🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Journal of Statistical Ecology is on Bluesky! A new journal at the interface between ecology and statistics jse.centre-mersenne.org Published in diamond open access

And we are already open to submissions! Journal Bsky account coming up soon.

Ben Bolker@bbolker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

Call for abstracts is now open for the next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) taking place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México! Abstract submission form can be accessed through the website: statisticalecology.org Deadline: May 1, 2026 (anywhere on earth) 🦋🇲🇽📉👩🏽‍💻

Interesting. 2 lessons here: 1. Don't use LLM output code uncritically, even if it runs smoothly 2. As developers we can protect our #rstats code from such problems e.g. with rlang.r-lib.org/reference/ch...

tj mahr 🤘@tjmahr.com · 11mo ago

student used some AI-assisted code to compute ROC stats with weights and the AI hallucinated pROC::roc(…, weights = weights). (the function doesn’t have a weights argument.) and because the function has a … argument, the fake weights argument was ignored without any warning

Annual meeting of the French thematic network on Biodiversity Theory and Modelling (TheoMoDive, theomodive.cnrs.fr) in Bordeaux, 1-3 December 2025. Preliminary programme and submission / registration indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/15159/ Open to contributions until the end of October.

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México. Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth). Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪 Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

MPDEE'26 - International Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution @ Leicester, UK 20 Apr 2026 – 24 Apr 2026 dbearup.github.io/mpdee26/

Registration to the 10th annual Evolutionary Demography Society is now open. See you all at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social 22-24 Sept 2025. Early-bird ends April 15th: evodemo2025.weebly.com Please share @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social

EvoDemoS 2025

EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...

evodemo2025.weebly.com

Scientific publisher Elsevier made a £1 billion profit last year "driven by volume growth, with article submissions growing very strongly across the portfolio, particularly in pay-to-publish" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

2 lecturer positions in applied math open in our institute, one in statistics & probability and another in optimization. Link (in French) here www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/imb/l-imb-re... The recruiting team is open to applications to ecology and environmental sciences more generally (climate, energy).

For colleagues just following me now: #quantitative #ecologist here, doing #stats and #theory, big fan of #bioticinteractions and #demography questions. I often comment on stats issues, scientific edition, finding old refs, and fun natural history. More active on Mastodon 🦣 (same handle) until then.