Julian Resasco
Ecologist 🇦🇷🇺🇸 Associate Professor University of Colorado, Boulder
Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Insects, Biodiversity Conservation
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- Remember #365papers? I’m doing it again. This time worrying less about falling behind. Otherwise I’ll only read short papers to try to keep up. Last time that meant a Biology Letters heavy list 😅
- Reposted by Julian ResascoTo start the day @julianresasco.bsky.social takes us through a century of changes in plant-pollinator interactions. #BES2025
- What a crew! Zorionak! 🎄
- Reposted by Julian ResascoASN VP Symposium: Phenological Shifts in Plants and Pollinators over a Century Disrupt Interaction Persistence by Zoller et al. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoThe Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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- Excited to see this paper led by Mica Santos in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B! w/ @dpvazquez.bsky.social The study examines extinction debts of species & their interactions (plant–herbivore, herbivore–parasitoid) in a fragmented landscape in Mendoza 🇦🇷 🧪🌎 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoToday marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
- Reposted by Julian ResascoThrilled to welcome @julianresasco.bsky.social (University of Colorado) on sabbatical with us! 🌿🐝 Ongi etorri! He gave a fantastic talk on how anthropogenic change reshapes plant–pollinator communities across time— from seasonal dynamics to long-term trajectories. #Pollination #GlobalChange
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHappy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:
- Reposted by Julian ResascoWe will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).
- Reposted by Julian ResascoTouched down in Colorado ✈️🌄 Off to RMBL for a data-theory pollinator workshop 🐝🌸 After years of reading the papers, I get to see the actual place they came from. Pinch me!
- Reposted by Julian ResascoNuestro artículo en @es.theconversation.com sobre los registros de biodiversidad contenidos en las Relaciones Topográficas de Felipe II, finales del siglo XVI, ha superado las 30.000 lecturas Qué bien que sean tantas y que se siga leyendo @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/la-biodivers...
- This afternoon at #ESA2025 👇🏼
- At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social
- At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social
- And check out the pre-print here www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoJust got the final proofs of my book💓 Available on Amazon worldwide next week Very exciting! I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
- Happy to be at BC3: Basque Centre for Climate Change for my sabbatical! Excited to connect and collaborate with my host @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social and other great colleagues at here at BC3.
- Reposted by Julian ResascoOur guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn... For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts
- Reposted by Julian ResascoNew audio 🔊 story campaign — Voices of CIRES! First up, CIRES Fellow & @colorado.edu Professor Joost de Gouw @gouwlab.bsky.social: buff.ly/2AowWlb "Of all the research dollars that I get, 80% of that goes through student salaries, and if I don't get that, I cannot offer projects to students..."
- Reposted by Julian ResascoI'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?
- Now it's official
- Reposted by Julian Resascowww.forbes.com/sites/johndr... "For every dollar spent [on science], the economy eventually produces an additional $1.71 in output. That return exceeds nearly every other form of public or private investment."
- Really proud of recent Honors undergrad, Isabella Manning, on her Highlighted Student Paper just out in Oecologia! w/ co-mentor & recent postdoc, Leana Zoller 🌼🐝🧪🌎 Let me tell you a bit about it... (1/3) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Species interaction networks are dynamic - shifting across space/time via species turnover & rewiring. But incomplete sampling makes it tough to understand what’s really changing. We tackled this challenge using 8 yrs of seasonal data on plant-pollinator interactions by varying sampling effort.(2/3)
- With ⬆️ sampling effort, interpretation of interaction turnover and species turnover ⬇️, and rewiring increased ⬆️. These results show that estimates of interaction turnover and its components are sensitive to sampling effort. ☝️Sampling matters when interpreting networks and their dynamics. (3/3)
- Reposted by Julian ResascoI'm thrilled to announce that the Entomology department at the NHMLAC is hiring a full-time collections manager! 🪰🐜🕸️🦋 I'm biased, but the museum is a great place to work, and our department is full of fun, thoughtful people. Job description and information for applying are here: shorturl.at/iRqOB
- Reposted by Julian ResascoI think about this comic at least once a week
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- Reposted by Julian ResascoI am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
- Reposted by Julian ResascoI'm excited to share a new paper, led by Marta Jarzyna and Leo Ohyama, on regional species pools-- a fundamental concept in ecology and biogeography that is poorly defined and understood, but which is essential for understanding and protecting biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoReally honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow. And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows! @conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social
- 🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoReally excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoSo happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoExcited to say that we just submitted a Second Edition of Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling to the publisher! Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included! Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!
