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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Reminder: Join EFI and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology section

📆 next Monday, October 6 at noon US ET

📖 to learn from Dr. Kenneth Kellner about “The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence”

✅ Register at: bit.ly/3H7tri7

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence. After registering, you will receive a c...

This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Kenneth Kellner from Michigan State Universit...

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall has been a role model for generations of women scientists and ecologists. She taught us that we can follow our passion beyond the roles society assigns us — that we can be compassionate while still being ambitious. She opened the path and paved the way with elegance. Forever grateful!

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AI + Environment Summit Zurich @ai-env-summit.bsky.social · 7d

This year’s edition of the AI + Environment Summit has started!

Follow this thread for up-to-date content, and register online to access the streaming: eventfrog.ch/en/p/courses...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 7d

@ai-env-summit.bsky.social 🫶🏽

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 7d

AI to impact panel discussion on! 🔥

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 7d

AI to impact panel discussion on! 🔥

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 7d

Ready set go!

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 12d

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Dr. U @transport-talk.bsky.social · 13d

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 23d

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology.

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research

Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen   Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Today, I am part of one of her stories with my work in the TransPlant Network at @ethz.ch , our experiment in France Université Grenoble Alpes and the @ecoforecast.bsky.social , honored to be featured alongside scientists in climate science and ecology.

www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

“And when they have a second to breathe, surrounded by a lush green forest or white ice as far as the eye can see, they admire the beauty of a planet that they don’t fully understand.”

Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Yasemin brings forward the most crucial and inspiring part of our job: collaboration! Without it, science cannot exist. Besides, where would all the fun go…

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Today, I am part of one of her stories with my work in the TransPlant Network at @ethz.ch , our experiment in France Université Grenoble Alpes and the @ecoforecast.bsky.social , honored to be featured alongside scientists in climate science and ecology.

www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Honestly, I hoped that one day I could hear my own science told in one of her compelling stories.

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

I started reading @quantamagazine.bsky.social when I was doing my PhD, immersed in inspiring stories of scientists. Later I discovered @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social ‘s articles and was always mesmerized by her storytelling.

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 23d

Did you know that it's officially #PeerReviewWeek? 📑💭

Whether you're looking to learn more about #PeerReview for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Last week, in our group, everyone chose a paper to read from their ‘to read’ folder to read asap.. mine was this one👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 23d

Unpopular opinion? #Ecologists should use #specification #charts instead of relying solely on #AIC in their analyses. It builds confidence & #transparency & it's straightforward to implement! 🧪🌐🍁🌱

See our #newpaper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Replication code: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

specification chart showing the coefficient of interest across different model structures

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 23d

Claude code makes me feel like Neo 👻

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Manuela Brunner @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social · 29d

Are you curious about the link between snow and streamflow droughts? Find some answers in our recent ERL publication:

HYCLIMM - Hydrology & Climate Impacts Group @hyclimm.bsky.social · Aug 27

🤩New paper from our team member @cchartierrescan.bsky.social entitled 'Snow drought propagation and its impacts on streamflow drought in the Alps' published on Environmental Research Letters! Big congrats! Check out more details here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#ClimateChange #Hydrology

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BirGün Gazetesi @birgun.net · Sep 7

#SonDakika
Özgür Özel, Gürsel Tekin'e seslendi: "AK Parti yargısı eliyle oraya oturtulmaya çalışanlara sesleniyorum; tarihi bir yanılgı içindesiniz. Bu hatadan dönün. Mustafa Kemal'in partisinin üyelerine yakışan şekilde davranın. Son uyarımdır"
www.birgun.net/haber/ozel-b...

Özel: Bütün demokratları ve CHP'lileri İstanbul'daki baba ocağına sahip çıkmaya davet ediyorum

CHP Genel Başkanı Özgür Özel, "Asla ve asla, bir başkaları gibi bizi rejimin rahatsızlık duymayacağı bir muhalefet partisine çeviremeyecekler" dedi ve yurttaşları CHP İstanbul İl Binası'na çağırdı.

www.birgun.net

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · Aug 27

Grant writing is surprisingly one of the most fun parts of science for me! It restores my motivation, reconnects me with my bigger vision, and reminds me of the joy of writing more freely ✨

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌲 #JobAlert! MSc in #Environmental Sciences or a related field? Experience in preparing wood samples for #StableIsotope and #radiocarbon analysis? Our #Dendrosciences group offers a position for a #technician: apply.refline.ch/273855/1763/... #ScienceJobs #dendrochronology

Job offer: Technician in Palaeoclimatology/-ecology 80% (f/m/d)
As part of the SNSF-project Signatures of Global Late Glacial Climate Change in TreeRing Records (SiGnaL), co-led by the Dendrosciences Group at WSL and the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) at ETH Zurich, you will support research on the nature and drivers of abrupt climate changes during the Late Glacial period (approximately 11’000-15’000 years ago).

You will assist three PhD researchers in dating, measuring, and synchronizing tree-ring samples from preserved subfossil wood across several regions. This will help refine our understanding of Late Glacial climate dynamics and contribute to improvements of the global radiocarbon calibration curve.Your main tasks will involve surface preparation and high-resolution scanning of subfossil tree-ring material, sample preparation for stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C / δ¹⁸O / δ²H) including image-based tree-ring width measurements, cutting of individual tree rings, cellulose extraction and homogenization, and packing of samples for isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS). In addition, you will contribute to the production of quantitative wood anatomical (QWA) data by preparing wood microsections and image-based measurements of cell structures using the software ROXAS.
You preferably hold a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences, or a related field and have demonstrated experience in preparing wood samples for stable isotope, QWA, and/or radiocarbon analysis. ldeally, you are familiar with dendrochronology and laboratory work, enjoy contributing to methodological advancements, and have interest in interdisciplinary and international research. You work independently, structured and accurate, are communicative and team-oriented, and have very good spoken and written English language skills.

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