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Rodrigo Granjel
@granjel.bsky.social
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Ecologist • postdoc at Basque Centre for Climate Change • diversity × interactions × stability × function • 🌱🌊 — he/him

Formerly: Fulbright @ncstate.bsky.social, Santander Iberoamérica UNESP-Río Claro, FPU @unisevilla.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Granjel @granjel.bsky.social · Nov 17
Assembling my community on these 💙 skies! If you're into community ecology, check out my @newphyt.bsky.social paper with Oscar Godoy and Eric Allan. 🌱 We explored how nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens drive plant multispecies coexistence: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens affect the mechanisms of multispecies plant coexistence
Changes in resources (e.g. nitrogen) and enemies (e.g. foliar pathogens) are key drivers of plant diversity and composition. However, their effects have not been connected to the niche and fitness...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
Lesser kestrels (cernícalos primillas) in "The Collins Birds of Europe" featuring La Giralda, once the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville, since Christian conquest the bell tower of the Cathedral. This is the only building shown in the essential European bird guide.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dannykay68.bsky.social
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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minyaaa.bsky.social
Wait New Phy @newphyt.bsky.social supports authors to show their real name (if non English) now?!?!? Omg I love it!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
A new Phy paper with Chinese authors listing their Chinese names by the English spellings
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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dskarp.bsky.social
Another really cool pest paper just came out in @esajournals.bsky.social! Led by Mia Lippey, we show how variable pest responses are to landscape context... even in the same cropping system!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
One landscape does not fit all: Diverse arthropod responses to land use
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November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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masonfidino.bsky.social
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecologists have limited options when modelling species distributions through time, especially when data are limited. The autoOcc R package provides a solution to this, making it simple to fit autologistic occupancy models, compare them, and make model predictions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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stephenturner.us
Positron pro tip: put copilot in timeout for 5 minutes (bottom right of the IDE, snooze) #Rstats
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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raquelmuga.bsky.social
Very happy to see the last and my favourite article of the PhD out in @funecology.bsky.social! We show how an invasive moth can alter plant-frugivore interactions in the Mediterranean dwarf palm🦋🏝️🍒🐐
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trait‐mediated effects driven by an invasive herbivore alter functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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erc.europa.eu
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

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#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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esajournals.bsky.social
🆕 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....
Schematic illustrating how species interactions can depend on neighborhood density and identity.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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milanchytry.bsky.social
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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mrillig.bsky.social
Paper just out @newphyt.bsky.social

Ajaz et al.
Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti-nested and modular

w/ Tancredi Caruso

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti‐nested and modular
There is uncertainty in whether there is a common pattern of nestedness and modularity in plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi associations, partly because of limitations arising from the use of ...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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danimontoya.bsky.social
I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...
Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...
info.bc3research.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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elinamantyla.bsky.social
Thompson et al. Making “scents” of how plant volatiles influence agriculturally important insects: a review academic.oup.com/ee/article/d...
Making “scents” of how plant volatiles influence agriculturally important insects: a review
Abstract. Plants emit hundreds, if not thousands, of different volatile chemical compounds, although the function of most individual volatiles remains elus
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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philmartin.bsky.social
Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Microbes boost pest mortality and parasitoid recruitment through complementary mechanisms

Rivero et al. @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @eezcsic.bsky.social @axeltouw.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @nmvandam.bsky.social @igzleibniz.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MIR involves priming of direct or indirect defenses depending on the timing of herbivory
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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chaintist.bsky.social
Had to draw a cartoon for this fascinating finding!
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SymbioSky
A cartoon/ digital drawing summarising the findings of the paper "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" by T. Nishino et al published in 2025. On the top left, a female Megymenum gracilicorne bug shows off symbiotic organs on the hind legs where she carries Ascomycota fungi. These were previously assumed to be Tympanal organs in these bugs but only females had them?; that didnt make a whole lot of sense to the authors...To the right of the bug is a row of eggs lying side by side. The paper shows that the bugs deposit the symbiotic fungi on the egg surface after egg-laying. Next on the image, fungal conidia grow on the egg surface. The eggs are pinkish in colour. A few fungi wear sunglasses like they are body guards. The paper shows that they protect the eggs from Trissolcus brevinotaulus, a parasitoid wasp, that likes to lay its eggs inside the developing bug's eggs. There are two wasps in this cartoon "eyeing" the fungi and looking frustrated. Eggs turn from whitish to pinkish within 10-days because they are reflecting the body colour of the nymph within the eggs.
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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asanchez-tojar.bsky.social
Big news. I’ve started a new PI position @ucoimbra.bsky.social

I'm joining the meta-research group led by @tweissgerber.bsky.social & the @ec.europa.eu funded @excelscior-era.bsky.social

Thrilled to join this historic university & continue my work on #MetaResearch #EvidenceSynthesis & #OpenScience
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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clsong.com
Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
A comic strip in six panels. Drawn in ink on white paperand signed by Tom Gauld in pencil. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels. Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory." Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality." Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?: Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint) Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close" A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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eco-aeet.bsky.social
#ProyectosAEET
Ya se ha resuelto la convocatoria 2025 de las ayudas a proyectos de investigación en Ecología @eco-aeet.bsky.social + @sibecol.bsky.social + Asociación Ibérica de Limnología

www.aeet.org/es/convocato...
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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bjenquist.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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adamtclark.bsky.social
How can we identify #coexistence in #ecology? There are at least three common approaches (structural stability, eigenvalues, and invasion), and each investigates different aspects of community dynamics (equilibria, locally stable equilibria, and global stability). 1/2
A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence
Coexistence is simultaneously one of the most fundamental concepts of ecology, and one of the most difficult to define. A particular challenge is that, despite a well-developed body of research, seve...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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clauswilke.com
Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM