At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social

Happy to be at BC3: Basque Centre for Climate Change for my sabbatical! Excited to connect and collaborate with my host @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social and other great colleagues at here at BC3.

Now it's official

Excited to share PhD student Claire Winfrey’s (w/ @noahfierer.bsky.social & me) new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology! She examines how edge effects in habitat fragments shape soil microbial communities. Check it out 🦠 🧪 🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social l.bsky.social led by Kaitlyn Barthell 🧪🌎🐝🏵️

Competition for floral resources among bumble bees intensifies at higher elevations. As climate change pushes new bumble bee species upslope, pressures of climate and competition mount.

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For our final lab meeting of the year, we each picked out our favorite paper of 2024... and had holiday cookies! Here are our picks (in no particular order):

My Scholar Goggler! scholargoggler.com

The support for Clements’s perspective was, at best, mixed. While distributions along the gradient showed evidence of clustering of species range edges (consistent with the Clementsian paradigm), the pattern was weak, and neither range edges nor species turnover peaked at ecotone elevations. 8/11

In this paper, in @asn-amnat.bsky.social we revisit the debate by analyzing distributions of plants on Pikes Peak where Clements worked throughout his career. 5/11

Most ecologists today go with the Gleasonian paradigm. But that wasn’t always the case! 4/11

Do species respond to the environment in concerted ways, leading to distinct and cohesive assemblages (the Clementsian paradigm), or do species respond to the environment independently (the Gleasonian paradigm)? 3/11

What about bee parasites 🐝? Lincoln's poster is also today at #entsoc24

Interested in urban insect biodiversity and ecosystem services? 🐝 Check out Asia's talk this morning at #entsoc24

Asia Kaiser's new paper is out in Urban Ecosystems where she asked how impervious surface and neighborhood wealth affect arthropod biodiversity and ecosystem services in community gardens rdcu.be/dJMJw

REU opportunity at Savannah River Site Corridor Experiment
damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu/2024/01/15/h...

We're hiring a tenure-track faculty and Curator of Entomology at CUBoulder's Museum of Natural History! Please share. Job ad here:
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I’m sad to be missing #ESA2023 thanks to a broken ankle... Here are some presentations from our lab to consider adding to your schedule 1/4:

All the thunderstorms this summer have not been fun for Spice 😖