A busy week for LECREEFS at #ICRS2026🪸 A plenary from @christinahicks.bsky.social & talks from @cherfychow.bsky.social @lisagoberdhan.bsky.social @lljeannot.bsky.social Khatija & @nickajgraham.bsky.social about diversity patterns, cryptofauna distributions & pelagic subsidies to coral reefs 🪸🐠

When you visit Trieste, Italy, you and you go and buy tickets for bus, in the buss station ticket office you can find this beautiful two projection section of Cretaceous rudist bivalve mollusk from the Radiolitidae family, which converged in their for with corrals! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

Super excited to announce I've started as a postdoc at LEC REEFS @lec-reefs.bsky.social with James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social and Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social. Not only can I stick with my reef fish, but we're scaling up work on fish productivity and nutrient fluxes 🦠🐠

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Love Notes from Nature Calendars are how we're funding the 2026 Native Plant Project in Philly! We're planning to distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds in the city & doing a bar-level promo campaign w/local artists. We have 72 calendars left. Reposts v helpful! Get one at SquidFacts.Net

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

My newest paper and 1st chapter from the PhD is also officially out! I test how random encounter models work on reef fish 🐠Also great for anyone with a healthy dose of scepticism about reef fish survey methods *Contains one of the most painful tables I've ever written. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Random encounter modelling as a viable method to estimate absolute abundance of reef fish

Remote underwater video (RUV) surveys are increasingly replacing diver-based underwater visual censuses (UVCs) in fish ecology studies, especially on coral reefs. However, extracting reliable esti...

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And that is the PhD submitted!!! 🥳 With the lab there to build up that anticlimactic button click :P BIG thank you to my supervisors, Maria, Andy, and @ninamds.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

His life's work is the infection of children with preventable illnesses, why the fuck would you try to help him win

Nothing hits like a paper acceptance email coming in after a long day in the field!!! 🥂🥂 Exciting (long overdue) paper coming your way soon :)

We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2) @lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Join our session to discuss the role of art in coral reef conservation at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand July 19-24, 2026. Abstract deadline Dec 1, 2025. 🧪🪸🌎🌊🧬🌐🌿🐡🐙

reviewers, it's thankless work but definitely make sure to look over code now more than ever!!

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook. How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't? scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

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Susan@sugarpop.bsky.social · 11mo ago

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Fat Bear Week is starting early this year! www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

For those who aren't familiar, H1B visas aren't just used in the tech industry. They are also widely used by universities, hospitals, engineering firms, and other industries that rely on extensive training. Fees were previously under $5k -- still high, but doable, and many employers would pay them.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 11mo ago

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪 This was Week 35: - executive order on H-1B visas - travesty of vaccine advisory council updates MMRV & COVID recs - Texas A&M fires president - California faculty file suit & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 35

Sept 15-19, 2025 - our way out of the woods

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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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mushroom season is keeping me sane in this final phd push! Saffron milkcaps, chanterelles, and dryad's saddle!

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org 🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com

This is how I feel with the changes to hermatypic coral taxonomy!!!

Kelporama@kelporama.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Even as a lover of frustrating taxonomy every time I look at an ostracod I'm like "I don't want to know any more. This is not my cross to bear."

6 years in Scotland and I only just found out about one of the most fossiliferous beaches in the UK! Lots of crinoids, solitary corals, and bryozans 🤩

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You know if you’re struggling and you need to time or space to get stuff some, it’s okay to say you’re having a health issue and leave it at that. Mental health is health. You don’t need to say if it’s an appendectomy or a hip replacement or depression or BPD.

For every conversation, I'd like to add a footnote to "I'm doing great!"¹ ¹ Notwithstanding the hellscape of authoritarian rule, genocide, federal goons roaming my city kidnapping innocent people and putting them into concentration camps, and livelihood threatened by nincompoops in charge.

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

Does anyone know of a blog/resource similar to Zuur & Ieno 2016 (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) that shows explicitly how model notation should be presented for zero-inflated GLMMs or GAMMs?