Andrew Beckerman
@beckerhopper.bsky.social
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology
University of Sheffield
#rstats, #Julia #mtb, #foodweb, #openresearch
🧪 🚵🏽 𝄢
University of Sheffield
#rstats, #Julia #mtb, #foodweb, #openresearch
🧪 🚵🏽 𝄢
Reposted by Andrew Beckerman
Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org
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Join us! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the response of ecological network structure to environmental drivers; this line of research can be adapted to questions on climate change, phylogenetic conservatism, and more! 🧪🌎
epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/
epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/
Join us! | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
May 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org
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Led by @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social, a PhD researcher and former research assistant on the project, the team includes Paul Wignall, Haijun Song, @jackolivershaw.bsky.social, @beckerhopper.bsky.social (& Me!)
Early-career leadership shaping deep‑time ecology! 🎓
Early-career leadership shaping deep‑time ecology! 🎓
February 3, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Led by @annabel-nicholls.bsky.social, a PhD researcher and former research assistant on the project, the team includes Paul Wignall, Haijun Song, @jackolivershaw.bsky.social, @beckerhopper.bsky.social (& Me!)
Early-career leadership shaping deep‑time ecology! 🎓
Early-career leadership shaping deep‑time ecology! 🎓
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It’s finally out! Check out my first first author paper all about Allometric coefficients and how they can actually matter 😅
🧪 New Paper - New and revised estimates of the allometric coefficients for the bioenergetic & ATN model. Thousands of genera, no major change to past conclusions, massive opportunity for location specific simulations. *@blythpenelope.bsky.social lead author onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling
Allometry is central to a wide range of ecological research including dynamic food web modelling. Here we updated the often neglected allometric coefficients for metabolism and production, deriving n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM
It’s finally out! Check out my first first author paper all about Allometric coefficients and how they can actually matter 😅
Read this thread. @dralexdunhill.bsky.social at his finest, showcasing our @ukri.org funded work led by @barankarapunar.bsky.social with deep support from @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social. No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Read this thread. @dralexdunhill.bsky.social at his finest, showcasing our @ukri.org funded work led by @barankarapunar.bsky.social with deep support from @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social. No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
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🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 26, 2026 at 10:42 AM
🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).
Why Biden-era clean energy investment policies had limited political returns | PNAS
The Biden Administration enacted the largest federal policy framework to incentivize
clean energy and decarbonization in U.S. history. We examine w...
www.pnas.org
February 26, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).
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A great listen - the surprising origins of this idea & its subsequent swallowing in conspiracy theory. Enjoyed learning about this in the Stalinist ghetto of East Oxford…
⏲️ New episode out 🌆 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social are back with a bonus episode on 15-Minute Cities.
How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism?
Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
How did such a sensible and benign approach to urban planning give birth to a wild conspiracy theory about authoritarianism?
Listen / watch now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
February 27, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A great listen - the surprising origins of this idea & its subsequent swallowing in conspiracy theory. Enjoyed learning about this in the Stalinist ghetto of East Oxford…
🧪 New Paper - New and revised estimates of the allometric coefficients for the bioenergetic & ATN model. Thousands of genera, no major change to past conclusions, massive opportunity for location specific simulations. *@blythpenelope.bsky.social lead author onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling
Allometry is central to a wide range of ecological research including dynamic food web modelling. Here we updated the often neglected allometric coefficients for metabolism and production, deriving n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 PM
🧪 New Paper - New and revised estimates of the allometric coefficients for the bioenergetic & ATN model. Thousands of genera, no major change to past conclusions, massive opportunity for location specific simulations. *@blythpenelope.bsky.social lead author onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Preprint alert 🚨 (yes, I still go online, shocker)
Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology
TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻
Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology
TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻
January 22, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Preprint alert 🚨 (yes, I still go online, shocker)
Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology
TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻
Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology
TL;DR: Networks are like… weirdly finicky and if you want your network analysis to not be a sad chaos, check this preprint: [https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW8K] 🏠💻
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
🦜 Do you like parrots?
🎵 Into your bioacoustics?
💻 Love a bit of computer modelling and science 🧪 ?
Then this PhD project might be for you:
👉 “Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species’ spatial and temporal distribution.”
bit.ly/accephd
🎵 Into your bioacoustics?
💻 Love a bit of computer modelling and science 🧪 ?
