Interesting. 2 lessons here: 1. Don't use LLM output code uncritically, even if it runs smoothly 2. As developers we can protect our #rstats code from such problems e.g. with rlang.r-lib.org/reference/ch...

Annual meeting of the French thematic network on Biodiversity Theory and Modelling (TheoMoDive, theomodive.cnrs.fr) in Bordeaux, 1-3 December 2025. Preliminary programme and submission / registration indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/15159/ Open to contributions until the end of October.

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México. Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth). Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪 Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

MPDEE'26 - International Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution @ Leicester, UK 20 Apr 2026 – 24 Apr 2026 dbearup.github.io/mpdee26/

Registration to the 10th annual Evolutionary Demography Society is now open. See you all at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social 22-24 Sept 2025. Early-bird ends April 15th: evodemo2025.weebly.com Please share @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social

Scientific publisher Elsevier made a £1 billion profit last year "driven by volume growth, with article submissions growing very strongly across the portfolio, particularly in pay-to-publish" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

2 lecturer positions in applied math open in our institute, one in statistics & probability and another in optimization. Link (in French) here www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/imb/l-imb-re... The recruiting team is open to applications to ecology and environmental sciences more generally (climate, energy).

For colleagues just following me now: #quantitative #ecologist here, doing #stats and #theory, big fan of #bioticinteractions and #demography questions. I often comment on stats issues, scientific edition, finding old refs, and fun natural history. More active on Mastodon 🦣 (same handle) until then.