- Reposted by Julian ResascoA big congratulations to one of the co-Chairs of the @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment, Sandra Díaz, for being named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2025! 🌍🧪 Read more: time.com/collections/...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Julian ResascoOur department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!
- Reposted by Julian ResascoIf you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- Excited 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 Julian ResascoBy only considering a single ecological trait for each species, we risk oversimplifying the complexity in nature. A new special feature in @animalecology.bsky.social aims to build a better understanding of intraspecific variation besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652656/2025/94/3
- Reposted by Julian ResascoOur paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoSO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
- Reposted by Julian ResascoDear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
- Reposted by Julian ResascoOur new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoThe HAWAII-VINE Project is hiring field technicians to collect data on seed dispersal at Oahu island Details at: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...
- Now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social l.bsky.social led by Kaitlyn Barthell 🧪🌎🐝🏵️ Competition for floral resources among bumble bees intensifies at higher elevations. As climate change pushes new bumble bee species upslope, pressures of climate and competition mount. doi.org/10.1111/oik....
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- We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
- Reposted by Julian ResascoImportant work and great quote “I’ve gotta tell you, as an entomologist — I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now, and it is a rare day when the humans actually get to win one against the insects"
- For our final lab meeting of the year, we each picked out our favorite paper of 2024... and had holiday cookies! Here are our picks (in no particular order):
- Domínguez-Garcia et al. 2024 Nature EE www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Câmara et al. 2024 Oecologia link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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View full threadBosco et al. 2024 STOTEN www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHi, Bluesky! 🌿 Excited to join this vibrant space!
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHow do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation? We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
- Reposted by Julian Resasco[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
- Reposted by Julian ResascoExcited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge! We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation. 3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/
- New paper from the SRS Corridor Experiment led by Katherine Hulting. Habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output in fragmented landscapes. 🌎🧪
- Reposted by Julian Resasco🥁 Ecologist working in mountains: We still have spots in the Mountain Ecology Starter Pack for Scientists working on various aspects of Mountain Ecology ⛰️ 🏞️🌄 👇. Let me know if you would like to be included. 🌎 🧪 🌐 go.bsky.app/V5Ydankat://did:plc:uhmh247mes66udzpxzlls2bs/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbmqnlddhl2n
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHello Bluesky! so, this is where everyone trying to make the world a better place has landed. Let’s connect! I’m here to learn, listen and share my thoughts as a #biodiversity scientist. But also the things I’m learning every day trying to link science, policy and action in my other jobs.
- My Scholar Goggler! scholargoggler.com
- Welcome to Bluesky @dpvazquez.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Julian ResascoAcabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3fat://did:plc:wvg6qqe5riu4vzw6l5o2nkwg/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laqy75ga7h2u
- Reposted by Julian Resasco🚨Looking for two PhD students to join our lab in Fall' 25🚨 If you know someone that loves/works with Neotropical birds and/or species interactions, and is looking for a PhD please share this with them! (application deadline is January 3rd). More info here --> montanolab.com/join-us/
- Reposted by Julian ResascoIf you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoI'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions! www.reddit.com/r/askscience...
- Reposted by Julian ResascoAnd another starter pack for bee people. Who am I missing here? go.bsky.app/3sLLXsG Happy to get the list growing and spread the word.at://did:plc:ehpfzb33ti63eth45mqwipy6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l6utqrmkye24
- Reposted by Julian ResascoAwesome to see the interest in this! Here's the Starter Pack - a start, with plenty of room to grow. Please let me know if you'd like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDyat://did:plc:trs24hek4bcz47q6utbu4ujg/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb3y4fzsko27
- Reposted by Julian ResascoHappy to be here reconnecting with friends. Who should I follow?
