Walter Andriuzzi
@walterandriuzzi.bsky.social
Former child who wanted to study nature. Senior Editor at Nature Ecology & Evolution (formerly at Nature Communications). Postdoc Colorado State University (2015-2018). PhD University College Dublin & Wageningen University. Needs writing, hiking, espresso.
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Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A second Nature Communications paper finds that wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850. go.nature.com/4oID33i go.nature.com/3LhSD7n 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. A second Nature Communications paper finds that wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850. go.nature.com/4oID33i go.nature.com/3LhSD7n 🧪
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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#PhD investigating the Ecology and Evolution of tree size - integrating field ecology, molecular biology, and biogeography to answer how and why giant trees evolved and what are the consequences of gigantism.
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#PhD investigating the Ecology and Evolution of tree size - integrating field ecology, molecular biology, and biogeography to answer how and why giant trees evolved and what are the consequences of gigantism.
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
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🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply:
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
PhD positions: Fire resilience of Amazon forests
www.wur.nl
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply:
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
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2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
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Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.
This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.
This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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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
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.
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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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🧪🌾🌐
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
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🧪🌾🌐
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
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Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu
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POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
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Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Reminder to take a look at the new paper by Hugo Cabral and colleagues: Diversity Loss and Homogenization in Snake Communities in a Deforestation Hotspot -> out now in Diversity and Distributions.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#newpaper #snakes #chaco #deforestation #diversityloss
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#newpaper #snakes #chaco #deforestation #diversityloss
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reminder to take a look at the new paper by Hugo Cabral and colleagues: Diversity Loss and Homogenization in Snake Communities in a Deforestation Hotspot -> out now in Diversity and Distributions.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#newpaper #snakes #chaco #deforestation #diversityloss
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#newpaper #snakes #chaco #deforestation #diversityloss
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Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Intraspecific plant chemodiversity at plot level has contrasting effects on arthropod functional groups
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy that Lina Ojeda Prieto's latest work is online @funecology.bsky.social! We manipulated the number of plant chemotypes in a plot, and tested how this influenced visitation by different arthropod groups. A massive endeavor for Lina's PhD.
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📢Save the Date!👩🔬
Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference:
“Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳
📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories!
Please RT and share this news!
#Research #Conference
Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference:
“Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳
📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories!
Please RT and share this news!
#Research #Conference
August 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📢Save the Date!👩🔬
Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference:
“Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳
📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories!
Please RT and share this news!
#Research #Conference
Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference:
“Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳
📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin
🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories!
Please RT and share this news!
#Research #Conference
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com
@science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary
scienmag.com/amazon-droug...
Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com
@science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary
scienmag.com/amazon-droug...
Amazon forest resistance to drought is increased by diversity in hydraulic traits - Nature Communications
The hyper-diverse tropical forests of the Amazon store vast carbon stocks, but whether this diversity increases their resistance to future drought remains uncertain. This simulation study suggests tha...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com
@science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary
scienmag.com/amazon-droug...
Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com
@science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary
scienmag.com/amazon-droug...
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c