Chateaubriand Fellowship Program for PhD students from US institutions who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months 😇🥖🍷 chateaubriand-fellowship.org

New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks). 👉 github.com/rogerbeecham... #RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat

New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation. Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...

Glad to see the "Chicago rat hole" (rodent-body imprint) of January 2024 Internet fame was studied more, but just to add my $0.02: Many folks missed the tracks leading away from the body imprint, meaning the squirrel (not rat) fell & splatted in wet concrete, but then walked it off. 🧪🐿️🐾

What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱 "Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #ecology #phdlife #phdchat

She added that her work has inspired others. “Nobody wants to invest in these rural communities. They don’t want to invest in the people. But just do what’s put on your heart to do, and the rewards will come.”

New seminar series just dropped, this is going to be fun! These are the people I want to hang out with over lunch break 🌮🥪🥙🍙

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

Postdoctoral Position – University of Basel, Switzerland Project: Global status, trends, drivers & impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems Eligibility: PhD in related fields Deadline: 13 Oct 2025 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Ecology @unibas.ch

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

📣We will be back soon for a new series! 🎉 Our first speaker will be Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 October: ⭐Microbial cross-feeding coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐ As ever, free for all to join! Link+details: iite.info/seminar/

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My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives. (Part 2 below)

go read this immediately:

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Hmm, I changed R from version 4.4.1 --> 4.5.1, and now I am getting different results for random numbers generated using the same set.seed(). Has anyone else run into this issue? I am looking for a workaround (to get this darn manuscript finished!).

Suite à la migration de scientifiques et d'universitaires de X, Bluesky est devenue une l'une des alternatives. Afin d'évaluer sa viabilité/pertinence pour la communication scientifique, cette étude présente une analyse à grande échelle de la diffusion d'articles scientifiques sur Bluesky. 1/5

also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!

It's amazing how many people are out there bragging publicly about how they now use ChatGPT to perform pretty much all of their tasks at their well-paid corporate job, and have yet to connect the dots on "if you're making your utility value identical to ChatGPT, why would they keep paying you?"

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure. During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation : journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The musician and Democrat is looking to flip Texas’ 15th Congressional District, which voted for President Donald Trump by 18% in 2024.

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

If you are interested in contributing to the TREE series on Disability in Ecology and Evolution, email me at [email protected] We want hear from as many people as possible. December will be the last in the series, for this issue we will need contributions by c7 October. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

How variable are temperature effects on species interactions within a local community? Find out in our new paper led by @zoeyneale.bsky.social "Thermal responses of feeding rates differ across co‐occurring predator species" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in #Macroecology? Join our (Special Interest group Macroecology of the @gfoesoc.bsky.social - see also here www.gfoe.org/en/specialis...) 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 to get few mails per month on relevant jobs, courses & meetings. Send me a PM or email with your email address!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

"Submitting a paper with a "hidden" prompt is scientific misconduct if that prompt is intended to obtain a favorable review from an LLM...though ICML 2025 reviewers are forbidden from using LLMs to produce their reviews...this fact does not excuse the attempted subversion." icml.cc/Conferences/...

📖 Notre livre "Analyse des données en écologie - Introduction aux outils statistiques avec R" avec Jean-Yves Barnagaud aux manettes sort tout bientôt 😊🥳 On espère qu'il vous plaira, et qu'il vous sera utile 🤓 www.biotope-editions.fr/produit/anal...

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

"Criminalization produces disposable people." "Criminalization is a political process that serves the interests of those in power." This is, as always, an ESSENTIAL analysis to understand how criminalization and fascism are the same in kind.

🌟🏆🌟 #ASLO Members, it’s awards season! The ASLO Awards celebrate excellence across all career stages and disciplines. Help us highlight talent in our community and recognize outstanding contributions to the #aquaticsciences. 🗓️ Nominate by Wed, 1 October 2025. aslo.org/nominations-...

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

📢 Post doc! Want to join our team? We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years! Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us! DL 24.9. #universityofhelsinki

We’re thrilled to announce that the GfÖ Annual Conference 2026 will be a joint event with the Nordic Society OIKOS (NSO), taking place in Odense, Denmark! 🇩🇰✨ See you on 14-17 Sep 2026! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic... #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

Register for the next MEE live! Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recently accepted paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪 Find out more about the online workshop and register here 👇 buff.ly/axWOiyl

Can’t wait to read! 👀 Gillingham et al. 2025. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social “The costs and benefits of a dynamic host microbiome” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in movement ecology, habitat connectivity, and graph theory? Here is an open post-doctoral position (12 months) proposed by J.C. Foltête in the ThéMA laboratory (CNRS-Univ. Marie et Louis Pasteur). More details here: shorturl.at/zKtpC For any questions, please contact us!

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians have woven themselves into the fabric of Houston, surprising even themselves by choosing to stay and build something new in the place that took them in during one of the hardest moments of their lives. 🔗bit.ly/47UjmQB

You are an Early Career Researcher? You work on ecological impacts of biological invasions? You love data? We have a few places left for our InvaPact III workshop (Girona, Spain; Nov. 1–7, 2025). Please find the main infos 👇, and the full description 👉 www.biodiversitydynamics.fr/invapact3/ 1/4

My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.

This is an inevitable byproduct of automation. The AI boosters have been selling us that deskilling in some areas will result in upskilling in others, but we have no evidence of this. We don't even have a particularly good theory. We have salesmanship B.S.

Being the person they have to call when the LLM hits its limit and they're running in circles is already the position I and some of my peers are already in. The problem here is the pipeline. You don't get to my capability, by replacing younger less experienced me with an LLM. This is gonna be bad.

PhD position available on climate change, cyanobacterial blooms, and human health @ebdonana.bsky.social We are looking for interested candidates, details attached. Please share.. @sibecol.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @aillimnologia.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social