Trying to replicate someone's analysis but you want the original unprocessed data
Gollum's Raw and Wriggling Request in LOTR
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Andrew Barnas
@andrewbarnas.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate in landscape ecology at the University of Victoria. Boreal and Arctic research with a dash of sarcasm. Associate editor at Journal of Wildlife Management. Website: andrewbarnas.ca
Sisyphus would have loved the 2026 job market. Wake up, check job boards, repeat.
Returning to small-batch artisanal stack overflow when AI can't solve your code problem #rstats #LittleAnalystOnThePraire
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 🫠
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*
[me]: AI will never take over my job! *AI produces terrible, nonsense code with no documentation [me]: Oh no...
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
Wildlife ecology job market, 2026 [colourized]
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Returning to an old coding language I have not visited in years
a man with a beard and hat is saying i have no memory of this place
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The best way to beat Artificial Intelligence is with Genuine Stupidity.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 5mo agoFor up and coming academics: develop your scholarship such that there's no way a goofball AI program could do your research and write your papers for you. Make it original and unique to you, be curious and authentic, and be willing to do the hard work to learn and think for yourself.
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
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.
Obsessed that someone linked a paper to species distribution model for pokemon in the ecoevo job board. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
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Every job after getting a Phd is technically a postdoc
Make your R analyses truly reproducible - your code need to run anywhere, anytime! Join us in June and learn Quarto, renv, Git/GitHub & Docker to make your workflows fully reproducible. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #ReproducibleResearch #RStats #DataScience @sortee.bsky.social
Reproducibility data analysis with R
8-11 June 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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Journals still asking for Twitter handles during manuscript submission
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Yes I know I have a reference manager, and yes I know I have catalogued pdfs of many papers. But I am still going to just google the paper and download it for the 100th time to re-read a tiny paragraph.
Reminder: a little over one week left to submit abstracts for the individual‑based conservation topical collection. Happy to chat if you’re considering contributing!
Individual-based Ecology@ibe.pensoft.net · 6mo agoWhy do individual differences matter for species survival? 🧬 This is what our latest topical collection - "Individual-based #conservation" is trying to explore 💎 Diamond #OA (No fees for authors or readers) 📅 Deadline: 15 March 2026 Submit your abstract today ⤵️ ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106
Really great work here showing snow accumulation on "seismic lines" in Canadas Oil Sands. Remove the tree canopy, snow accumulates. Implications for wildlife use! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Seismic line disturbances affect spatial and temporal patterns of snow accumulation in boreal forests
Geologic exploration for petroleum resources has created a network of linear clearings known as seismic lines in the boreal forest. These anthropogeni…
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We're a brand-new academic journal aimed at promoting an individual-based perspective in ecology. We publish under a diamond open-access model with @pensoft.bsky.social - if you-re studying individual-based ecology feel free to get in touch! blog.pensoft.net/2024/09/12/p...
Pensoft launches new journal: Individual-based Ecology | Blog
IBE joins a number of open-access ecology journals published by Pensoft
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