Mike Moore
@moore-evo-eco.bsky.social
evolution, ecology, and physiology of wetland animals
- newPI @ CU Denver - EEW Lab - moore-evo-eco.weebly.com
- newPI @ CU Denver - EEW Lab - moore-evo-eco.weebly.com
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all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale
Why is there such variation in the birds encountered as you go up or down a mountain? New paper in #ScienceAdvances examines how climate and ecological interactions drive bird distributions in mountains throughout the year:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/10 ⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/10 ⬇️
Climate, ecological dynamics, and the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains
Ecological dynamics related to energy use and competition drives the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains across the world.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale
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It’s been a cold, snowy winter here in Cleveland. In 2923 and 2024, we caught our first salamanders around February 10th. I am now wondering if we won’t see them until late March this year? What’s your guess?
February 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
It’s been a cold, snowy winter here in Cleveland. In 2923 and 2024, we caught our first salamanders around February 10th. I am now wondering if we won’t see them until late March this year? What’s your guess?
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why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others?
then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species
the best predictor?
latitude
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species
the best predictor?
latitude
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
February 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others?
then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species
the best predictor?
latitude
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species
the best predictor?
latitude
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Heat can make #fruitfly males sterile at temperatures below their lethal limits. We explore if tissue-specific heat shock protein expression can explain why using 6 #Drosophila species:
@chsmithson.bsky.social et al.
@ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@chsmithson.bsky.social et al.
@ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Expression of heat shock proteins and thermal sensitivity of male fertility across six Drosophila species
Abstract. Understanding the mechanisms that confer resilience to thermal stress is crucial in the context of climate change. Recently there has been increa
doi.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Heat can make #fruitfly males sterile at temperatures below their lethal limits. We explore if tissue-specific heat shock protein expression can explain why using 6 #Drosophila species:
@chsmithson.bsky.social et al.
@ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@chsmithson.bsky.social et al.
@ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions!
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
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Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
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The evolutionary potential of symbiosis
Abstract. Symbiosis is considered a source of evolutionary innovation. Example innovations that have evolved in symbioses include new organs, morphological
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February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions!
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work?
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social y.social: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)
Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social y.social: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)
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Happy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 !
Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Overwintering drives rapid adaptation in Drosophila with potential costs to insecticide resistance
Abstract. Winter is a formidable challenge for ectotherms that inhabit temperate climates. The extent to which winter conditions drive rapid adaptation, an
doi.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Happy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 !
Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Have questions about the UW–NPS Small Grants Program RFP? 📣 Join our RFP Q&A event hosted by staff from AMK Ranch. We’ll cover program history, RFP details, and open the floor for your questions! Tomorrow @ 5:30! Join our mailing list for more info: uwnps.org/mailing-list/
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January 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Have questions about the UW–NPS Small Grants Program RFP? 📣 Join our RFP Q&A event hosted by staff from AMK Ranch. We’ll cover program history, RFP details, and open the floor for your questions! Tomorrow @ 5:30! Join our mailing list for more info: uwnps.org/mailing-list/
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When you're working with a mentee's draft manuscript, what kind of feedback should you give? To be both efficient and effective, we suggest suppressing some of your instincts... scientistseessquirre... 🧪
Three stages of manuscript development – and why they matter to you as a mentor
When folks find out that Bethann Garramon Merkle and I have written a book called Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-based Approach, they often ask: “What’s your #1 tip?”* …
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January 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
When you're working with a mentee's draft manuscript, what kind of feedback should you give? To be both efficient and effective, we suggest suppressing some of your instincts... scientistseessquirre... 🧪
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Pro-tips: You can make pretty decent website in Google, please do so using your personal account, not one attached to wherever you happen to work right now - y'know, just in case...
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Pro-tips: You can make pretty decent website in Google, please do so using your personal account, not one attached to wherever you happen to work right now - y'know, just in case...
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I'm consistently surprised at the number of postdocs who have no website
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I'm consistently surprised at the number of postdocs who have no website
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Editor here:
I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper.
We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.
I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper.
We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Editor here:
I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper.
We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.
I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper.
We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.
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This has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
This has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.
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Shout this from the rooftops!
ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!
ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Shout this from the rooftops!
ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!
ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!
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As someone who is getting her promised alumni "email for life" yoinked in short order (budgets...), I will have to rely on gmail going forward. One way to add legitimacy would be to add this email address to a website outlining professional work, your ORCID account, and other such profiles
January 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM
As someone who is getting her promised alumni "email for life" yoinked in short order (budgets...), I will have to rely on gmail going forward. One way to add legitimacy would be to add this email address to a website outlining professional work, your ORCID account, and other such profiles
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I'd echo what some of the other folks have said. I feel like I can usually figure out who is an ECR and so I won't think your not-legit with a gmail. & FWIW I personally don't care where you work/don't work. I'm looking at what you've done. If it's recent & relevant I'm going to reach out
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I'd echo what some of the other folks have said. I feel like I can usually figure out who is an ECR and so I won't think your not-legit with a gmail. & FWIW I personally don't care where you work/don't work. I'm looking at what you've done. If it's recent & relevant I'm going to reach out
I can't speak for other editors, but when I'm given the choice between an institutional address and a gmail address for an ECR (on a professional website, say), I'm way more likely to send the review request to the gmail account because I'm more certain that the person will see it and respond to it
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I can't speak for other editors, but when I'm given the choice between an institutional address and a gmail address for an ECR (on a professional website, say), I'm way more likely to send the review request to the gmail account because I'm more certain that the person will see it and respond to it
Absolutely - great point!
ECRs: make yourself a professional gmail, etc while you're nomadic 🧪🌍
ECRs: make yourself a professional gmail, etc while you're nomadic 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Absolutely - great point!
ECRs: make yourself a professional gmail, etc while you're nomadic 🧪🌍
ECRs: make yourself a professional gmail, etc while you're nomadic 🧪🌍
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New work in #RESEcolEnt by S.Park, @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & @allikpierce.bsky.social finds heat is deadlier than hypoxia for #Euxoa auxiliaris, an elevationally #migrating #moth.
doi.org/10.1111/een.70057
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Photos by M.P. Moore
doi.org/10.1111/een.70057
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Photos by M.P. Moore
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
New work in #RESEcolEnt by S.Park, @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & @allikpierce.bsky.social finds heat is deadlier than hypoxia for #Euxoa auxiliaris, an elevationally #migrating #moth.
doi.org/10.1111/een.70057
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Photos by M.P. Moore
doi.org/10.1111/een.70057
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Photos by M.P. Moore
Editors are on deadlines to find referees, get reviews back, and turn papers around to authors. If I can't find an email address for you that I think is current-ish, I have to move on to someone else rather than risking sending you a request that you might never see 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Editors are on deadlines to find referees, get reviews back, and turn papers around to authors. If I can't find an email address for you that I think is current-ish, I have to move on to someone else rather than risking sending you a request that you might never see 🧪🌍
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
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Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️
Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️
Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January!
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January!
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
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It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪
How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later
One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