We are starting to ramp up planning for our new project capturing biotic interactions in community models.  Matt Fitzpatrick and I have finished drafting up our job ads for new opportunities in our labs (PhD student in my lab at Merced, postdoc with Matt at UMCES), so if you know of any great candidates, pass along the announcement!  More information is available here.

Wow, I just took a look at the IBS blog and there are some absolutely fabulous conferences coming up!  There’s a small IBS meeting on “The Geography of Species Associations” in Montreal this November, and then an early-career conference in Canberra, Australia in January.  The IBS is my favorite scientific society and I really love going to their conferences, so I highly recommend either (both??) of these meetings for all biogeographers!

I woke up this morning to the good news that I have a paper accepted in PNAS!  This is work I did as a postdoc, in collaboration with Jack Williams, Matt Fitzpatrick, Steve Jackson, and Simon Ferrier.  We are springing for open access and I’m also now working to submit the data files to Dryad, so both the paper and the data will be publicly available.  More details once the paper is out!

One of the traditions I loved during my time in the Hadly lab was celebrating accomplishments with champagne and/or sparkling cider.  While I don’t yet have grad students in lab to help celebrate the good news, I am looking forward to establishing similar traditions with my future grad students!