The mailing list of the French Soc.of Eco.Evo. (SFE2) was hacked yesterday. August 5 is a bad timing (good for the hackers) for an attack! I would like to warmly congratulate the SFE2 staff who interrupted their holidays to fix this. People panicked and everyone patience was under severe pressure..

Aupa #ESA2026 ! Stop by poster 054 today (Tuesday) 5-6:30pm to learn about how climate change is affecting eguzkilore 🌻 a culturally important plant in the Basque Country

Guariento et al. 2026. Oikos: a paper I believe most could plausibly like! 👇 - Useful reminders of what p-values mean - Provides a non-entirely Bayesian but simple and informative framework to cautiously interpret p-values and assess the evidence provided by our data Thanks! doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Calibrating p‐values in ecology: a practical framework for integrating prior plausibility into statistical inference

Misinterpretation of p-values, coupled with insufficient consideration of the prior plausibility of ecological hypotheses, leads to overconfident and often unreliable inference in ecological research....

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NEW – Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/EynMeIk

Un graphique très intéressant qui permet de visualiser la T°C quotidienne moyenne attendue tout au long de l'été, et les écarts de 2025 par rapport à celle-ci. Rappel important pour les non-climatologues (comme moi) : les maximums ne sont pas attendus proche du solstice (fin juin) mais début août

Gaétan Heymes@gaetanheymes.bsky.social · last mo.

La #chaleur infernale de ce début d'été 2026 est absolument inédite en France. C'est l'occasion de reparler du concept (non officiel) de "sur-été", que j'utilise occasionnellement. Rappel de sa définition dans ce précédent post en septembre 2025 ⤵️ 1/7

This case highlights a core issue with grades that LLMs have brought to the fore: we are using grades to try to measure/do too many different things: 1. learning+readiness for later material 2. teaching effectiveness 3. Sorting by latent ability 4. Effort put into class 5. as a tool to open doors

Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · last mo.

Today's ragebait for the professors who follow me. 3 points: 1) if I am a student, a take home exam is implicitly open-book. Using ChatGPT is fine and no different. 2) the professor changed the rules after the fact. The students should be pissed 1/2

🌳 Tree mortality in 🇫🇷 France rose 1.5–4× (2015–2023). 500k+ trees analysed; warmer winters & springs are top drivers. Even wet springs increase mortality risk via 'structural overshoot'. Seasonal climate combos matter more than single extremes. #forests #climatechange www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In our new paper in 🌍 Global Ecology and Biogeography, David Storch and I show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while variation in extinction rates drives differences among communities. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Leur attaque a échoué ! Lundi soir, la page de don destinée au soutien de notre film-enquête a été visée par une attaque informatique massive, provoquant son blocage temporaire pour protéger l'ensemble de la plateforme. Votre soutien compte plus que jamais 👉‍ https://l.mediapart.fr/qMU

[INFO @mediapart.fr] A l’heure où la France pulvérise ses records de chaleur, une réunion interministérielle a décidé la fermeture de l'opérateur Europe des projets architecturaux et urbains. Il travaillait sur l'adaptation des villes au changement climatique... www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

En pleine vague de chaleur, le gouvernement a décidé de dissoudre une entité de recherche sur la transition écologique

D’après des informations obtenues par « Mediapart », l’exécutif a décidé le mois dernier la dissolution du GIP Epau, le groupement d’intérêt public Europe des projets architecturaux et urbains. Cet o…

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Interesting article about how AI could lead to a loss of skills, in medicine and computer science.

