Francois Keck
@francoiskeck.bsky.social
Digital community ecologist. I pursue the laws of nature on my computer. #rstats | #biodiversity | #ecology | #eDNA | and more https://francoiskeck.fr/
#Postdoc #Position opening up in my group: Developing Analytical #Pipelines and #Analyses to Survey #Invasive Alien #Species in Aquatic Systems using #eDNA (2 years) 🧬 📈 ❗ 🦐 🦀 🐠 🌍🌐❗ #JobOpening 🎯 apply.refline.ch/673277/1364/... 📍 Apply now & thx for spreading the word (deadline Aug 14th)
#Postdoc #position (3 years) in spatial #genomics of aquatic #invertebrates opening up in my group. 🧬 🦐 🥼 🧑💻 ❗ More info: apply.refline.ch/673277/1363/... The project aims to establish & analyse #genomic #diversity of aquatic invertebrates (EPT & Amphipods) in a spatially explicit approach. 🌍 🌐 📈
Unified analysis of #global 🌐 🌍 #riverine #eDNA 🧬 reveals common associations of #fish #biodiversity 🐟 🐠 with drainage characteristics. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/6
#OTD 1937 Jerzy Neyman introduces the confidence interval in a talk given at the Royal Statistical Society. Listeners are not enthusiastic: in the vote of thanks, AJ Bowley wonders aloud if confidence intervals are just a “confidence trick”, doubts their validity & if they were any possible use.
On my way to Davos for #wbf2026. Looking forward to hearing about exciting biodiversity science!
Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/
Omg, my piece about em dashes in ecology abstracts has somehow made its way to Le Monde 🤯 www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...
A year ago we published our perspective "Utilizing aquatic #environmental #DNA 🧬 to address #global 🌍 🌐 #biodiversity 🦐 🐟 🦠 targets 🎯 " in Nature Reviews Biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/10🧵
To my big surprise, there was no amphipod simulation game. 🦐🍃🌐 With #EvaCereghetti, we fixed this using fresh science from the lab 🔬🧪(cc @florianaltermatt.bsky.social ). Try it out now: amphipodfeast.francoiskeck.fr #AcademicSky #SciComm #GameDev
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀May 03, 2010 Jacques Bertin died in Paris, France 🇫🇷 In 1967 his Semiology of Graphics became the first comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation. ▶️Paved the road to GoG and ggplot
I’m super happy to share that we’re looking for a PhD student to join us! It’s an exciting project and a great opportunity to work together on big questions about biodiversity and human impacts. Come work with us! and please share with people who might be interested 👉 m.refline.ch/673277/1356/...
PhD position “Projecting the Human Impact on Biodiversity” (4 years position)
The Altermatt lab at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies of University of Zurich and the Department of Aquatic Ecology of Eawag have a vacancy for a
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Florian Altermatt@florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 3mo agoOpen #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!
This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.
I'm happy to contribute to scientific surveys. I'm much less happy to be told the survey is "anonymous" when the combination of questions makes re-identification entirely feasible. If you collect sensitive personal data, please be more careful.
If you use @posit.co Positron for #rstats, I just released Quickview. 🚀🎉 This tiny extension lets you quickly inspect the current selection in the View tab or in an external software. I used it as an RStudio add-in for years and it's a huge quality-of-life gain. 🔗 github.com/fkeck/quickv...
#Research and #innovation depends on good ideas, but also on #funding to turn these into reality. I am thus very grateful to Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF for supporting our project "#BioTesselate: Projecting the #Human #Impact on #Biodiversity". 🌎 🐜 🦠 🦐 🦀 🏭 🎣 🧪
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Our paper “The global human impact on biodiversity” turns one today! 🎂 This figure did not make it into the paper, but I still think it is the most striking. It stacks the 3667 multivariate analyses. Each point is a community. 🔵=reference; 🔴=human-impacted. ⬇️
The subtools 📦 is finally on CRAN! Read, write, and manipulate video subtitles without leaving #rstats. Thanks to Alban Sagouis for pushing things forward. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... github.com/fkeck/subtools
subtools: Read and Manipulate Video Subtitles
A collection of functions to read, write and manipulate video subtitles. Supported formats include 'srt', 'subrip', 'sub', 'subviewer', 'microdvd', 'ssa', 'ass', 'substation', 'vtt', and 'webvtt'.
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Give #time ⏳ to #Meta-#Ecosystem 🍂 🍃 🌊 #Ecology! Interested in integration of a temporal dimension in meta-ecosystem research? Join our session (#13) at #NSO-#GFÖ conference in Odense, Denmark, Sep. 13–17 2026. Abstract submission: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/joint-...
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
📢 New preprint out! tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's! 138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...
Ants! Ants! Ants! 792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail: spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-... paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... website: www.antscan.info Phenomenal.
Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before
How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?
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We need a geom_snake(...) #rstats #DataViz #ggplot2
Baptiste Coulmont @coulmont.bsky.social · 5mo agoPas simple de reproduire les petites erreurs d'alignement de la version 1878 en 2026. Un décalage des "breaks" de scale_x_continuous(), une rotation imperceptible du g$grobs[[panel_index]] … Et ça ne se voit que si on regarde bien ;-)
An amazing @zooniverse.bsky.social project where volunteers help correct text that will eventually be added to @biodivlibrary.bsky.social as the text file and used to help folk find data about species. www.zooniverse.org/projects/bg5... #HighlyRecommended #Zooniverse #ILoveBHL
Field Journal Fix-Up | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us expand access to important biodiversity data by correcting computer-generated transcriptions of our field journals!
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Now recommended on @peercommunityin.bsky.social! ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Clarifying data editors role into the publishing ecosystem.
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Ed Ivimey-Cook@eivimeycook.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/
While you all fight about whether we should use pipes, I’m out here nesting mine 🧪 #rstats #tidyverse #baseR #pipes
As a connoisseur of online color tools, it’s such a delight to discover a new funky take on the palette generator experience. I love the Teenage Engineering / Dieter Rams aesthetic here colorpalette.pro
Color Palette Pro — A Synthesizer for Color Palettes
Generate customizable color palettes in advanced color spaces that can be easily shared, downloaded, or exported.
colorpalette.pro
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
Curious what an LLM would achieve with handwritten labels... I have seen some impressive OCR results here and there.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew blog post! Margot Belot talks her new paper in MEE "High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline" 🪲 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯 Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
