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that is huuuge!! so happy for you!!

Radiolitidae

When you visit Trieste, Italy, you and you go and buy tickets for bus, in the buss station ticket office you can find this beautiful two projection section of Cretaceous rudist bivalve mollusk from the Radiolitidae family, which converged in their for with corrals!
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

☺️🥰 thank youu, Tom!!

Super excited to announce I've started as a postdoc at LEC REEFS @lec-reefs.bsky.social with James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social and Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social. Not only can I stick with my reef fish, but we're scaling up work on fish productivity and nutrient fluxes 🦠🐠

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

is it the methodology or are you just hangry

Sarah presents you with a calendar that has an anglerfish surrounded by the words "Light up the darkness". The paper is matte and it's for the month September.

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists.

We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful!

Get one at SquidFacts.Net

big agree. writing is hard, but it really needs a scientist to make sense of and contextualise results. That is a HUGE part of generating knowledge and absolutely should not be left to a bunch of linear regressions with no brain.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

thank you!! ☺️

And could not have been possible without my collaborators! The ones who are skeeters: @garrettfundakowski.bsky.social @ninamds.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social

Random encounter modelling as a viable method to estimate absolute abundance of reef fish Remote underwater video (RUV) surveys are increasingly replacing diver-based underwater visual censuses (UVCs) in fish ecology studies, especially on coral reefs. However, extracting reliable esti...

My newest paper and 1st chapter from the PhD is also officially out!

I test how random encounter models work on reef fish 🐠Also great for anyone with a healthy dose of scepticism about reef fish survey methods

*Contains one of the most painful tables I've ever written.

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

And that is the PhD submitted!!! 🥳 With the lab there to build up that anticlimactic button click :P BIG thank you to my supervisors, Maria, Andy, and @ninamds.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

I have never been able to convey her near-total obsession with Bobby properly. What I can say with authority is that it seeped into every corner of her life, affected every relationship she had, and drove every decision she made in late 2023 and all of 2024, including her catch-and-kill operations on his behalf, the campaign strategy memos she wrote him, and the other journalistic transgressions that have still not been disclosed.

His life's work is the infection of children with preventable illnesses, why the fuck would you try to help him win

Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)

We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Call for abstracts Reefs Reimagined: Art and Reefs. International Coral Reef Symposium July 19-24, 2026. Submission deadline Dec 1, 2025.

Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙

reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!

I mean... the nature of R stats was never that fitting a model was hard work, but making sure it's the right tool applied correctly and making meaning out of it is what makes it powerful. But it does make me fear what unsupervised mistakes might lurk in the mechanics like data wrangling 🙈

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For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.

Week 35 Sept 15-19, 2025 - our way out of the woods

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪

This was Week 35:
- executive order on H-1B visas
- travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs
- Texas A&M fires president
- California faculty file suit

& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

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mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!

Contribute data to BioTIME Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

We worked with an Excel "form" at first, but its encoding created more problems. We recently switched to a platform that allowed us to do some pre-validation + if-then field requirements. tally.so/r/w7jGe2

SQL was also a pain to deal with in terms of encoding. If the database will be small enough that you don't benefit that much from the querying power of SQL, I would just go for well-structured CSVs with a lot of linking keys/identifiers.

there are quite a few packages that make interacting with SQL easier through R like MariaDB and especially dbplyr for tidyverse like querying. I work with BioTIME and we struggled with SQL and R handle string recognition differently (e.g. giving different totals for distinct species).