The INTP 2026 calendar is coming soon! We are currently finalizing the program and we would be delighted to include your projects! Would you like to organize a working group, a research residency, or an artistic workshop in a setting conducive to creativity, surrounded by nature? 🧪🌐🌍 👉 Contact us!

Normative framework of bigger tech (aka, me trolling the tech audience)

🤔 using modelling and simulation for (crop) science 😊 designing media to communicate agricultural systems complexity Eager to think beyond academic papers with @intp-science.bsky.social!

indeed, outside it is. A book about creative processes for rule-based concrete poetry. Lovely and informative essays alongside the illustrations! A fine way to support artists, imho.

📢 INTP Autumn School Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology 🧪🌐🌍 📅 October 6-11, 2025 🙋‍♀️ Apply before July 31 👉 intp.science/en/events/20... Team: Matthieu Barbier (CIRAD), Azenor Bideault (INTP), Arnaud Sentis (INRAE) + Michel Loreau (CNRS) and Mathew Leibold (online, University of Florida)

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

It has been a great priviledge to participate to this extensive review on plant diversity and crop protection. Congrats to the lead authors Aude Vialatte, Anais Tibi and Vincent Martinet and all the Regulnat team! @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

The INTP Spring School "Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology" has started yesterday! We are very excited about this week of #science and #mountaineering activities taking place in the #Pyrenees ⛰️ 🧑‍💻 🌐🧪

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

Holy charts, Batman...

Cornalism is much less appreciated than brutalism but of course objectively far superior.

OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"The point of statistical inference is not to produce the right answers with high frequency, but rather to *always* produce the inference best supported by the data at hand when combined with existing background knowledge and assumptions." —Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy

Voila des petits glissements, renoncements qui inquiètent, des petites musiques qui confondent sciences & techniques, qui montrent la fragilité de la fabrique de la science en France a l'aune de ce qui se passe aux US. Lutter contre le changement climatique passe par davantage de Sciences Sociales!

🧪🌍A little cheer up between a lot of negative news: Our paper about the importance of food-web complexity 🌱🐛🪲🍄 for ecosystem stability has just been accepted! Great lead by Maowei Liang, together with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and Dave Tilman. Preprint: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

As I said elsewhere: What's supposed to be surprising about arriving at different results under different models making different assumptions, using different methods that also make different assumptions? It's almost as if our inference depends on the model & method. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We are opening a permanent #INRAE research engineer position in agroecosystem modeling/simulation in our BioEcoAgro research unit (www.bioecoagro.eu), in France, Hauts-de-France region! ⤵️

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Approval ratings for the asteroid have reached 37%

Quelques mots sur mes recherches, mais surtout l'occasion de découvrir d'autres métiers qui font la diversité de l'INRAE !

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

The Data Life Cycle is a useful narrative device to understand how data flow within a project. But understanding how it fits with complex model pipelines has been awkward. So we wrote a thing! It's called the Model Life Cycle, and it's now out in PLOS Comp Biol: 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Postdoc opportunity for someone with good data wrangling and analysis skills to explore the effects of agroecological farming practices using long-term experiment datasets 🌾🌻🌦️🌐📈🤎💚🧪 At SLU in Uppsala, Sweden, with Riccardo Bommarco, Giulia Vico, and me: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

OK, #Ecology - y'all have your next absolute MUST READ - both the thread and the paper. It's really fantastic and paradigm shifting for how we learn from nature. Cannot recommend enough. #causalsky 🌍 (also, the reading list at the end is 🔥🔥🔥 and perfect fodder for your reading groups!!!)

Wanna dive into the most comprehensive analysis of winter wheat breeding history?? 🌾 We published here open data, reproducible results, and insights to keep high yields in a changing climate. 🌍✨ Check it out now! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs

Pandemics, global change, and biodiversity loss? In a new paper published in the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, we argue that these are three facets of an ongoing polycrisis, with common roots, and hopefully common solution. A short thread. 🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Finished my #ptpx plotter postcards! I focused on a rolling landscape, with gentle but asymmetrical ridges. Each drawing corresponds to a 20x20 km region. It's yours, unknown #penplotter friends 😇

Finished reading ‘Breaking Through’, Katalin Karikó’s book - it’s easy to read and it’s full of her refreshingly honest takes on science and careers in science. Here is one example 🧪

Starting the year with some pictures of the #ptpx worldwide postcards exchange (thanks @paulbutler.org !). The drawings are made with code and traced on paper using a pen-plotter machine, so that most of them are unique. I started hanging them around my workplace, as fabulous inspiration devices.

#GENUARY2025 DAY 2: Layers upon layers ... I swear I had some idea involving layers when I started this but then I ended up here :-) #GENUARY2 #generative #genartclub

What is this, a new essay on entropy? In our year 2024? And it discusses Gibbs and Jaynes and maxent? Embraces a Bayesian interpretation? A Christmas miracle! www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

After a week of lurking it's time for my blue-sky debut! For those who don't know me I'm an ecologist and modeller who loves data, sewing, and reading 🌱📈🧵📚 When I'm not doing those things I'm usually napping thanks to my ME/CFS 😴

Ceci n'est pas un calendrier de l'avent avec les articles les plus lus de l'année. 1/24 C'est avec le succès cet article que j'ai arrêté ma série d'été sur Hokusai : les nouveaux arrivants ont pu noter mon évident peu de compétence. L'écrire fut cependant plaisant. anathnosfe.fr/2024/07/17/r...

The PLANTCOM network led by Fabrice Roux @inrae-france.bsky.social met for two days in Toulouse to talk through latest research on the genetics and a mechanistic understanding of plant-plant interactions. I was happy to contribute with a talk on coadaptation of plants in #intercropping.

A starter pack for scientists involved in developing computational algorithms, software, models, and tools to advance #plantscience. Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/KcVXefi

Joined today! Taking the opportunity to announce a Postdoc position we have open, all about modelling mixed crops: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

Almost a 1000's followers in one week! that's crazy. As we are all new here, maybe its time to present some of our research highligts of the recent years. All is about #FunctionalTraits; #PlantDiversity; #CommunityAssembly; #EcosystemMultifunctionality ' 🧮➕📏 ' ⬇️

Question for the science hive: if you didn't have the many constraints (funding requirements, pressure to be "productive" etc.) and could choose more freely about what do, would your research be very different? youtube.com/watch?v=Qtxj...

A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name! go.bsky.app/FNYZ61y

If you'd like to deal with complexity in biological systems with tools from physics and adjacent fields, the INTP team in the Pyrénées is a fascinating research place! I'm so curious of how agrosystems fit in this landscape. intp.science/en/content/2...

I'm creating a Starter Pack for digital artists, feel free to add a comment with your handle if you want to be added! It's so refreshing to see so many creatives joining BlueSky!

Here is a regular reminder of my deconstructR package, which offers self-destructing plots in R (gravity plot, black hole plot, ...). You'll find the sources here: github.com/brandmaier/d... No need to thank me. And here is a gravity plot attached. #rstats #academicsky #phdsky

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

i always write very readable code