New review out in Current Landscape Ecology Reports. I checked whether the use of distinct types of spatial networks in ecology has led to research silos or generated bridges among theoretical frameworks. Find out here: doi.org/10.1007/s408... And also: Happy New Year 2026!! 😀

Les Rencontres de Théo Quant auront lieu du 4 au 6 février 2026 à Besançon, organisées par le laboratoire ThéMA. Si la géographie théorique et quantitative, et ses thématiques connexes, sont au cœur de vos recherches, inscrivez-vous. 👉 theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org

No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.

📰 À Mont-de-Marsan, le premier campus connecté de la région donne l’exemple, avec 50 étudiants inscrits et un taux de réussite aux examens de 70%. Un dispositif innovant pensé pour améliorer l’inclusion, et soutenu par l'université :

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@PCI_StatML) is now open for submissions!! https://statml.peercommunityin.org/ For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit https://peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

Really happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online! We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing. @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Proud of @emmasbacon.bsky.social who defended yesterday (co-advised @paqlab.bsky.social). 6 months of fieldwork, countless doors knocked on, 28000+ trees IDd, & an incredible MSc thesis on Montréal’s urban forest! While playing in an orchestra & publishing 3 side projects 🤩. Someone hire her ASAP! 😉

Our cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks

Thanks to Thomas Pradeu and the two hosts of today's PhilInBioMed webinar (Sam Scheiner, Alkistis Elliott-Graves) for a great discussion about the impact of philosophy and theoretical thinking on ecology (recording soon online I assume). I'll stay tuned for the next! philinbiomed.cnrs.fr

Urban nature based solutions are critical - but often hampered by a lack of collaboration across sectors. How can we do better? This was such a rewarding project to lead, alongside great colleagues from @environmentca.bsky.social, @treecanada.bsky.social, and many many others.

Happy to share a new publication I contributed to, based on a full day of discussions in MTL on real barriers in cross-sector work. Thanks to Kayleigh Hutt-Taylor for leading it, and to Barbara Frei and @carlyziter.bsky.social for their support. Findings now published in @facetsjournal.bsky.social

The analytical workflow does not need to be sophisticated for the empirical result to provide joy! #SundayInTheWoods

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

Nouveau livret Graphab 2025 : 12 exemples d'applications du logiciel pour l'analyse de la connectivité des habitats. Merci à toutes les personnes ayant contribué, et aux collègues qui ont mis tout ça en forme ! @xaviergirardet.bsky.social thema.univ-fcomte.fr/productions/...

Happy to announce an open post-doctoral position (24 months) in the ThéMA lab (Besançon, CNRS-Univ.Marie et Louis Pasteur) to work on the coupled modelling of population genetic structure and metacommunity dynamics in habitat networks. Details here: shorturl.at/7muyx For any questions, contact me!

New preprint out! I did a literature review to check whether the use of distinct types of spatial networks in ecology has led to research silos or, instead, generated bridges among theoretical frameworks due to their methodological similarities. Find out here 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Les Rencontres de Théo Quant 2026 seront l'occasion de parler de géographie théorique et quantitative à Besançon du 4 au 6 février 2026 Fin de l'appel à résumés : 15 octobre 8 sessions sont prévues (dont "Structures paysagères et dynamiques de la biodiversité") theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

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

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!

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live! 👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal. 🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim 🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

🥰 C'est beau à voir tout ça, et ça fait tant de bien de se réunir! L'apport de @schoolofhealth.concordia.ca à notre mouvement est vraiment précieux. 🙏 🥰 It's wonderful to see all this, and it feels good to come together. Concordia's contribution to our movement is invaluable. 🙏 #RésisteretFleurir

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw

It was a pleasure to attend the @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social in Sherbrooke. The quality of presentations was impressive, the feedback very relevant and kind. I learned so much. Congrats to the organisation committee. I'll definitely recommend the next editions! Immense merci à mes collègues canadiens

A lire attentivement, tant la photographie de l’état de l’#ESR aujourd'hui me semble juste.

In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website! www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...

Excited to share that our work previously shared as a preprint is now out today in it's final peer-reviewed form in PLOS One! #OpenAccess Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line, by Fraass et al. 2025

Merci beaucoup au journal En Direct de l'Université Marie et Louis Pasteur pour cet article de vulgarisation très clair sur les recherches que nous menons avec mes collègues sur la dispersion des espèces et la connectivité des habitats : shorturl.at/4GSeO

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 everyone, and in particular to every Acer sp. 🍁 tree across this amazing country. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47727

This is the best, more elegant, description of what LLMs do. I wish more people understood that. Plus: there are many different tools under the umbrella of “AI” that work differently, but a common thread is they main work through giant regression models.

I did 5 independent replications of each condition. So I got 30 names (some repeated) for each condition Results: "tough-minded and rigorous": 22/30 males, 8/30 females "friendly and kind": 8/30 males, 22/30 females Not really surprising, I guess.... Examples below.

🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com

Reminder: It is next week!

Encore 2 très bonnes journées de formation à Graphab avec une 15aine de personnes motivées et sympathiques, issues de collectivités, associations, bureaux d'études, labos de recherche Les prochaines dates pour se former à la modélisation des réseaux d'habitats : cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/modelisation...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Invited speaker CLAIRE LAGESSE at #CCSFrance2025 on 23-25/06 @iscpif ! We will have 19 Keynotes and invited speakers and many other presentations. Register to this exceptional @css_france conference until June 6 ! Info ->conferences.css-fr.o...

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

A clever podcast episode about the importance of stupidity in scientific research: nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... I warmly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social (since I use to sleep at night, this is more often "Bike Science" 🚴‍♂️🎧 than "Night Science" to me!)

Less known than keystone species, keystone communities! Check out the last preprint of Gabriel Khattar and Pedro Peres-Neto about this important property for biodiversity responses to disturbance. doi.org/10.22541/au....

Happy to share my views on a great paper by Borthagaray, Teixeira de Mello and Arim about the inference of complex fish dispersal patterns: doi.org/10.1111/1365... Thanks to JAE for this opportunity!! Check out this very interesting piece of work: doi.org/10.1111/1365... Congrats to the authors!

Very interesting paper by Ottaviani et al. in #PCI-Ecology: "On the quest for novelty in ecology" doi.org/10.1101/2023... Great recommendation by F. Munoz: ecology.peercommunityin.org/PCIEcology/a... Are our findings novel or confirmatory? Do we do normal or revolutionary science (sensu Kuhn)?

Vous pouvez désormais proposer des sessions pour les prochaines Rencontres de ThéoQuant (4-6 février 2026, Besançon) Deadline : 1er juin theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr Au programme : la géographie quantitative et ses applications (écologie, villes, aménagement du territoire, jeu d'acteurs)

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

Neutral [model] OR [theory], null [model] OR [hypothesis], baseline [model]: I hope that after reading this great paper I do not conflate these terms (anymore! 🤫) Bausman, W. C. (2018). Modeling : Neutral, Null, and Baseline. Philosophy of Science, 85(4), 594‑616. doi.org/10.1086/699021

Second video in the series: how to spot toxic labs, for example during an interview youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA

#RésultatScientifique🔎 Une équipe internationale publie 10 conseils pratiques pour aider les écologues à s’approprier la statistique bayésienne, outil clé en modélisation, conservation et évaluation des impacts humains sur les écosystèmes. ➡️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.