Nature@nature.com · 2mo ago

Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4uJdRvW

Enjeux éthiques et économiques de la publication scientifique : je partage une synthèse réalisée avec ma collègue P. Jobard au labo ThéMA : hal.science/hal-05577920/ Les publications scientifique sont censées enrichir la recherche, pas les entreprises d'édition aux dépends du contribuable

‪ [ #VeilleESR #LPPR ]"Ce budget réduira de 4 % la capacité à financer des projets" - Claire Giry, PDG @agencerecherche.bsky.social par @anneroy.bsky.social pour @aefsuprecherche.bsky.social - environ 150 projets devraient être financés en moins - réduction des préciputs

Avec un budget d'intervention en baisse de 4 % en 2026, l'ANR va financer moins de projets et réduire le préciput de 3 points

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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!

L’un des textes à commenter au bac de philo aujourd’hui. « Ils n’ont pas cette défiance instinctive contre les écarts de la pensée »…

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)

If someone comes to you asking: "my predictors are collinear, what should I do?", reading this paper might be a quick fix for them (if I'm honest, it was also for me!): Vanhove, J. (2021). Collinearity isn’t a disease that needs curing. Meta-Psychology, 5. doi.org/10.15626/MP....

Excited to share our new paper: Predictions from evolutionary theory for urban environments. We brought together empiricists and mathematical theorists to find common ground on where and how we can work together to better understand urban evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Predictions From Evolutionary Theory for Urban Environments

Urbanization drives rapid and extreme environmental change, profoundly shaping the ecology and evolution of populations. In this Perspective, we call for the integration and development of evolutiona...

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This is a project that started over two years ago with a workshop supported by @uoftcities.bsky.social. Ailene MacPherson and Aude Caizergues led the way in finding common ground and charting new paths for theoretical and empirical research

The "ecostat" meeting was great! Thanks to the LECA lab, @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social (hosts) and to the statistical ecology community (and CNRS/Ifremer support). Many excellent (and very honest) talks from researchers at all stages and from many sub-branches of ecology I hope "ecostat" keeps going!

Habitat fragmentation can either increase or decrease with habitat loss link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Habitat fragmentation can either increase or decrease with habitat loss - Landscape Ecology

Context A key aspect of the fragmentation debate in conservation biology is whether fragmentation effects on biodiversity should capture the combined or separate effects of habitat loss and fragmentat...

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For biodiversity indicators to influence decisions, we need to trust them - and to trust them, we need to test them. Happy to share our new paper about how to do that (for genetic diversity) with @seanmhoban.bsky.social & @laura-pollock.bsky.social 😊 📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111824

Infos & candidature 👉 sfecologie.org/offre/post-d...

Our new website is online www.rivaecologylab.com! Please check the Contacts section for job openings, including a new PhD position on global biodiversity change.

Another paper out from Bella's PhD thesis, using open-source data to predict patterns of temperature and air pollution within and across seven Canadian cities: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Predictors of land-surface temperature and air pollution across Canadian cities are largely scale and city dependent

Predictors of land-surface temperature and air pollution across Canadian cities are largely scale and city dependent, Richmond, Isabella C, Yu, Nicole, Robitaille, Alec L., Hutt-Taylor, Kayleigh, Ziter, Carly D

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Sur ordre du premier ministre, les services de l’État ont déserté la commission locale de l’eau de la Vilaine, bloquant ainsi l’approbation d’un schéma prévoyant pour la première fois une interdiction des herbicides sur les aires de captage polluées. Par @laske.bsky.social

Captages pollués : l’État sabote la politique antipesticide en Bretagne

Sur ordre du premier ministre, les services de l’État ont déserté la commission locale de l’eau de la Vilaine, bloquant ainsi l’approbation d’un schéma prévoyant pour la première fois une interdiction des herbicides sur les aires de captage polluées.

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Fabricated references seem increasingly common. Everyone can check the citations of their own work. I found a few citations for an actual paper written with my co-authors, BUT with an extra senior author from the same field and a DOI wrong by just one number, pointing to the same journal. Beware!

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

We have opened two positions for PhD students at GLEL: csee-scee.ca/job/two-phd-... please share widely! Note that the positions are unfortunately not open to international applicants (only Canadian students are eligible).

Final push for me to switch to #Linux?