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Jelena Pantel

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Prof. of Ecology @UnivFComte @chrono-env.bsky.social | Editor @Ecology_Letters | https://github.com/jhpantel

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Jelena Pantel @jhpantel.bsky.social · Jan 16

Our new pre-print is up on BioRxiv Ecology - goal was to better estimate how trait evolution impacts population dynamics & community composition. We (me, postdoc Ruben Hermann) used a Joint Species Distribution Models (HMSC) fit to simulated & empirical eco-evo data.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 2d

Postdoctoral Position – University of Basel, Switzerland
Project: Global status, trends, drivers & impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems
Eligibility: PhD in related fields
Deadline: 13 Oct 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral...
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Ecology @unibas.ch

Postdoctoral Position in Mountain Macroecology – Basel | HigherJobz

Apply for a Postdoctoral Researcher role in Mountain Macroecology at University of Basel, Switzerland. Deadline: 13 Oct 2025.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 2d

📣We will be back soon for a new series! 🎉

Our first speaker will be Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 October:

⭐Microbial cross-feeding coexistence and collapse, spatial patterns and population cycles⭐

As ever, free for all to join!
Link+details: iite.info/seminar/

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d

Part 2

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives.

(Part 2 below)

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 10d

go read this immediately:

Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 10d

You can read "On the Marionette Theater" a short philosophical dialog in which Kleist radically challenges our commonsense notions of human volition, over at Paradise Almanac: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/on-the-mar...

On the Marionette Theater by Heinrich von Kleist

A translation from the Berliner Abendblätter

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 25d

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 13d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 13d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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Jelena Pantel @jhpantel.bsky.social · 14d

Ohhh, that seems very likely ! Let me check - I.would love if I could update that package while preserving previous results of random draws. Thanks for suggesting!

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Jelena Pantel @jhpantel.bsky.social · 15d

Update to myself - it was a new version of 1 specific package that calls random numbers, and only random numbers downstream of commands from that package were affected.

Various lessons learned (I shall improve and add sessionInfo() in code README!)

Jelena Pantel @jhpantel.bsky.social · 15d

That's very convenient, thank you

Jelena Pantel @jhpantel.bsky.social · 15d

Hmm, I changed R from version 4.4.1 --> 4.5.1, and now I am getting different results for random numbers generated using the same set.seed().

Has anyone else run into this issue? I am looking for a workaround (to get this darn manuscript finished!).

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 17d

Suite à la migration de scientifiques et d'universitaires de X, Bluesky est devenue une l'une des alternatives.

Afin d'évaluer sa viabilité/pertinence pour la communication scientifique, cette étude présente une analyse à grande échelle de la diffusion d'articles scientifiques sur Bluesky.

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Sam @very-simple.com · Aug 11

also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's amazing how many people are out there bragging publicly about how they now use ChatGPT to perform pretty much all of their tasks at their well-paid corporate job, and have yet to connect the dots on "if you're making your utility value identical to ChatGPT, why would they keep paying you?"

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

I am starting to believe that the AI craze actually has, for once, created a genuinely useful way to test someone's intelligence:

are they unquestionably on board with using corporate AI tools for everything, or are they going "whoa, hey, wait a second"?

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 17d

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure.

During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation :
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

A method for identifying local adaptation in structured populations

Species occupy diverse, heterogeneous environments, which expose populations to spatially varied selective pressures. Populations in different environments can diverge due to local adaptation. However...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 22d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 24d

The musician and Democrat is looking to flip Texas’ 15th Congressional District, which voted for President Donald Trump by 18% in 2024.

Tejano star Bobby Pulido launches South Texas congressional run

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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 24d

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 26d

If you are interested in contributing to the TREE series on Disability in Ecology and Evolution, email me at [email protected]

We want hear from as many people as possible.

December will be the last in the series, for this issue we will need contributions by c7 October.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Disability in Ecology and Evolution collection: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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