Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Worrying long term hidden fiscal drag The family income threshold at which English students maintenance loans start to get reduced is just £25,000/yr. It has been this level since the 2008/2009 academic year. We have had 64% (CPI) inflation since then. So it's been slashed hugely in real terms

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

The final paper of my UoS postdoc is out now in PNAS! How to detect developmental plasticity in the fossil record: Featuring @tomezard.bsky.social @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @katsamenis.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social among others www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hiring a marine biology lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social! Permanent position. Deadline to apply= 20 Aug. We have aquaria, lots of mass specs/genomic facilities, field trips to Crotia, Indonesia, Scotland and a super collegial department. Pls share! vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Very proud of this project! Scanning thousands of forams was no small feat, but five years on, the team is delivered something truly groundbreaking. @tomezard.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx...

Our researchers have conducted a groundbreaking analysis of prehistoric plankton 🔬 They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis. Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

This is gold.

Interesting piece, full of learning on the importance of institutions

Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway. The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.

Loved @geodianna.bsky.social's and @clivetrue.bsky.social's inspiring inaugural lectures this evening on topics spanning the breadth of planetary health work that folks in FELS do

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.

I am thrilled to be granted a CAS year (Centre for Advanced Studies 2026/2027) in Oslo to work on population dynamics using the fossil record. Looking forward to hosting Steve Ellner, @tomezard.bsky.social Tiago Quental, Stephen De Lisle and others cas-nor.no/news/announc...

Good piece. I broke my record this month (now: approached 16 people to get 2 reviewers) #supportsocietyjournals

Yes has been my pre-interview song since forever (the first of many academic rejections). www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... is lovely

Such a good column

Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Micropal (Foraminifera) postdoc position 😎 available at Köln University (Germany), with Patrick Grunert. 🌊 🧪 academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

Second job alert! We just opened a tenure-track junior professor position at @cerege.bsky.social focusing on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments and population dynamics. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C... Contact me if you are interested!

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12

Thrilled to share my second PhD paper with @tomezard.bsky.social & @evoswami.bsky.social focused on the application of landmark-free geometric morphometrics! 🎉 Excited to contribute to advancing shape analysis techniques in biology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Glad to see @creativecommons.bsky.social working to address the deep challenges that have arisen at the intersection of the open commons and corporate AI.

We’re currently looking for #TeachingFellow in #MarineBiology at University of Portsmouth. Please dm me if you have any questions. mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

The journal, Paleobiology, is 50 years old! Nice overview here of the last half century: Patzkowsky M, Kiessling W. Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology. Paleobiology. 2025;51(1):1-7. doi:10.1017/pab.2025.4

Much needed synthesis for a matured fossilized birth–death (FBD) process approach integrating phylogenetics and fossils with their stratigraphic information: "...we aim to provide clarity on how paleontological data can best be used in phylogenetic inference" #Paleobio #EvoBio

It's not necessarily the system: it's behaviours and leadership. This is an account of a project I was personally involved in (the Chiltern Railways Oxford line) that was built in the context of our system - on time and on budget. It can be done! www.freewheeling.info/blog/-on-tim...

Perot Museum of Nature and Science seeks a full-time, 1 year Research Assistant to enter plant fossil data into the new Integrative Paleobotany Portal, a database & research workbench that makes paleobotanical data widely available. Multiple hirings possible. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile uol.de/en/job/postd...

Do you have opinions about how @britishecologicalsociety.org should use its financial resources? Apply to join the Finance Committee! DM me if you want to discuss.

My amazing department at Williams College is hiring a 3 year full time visiting assistant professor in ocean/climate/surface processes! apply.interfolio.com/166059 - we will begin reviewing applications May 2nd - feel free to reach out w/ questions.

Need micropaleontology slides? I started a company! MicroPaleoWorks.com. If you need slides, hit me up. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.20 each depending on the variety. We can customize with numbering for a fee. We are a #smallbusiness #womenowned #madeintheUSA using #canadianaluminum & #recycledpaper

JOB ALERT! Senior lecturer/professor in zoology here at the University of Manchester! Come join us!!!! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🌎🦠🐚🧪🌏🧬🌳👽🌍 Interested in the co-evolution of life and our planet? Life and Planet 2025 abstracts are still open until 9 April! The meeting this year will be 14-16 July. Students and early career researchers especially encouraged! lifeandplanet.com @lifeandplanet.bsky.social

Interesting and provocative on how to meaningfully use AI on marking (comparative not absolute grading; quantify size of error, not mean correlation; ongoing validation)

Stable isotopes: Small atoms, big discoveries! From ancient climates to modern ecosystems, stable isotopes reveal hidden stories in nature. Want to learn more? Join Professor @meljleng.bsky.social for the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on 8 May. 🕔 5–6 PM | Free event

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/... logical points from @alexmassie.bsky.social on funding University that extend beyond Scotland

"Many, and perhaps most, members of our academic community do not understand [the benefits of publishing] in society-based journals ... compared with for-profit journals from companies like Springer Nature, Frontiers, Wiley, and Elsevier." 🧪 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

New MSc Marine Restoration and Conservation degree at Swansea! Apply now to join us in 2025/26. Tell your flatfish friends! Corral your coral comrades! Enjoin your echinoderm enemies! Share with your sheagrash shishtersh! Great value, very few sand dollars! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...