Thomas Koffel

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms, etc . Please get in touch if interested. More info: kl-lab.group.

OK I'm a bit out of my comfort zone on this one! We investigated how to efficiently detect autocatalytic cycles in an abiotic soup, and how to assess if they can effectively self-amplify: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. A thread (1/n)

Here is our latest preprint that uncovers a novel mechanism of self-sustained oscillatory dynamics in a microbial community. Huge shoutout to the incredibly talented Tyler Ross for leading this work! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint lead by @quant_ecology and @mridulkthomas, with @ChrisKlausmeier: How interactions between temperature and resources scale from populations to communities biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@NatlParkService more info and pics here: inaturalist.org/observations/4…

@NatlParkService Then what is this?

This is the ideal marmot body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

My next plant-soil feedback theory paper with @raf_dandrea is out in @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… -We show that our formulation with an explicit conditionable soil variable leads to a richer set of outcomes than both the std. PSF formulation and LV competition. (1/5)

@ElsaHAbs @ERC_Research Woooo!! Congrats!! 🥳

I'm super excited to share that I have been awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant for the #GAMEchange project to study the impact of microbial evolution on global soil carbon projections! A big thank you to all the people who supported me! uvsq.fr/elsa-abs-obtie…

@KristenNolting Congrats Kristen!! 🥳🥳

New updates to my Profile & my life I guess😱😃! Happy to be back in New England & starting my dream job at Colby College! Thx to everyone who has already sent heartfelt congrats to me - I owe you replies now the dust has settled from my move from GA to ME!!! Is this real life?!

@AntoineGuiguet @ISYEB_UMR @Le_Museum Quelle super nouvelle, félicitations !!! 🥳🥳 Lyon n'est qu'à 2h en TGV, hâte que tu viennes nous rendre visite 😉.

🎉Thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the @ISYEB_UMR at the @Le_Museum in Paris as Assistant Professor and Curator of the #Hymenoptera collection! Excited to continue my work on #gall wasps, expanding my research beyond Cynipidae. Looking forward to this new chapter!

@AntoineGuiguet Didn't the croissant stop in Lawrence, KS make it a little better? 🥲

I confirm 😂

The work will mainly be empirical, but there is an opportunity for a collaboration with me at the University of Lyon (France) on a theoretical/modeling project. 💻📝

My friend and collaborator Orpheus Butler (Griffith University, Brisbane) is looking for a PhD student to work on "Ecosystem responses to fire: the role of plant–soil feedbacks". Please apply if interested (before Aug. 16), and/or spread the word! griffith.edu.au/research-study…

@lifenonlinear Congrats!! 🥳

A little updated bio: cmns.umd.edu/news-events/ne…

Day 1 of 26th grade: I get to open the door I’ve dreamed of since college 10y ago. Feel super lucky to join a broad-thinking + very quantitative Biology department (feel I want to shadow everyone’s lab!) - and with a great Math dept nearby. Excited for new friends and adventures!

Do you do multiple driver/stressor experiments? @ravignettes and I wrote a paper a few months ago to help you make them even better. Please share, especially with students! annualreviews.org/content/journa… (OPEN ACCESS) (1/14)

iNaturalist now has over 200 million verifiable observations! These observations were made by over 3.2 million people from around the globe, and over 376k users have added identifications for others! Check out our blog post about this milestone here: inaturalist.org/posts/97048-20…

@BarthelemyNans @inaturalist Way to go!!! Félicitations !

After almost 5 years and 150 observations made in a few days, I have finally reached 2 000 observations on @Inaturalist. I also discovered a protected species of butterflies (Zerynthia rumina) in an area I've been prospecting for several years! It was a great week-end :)

Excited to share a new preprint w/ @gerlame! Here we demystify MacArthur’s consumer resource model and share insights its provided to our mechanistic understanding and biological intuition of how competition and coexistence operate. doi.org/10.32942/X2W32G

@Sprunger_PhD Congrats Christine and Phil!!! So well deserved! 🥳