Post-doc at King's College London | Community ecology | Invasion biology | Symbiosis and Parasitism | Running | Views my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3mp6k4qezjc2pThrilled to see this out in Ecology Letters with @janecatford.bsky.social and others! We did (to our knowledge) the first experimental test of the Evolutionary Imbalance hypothesis, showing species from highly diverse home ranges are more likely to invade! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.7041726 Jun 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp6k4qezjc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3mozs3uiqzk2zMain use of AI = an easy way to quickly produce visual jokes24 Jun 2026 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozs3uiqzk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3mnhajk56u22tSo pleased to see this out after a massive team effort! We did (to our knowledge) the first complete meta-analysis of biotic resistance since Levine et al. 2004, pairing this with models exploring the eco-evolutionary dynamics of biotic resistance! Dive in ⬇️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.7019004 Jun 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhajk56u22thttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3mbrbtlv4fc2tFueling my back to work 2026 with a balanced diet (lemongrass tea and Monster Munch)06 Jan 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrbtlv4fc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3manhd33hjk2dJust in time for Xmas, great to have this out in AoB Plants! Short-term changes in phytochemistry are driven more by interspecific competitors than by consumers. The role of plant-plant competition may have been underestimated in studies of plant chemistry to date. https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article/doi/10.1093/aobpla/plaf071/838001823 Dec 2025 09:39 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3manhd33hjk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3m5ec7va3ic2zV. pleased to have this out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social - evidence for limiting similarity vs. pre-adaptation (Darwin's naturalisation conundrum) vary across very fine spatial scales and when using phylogenetic vs. functional metrics! https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.7024411 Nov 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ec7va3ic2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3m2tg5toosc2nSuch a cool network! Can't wait to see the empirical results start coming out 😍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tg5toosc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3ly2tx3rm6s22Really nice to have our recent article featured by @biogeographynews.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2025 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly2tx3rm6s22https://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lxbxxymchk2fGreat to see this out in Limnology&Oceanography @aslo.org - we provide the first global meta-analysis of ecosystem services provided by freshwater bivalves! One key message is that native species much better at providing services than invaders! https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.7019026 Aug 2025 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxbxxymchk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3loxrj4tc422xThrilled to see this out @jvegsci.bsky.social! We looked at spatial scale terms in plant community ecology - terms like 'local' or 'regional'. The implication is that these terms convey ecological info and so be fairly consistent across studies. But are they? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvs.7003512 May 2025 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3loxrj4tc422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lnmsp3twls27Stuff like this is why I love ecology - one of the coolest natural history papers I have read in years... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads424325 Apr 2025 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnmsp3twls27https://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lly7q5dr7s24The blog about our Harper Prize-shortlisted paper is now up @journalofecology.bsky.social! Read on for a summary of what we found, and what got me into (and keeps me in) ecology! https://jecologyblog.com/2025/03/26/joshua-brian-release-from-aboveground-enemies-increases-seedling-survival-in-grasslands/04 Apr 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lly7q5dr7s24https://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lkslsfwgj225So excited to see my paper on the shortlist for the Harper Prize, amongst some amazing work!! (Definitely lots to add to my reading list!) (You can find my paper here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.14318) [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkslsfwgj225https://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lkqcedsexs2kPleased that my 2023 paper on enemy release was one of the top-10 cited articles in Ecology Letters from that year! If you missed it, check it out again here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.1432919 Mar 2025 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkqcedsexs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lj2zls23us24V. pleased to see this published! Priority effects are important in determining host-parasite dynamics. Here, I show there are different types of priority effect, and they have very different consequences for host populations... https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.7020826 Feb 2025 09:06 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj2zls23us24https://bsky.app/profile/drjoshbrian.bsky.social/post/3lhtjl4xx5s2hVery pleased to have played a small part in this recent paper about sampling mass mortality events now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social (using freshwater mussels as an example) - something regrettably gaining more and more relevance! https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.1448010 Feb 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:zwkr57usp2eqst4easf5pjb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtjl4xx5s2h