Congrats Allan!!!

As Jerry Seinfeld said "We are smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it, and still so stupid we can't figure out if we did the right thing"! 😬

Nous recrutons ! Le CAC recherche une spécialiste bilingue de la communication curieux(se), vif(ve) d'esprit et capable de travailler sous pression.

Nous recrutons ! Le CAC recherche une spécialiste bilingue de la communication curieux(se), vif(ve) d'esprit et capable de travailler sous pression. www.rapports-cac.ca/careers/

We're hiring! Bilingual communication specialist. Apply by May 10, 2026.

We’re hiring! The CCA is looking for a bilingual communication specialist who’s curious, quick-thinking, and great under pressure. If you have strong editing and writing skills and are proficient with digital and multimedia tools—this is for you. www.cca-reports.ca/bilingual-co...

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This is a flyer advertising the monthly Funk Biogeography Seminar series hosted by The International Biogeography Society. The society logo is at the top of the flyer in natural colors, followed by various images of Earth's fauna and flora, such as dolphins and sunflowers. The text advertises the seminar content: the title is "Forecasting like a climate scientist- predicting biodiversity change in the Anthropocene." The speaker is Dr. Damaris Zurell from the University of Potsdam, and the seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 1:00PM UTC. Additional information and registration can be found at www.biogeography.org.

Dr. Damaris Zurell (University of Potsdam) will be giving April's Funk Biogeography Seminar! What does forward-looking biodiversity modeling look like? What can it tell us, and what needs more work?
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FACETS is searching for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief! If you’re passionate about evolutionary ecology, conservation, biodiversity, or environmental sciences, we’d love to hear from you.

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My heart goes out to Priyanga Amarasekare. I don't see justice served with this one-sided Board decision. Is it right to have her reputation & career ruined for being a POC speaking out for equity? Academic freedom is worth protecting. 💔
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UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

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#GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities

View from the editor's desk: From code to credit — NSO Journals Citing software packages is essential, but treating them as the origin rather than the implementation of ideas risks obscuring the intellectual history of methods. Read more from Oikos Editor-in-Chief...

Just wrote a post about something that many method developers have been grappling with for a while now:

"Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()"

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🌼🐝Floral resource diversity drives spatiotemporal variation in plant–pollinator network structure

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#FloralRewards #FunctionalTraits #Modularity #MutualisticInteractions #Nestedness #NetworkMotifs

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Minor Swing - Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat (Live Jazz) YouTube video by Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat

Drums, cello, and violin - minor swing!! just wow.

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I'm against IF! But I'm a huge fan of society journals.

So, I'll sound contradictory when I say that I'm glad to see that the highest IF journal (IF of 232.4) ever...is a society journal!

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🫒🌴Seed dispersal and seed predation networks highlight important dual roles for plants and terrestrial vertebrates in a tropical forest

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A serene forest stream flowing over moss-covered rocks with text inviting applications for Co-Editor-in-Chief at FACETS.

FACETS is looking for a Co-Editor-in-Chief to join our editorial team! Expertise in ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, or environmental sciences is ideal.

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Forum 📜: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter

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🪪📐Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment

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☁️🗺️Meteorological versus spatial drivers of the spatial synchrony of forest insect pest outbreaks in North America

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🗺️🦌On the spatial clustering of behavioural phenotypes: matching movement tactics with landscape structure in a large herbivore

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I’m launching a blog series for @oikosjournal.bsky.social , “View from the Editor’s Desk” - the first post is now live.

These pieces reflect my personal perspectives on different aspects of the publication system and not official journal policy.

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I wasn't referring to publishing rubbish. I was referring to the lifetime limit.

I’m already a proud card-carrying member of the club; I was just trying to think about potential loopholes to boost the membership; though with a hint of reality 🙂.

There are, however, some issues to consider. It's defensible that some researchers need the ability to publish more to potentially overcome disadvantages in funding, institutional prestige, or language barriers, among other factors.

I’m now curious about the founding principles. One idea: cap co-authorship at 3–5 papers per year. It would give club members time to offer meaningful input on colleagues’ work (without having skin in the game) and, perhaps more importantly, to actually read and learn from others’ publications.

Sign me in! At least in Canada, there is a strong emphasis on training ECRs, and demonstrating successful training is often reduced to publication metrics and their own success. The issue is that outputs are "optimized" rather than investing in deeper training in many cases.