Nathan Wisnoski
@nwisnoski.bsky.social
Ecologist interested in dormancy, microbes, and metacommunities. Assistant Prof @ Mississippi State. 🏳️🌈 he/him
www.nathanwisnoski.com
www.nathanwisnoski.com
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A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
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Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template
Your slides are not your talk.
clauswilke.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking
clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...
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Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
Programmer in Ecological Modelling
Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72
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July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
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📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!
July 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!
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If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
www.science.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🎓 Early-career researcher?
I wrote down everything I wish I’d known when I was in your shoes.
33 pieces of honest, hard-earned advice on publishing, mentors, rejection, focus, and building a life in research.
🔁 Save it. Share it. Add your own. 👇👇👇
#Academia #PhD #ECR #postdoc
I wrote down everything I wish I’d known when I was in your shoes.
33 pieces of honest, hard-earned advice on publishing, mentors, rejection, focus, and building a life in research.
🔁 Save it. Share it. Add your own. 👇👇👇
#Academia #PhD #ECR #postdoc
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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Postdoctoral researcher in Plankton Ecology // University of Oldenburg
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April 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
uol.de/en/job/postd...
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Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1
I wonder, for those of us on a tenure clock, how will this situation factor in?
We’re not playing the same game we set out to play.
We’re not playing the same game we set out to play.
a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with nbc written on the bottom right
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April 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1
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Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...
Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa
Classical models from theoretical ecology are seeing increasing uptake in microbial ecology, but there remains rich potential for closer cross-pollination. Here we explore opportunities for stronger ....
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...
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National-scale biogeography and function of river and stream bacterial biofilm communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641783v1
March 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
National-scale biogeography and function of river and stream bacterial biofilm communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.641783v1
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"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
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New for @undark.org
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How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
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March 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
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Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me.
stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...
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From the Community | I am more than a researcher, but Stanford doesn’t care
Assistant Professor Elliott White Jr. denounces the University's faint response to political threats against DEI, especially compared to the robust support its research initiatives in the wake of NIH ...
stanforddaily.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Sharing this brave piece that echos a lot of what I have been feeling. The silence around DEI from institutions means the damage is already done. Leadership asking us to keep our heads down to prevent actual damage ignore that it’s already here for people like me.
stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...
stanforddaily.com/2025/03/03/f...
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📣 We are hiring! 📣
Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬
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Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Three-year postdoc position – Exploring the deep biosphere in Arctic marine sediments
Are you interested in environmental microbiology, the deep biosphere, and Arctic climate change? We are looking for a postdoctoral microbiologist to join our in
candidate.hr-manager.net
March 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📣 We are hiring! 📣
Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply!
🧪🦑🧬
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on:
"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"
Now out in Ecology Letters:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"
Now out in Ecology Letters:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning
Much of life on earth is at the mercy of currents and flow. Residence time (τ) estimates how long organisms and resources remain in a system based on the ratio of volume (V) to flow rate (Q). We test...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on:
"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"
Now out in Ecology Letters:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning"
Now out in Ecology Letters:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
February 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A small moment of science in the world of the very small... announcing calls for applications from MS + PhD students + postdocs for a Summer School on
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales
U of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27, 2025
Apply by 3/21/25:
bit.ly/phageschool2...
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Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
February 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Traits determine dispersal and colonization abilities of microbes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊
Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean
Heterotrophic bacteria fix N2 in more diverse environments than previously thought, critical for the oceanic nitrogen cycle.
www.science.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊
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Firings happening right now at the NSF.
February 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
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Interested in the linkage between ecosystems of different trophic types, such as aquatic-terrestrial linkages or benthic-pelagic linkages? 🌊 🐟 🐳 🌲 🌳 🎋
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
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Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems
The flow of non-living resources between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems can impact their ecosystem function. However, ecosystem size is similarly known to influence ecological properties and...
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February 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Interested in the linkage between ecosystems of different trophic types, such as aquatic-terrestrial linkages or benthic-pelagic linkages? 🌊 🐟 🐳 🌲 🌳 🎋
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
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Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Fluctation-dependent coexistence of stage structured species" 🌎🌱🧪 Part of a special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/R9RFA...
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February 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Fluctation-dependent coexistence of stage structured species" 🌎🌱🧪 Part of a special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/R9RFA...
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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This is causing major issues for us at the HJ Andrews LTER. Possible disruptions to >40 years of data on water, tree growth and survival, ecosystem response to fire. As well as three long-term employees whose livelihoods are now uncertain.
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is causing major issues for us at the HJ Andrews LTER. Possible disruptions to >40 years of data on water, tree growth and survival, ecosystem response to fire. As well as three long-term employees whose livelihoods are now uncertain.
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Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature
Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite