Du 31/08 au 5/09 prochain, j'organise avec @intp-science.bsky.social une retraite de création pour tous vos projets (écrire, composer, coder…) au cœur de l'Ariège ! Il reste des places, et pour vous donner envie de venir, je vous mets des images de la précédente ! docs.google.com/forms/d/1XwK...

Studying humanities was a lot of fun, it still gives much inspiration as to research angles to tackle, but especially it enriches incredibly my enjoyment of art. I was watching an anime w the kids and ideas from deleuze (diff and rep, but also the fold) just kept flashing in my mind 1/

Riccardo Fusaroli@fusaroli.eurosky.social · last mo.

Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!

Article qui m'a demandé plusieurs semaines pour en discuter a droite a gauche et agencer mes idées !!

The Pixel Post@thepixelpost.com · 2mo ago

Alors que nous fêtons la première année de la Switch 2, @zalifalcam.bsky.social s'est posé la question des raisons possibles de son succès :

few day in the Caroux / Espinouse region. few humans. old stone walls everywhere. mist day was the best day !

designed for #ptpx 2025 : exploration with elevation data, scales, and lines. horizontal lines that break where the ground is lower, arranged in a grid. The seal indicates scale and geographical coordinates. #dataviz #penplotter

This is simultaneously so cool, as it cuts down tedious repetitive stuff to let you focus on the content, and absolutely terrifying, given the current incentives in scientific publications. It *can* be used to make science better. It *will* be used to produce tons of crap. What a time to be alive

Nick Vincent@nickmvincent.bsky.social · 6mo ago

OpenAI launching an overleaf competitor seems like it could be a big deal, and particularly interesting in wake of the NeurIPS hallucinations discourse (an important issue, but a lot of the back-and-forth I saw seemed to be missing a lot of important factors): openai.com/index/introd...

Alongside the residencies, several events are already planned this year: - Summer School – Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity, July 5–11 intp.science/en/summer26.... - Interdisciplinary Science School, Sept 7–12 - Autumn School - Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology, Oct 12–17 🌐🧪🌍

I'm resharing in English the very sad news of the passing of French botanist Francis Hallé, specialist of tropical #forests and #tree architecture. You can find more about his life and career (and see some of his amazing drawings) here: www.foretprimaire-francishalle.org/en/who-is-fr...

Cécile D@ceducz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Francis Hallé C’est avec une profonde tristesse que nous annonçons le décès de Francis Hallé, le 31 Décembre à 23h00. Il s’est éteint chez lui, à Montpellier, entouré de sa famille. 😢

two fine art exhibitions in Nantes: about the graphical interpretation of rain (Art Museum) and cartography (Lieu Unique). Happy holidays!

« Si un pays peut fonctionner aussi bien avec une croissance quasi nulle depuis deux ou trois décennies, alors peut-être qu’une partie du discours économique repose sur un malentendu assez profond ? »

Arthur Charpentier@freakonometrics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Voir le monde depuis le Japon" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/86309 (un billet d'économie pour finir la semaine)

The INTP 2026 calendar is coming soon! We are currently finalizing the program and we would be delighted to include your projects! Would you like to organize a working group, a research residency, or an artistic workshop in a setting conducive to creativity, surrounded by nature? 🧪🌐🌍 👉 Contact us!

Normative framework of bigger tech (aka, me trolling the tech audience)

Gaël Varoquaux@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come to my lightning talk At @pydataparis.bsky.social in a few minutes

🤔 using modelling and simulation for (crop) science 😊 designing media to communicate agricultural systems complexity Eager to think beyond academic papers with @intp-science.bsky.social!

Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP)@intp-science.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Our project SEMIS - Ecological Systems Modelled and Interpreted Simply - has been selected by the Science and Society #TIRIS program – Toulouse Initiative for Research’s Impact on Society! 🌐🧪 Stay tuned ! @inrae-france.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/communaute-t...

indeed, outside it is. A book about creative processes for rule-based concrete poetry. Lovely and informative essays alongside the illustrations! A fine way to support artists, imho.

Mark Webster@markwebster01.bsky.social · last yr.

The book is out. ☀️💪✌️😎

📢 INTP Autumn School Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology 🧪🌐🌍 📅 October 6-11, 2025 🙋‍♀️ Apply before July 31 👉 intp.science/en/events/20... Team: Matthieu Barbier (CIRAD), Azenor Bideault (INTP), Arnaud Sentis (INRAE) + Michel Loreau (CNRS) and Mathew Leibold (online, University of Florida)

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

Anna Abalkina@abalkina.bsky.social · last yr.

A new open-access Springer journal brand Discover, has absolute resemblance to MDPI and its strategy. A shocking new analysis by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and other members of the Strain Team the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post... HT: @deevybee.bsky.social

It has been a great priviledge to participate to this extensive review on plant diversity and crop protection. Congrats to the lead authors Aude Vialatte, Anais Tibi and Vincent Martinet and all the Regulnat team! @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Protecting crops with plant diversity: Agroecological promises, socioeconomic lock-in, and political levers

Plant diversification—such as cultivar mixtures, intercropping, agroforestry, and rotations at the field scale, or hedgerows, grasslands, and crop mosaics at the landscape scale—is a key strategy for ...

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The INTP Spring School "Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology" has started yesterday! We are very excited about this week of #science and #mountaineering activities taking place in the #Pyrenees ⛰️ 🧑‍💻 🌐🧪

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

Fonts in R

Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

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Holy charts, Batman...

RJ Andrews@infowetrust.com · last yr.

overflowing centuries of visual abundance www.chartography.net/p/getting-lo...

Cornalism is much less appreciated than brutalism but of course objectively far superior.

Jennifer Davis@jmd5120.bsky.social · last yr.

Give us this day our daily corn

OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables

As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

"The point of statistical inference is not to produce the right answers with high frequency, but rather to *always* produce the inference best supported by the data at hand when combined with existing background knowledge and assumptions." —Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy

Voila des petits glissements, renoncements qui inquiètent, des petites musiques qui confondent sciences & techniques, qui montrent la fragilité de la fabrique de la science en France a l'aune de ce qui se passe aux US. Lutter contre le changement climatique passe par davantage de Sciences Sociales!

Stand Up For Science France@standupforscifr.bsky.social · last yr.

Supprimer les sciences sociales du CNRS alors qu'il nous faut affronter les crises démocratiques, sociales et environnementales ? NON #StandUpFOrScience défend toutes les sciences et leur collaboration. Comment imaginer éclairer les enjeux actuels sans les sciences sociales ? #SolidaritéST-SHS

🧪🌍A little cheer up between a lot of negative news: Our paper about the importance of food-web complexity 🌱🐛🪲🍄 for ecosystem stability has just been accepted! Great lead by Maowei Liang, together with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and Dave Tilman. Preprint: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Consumers Modulate Effects of Plant Diversity on Community Stability

Biotic complexity, encompassing both competitive interactions within trophic levels and consumptive interactions among trophic levels, plays a fundamental role in maintaining ecosystem stability. Whil...

authorea.com

As I said elsewhere: What's supposed to be surprising about arriving at different results under different models making different assumptions, using different methods that also make different assumptions? It's almost as if our inference depends on the model & method. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets

Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions. Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions.

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