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Eric Riddell
@ecophysiology.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill studying global change biology and ecophysiology

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🤝 NEW Meet the Editor: Eric Riddell

✍️Associate Editor Eric Riddell shares his experiences in #ecophysiology, insights into the #editor role and top tips for early career #researchers💡

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October 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122
Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS
Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...
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August 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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In case this is helpful to someone out there: I'm moving to Ball State University this August, and I'll have a support for MS students over the next three years (RAs/TAs)

If your lab has talented students graduating this spring, I welcome them to reach out and talk about the opportunities.
April 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Do you think about the effects of wind on plants and animals? Check out a new paper in @sicbjournals.bsky.social that explores the effects of wind on plant and animal physiology: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
The Wind Niche: The Thermal and Hydric Effects of Wind Speed on Terrestrial Organisms
Synopsis. Wind can significantly influence heat and water exchange between organisms and their environment, yet microclimatic variation in wind is often ov
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July 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!

🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it
Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect
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July 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I’m a new subject-matter editor at Ecology - send your animal physiology research my way!
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Any early career PIs also not hear back about last year’s career proposal yet?
June 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Now at @asn-amnat.bsky.social, "Genome composition predicts physiological responses to temperature in polyploid salamanders"

A project that @ecophysiology.bsky.social and I talked about since we were both PhD students! Funded by #NSF

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...
three lizards are dancing together in a row on a yellow background .
Alt: three salamanders are dancing together in a row on a yellow background
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May 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.

❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
May 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Very happy to highlight a great paper by Owen Edwards et al in J Animal Ecology on changes in niche breadth and dispersal during a recent range shift of treefrogs 🐸!
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Research Highlight: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@animalecology.bsky.social @ecophysiology.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Hey folks- do you identify as being a member of a systemically minoritized group? Have you also worked, recreated, and/or conducted research in the outdoors? We're looking for more folks to contribute short narratives regarding their experiences. Ping me if interested!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Climate change will result in global stilling of wind speeds. @ecophysiology.bsky.social shows potential for super interesting interactions between warming, wind speed, animal coloration, body size and water loss. #SICB2025
January 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes
Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…
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December 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Waybright & Dillon combine new data on physiology with continental scale ground temperature data to develop landscapes of mortality risk for overwintering ectotherms, and apply the approach to predict mortality risk for overwintering bumble bee queens.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms | The American Naturalist
Abstract Changing climates are driving population declines in diverse animals worldwide. Winter conditions may play an important role in these declines but are often overlooked. Animals must not only ...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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We are looking for Spring 2025 speakers for the New York Regional Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group. If you are local to the NY area and interested in giving an in-person talk at the American Museum of Natural History, please DM me!

www.amnh.org/research/cen...
NY-SDM | AMNH
The New York Regional Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group (NY-SDM) convenes leading researchers from across the New York Tri-State area to discuss and present research related to species...
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December 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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Led by undergrad Maya Moore in Eric Gangloff’s lab, resilience to lead contamination in urban wall lizards! #lizards #ecotoxicology
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Urban wall lizards are resilient to high levels of blood lead
Living in urban environments presents many challenges to wildlife, including exposure to potentially toxic pollutants. For example, the heavy metal le…
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November 3, 2024 at 5:24 PM