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Data scientist and researcher (PhD)
#firstgen
🏳️🌈 he/him, ⵣ🇲🇦 📍Paris 🇫🇷
pinned post!
🟥 New paper out 🟥 Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity. With an amazing team:
@valentinecology.bsky.social
@davide-andreatta.bsky.social
@foxnat.bsky.social
& Franzi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity
Temperate grasslands provide various cultural ecosystem services that are appreciated in diverse ways. Capturing these diverse appreciations requires …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880925006437
2 months ago
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Katie Stuble
about 16 hours ago
Paid Summer Internships... Join us for a summer of ecological research at the Holden Arboretum. Opportunities in restoration ecology, population ecology, plant ecophysiology, forest health, and more. On-site housing available at low cost.
lnkd.in/gjWUznhj
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Grand Labo
4 days ago
La plateforme arXiv croule sous les soumissions d'articles frauduleux produits via l'#IA. Depuis le 21 janvier, « elle exige désormais que les auteurs qui publient pour la première fois soient approuvés par un auteur arXiv reconnu dans leur domaine. »
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ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop
First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author
https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-preprint-server-clamps-down-ai-slop
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Nadine Ruehr
8 days ago
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details:
t1p.de/qctj7
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Sgùrr Thuilm
9 days ago
Si vous cherchez à réduire vos dépendances numériques aux US, je vous invite à jeter un œil sur le site European Alternatives qui recense des services européens dans pas mal de catégories (mails, messageries, VPN, cloud etc.) ⤵️
european-alternatives.eu/categories
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Service categories | European Alternatives
List of all categories on European Alternatives
https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
14 days ago
Career launchpad for researchers 🚀 As part of the Postdoc.Mobility funding scheme, the SNSF is supporting 214 postdocs to carry out a research project abroad or to return to Switzerland. The SNSF is providing 26.5 million Swiss francs for this purpose. 👉
sohub.io/5vq0
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Paul Kardol
19 days ago
Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE
#PhDposition
on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!
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Patrick Jansen 🐾
23 days ago
Are you a PhD-level
#wildlife
ecologist committed to research and education for
#biodiversity
and nature restoration? Our group at
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
has a
#vacancy
for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Ski season in suburban Paris is on.
24 days ago
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Johanna Mappes
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
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Juan Moreno-Cruz
about 2 months ago
It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/impact-plus-chairs/news/updates/2025/12/government-of-canada-introduces-two-new-programs-for-international-researchers.html
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James Bullock
about 2 months ago
“Techno-optimistic scientists are substantially less likely to engage in civic climate action or make high-impact lifestyle changes suggesting that techno-optimistic worldviews may inadvertently constrain the behavioral & cultural shifts required for effective climate action”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Rami Krispin
about 2 months ago
Harvard R Programming Course 👇🏼
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3I...
#rstats
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Harvard CS50’s Intro to R Programming – Full University Course
YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3IKHG-rfA
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Samuel Moore
2 months ago
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-11-28/the-fall-of-a-prolific-science-journal-exposes-the-billion-dollar-profits-of-scientific-publishing.html
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠
2 months ago
STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science
mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
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Pete Manning
2 months ago
The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here:
nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...
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Nordic Oikos 2026 | Nordic Society Oikos
Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...
https://nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic-oikos-2026-135623/
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David Ho
2 months ago
The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) ruled that EU nations had to recognise same-sex marriages recorded in another member state, following a complaint by two Poles married in Germany whose marriage was not recognized in Poland.
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Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the funda...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/lgbtq/article/2025/11/25/top-court-forces-eu-nations-to-recognize-same-sex-marriages-from-other-member-states_6747809_211.html#
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Nathan Fox
2 months ago
New comparative paper using questionnaires and social media images to under public perception of grassland aesthetics. Lead by
@valentinecology.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AcademicSky
#Science
#AIinScience
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Johannes B. Gruber
2 months ago
After a long time in development, {traktok}
#rstats
is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered
jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
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🟥 New paper out 🟥 Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity. With an amazing team:
@valentinecology.bsky.social
@davide-andreatta.bsky.social
@foxnat.bsky.social
& Franzi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity
Temperate grasslands provide various cultural ecosystem services that are appreciated in diverse ways. Capturing these diverse appreciations requires …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880925006437
2 months ago
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James Bullock
2 months ago
PhD available! To address the intersection of restoration ecology and biodiversity policy by developing spatially explicit, realistic restoration strategies using scenario-based modelling to generate tools & support effective biodiversity planning
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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CR2026_09: Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2026_09: Biodiversity restoration strategies to benefit multiple species at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/cr2026-09-biodiversity-restoration-strategies-to-benefit-multiple-species/?p191362
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Pride in STEM
2 months ago
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay
#PrideInSTEM
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Dr Pierre Mariotte
2 months ago
⚠️ Postdoc position on the
#AgroForageTreeProject
Economic assessment of inovative grassland-based livestock production
#economist
#agriculture
#postdoc
#agroforestry
@agroscope.bsky.social
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Postdoc Researcher on the economic assessment of innovative grassland-based livestock production - Agroscope
Agroscope is looking for Postdoc Researcher on the economic assessment of innovative grassland-based livestock production
https://jobs.admin.ch/job-vacancies/postdoc-researcher-on-the-economic-assessment-of-innovative-grassland-based-livestock-production/53b36b82-62f0-41a5-b572-baa12aab6385
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Robert Finger
3 months ago
Exciting vacancy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Professorship of Farm Management in the Digital Transformation
uni-goettingen.de/en/701219.html
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Serge Belongie
3 months ago
Prof.
