#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs
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Weβre hiring! πΏ
Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover.
Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required).
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
One alarming thing abt working on a grasslands book is no one seems to know where they are. A couple of years ago, a special issue in Science said between 20 and 40% of Earth's landmass -- the space between those bounds is the size of Africa!
These folks groundtruthed, w interesting results...
Dark blue hexagon, with a light blue frame. Features a brain facing the left, with the front half as a wire-frame mesh of light blue, and the back half with several polygon segments of different colours. Below is written "ggseg" in light blue.
The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! π§
For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains.
#rstats #neuroimaging #openscience
Another magic I discovered today: Google colab running on GPUs. Now see all those JSDMs with sjSDM!
love this!
Looking forward to this!!!
The package (developed together with Claude Code, transparently acknowledged as co-author on GitHub) is available here:
github.com/billurbektas...
Features:
Clean/harmonize TRY exports
Download Ellenberg/Landolt + disturbance/dispersal indicators (European vascular plants)
Extract coordinates & assign climate zones
Example full workflow included
I created a small R package, tidyTRY, to help clean TRY plant trait data and pull European expert indicator values (FlorVeg) directly into R.
It grew out of repeatedly rewriting the same scripts over the years.
Repo:
github.com/billurbektas...
πCome work with us!
We are hiring a postdoc in Climate Change Ecology. In this position, you will work on Climate Change synthesis research, and assist the upcoming IPCC report (CH14: impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and cryosphere) πΏπΈβοΈ Deadline: 8 March
More information: tinyurl.com/2c83uakz
Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departmentsβ¦ come join us in Switzerland π¨π! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...
Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects π.
Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. ππ§¬
by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social
This is apparently claude teasing chatgpt over plans on integrating ads..
AI giving ads
It would be βdeathβ of a technology even before it starts. And it would essentially place itself as yet another consumer trap and not as revolutionary tech. It will live a decade and die off like social media, especially in an era of growing βofflineβ culture.
youtu.be/3sVD3aG_azw?...
Tracking the #phenology β° of #riverine #insect π¦ π communities using #eDNA π§¬ππ.
Out now by Eva Cereghetti et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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If Bilbo had Chat GPT
Fig. 1 Geographic distribution of phenological observation sites across Europe captured in the PEP725 database.
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(𧡠1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle π§ͺπ
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Don't miss out on our guest speaker Dr. Elisa ThΓ©bault and her scientific talk "Species diversity, food web structure and ecosystem stability: Bridging the gap between theory and data"
More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...
Macquarie Universityβs Downing Herbarium is coming soon to the Atlas of Living Australia. Our team at MQ's Plant Ecology lab will lead this project. Digitisation grants and biodiversity resources like these are game-changers, making available vital data for ecological research and conservation.
Looking forward to reading it!
Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Almost there! Building my own website with claude code π«Άπ½
This is awesome! We are trying to do a similar thing within European Ecological Forecasting Initiative. Would love to talk more on your experience and if we could find ways to collaborate.
I still remember when Istanbul had weeks of snow (yes, Istanbul!). When summers over 30Β°C felt alarming. When droughts and fires along the Aegean coast were exceptional enough to dominate the news for days. We normalize too quickly!
Absolutely thrilled to see this project taking flight! π Such a fantastic team tackling a really important topic. Canβt wait for the full suite of forecasting challenges to drop, hoping many of you will jump in and give them a go once theyβre live!
I start all of my presentations with this gif.