Then this PhD project might be for you:
👉 “Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species’ spatial and temporal distribution.”
bit.ly/accephd
ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🦜 Do you like parrots?
🎵 Into your bioacoustics?
💻 Love a bit of computer modelling and science 🧪 ?
Then this PhD project might be for you:
👉 “Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species’ spatial and temporal distribution.”
bit.ly/accephd
🎵 Into your bioacoustics?
💻 Love a bit of computer modelling and science 🧪 ?
Then this PhD project might be for you:
👉 “Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species’ spatial and temporal distribution.”
bit.ly/accephd
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New paper out: Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs. #openaccess, using #opensource software, and delivering novel insights into biodiversity-stability relationships. Bravo to the team lead by Dr. Alain Danet.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Global change constitutes a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and
places the temporal stability of ecological communities at risk. Classic theory identifies
species richness and foo...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New paper out: Response diversity is a major driver of temporal stability in complex food webs. #openaccess, using #opensource software, and delivering novel insights into biodiversity-stability relationships. Bravo to the team lead by Dr. Alain Danet.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
** PhD in Food Web Modelling, Pharmaceuticals & Soils **
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Quantifying Pharmaceutical Effects on Microbial and Aboveground Trophic Ecology using Food Web Models at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS DFA - Quantifying Pharmaceutical Effects on Microbial and Aboveground Trophic Ecology using Food Web Models at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
** PhD in Food Web Modelling, Pharmaceuticals & Soils **
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come model the impacts of pharmaceuticals from festival reclaimed fertiliser on food webs & biodiversity. Theoretical ecology/ecotoxicology & programming in R, Python, C++, Julia or Matlab required.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📢 Dryad & @openrxiv.bsky.social are excited to announce a new partnership & integration. Beginning today, authors posting #preprints to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will have the option to upload #opendata to Dryad at the same time.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
September 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
📢 Dryad & @openrxiv.bsky.social are excited to announce a new partnership & integration. Beginning today, authors posting #preprints to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social will have the option to upload #opendata to Dryad at the same time.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4nHtcdA
#preprint #openaccess #datasharing
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Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement.
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
Mass Climate Migration & The Rise of Uninhabitable Regions with Sunil Amrith | TGS 192
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement.
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!
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Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤
Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV
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🎊We’re excited to share that @beckerhopper.bsky.social has been elected chair of the Dryad Board of Directors. Beckerman takes over from @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, who continues to serve as a board member.
Read more→
Read more→
Leadership news: Andrew Beckerman named Chair of the Dryad Board | Dryad news
We’re so pleased to announce that Andrew Beckerman has been elected Chair by the Dryad Board of Directors. Andrew is Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Faculty Director of Education for Science at...
bit.ly
March 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🎊We’re excited to share that @beckerhopper.bsky.social has been elected chair of the Dryad Board of Directors. Beckerman takes over from @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, who continues to serve as a board member.
Read more→
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12 PhD opportunities: Deadline 4th April 2025.
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
ECOSOLUTIONS
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? Interested in creating non-toxic urban spaces that benefit society and nature alike? The NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS PhD Training Progra...
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 6:38 AM
12 PhD opportunities: Deadline 4th April 2025.
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Are you passionate about solving complex environmental challenges? #PhDpositions available combining #ecology, #policy, & #society to transform chemicals policy and management in #urban ecosystems.
ecosolutions.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Curious about #modelling complex ecological communities to address #globalchallenges related to #biodiversity & #ecosystemfunction? Check out our #openaccess, #opensource software, EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl. Kudos to past efforts in support.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Curious about #modelling complex ecological communities to address #globalchallenges related to #biodiversity & #ecosystemfunction? Check out our #openaccess, #opensource software, EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl. Kudos to past efforts in support.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks
Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast.
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“Musk is amplifying a slew of incorrect and misleading information. His concern about the subject doesn’t extend to being truthful when addressing it.”
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Musk is amplifying a slew of incorrect and misleading information. His concern about the subject doesn’t extend to being truthful when addressing it.”
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
How is this consistent with him retaining fellowship of the @royalsociety.org?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print
Using a dataset of 800,000+ observations and decades of breeding records, Dr Satarkar and team employ multi-matrix quantitative genetic ‘animal models’ to show that genes play a minimal role in shaping individual social phenotypes in an avian system 🪽 🧪 🌏
buff.ly
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print
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Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:
Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires
Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.
www.nature.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:
Reposted by Andrew Beckerman
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this