Saismit Naik

Hello all! A gentle reminder for today's talk!

Excited to share a game I've been working on with my friend @jasonjoby.bsky.social - presenting BirdGuessr (ch3rryblossom.github.io/birdguessr), a daily game where you're given 5 real checklists from eBird, and you guess where they came from! Can you narrow down a location based on its birds?

"[Using] randomized experiments... We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, & debugging abilities, w/o delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning"

Talk Alert! We are excited to announce a special conversation with Dr Juliane Klamser. We are also hosting Saismit Naik and Satavisha De, who wrote an article on similar topics. More details in the attached poster!! 📆 28th October 2026 | ⏱️ 9:30 PM IST Joining link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8549475515...

An extremely important event, thanks to @saismit.bsky.social for helping us put this together :)) Hope to see you all there!

It's kind of like GeoGuessr but instead of images, you see a bird list :) You can play older days in the archive, and there's also "free play" where you can play this infinitely with random checklists! There's also shareable scores so you can compete with your friends, here's mine from today -

A Palestinian student who has a fully funded place at University College Dublin said he has been left “heartbroken” after his visa was refused by Ireland’s justice minister and is urging the government to reconsider its decision. Seher Asaf reports #visas #Gaza #edusky https://ow.ly/eFQs51008EV

Mark your calendars, Young Modellers! 🦊 We are happy to announce our next workshop, which will take place from 24.-28. May 2027 at the ecological research station Rees from the University of Cologne. 🌍🥳 @gfoesoc.bsky.social #yomos #science #ecology #phdlife

The 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 seminar series continues in the winter term! 🤩 Find the schedule for the upcoming semester below, starting already on **October 28th**! All additional info as well as the Zoom access has been updated on our homepage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... Please share! 🦊

Using BlueSky has helped me find so much incredible research, but also caused my to-read list, a bunch of open tabs, to balloon in size. So I built a widget to track papers and share them with friends. Introducing Marginalia, a social reading shelf for academics! marginalia-papers.netlify.app

My colleague @saismit.bsky.social and @satavisha-de.bsky.social write about the lack of female representation in STEM and how this is a bigger problem even for women of color.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an emergency appeal following the devastating flood in Nepal 🖤 pls consider supporting their work. their partners are already on ground and working hard in helping the affected. www.ifrc.org/emergency/ne...

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The real brain drain in the US academic institutions isn't the superstar scientists who leave, it is the students who never come.

My brilliant friends Saismit and Satavisha wrote an article for Times High Education about being a more effective and active ally to women and underrepresented minorities in academia! Synthesizing evidence across different aspects, they then trace out actionable steps as to what to do to address it.

The @sse-evolution.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign for student research grants is at 10% of its $30k goal! Chip in here to help evolutionary biologists in the first stages of their scientific careers: gofund.me/70d1ce65e

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎

From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansion doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Biophysics #Ecology #Evolution

Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Are you a grad student or postdoc who needs financial assistance to attend #Evol2026 in person? SSE offers registration waivers for the early registration rate - apply by March 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.

Excited to share our new preprint! Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges: doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142 #ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling

Hello! I'm Saismit, a Cornell EEB PhD student exploring rapid eco-evolutionary feedbacks through theory. Excited to connect with fellow researchers! 🌍🧪 🦠 #WomenInSTEM #evosky, #evolution, #evobio, #phylo, #popgen, #ecoevo #molevol, #popgen #complexity #PhDSky #pydata #rstats

Landscape structure drives eco-evolution in host-parasite systems. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563775v1