@tokehoye.bsky.social
(Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026 Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱
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Johannes B. Gruber
3 months ago
Very happy to update the {traktok}
#rstats
readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks,
@michaelgoodier.bsky.social
for the crucial hint!
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WSL Umweltforschung
3 months ago
🛰️🌿💻
#PostDoc
Alert! PhD in
#EnvironmentalSciences
,
#RemoteSensing
or
#ComputerVision
, and sound ecological knowledge of
#biodiversity
? You work comfortably with statistical computing and scripting languages? We offer a 2-year PostDoc position:
apply.refline.ch/273855/1792/...
#ecology
#ScienceJobs
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Mark A. Hanson
3 months ago
The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted. Let's cut ourselves free. Drain:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain:
bit.ly/StrainQSS
Oligopoly:
bit.ly/OligSciPub
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
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Dominic Martin
3 months ago
Assistant Professorship on Biodiversity, Land Use and Spatial Planning at
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.11.2025
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor Biodiversity, Land Use and Spatial Planning
Are you committed to contribute to stop the decline of biodiversity? Do you have experience in academic teaching? Do you want an academic career? Then please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/assistant-professor-biodiversity-land-use-and-spatial-planning-amsterdam-1230248
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Matthias C. Rillig
3 months ago
Somewhat troubling: Suzgun et al. in Nature Machine Intelligence Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01113-8
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Thorsten Quandt
3 months ago
🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs
#ERC
#PhD
#CommunicationResearch
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦
8 months ago
90% of you probably don’t need to read this. But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy. It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud; partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
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Omaya Dudin
Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00444-0
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Scott McGrath
3 months ago
The European Commission finds Meta and TikTok are preliminarily breaching the Digital Services Act. The DSA mandates researcher access to platform data for studying misinformation, but companies are reportedly obstructing these efforts, limiting accountability.
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Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say
https://www.science.org/content/article/meta-and-tiktok-are-obstructing-researchers-access-data-european-commission-rules
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A. Murat Eren (Meren)
3 months ago
Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF)
3 months ago
Professorship for Co-development of livestock-based mixed cropping systems 🐄🌾 ZALF + Universität Kassel Lead a research group at ZALF 🌍 | Teach in Witzenhausen 🎓 🌱 Want to co-design circular #organic #farming systems? #Agroecology #Sustainability #JobAlert #Agriculture
stellen.uni-kassel.d...
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Maëlle Salmon
3 months ago
👀 "Développement d’une alternative open-source sous R aux logiciels propriétaires de calcul de taille d’échantillon en oncologie" Stage de M2 au sujet très intéressant !
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Ashish Malik
3 months ago
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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Kertu Lõhmus
4 months ago
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 3-year Postdoc position in Coastal Ecology at the University of Oldenburg! 🌊 First 2 years: Join the DFG Research Unit DynaCom – collaborate with outstanding partners across five synthesis projects. Final year: Pursue your own research + build your academic profile. 👉
uol.de/job773en
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Postdoctoral researcher in coastal ecology (DFG Research Unit DynaCom) // University of Oldenburg
https://uol.de/job773en
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
4 months ago
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept
@ucalgary.bsky.social
@ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science.
careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!)
#academicsky
🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
https://careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?q=earth&ns_job_type_page=&ns_faculty_unit_page=
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Pete Manning
4 months ago
Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st)
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER
www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 year ago
Finland is downgrading almost 300 Frontiers and MDPI journals to its lowest rating – a de facto blacklisting move that might soon be replicated in other countries, according to an expert
#AcademicSky
#EduSky
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Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit?
Decision to downgrade 271 journals on quality and operating model concerns sparks debate
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/finland-downgrades-mdpi-and-frontiers-will-others-follow-suit
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Pete Manning
5 months ago
3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen
jobbnorge.no/en/available...
please repost
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Linux Is Best
5 months ago
Looking to leave GitHub? Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse:
@Codeberg
. But wait — it gets better! Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]
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https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/115158214149542878
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Valentin Klaus - Ruhr University Bochum
5 months ago
Happy to see our new paper out! In short: "Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization" Find the open-access paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
Thanks to Solen and
@robertfinger.bsky.social
@robehube.bsky.social
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
@usyseth.bsky.social
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104490
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
5 months ago
The Department of Biological Sciences at
@ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Freshwater Ecology.
lnkd.in/gMt2i9C7
#FreshwaterEcology
#AcademicJobs
#AcademicChat
#EnvironmentalScience
#AquaticEcology
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
https://lnkd.in/gMt2i9C7
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Brendan Nyhan
5 months ago
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College
apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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Posit
6 months ago
Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from
@veerle.hypebright.nl
! Part 1: "What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don't)" breaks down complex concepts like transformers, hallucinations, and RAG in simple terms. Check it out here:
shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
#RStats
#LLM
#PythonProgramming
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Shiny - What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)
Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.
https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shiny-side-of-llms-part-1/
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David Ho
6 months ago
I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find
@alecluhn.bsky.social
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American climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier
A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/climate-journalist-alec-luhn-missing-norwegian-glacier/
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Mark A. Hanson
6 months ago
If I could change one thing about
#ScientificPublishing
I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals. The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on
#AcademicSky
. This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy. 1/n
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The strain on scientific publishing
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/4/823/124269/The-strain-on-scientific-publishing
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Henning Hermes
7 months ago
We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀 Amazing team at
@ifoeducation.bsky.social
& the perfect place to thrive with ifo,
@cesifo.org
+
@econmunich.bsky.social
🫶🏻🌟 Please share widely 🙏🙏 Link below 👇
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c0nc0rdance
6 months ago
I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.
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