Ok, I've been waiting on this one, but I recently was awarded a competitive James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship in Complex Systems! This award gives me funding for three years and I can take it anywhere I'd like to.
My new paper in collaboration with John DeLong, Valery Forbes, Nika Galic, Rob Laport, Joe Phllips and Janna Vavra on the relative pace of evolutionary and ecological rates of change has been featured today at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln website! Check out both the story and the paper!
News: http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/unltoday/article/study-finds-ratio-between-speed-of-evolution-population-change/ Paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1899/full My friend Esther Sebastián-González, together with group of international researchers from Spain, Brazil, and myself, got a beautiful paper accepted in Ecology on the role of a threatened obligate scavenger (the griffon vulture) in structuring scavenger assemblages in Spain. Check it out in my publications page!
Just got my fifth paper accepted today! This is the second one with my advisor John DeLong, although it was the first one we ever worked together on. This has probably been my luckiest week ever since I started doing science: DDIG funded + paper accepted, doesn't get any better... or does it?
Yesterday afternoon I received a call from NSF's program director, George Malanson, to told me that my Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) was going to be funded! He also told me they all believed my work will be a significant leap forward in our understanding of predator-prey interactions, which totally made my day!
I just got a paper accepted at Biology Letters where my advisor John DeLong and I show how body size scalings in food webs are dependent upon environmental temperatures. This paper would not have been possible without the software EcoData Retriever, coded by Ben Morris and Ethan White. If you never heard of it, here are the basics: the Retriever will not only download data for you, but also help you formatting it, so a task that could take weeks (or months in some cases) can be done in a matter of minutes. And if you thought this couldn't get better, my friend Dan McGlinn is working on an R wrapper for it! Kudos to these guys for making everybody else's life easier!
Finally, my paper with Chad Brassil on how individual phenotypic variation affects ecological dynamics through reducing interaction strengths got accepted at Ecology and Evolution. I'm specially happy because this means I got my first open access paper accepted! I have to say that cascading the paper down from the Journal of Animal Ecology was pretty painless, which is always a plus.
Beautiful piece of literature in Science by Rudolf Rohr, Serguei Saavedra and Jordi Bascompte on how to measure stability in networks of interacting species, a topic that my friend Joe Phillips and I spent quite some time thinking about. Nice to see this paper out there!
This is the last day of the Gordon Research Conference in Ecology: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. I had some wonderful days here, met a lot of interesting people doing amazing science and had tons of fun. Kudos to the organizers Morgan Ernest and Mike (Sarah) Angilletta!
The Gordon Research Seminar for grad students and post-docs was a success! Awesome job by the organizers Sarah Supp and Sarah Diamond and many thanks to them for inviting me to lead a discussion. I got to see some exciting research from my peers, met a bunch of sharp, awesome people, and got already excited to join next time!
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Here you will find the latest news about my research. From time to time I will also post a short comment on a paper I loved from a colleague. Archives
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