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Super excited to share this new paper in Ecology, where we explore the bioenergetic trade-offs of mammalian trophic interactions and resulting selective pressures on size evolution across the Cenozoic 🦣🐅 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Bioenergetic trophic trade‐offs determine mass‐dependent extinction thresholds across the CenozoicBody size constrains trophic interactions, shaping the feasibility of species' populations. Over macroevolutionary timescales, these constraints feed back to shape selection on body size and diet. We...esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Good to hear the news of LTER's death has been exaggerated!

I'm lucky enough to be part of the Sevilleta LTER in New Mexico... I don't know what happens now... there is so much to rebuild once we are able to rebuild. If.

Without knowing anything else about this book, I love the cover art... it's got that '60s Lost in Space vibe

I've always loved reading about the moon landings (and early NASA missions generally), and I'm thankful/excited to have something in the news that's exciting and that captivates the imagination...

Check out this very cool new paper by Stephen Hoover, @akfbio.bsky.social , and I’m serving drinks in the back - it’s wild!

Check out our new paper on cooperating bacteria led by @janamassing.bsky.social w/ @thilogross.bsky.social and @akfbio.bsky.social, where we explore the costs and benefits of metabolitic trade on stability in non-spatial and spatial contexts... exciting! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Generalized dynamics of cross-feeding bacteriaAbstract. Bacterial cooperation involves the exchange of metabolites, which can range from costless byproducts of metabolism to intentionally produced androyalsocietypublishing.org

Wait - is this real??? I can’t find anything anywhere else about it… www.technology.org/2026/01/30/c...

Very excited to share this new exploration of motifs and their impacts on the dynamics of the entire network in PNAS! I learned a lot working with this crew (as usual)... with @mhab.bsky.social @akfbio.bsky.social and @thilogross.bsky.social !

New paper where we explore how the dynamics of food webs can be explored when populations are ‘distilled’ to high and low states, or Boolean switches… Somehow this leads to a discussion involving Otodus megalodon :D nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Distilling food web dynamics: top–down and bottom–up drivers of extinction and trophic cascadesQuantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on cont...nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

Okay Open Nature… are you *trying* to make me eat cat food?

New paper in Science! Luke Fannin and Nate Dominy on the bridge; I'm some kind of assistant science officer or asking the chief engineer where the bathroom is, but hey I'm part of the fleet -- Also, it's just a really awesome project, so check it out... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Behavior drives morphological change during human evolutionDietary shifts and corresponding morphological changes can sometimes evolve in succession, not concurrently—an evolutionary process called behavioral drive. Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil re...www.science.org

Make it stop…

My cousin-in-law @jasonragosta.bsky.social (is that a thing?) knocks it out of the park with this amazing The Buffalo Hunter Hunter fan poster from the legendary @sgj.bsky.social www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1715...

Buffalo Hunter Hunter Poster by Jason Ragosta | RedbubbleA fan poster for Stephen Graham Jones' novel Buffalo Hunter Hunter illustrated by Jason Ragosta.www.redbubble.com

Exciting opportunity for prospective grad students wanting to study the science of science w/ @culturologies.co … check it out! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

Looks like Elon flew too close to a bloated orange giant ☀️

How is your day going? for k in 1:length(ksdvec) ksd = ksdvec[k]; ksdname = ksdstrs[k]; ksd = 1.5; ....(long simulation).... end

Jim Estes was one of my PhD advisors at UCSC… a generator of great ideas and discussions, always angling positive when others tried to tear down, a rockstar who didn’t act like a rockstar. This was my slide for Jim in my dissertation seminar… thanks for the good conversations and caribou sausage

New paper on food-cleaning monkeys showing some true grit. Led by Jessica Rosien, Nate Dominy, Luke Fannin, Suchinda Malaivijitnond and Amanda Tan - this was a fun collaboration :D 🐒 elifesciences.org/articles/98520

Food-washing monkeys recognize the law of diminishing returnsMonkeys are sensitive to foods coated with tooth-damaging sand and will invest time and energy to eliminate sand, but dominance rank affects the effort allocated to cleaning behaviors.elifesciences.org