Do you want to join our group and start your own small team on experimental plant ecology and/or evolutionary biology? If so, apply for this open position for a Senior Research Associate:
https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openings?tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Bjoboffer%5D=4211&tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Baction%5D=show&tx_unijobs_joboffers%5Bcontroller%5D=Joboffer&cHash=dcefd5f1aca2a4b7582892f3b3a91b3e

Oferta académica y docente en Ecología Evolutiva en Nueva Zelanda https://www.bioblogia.net/2025/05/oferta-academica-y-docente-en-ecologia.html

Más ofertas👇
https://biotapas.bioblogia.net/
#empleo #biotapas

Postdoc en telemetría animal (Maryland, USA) https://www.bioblogia.net/2025/05/postdoc-en-telemetria-animal-maryland.html

Más ofertas👇
https://biotapas.bioblogia.net/
#empleo #biotapas

This is an update of some of our activities for the month of April, 2025.

May Day,
Individual reports,
AT&T to shut down email-SMS gateway,
The National Weather Service is being destroyed. How do we build a new one in the shell of the old?

First off, we hope you all had a lovely May Day full of rage in the streets or relaxation in the sheets, or whatever you wanted out of it! It was inspiring to see so many working people ac
https://anarchistrrl.blackblogs.org/2025/05/07/april-update-2/

@jobsecoevo

There is still a few days to apply to this PhD offer! Come enjoy Paris and the "Jardin des Plantes" at the heart of it, while working on exciting science!

Advance your research with our live online course starting May 12th:
Movement Ecology using R
Designed for researchers working with animal tracking and telemetry data.
Instructors: Dr. Luca Börger and Dr. Garrett Street
Full details and registration:
https://www.prstats.org/course/movement-ecology-using-r-move07/

#python
#TelemetryData
#RStats
#SpatialEcology
#AnimalMovement
#WildlifeResearch
#QuantitativeEcology
#ConservationScience

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF!

Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts.

We must make noise! Please re-share!!!!
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

"We found bees working 18-hour days for three, sometimes even four different plant genera just to make ends meet...efforts by gig pollinators to organize for better conditions had so far been hampered by the wind’s willingness to pollinate for free"

https://theonion.com/study-finds-plants-increasingly-reliant-on-gig-workers-for-pollination/

📚✨ Curieux·se de découvrir ce que c'est de faire une thèse sur les perce-oreilles ? Plongez dans cette BD illustrée par Pellichi, qui met en lumière le travail de thèse de Laura Pasquier dans mon équipe. Une superbe façon de rendre la science accessible !

This is the first commentary published on The Markup. Here’s a Bay Area high school student’s take on how AI has changed secondary schooling: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2025/03/08/a-high-school-student-explains-how-educators-can-adapt-to-ai

Hi folks, looking for advice: I'm seeking a solution for long-term online storage of private data. I'd like
- AWS Glacier-like pricing for multi-TB data
- Ability to pre-pay for 5+ years
- Relatively simple interface and permissions to enable future users of unknown expertise level to access. (Egress fees might be a barrier here.)

I will probably buy physical storage, this will be a backup to that.

"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?"

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

Most people with some interest have seen precisely this coming for more than a decade. @neuralreckoning is among them. It's great that outlets like @thetransmitter are now also recognizing this problem and are helping to amplify these voices.

#openscience #infrastructure

The second paper of January 2025 in Computo, by Daphné Giorgi, Sarah Kaakai and Vincent Lemaire, introduces the R package IBMPopSim, which facilitates the simulation of the random evolution of heterogeneous populations using stochastic Individual-Based Models (IBMs).

The package relies on a unified mathematical framework, based on thinning of Poisson measures, for the simulation of IBMs where individuals are represented by their birth date, death date (+∞ if none), and a collection of features. It uses Rcpp for efficiency.

The paper introduces this mathematical framework, gives a detailed overview of the IBMPopSim package, and illustrates it on two use cases, one from actuarial sciences and the other from population genetics.

On this last example, the authors show that their randomized algorithm is one or two orders of magnitudes faster than the full algorithm.

The paper is available with (of course) R code at: https://doi.org/10.57750/sfxn-1t05

#populationDynamics #openScience #openAccess #openSource #Rstats

#Surveillance #Sabotage #directaction

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #evolutionarybiology section: Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms
https://buff.ly/4hxb0jz

🤩 "Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models. That's likely an appealing bonus feature for any site owners who, like Aaron, are fed up with paying for AI scraping and just want to watch AI burn." 🤩

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

Glad to announce our workshop series on R Package development is starting this friday! If you are interested in learning about R package development, we will meet regularly to develop package ideas, from writing the first funtion until submission to CRAN.

https://www.meetup.com/rladies-cologne/events/305714732/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

#Rladies

TIL big specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts. Now you cannot be sure a reply from 2009 on some forum for physics or maps or flower or drill enthusiasts haven't been machine-generated and totally wrong.

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

Finished my #eXit, great idea #HelloQuitX

I'm here on #Mastodon and on #BlueSky

Made easy by :

https://app.helloquitx.com

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #Ecology section: Using informative priors to account for identifiability issues in occupancy models with identification errors
https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.511/