Some suggestions "about what we scientists can do to help federal funding of science"
https://bsky.app/profile/danielbolnick.bsky.social/post/3lo7amahzyc2j
9.5.2025 12:57Some suggestions "about what we scientists can do to help federal funding of...Open three-year postdoc position: "test the link between social network structure and lifespan variation across species" with L. Brent at the University of Exeter
Deadline 1st June
7.5.2025 14:20Open three-year postdoc position: "test the link between social network structure and lifespan variation across species" with L....Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst feiert 100 jähriges Jubiläum: bisher drei Millionen Studierende gefördert, und "der internationale Austausch ist bedeutender denn je"
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung/100-jahre-daad-100.html
"Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in ecology and evolution...We show that although submission rates spiked when the pandemic began, they have been plummeting since."
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2025.0463
3.5.2025 07:08"Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in ecology and evolution...We show that although...Study of communities in rural Poland finds that women's friends are increasingly from outside the family; changes in relationships are linked to changes in fertility attitudes. 🧵 by author https://bsky.app/profile/drelenamiu.bsky.social/post/3lo6rlea4kk2o
2.5.2025 13:20Study of communities in rural Poland finds that women's friends are increasingly from outside the family; changes in relationships are..."We found bees working 18-hour days for three, sometimes even four different plant genera just to make ends meet...efforts by gig pollinators to organize for better conditions had so far been hampered by the wind’s willingness to pollinate for free"
https://theonion.com/study-finds-plants-increasingly-reliant-on-gig-workers-for-pollination/
28.4.2025 11:37"We found bees working 18-hour days for three, sometimes even four different plant genera just to make ends meet...efforts by gig...The Joint Graduate Meeting: Animal Behaviour 2025 of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG will be in Leipzig in early October
https://www.dzg-ev.de/en/section-groups/behavioural-biology/graduate-meetings/
registration is free
25.4.2025 14:00The Joint Graduate Meeting: Animal Behaviour 2025 of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG will be in...New from #TheGrackleProject: "using multiple different methods for measuring boldness and exploration...our findings improve our understanding of the traits that are linked with flexibility in a highly adaptable species"
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/8045/
Recommended at #PCI_Ecology by @jeremyvancleve
https://ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=771
There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's "Reporting, Running, Reliability, Reproducibility, Robustness, Readability, and Release."
https://bsky.app/profile/fhillemann.bsky.social/post/3lnmxfm4wo22v
25.4.2025 11:40There are lots of benefits of releasing code alongside scientific publications - when you do, you might want to consider your code's...Gute Episode über das absurde Steuer-verschwende System des Veröffentlichen von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen
https://www.zdf.de/video/shows/mai-think-x-die-show-102/maithink-x-publikation-100
Schade nur, dass existierende Lösungen nicht erwähnt wurden - siehe z.B. http://corinalogan.com/journals.html
8.4.2025 08:58Gute Episode über das absurde Steuer-verschwende System des Veröffentlichen von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen...Article on the meaning of "Man the Hunter mean", to address that "research in the human behavioral sciences is frequently co-opted/misinterpreted to serve different popular narratives"
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gawbt_v1
5.4.2025 14:37Article on the meaning of "Man the Hunter mean", to address that "research in the human behavioral sciences is frequently...Two year postdoc position to build mathematical and agent-based models to understand the role of reputation in social inequality (deadline 4 May)
https://bsky.app/profile/eapower.bsky.social/post/3llrqbozwhc2h
2.4.2025 10:25Two year postdoc position to build mathematical and agent-based models to understand the role of reputation in social inequality (deadline 4...Proud of Pablo passing his PhD defense with aplomb! Important new insights into why individuals might show different life histories
https://bsky.app/profile/pablovarase.bsky.social/post/3ll56ny56rk2e
Try to explain scientific journal publishing fees to non-academics...
18.3.2025 14:41Try to explain scientific journal publishing fees to non-academics...https://xkcd.com/2085/Journalistic investigation reports on abuse in the Max Planck Society
https://p.dw.com/p/4rftw
Detailed study looking at support for women's empowerement: "women prioritized practical forms of support over men’s more abstract, rights-based rhetoric but limited actions to enact such support in daily life."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1097184X251326192
12.3.2025 09:34Detailed study looking at support for women's empowerement: "women prioritized practical forms of support over men’s more...The Linguistic Society of Amercia has released a "Statement Against Designating English as the Official Language"
https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=468
Very detailed information on the history and value of linguistic diversity
Interesting new study looks at how ice fishermen integrate personal and social information to decide where to forage
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qbvp9_v1
thread by first author: https://bsky.app/profile/alexschakowski.bsky.social/post/3ljdgqlslc22h
7.3.2025 13:46Interesting new study looks at how ice fishermen integrate personal and social information to decide where to...This looks potentially useful for #teaching: you can write & execute Python / R / Julia #code directly in a shareable document:
https://colab.research.google.com/
could also be useful for research collaborations, though I'm not sure about using it with non-public data
H/T @sje
6.3.2025 12:58This looks potentially useful for #teaching: you can write & execute Python / R / Julia #code directly in a shareable...New article on 'Evolutionary drivers of caching behaviour in corvids'
summary by author and link to article:
https://bsky.app/profile/wascherclaudia.bsky.social/post/3lj2uxc4l4s2b
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