My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15
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The arduous path to obligate asexuality in #Daphnia #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution #Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.
Est-ce que une francophone me dit le traduction correct pour "continuous, categorical, discrete" , et aussi "response variable, predictor variable"? Je veux trouver les mots corrects pour un cours de statistiques. Merci ;) 🇲🇫📈
iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling.
Highlights:
🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80%
🔺Fixed-term for 2 years
🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L
📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026
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#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs
N'hésitez pas à utiliser l'excellent moteur de recherche
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Bravo French government, for these Intro to R tutorials *chef's kiss*
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Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people
🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more!
Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
The next European EFI Chapter webinar is on 11th March at 1pm CET by @freyaolsson.bsky.social
Find the abstract and details for joining the call at: euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
That deception is going to work until suddenly it catastrophically doesn't, and the damage to your professional reputation is done.
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Watching colleagues & students increasingly running to AI, outsourcing scientific research they've deprioritized (over chasing grants, clout, trying to be further along in career or appear more knowledgeable than they actually are).
“if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault... It’s their signature on the diagnosis.
This is...an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Debates around abolishing ICE remind me a lot of dynamics around ending Texas' drug task force network (employing 700 undercover narcs, + support staff) after the Tulia scandal. Disdained by other LEOs, scorned by the public, they became isolated and got their $$ axed. ICE is headed down that path.
TY! ☺️ One of my biggest life lessons from that 7-year campaign was that nobody *really* knows what's possible till you try.
Brings to mind a phrase my great grandfather, an XIT Ranch cowboy, repeated often: "There's never been a horse that can't be rode, never been a cowboy can't be throwed." :)
Wow this is amazing to read. I was so young when these programs were terrorizing people. It's refreshing to have a reminder that these things can be fought. Thanks so much for your work , that's quite an impact to have on so many people's quality of life. Great read.
"... I think refusing is actually the more hopeful and expansive vision of the #future..."
'Modeling evolutionary rescue' doi.org/10.32942/X25...
They loved having their own HTML book, it was worth taking the extra time to layer that skill on top of others during a busy, short (3 week) course. I am proud of the work we all put in.
Goal for next year: like we did in competitive programming (C++) in my high school, a menu of coding challenges to choose from, scored by difficulty level, finish what you can in time slot. It will take awhile to generate that many useful questions (about SDMs, NLS, GLMs, Intro-Bayesian modelling).
This version (0.1) focused on repeating skills they trained on over and over, mirroring different applied R "practice problems" and quiz questions. It was more work to give them practice examples, but they at least had a chance during the exam period to recall how to approach the problems.
I'm exhausted. I just gave my 1st in-person, no internet R exam (they were only allowed R code they created during exercises over the semester, in the form of a personal Quarto book). I hate "speed coding", and always preferred take-home exams. I will miss that, but those days are past.
A graphical approach of the interplay of eco-evolutionary dynamics and coexistence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704293v1
