Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP)

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

School/retreat I organised with @intp-science.bsky.social. No publications, big name speakers, $$ benefit. Just people - PhD students, young professionals, academics, independent researchers, activists, artists, +2 teenagers and 1 toddler - exploring science, creativity, and the beautiful Pyrenees 💗

INTS Expression of interest We are running the interdisciplnary science school (INTS) at INTP in the 2nd week of September 2025. You can read more info here - INTP - Interdisciplinary science school @ INTP 2025 and sign up here...

🗓️ Interested in next year's edition? Fill in this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

INTP wishes you a great start to the 2025 academic year!
We kicked off with the first edition of the Interdisciplinary Science School last week! 🧪
Ecology, theatre, anthropology, yoga, and more!
✨ Huge thanks to all participants and especially to @estere-sei.bsky.social! 🙏

Clown playing Bassoon

Clown playing guitar

Clown playing guitar with a bird on top of it

President of INTP lab playing digeridoo

Magnifique soirée à l'INTP pour la sortie de résidence artistique de la Compagnie Popolo Balangan autour du spectacle Le Silence des Oiseaux !

Un mélange de musique, de découverte de l'ornithologie et d'initiation à la bioacoustique, à la croisée des arts clownesques et des sciences de la nature !

📣 Three open positions to work on the thermal vulnerability of lake communities in the context of climate change (ERC Climate Countdown) with Arnaud Sentis @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧪🌐

🌍 Aix-en-Provence, France
🗓️Start Sept-Nov 2025
👉 Apply before September 9
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📢 Last call! 🚨
Today’s the final day to apply for our Autumn School: "Synthesis in Theoretical Community Ecology"!
Don’t miss your chance to join us for a week of ideas, theory and mountain adventure in the French Pyrenees! 🍂🧬🌿
To apply 👉 send a CV and a cover letter at contact@intp.science
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🍂 Just one week left to apply! 🧪🌐🌍
A fantastic opportunity for students and early-career researchers to dive into cutting-edge topics in theoretical community ecology, exchange ideas, and network with experts in a beautiful natural setting.
Join us for an inspiring week of learning and discussion! 🤯

🎭 This August, INTP hosts clown artist Antoine Béguère in residence:
"Le silence des Oiseaux – Conférence d'un scientifique au chômage climatique" 🤡
👉 Clown workshop Aug 9
👉 Public class Aug 9
👉 End-of-residency show Aug 15 in Surba
🌟 Where art, science & poetry meet!
Register @ contact@intp.science

🎭 En août, l’INTP accueille en résidence le clown Antoine Béguère : "Le silence des Oiseaux – Conférence d'un scientifique au chômage climatique" 🤡
👉 Atelier clown 9/08
👉 Cours public 9/08
👉 Sortie de résidence 15/08 à Surba
🌟 Entre art, science et poésie !
Inscription : contact@intp.science

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of April-May-June 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies.

Reflecting on temperatures over the last three months, all latitude bands observed temperatures warmer than average.

Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 baseline.

Are you a postgraduate student or early-career researcher working in biodiversity conservation? Lucky you, because you can apply to attend the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science. Boosts of inspiration, motivation, insight and networking guaranteed✨🌐🌎

Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

A project in collaboration with @pcasadebaig.bsky.social and Hugo Le Chevalier 😊👍

🎉 Our project SEMIS - Ecological Systems Modelled and Interpreted Simply - has been selected by the Science and Society #TIRIS program – Toulouse Initiative for Research’s Impact on Society! 🌐🧪 Stay tuned !
@inrae-france.bsky.social
@cirad.bsky.social
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/communaute-t...

💲 We offer a range of rates, as we believe that access to a great working environment should be available to everyone! For those who don't have research funding, we offer the free price or voluntary work.

🏡 We have single or shared rooms and private accommodation for a couple or small family, offices, kitchens where meals are generally shared with the other residents.

We offer one- or two-week stays to isolate yourself and work on your projects in the heart of the Pyrenees, surrounded by nature, in an environment conducive to concentration and creativity 🌳 🏞️ 🤯

Would you like to escape the suffocating heat of the big cities while working on your research or artistic projects? 🌐🧪🌍

We still have a few places for residencies at INTP this summer! 🥳

❓More infos intp.science/en/content/r... or ✉️ contact@intp.science

🙋 Apply here forms.gle/Ht8J8mnJ2vsa...

C’est ce soir 🪿

Every day is a trainwreck for climate science. Stay aware of what is happening, and speak out!

Fortunately, I saved all of these documents in advance of the rumors of the USGCRP being targeted (which I was really hoping were not true).

The program is constructed jointly by the lecturers, revisiting a broad spectrum of topics from niches to networks and stability, in order to emphasize the many explicit or implicit bridges and gaps between leading theoretical approaches.

The target of the school is an interdisciplinary audience of researchers (including graduate, post-doctoral and early career) with strong prior experience in theoretical community ecology and modelling.

📢 INTP Autumn School Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology 🧪🌐🌍
📅 October 6-11, 2025
🙋‍♀️ Apply before July 31
👉 intp.science/en/events/20...
Team: Matthieu Barbier (CIRAD), Azenor Bideault (INTP), Arnaud Sentis (INRAE) + Michel Loreau (CNRS) and Mathew Leibold (online, University of Florida)

Interested in biodiversity, macroecology, spatial ecology, conservation?

@nmouquet.bsky.social put together a global ecology starter pack, two volumes are already full but you can DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3.

Let’s keep the community growing 🌐

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

📢 We still have room for two retreats in July, whose aim is to combine mindfulness practices (meditation, nature walks...) with intellectual and creative work on your own projects 👩‍🏫 🧘‍♂️🧪
📅 July 20 - 26, July 27 - August 3
🌍 French Pyrenees
👉 intp.science/en/events/mi...
intp.science/en/events/mi...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

🚨🚨 POSTDOC ALERT!!! 🚨🚨

The Global Change, #Ecology, and #Conservation Lab at the Uni of Adelaide is hiring a 2-year #postdoc on #mammal declines in #Australia using #eDNA, #museums, & ecological models 🧬🦘🐨🇦🇺!

Come work in our interdisciplinary lab!

Details 👇
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...