I've received another little present from my group to celebrate the start of my maternity leave. Let it sink in. It's brilliant!!! 🤣

(This is especially true for #AcademicParents interested in #AdaptiveDynamics. Yes, I do realise that the target group is probably quite small, but this is so damn funny that I had to post it anyways. I recommend to read "The hitchhiker's guide to adaptive dynamics" in case you want to enjoy an excellent ecoevo/maths paper - see https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33901766.pdf)

🚨 Paper published! 🚨

Our story on joint interaction disinvestment of #plant-#pollinator systems in response to #InsectDecline was accepted at Evolutionary Ecology and is now available online:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-023-10264-2

I hope you enjoy reading it!

#TheoreticalEcology
#ComputationalEcology
#EcologicalModelling
#AdaptiveDynamics
#OpenAccess

Can #metabolic acquisitions ever become permanent? Here, Alexandra Brown, Grace Casarez, and @mixotrophe apply #adaptiveDynamics to a model of "#chloroplastStealing" #microbes to find out when borrowed machinery is better than having your own.
Read now ahead of print! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725918

...and another #seminar invitation: Avril Weinbach (postdoc in my team) will present her latest research on Tuesday, March 28, at 11 am:
“Eco-evolutionary responses of mutualistic systems to insect decline and changes in flowering phenology”.

This is a hybrid seminar, so please get in touch in case you would like to join and learn more about the methods that we use to study all sorts of #ecoevo dynamics!

#AdaptiveDynamics #TheoreticalEcology #EcologicalModelling
#Mutualism

Paper submitted! 🥳

This one is a major win because 3/4 of us are #AcademicMums. We fight with sleep deprivation, inconsistent childcare, countless illnesses and short-term contracts, so 1st author Franz Weyerer had to juggle our numerous work constraints on top of a challenging research project. But we made it work!

Here is our new #preprint showing how #coevolution of #mutualists accelerates or decelerates #pollinator extinction.

#AdaptiveDynamics
#InsectDecline

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.12.528164v1

New paper: How development affects evolution @journal_evo

https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpac003/6955321

#evolution #development #evodevo #Gmatrix #mathbio #plasticity #developmentalbias #nicheconstruction #extrageneticinheritance #senescence #ageing #evolutionarydynamics #adaptivedynamics #fitnesslandscape

@ngons @JacobPhD my involvement came through biological #EvolutionaryDynamics (now #AdaptiveDynamics) before sufficient #MolecularEvolutionary evidence was available and before knowledge of #MachineLearning (when was term invented? I knew about #NeuralNetworks but didn't have computational resources to use them). #Fitness was assumed to be positive based on history of analytical models.

#introduction I am an evolutionary biologist interested by the origins of life and evolutionary transitions in individuality #ETI. I do #theory inspired by #ExperimentalEvolution.

I'd like to understand how living systems emerge and change scale.

I enjoy various approaches such as #Math #Models (#StochasticProcess, #DynamicalSystems, and #AdaptiveDynamics in particular), #PhilosophyOfScience, #Bioinformatics and #Dataviz.

I am a #FOSS and #OpenScience enthusiast. Nice to meet you all !

#AdaptiveDynamics studying #Evolution in the context of #PopulationDynamics. When I worked on it I called it #EvolutionaryDynamics but adaptive dynamics is the name that has stuck. Diagram shows the adaptive dynamics of coevolving predator and prey where no stable #EvolutionaryStableStrategy can be reached. From https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2708645_Evolutionary_Dynamics_of_Predator-
Prey_Systems_An_Ecological_Perspective
This was the early days for what has been done since see https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/kisdi/addyn.htm

Our newest case at #sfe2gfoe2022 is #Evolutionary #murder: When coevolution of #mutualists accelerates extinction. Great talk on rather unexpected #adaptivedynamics by Avril Weinbach!

#introduction

I'm a post-doc trying to understand the vegetated land surface through space and time.

