Our new urban birds paper is out now in Current Biology! We combine global eBird data and traits to ask: what makes an urban bird? This was a huge UCLA EEB team effort with Morgan Tingley *find me on BlueSky*, Ben Tonelli, Casey Youngflesh, Joanna Wu 🪶, Graham Montgomery, and Çağan H. Şekercioğlu. A🧵(1/7)

we've discovered that our #opendata have been published by another lab while our paper reporting the primary data is still working through what's been a tough multi-journal peer review process biorxiv.org/content/10.110… journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

New Nature Communications paper out, Bacterial genome size and gene functional diversity negatively correlate with taxonomic diversity along a pH gradient, rdcu.be/drj0U

Designing a synthetic microbial community through genome metabolic modeling to enhance plant–microbe interaction -in Environmental Microbiome (Springer) …ronmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

#TansleyInsight Genome evolution in plants and the origins of innovation James W. Clark 📖 ow.ly/8Xav50Q8gfR James Clark is a finalist in the 2023 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal competition.

Exciting paper by Yingying Xie in PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We find evidence that male #cottonwood flowering times will advance faster than that of females, leading to increased temporal gaps between sexes with #GlobalWarming .

New paper out in Molecular Ecology! Molecular ecology of microbiomes in the wild: Common pitfalls, methodological advances and future directions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

🚨New paper🚨 So excited our research into the impacts of landscape-scale pesticide exposure on bee health is published in nature. Huge thanks to my co-1st author Jess Knapp and MajRundlof and all in PoshBee Project The paper: shorturl.ac/7cckv What’s this all about? 🧵

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity: a comprehensive 6-dataset analysis of drivers of alpha, beta, gamma and phylogenetic diversity of fungi globally by Vladimir Mikryukov and co-workers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Excited to share results from 15 years of spring ephemeral surveys Holden Forests & Gardens! The surveys produced interesting results, but also were pretty great ways to spend a spring day over the last 15 years! academic.oup.com/aobpla/advance…

Yifei HUANG (Yifei Huang), our dear colleague, Asst Prof Penn State Biology, passed away from cancer in October at the age of 40. We are collecting donations for his daughter's education. All donations are tax-deductible. Penn State Research Please RT. gofund.me/ef82effe

Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog… Current Biology

I keep on preaching to my lab about the usefulness ChatGPT for coding, but real-life demos might be more effective. A thread on a neural network we quickly developed to classify antibiotics sensitivity 🧵 (1/10)

🍓From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue🍓 Neopolyploidy has variable effects on diversity & composition of the wild #strawberry microbiome By Thomas Anneberg, Nevin Cullen, Elizabeth O'Neill, Na Wei, Tia-Lynn Ashman doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany @wileyplantsci

Nanoparticles alter the nature and strength of intraploidy and interploidy interactions in plants biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_ecology

How does selection from environmental gradients influence the eco-evo dynamics of range expansions? With Amy Angert, we use the experimental evolution of duckweeds to test some theoretical predictions on expansion speed. Out now in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Dissection of rhizosphere microbiome and exploiting strategies for sustainable agriculture nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #plantscience ♻️

Trees are predicted to migrate toward high latitudes as the climate warms, but they may be limited by the ability of fungal symbionts to migrate with them. Any assisted migration effort should consider including mycorrhizal fungi. In PNAS: ow.ly/BQJv50S2Gul