Daniel Noble
@danielwanoble.bsky.social
Associate Professor at The Australian National University. Meta-analysis, global change biology, functional ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology. I also like statistics. 🇨🇦🇦🇺
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Daniel Noble
@danielwanoble.bsky.social
· Dec 12
From eggs to adulthood: sustained effects of early developmental temperature and corticosterone exposure on physiology and body size in an Australian lizard
Highlighted Article: Incubation temperature and prenatal corticosterone exposure have independent sustained effects, but not interactive effects, on morphological and physiological traits in the delic...
doi.org
Check out our cool new findings showing how developmental temperature and corticosterone have long term impacts on mitochondrial efficiency that coincide with consistent differences in body size through life! A fantatsic team effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
www.newphytologist.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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This year's #SORTEE2025 conference was very inspiring and full of fresh ideas! For those who haven’t heard of it yet, SORTEE is a community that supports open methods, reproducible results, and real collaboration across borders and fields. I strongly recommend everyone to join!
@sortee.bsky.social
@sortee.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This year's #SORTEE2025 conference was very inspiring and full of fresh ideas! For those who haven’t heard of it yet, SORTEE is a community that supports open methods, reproducible results, and real collaboration across borders and fields. I strongly recommend everyone to join!
@sortee.bsky.social
@sortee.bsky.social
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New paper from the lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com - Nature Food
Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.
New metabolites & microbes identified to provide drought tolerance.
rdcu.be/eKlLa
Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.
New metabolites & microbes identified to provide drought tolerance.
rdcu.be/eKlLa
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
New paper from the lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com - Nature Food
Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.
New metabolites & microbes identified to provide drought tolerance.
rdcu.be/eKlLa
Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.
New metabolites & microbes identified to provide drought tolerance.
rdcu.be/eKlLa
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Excited for our 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship tomorrow at @concordia.ca 🇨🇦
oscanada.github.io/en/
oscanada.github.io/en/
1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship
On this page About the conference News & updates Host & supporting institutions Montreal, October 9–10, 2025 "Mapping the Present, Charting our Future" The 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and ...
oscanada.github.io
October 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Excited for our 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship tomorrow at @concordia.ca 🇨🇦
oscanada.github.io/en/
oscanada.github.io/en/
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How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Life-History Evolution of Insects in Response to Climate Variation: Seasonal Timing Versus Thermal Physiology | Annual Reviews
Climate adaptation in insects can proceed via responses in life-history traits and their thermal plasticity and through phenological shifts mediated by responses to photoperiodic cues (photoperiodism)...
www.annualreviews.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social
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📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!
🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!
🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month?
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
September 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How did Dr. Monarez go from being “a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials” who had the “full confidence” of Secretary Kennedy into being a “liar” and “untrustworthy” in less than a month?
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
She refused to rubber stamp his anti-vaccine recommendations.
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Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change
in @natecoevo.nature.com
We explore interactive effects of environmental stressors on soil food webs& importance of integrating chemical pollution impacts into assessing soil food web stability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
in @natecoevo.nature.com
We explore interactive effects of environmental stressors on soil food webs& importance of integrating chemical pollution impacts into assessing soil food web stability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change
in @natecoevo.nature.com
We explore interactive effects of environmental stressors on soil food webs& importance of integrating chemical pollution impacts into assessing soil food web stability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
in @natecoevo.nature.com
We explore interactive effects of environmental stressors on soil food webs& importance of integrating chemical pollution impacts into assessing soil food web stability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Drought sensitivity in eucalypts is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density - great work by PhD student Victoria Perez-Martinez at @deannicolle1.bsky.social Currency Creek Arboretum during the Tinderbox drought
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Drought sensitivity is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density and maximum height in eucalypts
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Drought sensitivity in eucalypts is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density - great work by PhD student Victoria Perez-Martinez at @deannicolle1.bsky.social Currency Creek Arboretum during the Tinderbox drought
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Evolutionary consequences of extreme climate events
Simon Baeckens and Colin Donihue review case studies of rapid evolutionary change
in response to extreme climate events and sketch a framework for future studies in
the rapidly changing climate of the...
www.cell.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)
September 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)
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~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅
Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆
Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!
#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆
Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!
#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
No effect of ocean acidification on individual-level variation in behaviour and susceptibility to predation in a Great Barrier Reef damselfish
ecoevorxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅
Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆
Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!
#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆
Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!
#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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PLEASE respond to review requests! Saying "No" as soon as you can is helpful so we can move to the next invitation. Each ignored invitation can delay the process by around 2 weeks. Be considerate of your peers relying on this process!
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
PLEASE respond to review requests! Saying "No" as soon as you can is helpful so we can move to the next invitation. Each ignored invitation can delay the process by around 2 weeks. Be considerate of your peers relying on this process!
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Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.
Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.
Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.
Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.
Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.
September 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.
Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.
Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.
Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.
Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.
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Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/
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My first methods paper from postdoc—How to identify genomic adaptation to climate using a mechanistic model of evolution. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Identifying genomic adaptation to local climate using a mechanistic evolutionary model
Identifying genomic adaptation is key to understanding species' evolutionary responses to environmental changes. However, current methods to identify adaptive variation have two major limitations....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My first methods paper from postdoc—How to identify genomic adaptation to climate using a mechanistic model of evolution. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Happy to officially join the team at @conphysjournal.bsky.social as AE!
Introducing our new Associate Editor!
Jeff Clements @biolumijeffence.bsky.social is keenly interested in #PeerReview and how we can make it better, both for the science and the scientists that do it.
His work focusses on how shellfish 🐚 behaviour and physiology modulate ecological interactions.
Jeff Clements @biolumijeffence.bsky.social is keenly interested in #PeerReview and how we can make it better, both for the science and the scientists that do it.
His work focusses on how shellfish 🐚 behaviour and physiology modulate ecological interactions.
August 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy to officially join the team at @conphysjournal.bsky.social as AE!
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The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
August 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
devillemereuil.legtux.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
👋
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
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To be, or not to be, part-time in academia?
This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Point of View: To be, or not to be, part-time in academia
Part-time working can be beneficial for individual academics, and also for academia as a whole.
elifesciences.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
To be, or not to be, part-time in academia?
This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.