Break in the action for paper revisions. #figaday 5.008/n #year5

Trying to put yesterday's figure in context in the ms I desperately need to write this summer. #figaday 5.007/n #year5

Meanwhile, back at the lab, we're 8 weeks in to characterizing the thermal performance of eight evolving mixotrophs--and seeing beautiful responses to thermal selection. #figaday 5.006/n #year5

And, we confirmed the co-ESS was actually numerically correct (tbh, this is the part that took the longest for me to wrap my head around... a bit of a logical tongue-twister not helped by my ecology-style coding approach). #figaday 5.005/n #year5

We also found the co-ESS: the signalling intensities that each two co-evolving species will equilibrate at when competing for a shared, signal-receiving mutualist. (In this simulation, Signaler 1's actual quality is greater than that of Signaler 2--and it can signal "louder". #figaday 5.004/n #year5

While in Chicago, we were able to analyze the model in order to find its equilibria and identify "conflicts" between population-maximizing and evolutionarily stable signalling strategies. #figaday 5.003/n #year5

All Good Mutualism Models Exhibit Allee Effects? #figaday 5.002/n #year5

I'm so #sciencehappy that I wanna do it all again. Let's go for Year 5 of fig-a-day! Starting with the best science week of my life at @nitmb.bsky.social, producing some very cool models for multispecies mutualism, including the #SSRImodel -- because it makes us happy. #figaday 5.001 #year5

Completely sold on Chicago honestly. I mean, hagoromo chalk with a view, shoreline running and lake dips after work, and science with some of my favourite people? Just gimme one more week to crack the Oak Street volleyball scene. #UnicornJob🦄

Oh boy someone please reassure me that this is recognizable as a zebra finch bc we gotta fly to Chicago tomorrow...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We're seeking technicians and postdocs interested in working on decrypting plant-fungal communication as part of a "Fungalphabet" MURI team! (see RFP language below) Official job ads to follow, but please get in touch with me if this sounds like you or someone you know!

Fieldwork-sky: After 20 years, it's probably time for a new tent (snapped another pole this morning). Would love recommendations for a 2-person, 2 side door tent (heavy is OK; I'm a princess so I like drive-up field sites). What brands do we love right now?

See a crab, post a crab 🦀

Signing off on another year of fig-a-day with our half-complete thermal performance experiment showing some promising results that you'll definitely see in press sometime next year. #figaday 4.365/n #year4

Paper revisions Monday. Can't believe it's been over a year since we submitted this and the comparative Mesodinium paper. #figaday 4.364/n #year4

Fieldwork scheming. Because I definitely have the capacity for a couple hundred hours on the microscope in the next few weeks. #figaday 4.363/n #year4

It's nice to see evolution pointing in the right direction, anyway. #figaday 4.362/n #year4

Scheming about methodological comparisons #figaday 4.361/n #year4

When you don't look at the data for a year... #figaday 4.360/n #year4

Santa Fe sights. #figaday 4.359/n #year4

Testing our reverse-engineering. #figaday 4.358/n #year4

How lucky are faculty to have this job that lets us explicitly celebrate the young people who believe in making their lives better through education with these beautiful ceremonies each year? #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 4.357/n #year4

Yesterday was legitimately one of the best math days of my life. #unicornjob🦄 #figaday 4.356/n #year4

Straight off the plane and (to bed and volleyball and then...) into figure brainstorming and pretty heavy reverse-engineering of totally opaque collaborator equations with brilliant postdoc and Simons fellow Bethany Stevens. #figaday 4.355/n #year4

Don't ask me if it's right, but it's an ESS. Also when you're figuring on a 12-hr flight, you get to post two in a day. #figaday 4.354/n #year4

When the model fits the hypothesis 👨‍🍳👌. @blarson.bsky.social but the fitness equation I made up yesterday is definitely wayyy wrong 🙈. #figaday 4.353/n #year4

The trick for finding new math friends is stalking them at conferences at intervals of approximately 6 months. Lucky to nerd out with @blarson.bsky.social again today, with David Booth in promotional photographer mode to take this definitely unstaged photo. #figaday 4.352/n #year4

I promised to put an expansion image into my talk tonight #figaday 4.351/n #year4

A first crack at student outcomes. #figaday 4.350/n #year4

Everyone's coming along on this trip. #figaday 4.349/n #year4