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Kertu Lõhmus @kertu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Job Alert 🚨
3-year Postdoc position in Coastal Ecology at the University of Oldenburg! 🌊
First 2 years: Join the DFG Research Unit DynaCom – collaborate with outstanding partners across five synthesis projects.
Final year: Pursue your own research + build your academic profile.
👉 uol.de/job773en

Postdoctoral researcher in coastal ecology (DFG Research Unit DynaCom) // University of Oldenburg

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Abdesslam Chai-allah @achaiallah.bsky.social · 11d

They will not.

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · 14d

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

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Abdesslam Chai-allah @achaiallah.bsky.social · 17d

Good luck

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Dec 20

Finland is downgrading almost 300 Frontiers and MDPI journals to its lowest rating – a de facto blacklisting move that might soon be replicated in other countries, according to an expert

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit?

Decision to downgrade 271 journals on quality and operating model concerns sparks debate

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Linux Is Best @linux.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]

Original post on mstdn.ca

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Valentin Klaus - Ruhr University Bochum @valentinecology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy to see our new paper out! In short:

"Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization"

Find the open-access paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Thanks to Solen and @robertfinger.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @usyseth.bsky.social

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Department of Biological Sciences at @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Freshwater Ecology. lnkd.in/gMt2i9C7
#FreshwaterEcology #AcademicJobs #AcademicChat #EnvironmentalScience #AquaticEcology 🧪

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 6

Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl!

Part 1: "What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don't)" breaks down complex concepts like transformers, hallucinations, and RAG in simple terms.

Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

#RStats #LLM #PythonProgramming

Shiny - What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

American climate journalist Alec Luhn missing on Norwegian glacier

A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 4

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.

The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.

This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.

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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Jul 16

We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀

Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟

Please share widely 🙏🙏

Link below 👇

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Jul 31

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder.

COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jul 25

🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....

ellmer 0.3.0

The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.

www.tidyverse.org

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Jul 24

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!

PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

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Etienne Bacher @etiennebacher.bsky.social · Jul 24

#rstats tidypolars 0.14.0 is now available!

tidypolars provides the tidyverse syntax while using polars for efficient computations in the background.

This release brings compatibility with polars 1.0.0, released earlier
this week, and several features and bug fixes.

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · Jul 17

RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 📦s to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
www.infoworld.com/article/4020...

#GenAI #LLMs

How to create your own RAG applications in R

See how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering.

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Dominic Martin @dominic-martin.bsky.social · Jul 16

Two open postdoc positions to work on synergies/trade-offs of cocoa & coffee agroforestry for people, biodiversity and carbon.

The Nature Conservancy Brazil:
careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR...

Smithsonian Institute US: trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Science in Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Science at The Nature Conservancy

Apply for Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Science job with The Nature Conservancy in Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Science at The Nature Conservancy

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · Jul 16

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.

Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/

#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

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Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · Jul 15

#ragnar 0.2.0 is on CRAN #rstats!

It has a MUCH improved chunker; markdown_chunk() picks better boundaries, builds context, segments by headings, and handles overlapping chunks. Oh, and ragnar_retrieve() can deoverlap retrieved chunks now.

Website got a big update too: ragnar.tidyverse.org

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Workflows

Provides tools for implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows with Large Language Models (LLM). Includes functions for document processing, text chunking, embedding generation, storag...

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fully transparent and open AI coming out of Switzerland soon. Something worth monitoring. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

A language model built for the public good

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM ma...

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