My research touches areas of ecology, biogeography, functional traits & diversity, ecosystem fun., and veg. modelling.

I aim to disentangle interactions between functional diversity and ecosystem function using #ecoevo vegetation models (aDGVM2, LPJ-GUESS-NTD).

#Ecology #Fire #Plants #FunctionalTraits #CommunityEcology #TheorethicalEcology #AdaptiveDynamics #Ecosystems #EcoEvoModelling

Wanna see a proud #newPI?
Then come to the „evolution approaches“ sessions today! My team members Malina Palmer and Avril Weinbach will present their work on #ecoevo #feedback and #mutualism!

#coevolution
#metacommunities
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#AdaptiveDynamics

#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022

#ecoevo folks #introductions #introduction. I am a former #evolutionary #ecologist. DPhil #UYorkUK #evolutionarydynamics (#adaptivedynamics) #populationdynamics #gametheory #dynamicalsystems #evolutionarystablestrategies #ESS. Postdoc #ULeiden continued this. Postdoc #UCambridge #lifehistoryevolution #soaysheepproject #modelling #reproductivestrategies #dynamicprogramming #fielddata
Where did this lead to? Recruitment into business for #bioinspiredcomputing

#ecoevo folks #introductions #introduction. I am a former #evolutionary #ecologist. DPhil #UYorkUK #evolutionarydynamics (#adaptivedynamics) #populationdynamics #gametheory #dynamicalsystems #evolutionarystablestrategies #ESS. Postdoc #ULeiden continued this. Postdoc #UCambridge #lifehistoryevolution #soaysheepproject #modelling #reproductivestrategies #dynamicprogramming #fielddata
Where did this lead to? Recruitment into business for #bioinspiredcomputing

#introduction (I love the idea!)

I am an associate professor at the #LBBE in Lyon

This means I teach for a significant part of my time (maths, genetics) at the #IUTLyon1

In my research I study #evolution with models (#popgen, #adaptivedynamics) more #mechanistic than usual – often this leads me to study #evolution in/of biological #networks

Who is going to attend the annual #ecoevo #conference of SFE2 and GFÖ in Metz?

I'll be there, together with Avril Weinbach (postdoc) and Malina Palmer (soon-to-be PhD student). Both will present some really cool #modeling work on mutualistic systems. Are you joining as well? Then please let us know! We would love to get in touch!

#InsectDecline #Metacommunity
#pollination
#mutualism #EcoEvoFeedback #AdaptiveDynamics

A lightning talk #modelling #adaptation of #migratory #bird #phenology in response to #ClimateChange using #AdaptiveDynamics

(testing how YouTube embedding works on Mastodon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nwdc03RQrw

@KorinnaAllhoff This is similar to the aims of my DPhil and first postdoctoral research, but since that was in the 1980s to 1990s you have the advantage of better computing resources (and greater academic understanding). I admire the continuing progress in these fields #TheoreticalEcology #EvolutionaryEcology #EcologicalNetworks #ComplexSystems #AdaptiveDynamics

#ecoevo folks #introductions #introduction. I am a former #evolutionary #ecologist. DPhil #UYorkUK #evolutionarydynamics (#adaptivedynamics) #populationdynamics #gametheory #dynamicalsystems #evolutionarystablestrategies #ESS. Postdoc #ULeiden continued this. Postdoc #UCambridge #lifehistoryevolution #soaysheepproject #modelling #reproductivestrategies #dynamicprogramming #fielddata
Where did this lead to? Recruitment into business for #bioinspiredcomputing

#introduction 👋

I am a junior research group leader for #ecoevo #modelling at the University of Hohenheim in Germany.

We study all kinds of #EcologicalNetworks. We want to know how such networks are structured, how they maintain their balance and how they respond to #globalchange. We approach these questions from a theoretical point of view, using computer simulations and mathematics.

#TheoreticalEcology #EcoEvoModelling #CommunityEcology #ComplexSystems #AgentBasedModels #AdaptiveDynamics