Brief updates are great if you're in a pinch!

Sisyphus would have loved the 2026 job market. Wake up, check job boards, repeat.

I've been using it to make pictures of my cat fatter. I received a very angry call from my mother about his weight.

Returning to small-batch artisanal stack overflow when AI can't solve your code problem #rstats #LittleAnalystOnThePraire

As a scientist I see the evidence.
As a coffee enthusiast I refuse to listen.

Every PhD I know is buying jesus robes so they can actually be recognized as doctors

Submit manuscript
Major revision 1
Major revision 2
Minor revision 1
Rejection
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the work must always continue!

7. Weep?

Academic wellness routine:
1. Wake up
2. Check job boards
3. Despair

[Every science organization's career page]: You will love working with us, we are a family. Get ready to make a difference, because endless opportunity awaits!

*No current opportunities*

I've got a guy, shoot me a DM!

The
Ornithology
Maestro

[me]: AI will never take over my job!

*AI produces terrible, nonsense code with no documentation

[me]: Oh no...

But who will rake the forests

Employers two seconds after asking you to upload a pdf of your CV

Inside every ecology job posting there are two wolves. The first demands you earned your PhD within the past 5 years. The second demands you come with 27 years of field-relevant work experience.

Just incredible timing for those astronauts to set a record for furthest humans from Earth #Artemis

a man in a white shirt is walking through a sandy desert ALT: a man in a white shirt is walking through a sandy desert

Wildlife ecology job market, 2026 [colourized]

a man with a beard and hat is saying i have no memory of this place ALT: a man with a beard and hat is saying i have no memory of this place

Returning to an old coding language I have not visited in years

Brilliant!

Instant follow.

The best way to beat Artificial Intelligence is with Genuine Stupidity.

I regret to announce I did not get the Pokemon Ecology job

"Its about the journey, not the destination" I whisper to myself on the brink of madness in R #rstats

Congrats!

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

This is probably a better read than the job ad itself (linked in the article)
www.ign.com/articles/the...

Since someone posted the Pokemon ecology position on the ecoevo job board its been endless entertainment seeing real enthusiasm for a position. The clear influence of pokemon on young ecologists is wild.

The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models Species distribution models (SDMs) are frequently used to predict the effects of climate change on species of conservation concern. Biases inherent in the process of constructing SDMs and transfer...

Obsessed that someone linked a paper to species distribution model for pokemon in the ecoevo job board. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Every job after getting a Phd is technically a postdoc