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Our article is now out in Oikos! If you are interested in exploring extinction probabilities in small populations ⬇️
@thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social
@oikosjournal.bsky.social
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@thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social
@oikosjournal.bsky.social
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Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations
Predicting the fate of small populations is essential in ecology, epidemiology and conservation biology. Small populations can go extinct quickly or can develop into large established populations. Th...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our article is now out in Oikos! If you are interested in exploring extinction probabilities in small populations ⬇️
@thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social
@oikosjournal.bsky.social
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@thomastully.bsky.social @ieesparis.bsky.social @vpa-paris.bsky.social
@oikosjournal.bsky.social
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New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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August 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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How can you determine to which environments an organism might be adapted? This is explained and worked out for seasonal environments using an example of annual killifish embryonic life histories.
Tom Van Dooren @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Tom Van Dooren @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Embryonic life histories in annual killifish: adapted to what?
Abstract. Given a strategy, we want to know in which environments it might be adapted. Annual killifish embryos can arrest development, survive desiccation
doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
How can you determine to which environments an organism might be adapted? This is explained and worked out for seasonal environments using an example of annual killifish embryonic life histories.
Tom Van Dooren @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Tom Van Dooren @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Des scientifiques de @sorbonne-universite.fr @ieesparis.bsky.social ont montré la présence massive de #microplastiques dans les sols agricoles en France.🌱
www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen... @ouest-france.fr
www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen... @ouest-france.fr
« La pollution plastique des sols est colossale » : ces chercheurs plaident pour un traité ambitieux
Des scientifiques de Sorbonne Université ont montré la présence massive de microplastiques dans les sols agricoles en France. Ils espèrent que les négociations internationales, qui rependront du 5 au ...
www.ouest-france.fr
July 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Des scientifiques de @sorbonne-universite.fr @ieesparis.bsky.social ont montré la présence massive de #microplastiques dans les sols agricoles en France.🌱
www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen... @ouest-france.fr
www.ouest-france.fr/environnemen... @ouest-france.fr
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Our paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course!
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment
academic.oup.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course!
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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I reeeeally want to drop this article into Teams at work. Might just do it. They're all in on tools like Grammarly and other AI potential uses. It's sheer idiocy given our work is supposed to be about responsible use of public lands.
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I reeeeally want to drop this article into Teams at work. Might just do it. They're all in on tools like Grammarly and other AI potential uses. It's sheer idiocy given our work is supposed to be about responsible use of public lands.
Rehearsal of an IRD interview by Angelique Bultelle of our team. These ant nest casts could go straight to the museum.
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Rehearsal of an IRD interview by Angelique Bultelle of our team. These ant nest casts could go straight to the museum.
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Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
devillemereuil.legtux.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
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Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
scim.ag
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
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Want to find out if Meta has used* your work as part of LibGen to train its AI models? @alexreisner.bsky.social has a super easy to use search tool for that: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @theatlantic.com
Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au...
*stolen
Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au...
*stolen
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Want to find out if Meta has used* your work as part of LibGen to train its AI models? @alexreisner.bsky.social has a super easy to use search tool for that: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... @theatlantic.com
Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au...
*stolen
Then, get angry & sign this petition to stop it: www.change.org/p/protect-au...
*stolen
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📢 Post-doctoral contract in Thermal Ecology and Conservation Biology (2 years). We are looking for a candidate to lead the project “Thermal ecology for conservation: taking microclimates into account in risk analysis and assessment of solutions”. More details at lizard.ecology.org. Deadline May 5 👇
lizard.ecology.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📢 Post-doctoral contract in Thermal Ecology and Conservation Biology (2 years). We are looking for a candidate to lead the project “Thermal ecology for conservation: taking microclimates into account in risk analysis and assessment of solutions”. More details at lizard.ecology.org. Deadline May 5 👇
The anal novelty
We may regard it as a humble part of the body, but the evolution of the anus was a major advance in animal evolution, laying down the fundamental bodyplan for most animals 🧪
Now @hejnol.bsky.social and co may have worked out how it came to be
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
Now @hejnol.bsky.social and co may have worked out how it came to be
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
The anus may have evolved from a hole originally used to release sperm
The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of which genes are active during development in various animals
www.newscientist.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The anal novelty
This Monday @souleymanbakker.bsky.social from our team has defended his PhD thesis on extinction probabilities in changing environments with succes. Congratulations! @ieesparis.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This Monday @souleymanbakker.bsky.social from our team has defended his PhD thesis on extinction probabilities in changing environments with succes. Congratulations! @ieesparis.bsky.social
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Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...
arxiv.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
Synergies and environments in the radiation of anglerfishes. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean
Brownstein et al. reconstruct the evolutionary history of anglerfishes and show how
complex trait evolution, including the origins of sexual parasitism, facilitated the
invasion of this clade into the...
www.cell.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Synergies and environments in the radiation of anglerfishes. Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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How do we value our land?🌾
Join us on 19-20 June for the 2025 BES Symposium: Nature, Food & Farming, exploring the connection between agriculture, biodiversity, and food systems through evidence-led discussions.
Join us on 19-20 June for the 2025 BES Symposium: Nature, Food & Farming, exploring the connection between agriculture, biodiversity, and food systems through evidence-led discussions.
February 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How do we value our land?🌾
Join us on 19-20 June for the 2025 BES Symposium: Nature, Food & Farming, exploring the connection between agriculture, biodiversity, and food systems through evidence-led discussions.
Join us on 19-20 June for the 2025 BES Symposium: Nature, Food & Farming, exploring the connection between agriculture, biodiversity, and food systems through evidence-led discussions.
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I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF.
Goddamn it.
Goddamn it.
February 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF.
Goddamn it.
Goddamn it.
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En raison des dérives de X, dont l'algo semble rendre complètement inopérant le partage d'informations scientifiques & la confrontation sereine des idées, le Conseil Scientifique du @cnrs.bsky.social invite les instituts & laboratoires affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur X.
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February 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
En raison des dérives de X, dont l'algo semble rendre complètement inopérant le partage d'informations scientifiques & la confrontation sereine des idées, le Conseil Scientifique du @cnrs.bsky.social invite les instituts & laboratoires affiliés à évaluer la pertinence de leur présence sur X.
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Great to read, AI scientists and Cargo Cult, love that....
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Great to read, AI scientists and Cargo Cult, love that....
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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
February 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council