Dave Armitage
Assistant prof at OIST in 🇯🇵
Community ecologist / ecosystem functioning / evolutionary ecology / stats / weird plants
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- Reposted by Dave Armitage🌱 Ignoring spatial heterogeneity biases estimates of competition & leads to incorrect predictions of competitive exclusion instead of species coexistence. 🔍 Read: buff.ly/Wnpb4DO
- Multiple signalling increases both prey response and diversity in a carnivorous pitcher plant - Martin‐Eberhardt - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageJoin us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year: Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences Sign up to this google form to receive the zoom link and future seminar announcements forms.gle/H6YgMuAgDWYS...
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageIndependent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageMeghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar: The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
- New preprint on reciprocal nutrient exchange between pitcher plants and their prey. Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝
- Having too much fun making 3D scans of pitcher plants
- Major congrats to our lab’s first PhD recipient, Nonno Hasegawa. Her work on the population genetics of Darlingtonia will help us better manage and protect the objectively coolest plant on earth
- Full article: Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Linking Individual Performance to Density‐Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature‐Mediated Genotype Coexistence - Bruijning - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology! apply.interfolio.com/172075
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- Pleasantly surprised how my first attempt at scanning pitcher plant leaves turned out. Considering 3D printing it to wear as a bonnet
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- Our paper on the Azolla leaf pocket microbiome is out! A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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- Good time to remind my fellow scientists that Nature Communications has increased their APC to USD$7000 for a projected annual siphoning off the shrinking global scientific budget of around $55000000. Please consider submitting your work to almost any other journal.
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageGreat workshop this morning led by Mike Dawson on navigating scientific publishing and responsibility and opportunities we have at making it better. Includes great examples of long lasting impacts of society run journals (love seeing @asn-amnat.bsky.social at the top!) #Evol2025
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageAndrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar: "Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens" Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
- Discovered a mysterious box in the lab today
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageNew postdoctoral opportunity in my lab www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...
- Thus concludes the 2025 Phyllosphere conference at OIST in Okinawa Japan! Tons of incredible talks and posters. Already looking forward to Quebec 2030 🫎
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageJob opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageExcited to share PhD student Claire Winfrey’s (w/ @noahfierer.bsky.social & me) new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology! She examines how edge effects in habitat fragments shape soil microbial communities. Check it out 🦠 🧪 🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageInterested in doing a postdoc at the National Institute of Genetics in Japan focusing on theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology? Consider applying for the NIG postdoc fellowship! www.nig.ac.jp/nig/career-d...
- After a super long delay, I’m happy to share our work on the metagenomics of the Azolla fern leaf pocket!
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageJoin us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present: A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology Sign up here to receive the zoom link forms.gle/WSnJS3bNK1b4mxE59 For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.
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- Reposted by Dave ArmitageIn our new paper we discuss how modern coexistence theory can help microbial ecologists tackle fundamental & applied questions, and how microbial systems can help to push coexistence theory forward! With Andrew Letten and Dave Armitage (@darmitage.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1111/1462...
- Reposted by Dave ArmitageWe are excited to announce our new seminar series highlighting research on population biology and theoretical ecology from academics and post-grads based in the Asia-Pacific. We have a great line up of speakers for the next few months. Stay tuned for more info!
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- Spending an action-packed week in Kenya collecting soybean microbes with collaborators from CUEA
- Please repost! Want to learn and chat about plant-microbe interactions in beautiful Okinawa? Consider attending and contributing to our upcoming Phyllosphere meeting! Registration is now open, is cheap thanks to a weak yen, and FREE HOUSING is available! www.oist.jp/conference/p...
- Had a great time contributing to this new paper on intra-annual variation in thermal tolerance by different cohorts of fruit moths in both lab experiments and field census data. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
