Wolfgang Traylor

Biodiversity in equations - Sciencesconf.org

Upcoming conference on biodiversity theory and modeling: "Biodiversity in equations"
9-10 April 2026
Montpellier, France
https://biodiveq.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

“Science: To Be Determined” Mar 3–4, 2026, Leipzig (Germany)
Application deadline: Feb 15
I just learned about this conference. → How to improve science (biodiversity research in particular)? What does responsible and rigorous science entail?
Very interesting keynotes, Ulrich Dirnagl, Richard […]

@joeroe The articles are excellent. Thanks for posting! I need to pay attention not to lose my evening on this. ;)

RE: https://archaeo.social/@rcosta/116019393260253125

I've just lost a whole morning to this solar-powered magazine, which is indeed a brilliant reminder that #archaeology and the history of technology matters.

In Dynamic Ecology blog post¹ I just learned about the Gordon Research Conferences (https://www.grc.org). It seems to be a very interesting format that promotes in-depth exchange: quality over quantity!
I will keep that on my radar. Some venues are also in Europe but mostly in the US.
#grc […]

Everything is packed for the #BES2025 British Ecological Society meeting in Edinburgh. I’m looking forward to make many new acquaintances.

“Comparison of simulated and proxy-based climate reconstructions for Mid-Holocene Europe reveals high uncertainty”

A practice-oriented evaluation of time-continuous paleoclimate datasets by my co-authors and me, just published in The Holocene.

👉 https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251366198

If […]

Ecological workshop in Spain: ANdiNa VIII – “Improving predictions in ecology” (June 2026)

“we need to be able to predict in the short term how natural systems change to be able to make proactive decisions.”
“You will have the time and the opportunity to think, to discuss, to challenge one […]

Fear of humans

Many animals avoid contact with people. In protected areas of the African savanna, mammals flee more intensely upon hearing human conversations than when they hear lions or sounds associated with hunting. This fear of humans affects how species use and move in their habitat […]

What did Beringia look like in the last “ice-age?” Alistair Monteath et al.¹ have just published an impressive review article!
I will need some time to read through it.
The more detailed fossil-based understanding of vegetation and soil is really important for a clearer picture of the […]

I just submitted a poster abstract for the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, 15–18 December in Edinburgh.
The BES reduced registration and membership fees for researchers between contracts (like me!). I’m applying for a travel grant from the German #DAAD.
Will anybody reading this also […]

Was machen Universitäten im Fediverse, wie zufrieden sind sie und wer fehlt? Das habe ich recherchiert und die 42 (sic!) größten deutschen Universitäten befragt.

Das Ergebnis als #Longread:
➡️ […]

List your job talks on your CV as invited seminars, just like any other invited seminar Quick post to address a question that came up on the ecoevojobs.net discussion forum recently: as a faculty job seeker, should you list job talks on your CV, and if so, how? My advice is to do as I did: list your job talks on your CV as invited seminars, along with any other invited seminars and without distinguishing them from any other invited seminars. After all, a job talk _is_ an invited seminar! It’s not in any way misleading, or “padding your cv,” to list it as such. My anecdotal impression is that this is common practice in ecology, although I’m sure it’s not literally universal.* But perhaps I’m totally wrong about that, in which case presumably commenters will say so. 🙂 Some of you may be wondering: but what if search committee members see those job seminars, and infer/speculate that I interviewed for a faculty job and didn’t get it? Won’t that look bad to them? To which: no, it won’t look bad, for several reasons. First (and least importantly), the search committee won’t know it was a job seminar if you don’t label it as such. Second, search committee members already assume that you’ve applied for faculty jobs in the past and didn’t get them. Because what are the odds that the faculty job application they’re reading is the only one you’ve ever submitted? Third, search committee members know perfectly well that failing to get a faculty job for which you applied in the past doesn’t reflect poorly on you. There are usually multiple strong applicants for any given faculty job, sometimes many. So the fact that you interviewed for, but didn’t get, a faculty job doesn’t reflect poorly on you at all. Indeed, just the opposite–giving invited seminars, including job seminars for jobs that you weren’t offered, is a _good_ thing in the eyes of search committee members. It’s one line of evidence, among many others, that you’re establishing yourself in your field, building a good professional reputation, and doing research that other people want to hear about. Look, I know it sucks to interview for a job you wanted and not get the offer. It feels bad. It might make you doubt yourself. And maybe it’s not something you want to be reminded of every time you look at your cv. But remember: how it feels to you has absolutely nothing to do with how it looks to other people. An unsuccessful interview for a faculty job might feel like a failure to you, but in the eyes of the search committee for the next faculty job you apply for, it’ll be a success. Don’t hide your successes from the search committee; list your job seminars on your cv as invited seminars. *Few professional practices are _literally_ universal, meaning that literally _everyone_ follows them with _no_ exceptions. ### Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Like Loading...

Via a blog post¹, I stumbled across this community-maintained list of faculty or other PhD-level jobs in ecology and evolution: http://ecoevojobs.net/

¹ https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/list-your-job-talks-on-your-cv-as-invited-seminars-just-like-any-other-invited-seminar/

Terrestrial herbivory in the Arctic: What should be researched? Barrio et al. have put together a diverse range of research priorities:
“Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic” https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2024-0080

It’s a nice review of many open loops in Arctic […]

Dupont et al. have recently laid out how ecologists shouldn’t delude themselves in thinking their knowledge production (with all its own environmental costs) will solve the ecological crises. Reading their article, I nodded. Yes, more knowledge will not lead to more action.

But still, research […]

@conservbytes.bsky.social Thanks for sharing the talk, Corey! You did well in breaking down a very complex topic to 15 minutes. Very succinct, very understandable.
I’ve applied the concept of carrying capacity to large herbivores. But human carrying capacity is truly elusive, and a lot went […]

Well, the recording of my #TEDxSydney talk is now live!

youtu.be/y68XO_huZdY?...

Abstract submission for the biennial meeting of the International Biogeograpy Society has opened.
https://conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-2026/
#ScienceConference #biogeography

There is now a #gitAnnex package on #PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/git-annex/

This should make it simpler to deploy git-annex in Python virtual environments, also as versioned dependencies for software like #Datalad

Packages are built for Linux, Windows, and Mac via GitHub actions […]

Photo of a black and white printout of a shaded contour plot. Blobs have similar gray colours but some of them simulate a positive relief and other a negative relief.

BTW, this is why l love illuminated contours. You can print them in black and white and still understand them.

#RStats

Ein Modell soll „Hitzesommer“ bis zu drei Jahre vorher benennen können. Laut diesem Modell des @maxplanckgesellschaft Instituts für Meteorologie bekommen wir dieses Jahr wieder einen […]