Alison Robey

Second dissertation chapter just dropped at Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70441 Across theory, stochastic models, and protist microcosms, we show how rising temporal autocorrelation drives predictable increases in extinction risk under warming (ft. coauthor @mtkummel.bsky.social!)

Second chapter now up as a pre-print 🥳. @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social and I set out to understand when and why the order of extinction can lead to different disassembled communities, known as an inverse priority effect (1/6)

Our physiological time series for the calanoid copepods of Lake Champlain is out today in Ecology! We spent a year tracking upper thermal limits, showing distinct differences between species as well as pretty substantial variation within species. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

New paper out today! A beautifully simple experiment led by awesome undergrad Emma Gruntz showing how a single heatwave event can have long-lasting effects on population dynamics, caused first by reduced fecundity and then by increased mortality. @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Phew! With a lot of blood, sweat, and tears over the years, we introduce a new way of thinking about thermal performance curves in endotherms. We propose that thermal imbalance, quantified using net sensible heat flux, provides a helpful axis for predicting performance. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New paper! We tested how inter- and intraspecific variation in thermal response curves for dispersal rate affect metacommunity dynamics and diversity patterns under warming in ciliate communities.

“Cool” new NSF postdoc position available in my lab at UConn, studying our unique Arctic phytoplankton collection and the interactive effects of temperature, light, and photoperiod. 3 years of funding, detailed job ad here: s.uconn.edu/q1o0itl62l.

New preprint posted! If you're at ESA, come here me talk about it today at 10:45 in OOS 33 - "Dynamic Thermal Ecology: Physiological Limits, Performance, and Persistence in a Variable Climate"

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

We can help make your experiments better! 🌊🧪🌎 🧮➕📏 @raviranjan.bsky.social and I have been thinking about how to improve experimental design. We have a preprint with maths, simple rules-of-thumb, and R code and Shiny apps ready to help you. 

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I guess I'm Dr. Cody Limber now!

news.yale.edu/2026/06/22/s... Ph.D candidate, @nathaliealomar.bsky.social woodland salamander study featured by Yale News and published in PNAS. Congrats, Nathalie!

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Big milestone completed last week! Happy to share that my PhD dissertation has been successfully defended (ft. my fanciest PowerPoint yet and the longest LaTeX document I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of compiling)

We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Excited to share a new paper doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... We suggest that tradeoffs between infection costs and the benefits of sociality are dynamic, context-dependent, and likely asymmetric within dyads. We then propose hypotheses about how these tradeoffs might shape social responses to parasites...

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

New preprint up with an awesome coauthor team!

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!