Courtney Taylor
@courtgt.bsky.social
PhD student Mayfield Lab, UniMelb. Community ecology, spatial stuff, networks and lots of small plants.
Organiser @pop-bio.bsky.social
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Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
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🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Very excited about this work led by Sergio
Species interactions are internally constrained despite large climatic variability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.684754v1
October 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Very excited about this work led by Sergio
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Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
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The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
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What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
Back in the field in Western Australia.
September 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Back in the field in Western Australia.
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I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
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Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
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Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
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"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
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August 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
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Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:
"A unified theory of community structure"
Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...
"A unified theory of community structure"
Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...
July 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:
"A unified theory of community structure"
Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...
"A unified theory of community structure"
Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...
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Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
July 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.
June 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.
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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
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"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
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June 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
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🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
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Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:
"Artificial selection for collective composition"
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NB. This seminar won't be recorded.
Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:
"Artificial selection for collective composition"
Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa...
NB. This seminar won't be recorded.
May 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:
"Artificial selection for collective composition"
Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa...
NB. This seminar won't be recorded.
Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:
"Artificial selection for collective composition"
Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa...
NB. This seminar won't be recorded.
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Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:
"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"
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NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!
Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:
"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"
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NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!
April 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.
Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:
"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"
Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW...
NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!
Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:
"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"
Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW...
NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!
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#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!
April 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!
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Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne!
I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com
I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY GROUP
Exciting lab news! In September 2025, the lab will move to the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. We will keep a presence at the Gulbenkian Institute for...
giuliaghedini.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne!
I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com
I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com
The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩
Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:
A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology
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For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.
A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology
Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59
For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.
March 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩
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We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...
Very excited for this online seminar series I am organising with @ecologyisamess.bsky.social @darmitage.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social Lynette Loke, Andrew Letten And Po-Ju Ke. Follow to find out more!
We are excited to announce our new seminar series highlighting research on population biology and theoretical ecology from academics and post-grads based in the Asia-Pacific. We have a great line up of speakers for the next few months. Stay tuned for more info!
March 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Very excited for this online seminar series I am organising with @ecologyisamess.bsky.social @darmitage.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social Lynette Loke, Andrew Letten And Po-Ju Ke. Follow to find out more!
Ecology is counting stuff…
March 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Ecology is counting stuff…
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Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.
February 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.