about the subject doesn’t extend to being truthful when addressing it.”
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Musk is amplifying a slew of incorrect and misleading information. His concern about the subject doesn’t extend to being truthful when addressing it.”
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print
Using a dataset of 800,000+ observations and decades of breeding records, Dr Satarkar and team employ multi-matrix quantitative genetic ‘animal models’ to show that genes play a minimal role in shaping individual social phenotypes in an avian system 🪽 🧪 🌏
buff.ly
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print
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Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:
Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires
Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.
www.nature.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Check out this open position as Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science at the Novo Nordisk Foundation to support activities within monitoring and modelling of #biodiversity, #ecosystem health, #restoration & environmental sustainability 🌿🌳🌍💦🌸 apply.workable.com/novonordiskf...
Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science - Novo Nordisk Foundation
Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem ScienceThe Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking a Scientific Manager with a background in biodiversity, landscape ecology, environmental- or ecosystem sc...
apply.workable.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Check out this open position as Scientific Manager in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science at the Novo Nordisk Foundation to support activities within monitoring and modelling of #biodiversity, #ecosystem health, #restoration & environmental sustainability 🌿🌳🌍💦🌸 apply.workable.com/novonordiskf...
Don't miss this chance to join a truly interdisciplinary #PhD programme on Transforming Chemical Management for a Non-Toxic Future. Stage 1 Applications are due 6 Jan. #ecology #ecotoxicology #systemsthinking #urbanecosystems Details here: ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/home
ECOSOLUTIONS - How to apply
ECOSOLUTIONS DTP is now open for applications to join the first cohort of PhD students to start in September 2025.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Don't miss this chance to join a truly interdisciplinary #PhD programme on Transforming Chemical Management for a Non-Toxic Future. Stage 1 Applications are due 6 Jan. #ecology #ecotoxicology #systemsthinking #urbanecosystems Details here: ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/home
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We've now got the green light to revamp this booklet and we're looking for volunteers to write/peer review sections. Express your interest here: forms.gle/ZYFLPaC3k2RF.... We want to feature diverse ECR writers from across the world. Women of colour are especially encouraged!
December 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM
We've now got the green light to revamp this booklet and we're looking for volunteers to write/peer review sections. Express your interest here: forms.gle/ZYFLPaC3k2RF.... We want to feature diverse ECR writers from across the world. Women of colour are especially encouraged!
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That’s a wrap!
There’s nothing quite like seeing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year.
Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!
There’s nothing quite like seeing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year.
Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!
December 13, 2024 at 8:43 PM
That’s a wrap!
There’s nothing quite like seeing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year.
Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!
There’s nothing quite like seeing ecologists and practitioners come together, sparking new ideas and collaborations. We can’t wait to bring this energy to Edinburgh next year.
Until then, stay connected and stay inspired!
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Clearly the end of the semester - here is the correct link jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Postdoctoral Associate
jobs.colorado.edu
December 11, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Clearly the end of the semester - here is the correct link jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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15 000 fieldworkers | 28 countries | decades of effort | 170 #bird species🐦
Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#ornithology
Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#ornithology
Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds - Scientific Data
Measurement(s) population Technology Type(s) Count Factor Type(s) time scale • geographic location Sample Characteristic - Organism Aves Sample Characteristic - Location Europe Machine-accessible meta...
doi.org
December 7, 2024 at 9:58 PM
15 000 fieldworkers | 28 countries | decades of effort | 170 #bird species🐦
Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#ornithology
Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#ornithology
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If you’re in Liverpool for the BES (or any other reason!) I highly recommend Conversations (free!) at the Walker Art gallery. Centred on Black women and non binary artists. Also thoughtful interp in the rest of the gallery about colonial and slavery links www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-g...
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 PM
If you’re in Liverpool for the BES (or any other reason!) I highly recommend Conversations (free!) at the Walker Art gallery. Centred on Black women and non binary artists. Also thoughtful interp in the rest of the gallery about colonial and slavery links www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-g...
Help Shape the Future of a Non-Toxic Environment: Join the ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Programme
Interested in urban pollution science, policy & systems thinking ?
Backgrounds in ecology, chemistry, geography, environmental engineering, policy & law welcome!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
#PhD
Interested in urban pollution science, policy & systems thinking ?
Backgrounds in ecology, chemistry, geography, environmental engineering, policy & law welcome!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
#PhD
FindAPhD : Shape the Future of a Non-Toxic Environment: Join the NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Programme at University of Sheffield
Apply for a PhD: Shape the Future of a Non-Toxic Environment: Join the NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Programme at University of Sheffield
www.findaphd.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Help Shape the Future of a Non-Toxic Environment: Join the ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Programme
Interested in urban pollution science, policy & systems thinking ?
Backgrounds in ecology, chemistry, geography, environmental engineering, policy & law welcome!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
#PhD
Interested in urban pollution science, policy & systems thinking ?
Backgrounds in ecology, chemistry, geography, environmental engineering, policy & law welcome!
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
#PhD
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We’re launching a new @britishecolsoc.bsky.social network at #BES2024! Come and be part of Emerging Leaders and Managers with @luehea.bsky.social, Rob Brooker and me 👩🏻🦳🧑🏻🌾👩🏻 and keep your ears open for the first episode of the ELM podcast with special guest @ymalhi.bsky.social, available soon!
November 29, 2024 at 9:39 AM
We’re launching a new @britishecolsoc.bsky.social network at #BES2024! Come and be part of Emerging Leaders and Managers with @luehea.bsky.social, Rob Brooker and me 👩🏻🦳🧑🏻🌾👩🏻 and keep your ears open for the first episode of the ELM podcast with special guest @ymalhi.bsky.social, available soon!
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Wow 😱: The western arctic caribou herd has largely abandoned its southern ranges as winter survival has worsened there.
In: Evidence for an Adaptive, Large-Scale Range Shift in a Long-Distance Terrestrial Migrant.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In: Evidence for an Adaptive, Large-Scale Range Shift in a Long-Distance Terrestrial Migrant.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evidence for an Adaptive, Large‐Scale Range Shift in a Long‐Distance Terrestrial Migrant
The Western Arctic Herd, a large but declining caribou population, has shifted its main wintering range from lichen-rich coastal tundra in the southwesternmost portion of its range to mountainous are...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Wow 😱: The western arctic caribou herd has largely abandoned its southern ranges as winter survival has worsened there.
In: Evidence for an Adaptive, Large-Scale Range Shift in a Long-Distance Terrestrial Migrant.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In: Evidence for an Adaptive, Large-Scale Range Shift in a Long-Distance Terrestrial Migrant.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily
November 18, 2024 at 11:43 PM
I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily
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In the simpler days of 2015/16 we wrote the BES Guide to Reproducible Code: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/u.... It’s time for a refresh! Would you like to help? I’m looking for people to review the existing booklet by 5th December.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:53 PM
In the simpler days of 2015/16 we wrote the BES Guide to Reproducible Code: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/u.... It’s time for a refresh! Would you like to help? I’m looking for people to review the existing booklet by 5th December.