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Our paper showing that metabolic trait variation governs th temperature-microbial species richness relationship is out: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… @eLife Comments n' criticisms welcome!! And if you are at it, you might as well check this out as well: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… :)

Do you LOVE Thermal Performace Curves? Has your thirst for TPC models not been quenched by rTPC+ nls.multistart (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…)? Then check this out! nature.com/articles/s4146… Thanks to @DGKontopoulos for conceiving and leading this model fitting madness!

New postdoctoral job opprotunity in microbial (agro-)ecology at Silwood Park: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo… #postdoc #microbiome #fungi #microbes

It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. @BSPparasitology @AS_Para @ASTMH @TrendsParasitol @AmSocParasit @parasitesrule @PiParasitology

Fungal Olympic

You can also write to your state and federal representatives. here is list of contacts and a template letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1dj…

After reading Priyanga’s account please consider joining us in signing a petition to the California Assembly and California Senate to conduct an external investigation of UCLA’s mistreatment of Priyanga: chng.it/L7wbnXWqLW

Many of you are aware that Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare, a minority faculty member and award winning scientist, has been the subject of disciplinary actions by UCLA. Priyanga has decided to share her experience and defend herself publicly: pamarasekare.org

We will soon be advertising for a second postdoc position in theoretical ecology under the same project, based at the Silwood Park Campus of Imperial College. Please contact s.pawar@imperial.ac.uk if interested in the latter.

Two (coupled empirical-theoretical) Postdoc opportunities in temperature-dependence of microbial community dynamics Empirical Postdoc at the Streatham campus of U Exeter: jobs.ac.uk/job/DIC204/pos… Please contact @GabYvonDurocher <g.yvon-durocher@exeter.ac.uk> if interested.

Moving beyond #Arrhenius to embrace #unimodal #scaling of biological rates with #temperature - new paper w/ #JosefGaren in @Ecology_Letters shorturl.at/fpy45 @UBCBotany @UBCBiodiversity @ZoologyUBC @ubcscience @sfiscience

Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles. ❤️ successions academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

It has been 10+ years of work bringing the data and theory together; thanks, @MossieCator , @pjhuxle , @AlexHHChan , @MartaShocket , @Lrjohnson0 , @DGKontopoulos, @Nesbit_Sci and Tom Smallwood!

Our paper on how life history traits constrain the adaptation of arthropods to climatic warming (or cooling!) is out: nature.com/articles/s4155… Remember, arthropods (especially insects) are the most abundant animals on planet earth across land and water!

Excited to see this out after 10+ years of work!

2 new positions on the new @DefraGovUK - UKRI One Health Vector-Borne Diseases Hub (imperial.ac.uk/news/250073/ne…), in collab with @Vector_Byte and @VectorBase, lead by @MossieCator: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti… imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti… #postdoc , #SoftwareEngineer , #DataScience

New in @Ecology_Letters w/ @JennSunday and @mioconnor! We find that temperature-dependence of competitive ability (R*) is cold-shifted relative to population growth rates ✨competitive success is highest at temperatures that are sub-optimal for growth✨ doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

@MossieCator Exciting time ahead, in collaboration with @Vector_Byte and @vectorbase!

New Postdoctoral position on the evolutionary ecology of #microbiome dynamics under #globalchange / #climatechange: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Come be a PI with me... our continually-awesome Bioengineering Dept is hiring for up to 4 new faculty members, including in synthetic biology and molecular bioengineering. #SynBio | Pls RT imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…