Tad Dallas

"If you can’t write down your treatments and responses, you’re not modeling—you’re doodling."

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We 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).

I am recruiting graduate students (MS and/or PhD) for the upcoming fall semester (more info here: tinyurl.com/35p6hfx7), and will soon be hiring a research associate/technician (details TBD).

Multi-species occupancy modeling suggests interspecific interaction among the three ungulate species - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Multi-species occupancy modeling suggests interspecific interaction among the three ungulate species

As long as people try to infer species interactions from co-occurrence (e.g., www.nature.com/articles/s41...), I will happily read every instance of this annual tradition.

We 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).

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

I was enjoying listening until it just stopped at 26 minutes. haha. Really great though, and I'm thankful for these.

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:

Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

Figure illustrating 19 types of ecological impacts caused by invasive species, categorized across six levels of ecological organization: individual, population, species, assemblage, ecosystem function/service, and abiotic environment. The levels are shown as a series of six downward arrows, each representing a broader ecological scale. Each impact type is numbered, labeled, and illustrated with an icon, positioned according to the level it primarily affects. Arrows indicate how impacts can accumulate and cascade from one level to another, showing the interconnected and multi-scalar nature of biological invasion impacts.

We know invasive species cause several ecological impacts—but what kinds, exactly? 🌿⚠️🧪
Our latest paper breaks down the different types of impacts, from individuals to entire ecosystems. #Ecology #InvasionBiology

authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EhNcZ3...

Ecological impacts of biological invasions are so numerous & diverse, it's a mess
+, we often mix mechanisms & impacts, causes & consequences
So, we created a structured typology of these impacts.
Now that it's done, it looks simple & obvious 🤓
read&share🙏
👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EhNcZ3...

Three undergraduate researchers holding posters they made on their research projects.

Let's go! Three undergraduate researchers in the lab presenting their independent research tomorrow at Discover Day (USC's local research conference). All seniors and all sadly/happily moving on from the lab.

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

We have 9 days to go and we're a little over halfway to our goal. Please contribute if you can! @umassamherst.bsky.social #BirdSafeWindows

How are they failed? I said I'd print them, especially the edit of the first one with my face creepily as the sun. Who wouldn't want that on their laptop?

Hopefully that's how I'm introduced for the talk. 😆

Absolutely needs to happen, RiChard.

Picture of Tad Dallas and description of his research taken from the graduate student symposium program. In the picture, Tad is holding a cabbage. Tad does not research cabbage.

Super excited to visit UGA's Odum School to give the keynote at the graduate student symposium this Friday/Saturday!

Two bikes with Pinarello decals that are not Pinarellos. The adult bike is a 2004 Raleigh mash with an old Ultegra groupset, and the balance bike is a Strider I got from a bike co-op and painted. Both are Pinarellos.

Weekend project: make my niece the perfect balance bike.

Now we have matching bikes that are definitely real and not fake.

Howdy. Thanks for organizing this.
taddallas.github.io

Hello world.

Just joined, and am looking forward to interacting with folks on here.

I dabble in macroecology. Please add me in if you think I fit. taddallas.github.io