Mastodawn

Dr Dominic Martin Feb 10, 2023

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar Feb 10, 2023

Sounds like a interesting opportunity for #OpenScience folks!

More in: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/postdoctoral-position/9e669128-c162-44bf-b752-54f4b773df71

h/t @dominic

UZH: Postdoctoral Position

The University of Zurich (UZH) plays a prominent role in Open and Reproducible Science, both nationally and internationally. With the Center of Reproducible Science (CRS) UZH pursues the goal to improve the overall reproducibility of empirical scientific research and to promote original research in reproducibility studies and methodology related to reproducibility. The CRS is a joint competence center of the Faculties of Medicine, of Science, of Business, Economics and Informatics, of Arts and Social Sciences and, the Vetsuisse Faculty. It is housed at the Faculty of Medicine in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute.

UZH

Dr Dominic Martin Feb 6, 2023

Stephen Heard Feb 6, 2023

RT @EcologyJiajia
Who will name new plant species? Here we show that most recently described species are endemic species, and they are often described by resident taxonomists. We need to support local taxonomists in biodiverse developing countries. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1954#.Y98RZ-FJ8As.twitter

Dr Dominic Martin Feb 5, 2023

Hanno Seebens Feb 5, 2023

#Job alert! #Academia

Hey, my still small Mastodon bubble.

I have a 3-years #postdoc position open.

Developing biodiversity indicators; science-policy interactions to identify needs + more;

EU-project led by Quentin Groom
incl. GBIF @gbif
Pensoft
and + more

Come and work with me 🙂

https://t.co/UCCvllAB1T

Postdoc (m/f/d) in the field of biodiversity data science/invasion ecology

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Dr Dominic Martin Feb 1, 2023

Brent Toderian Jan 1, 2023

See the real problem?

(Cartoon via #SchoenScheisse)

Dr Dominic Martin Jan 30, 2023

Giulio Mattioli Jan 30, 2023

It's a funny old world where if you're a political leader, claiming that "more motorways -> less CO2 emissions" can be a normal political move, but if you're student, claiming the same could get you to fail your transport planning exam...

Dr Dominic Martin Jan 30, 2023

Giulio Mattioli Jan 30, 2023

The German Transport Ministry is missing its own climate emission reduction targets & has no credible plan to meet them.

Also, the Ministry has a new plan with lots of motorway expansion & widening, up to 10 lanes, including in densely populated areas
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/volker-wissing-und-seine-toxische-autobahn-liste-neuer-aerger-mit-den-gruenen-a-beebdb79-4a0e-4d8c-ae67-8991923e3ee3

Ärger über Autobahnbau: Volker Wissings toxische Liste

FDP-Minister Wissing wollte den Autobahnstreit mit den Grünen schlichten. Doch er hat nach SPIEGEL-Informationen eine für Grüne provokante Liste vorgelegt. Darauf: viele Kilometer mit neuen Fahrspuren, bis zu fünf in jeder Richtung.

DER SPIEGEL

Dr Dominic Martin Jan 30, 2023

Mario Angst Jan 30, 2023

A nice discussion on LLMs and how they might interact with the broken aspects of academia 👻 .

https://open.substack.com/pub/lookalikes/p/publish-or-perish-and-chatgpt-a-dangerous?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

When the post asks:
"How might we move away from a reliance on text-based reports towards rich, multi-faceted research artifacts published on diverse types of platforms?" 💟
I had to think of projects like https://www.researchequals.com/ (cc @chartgerink ).

"Publish-or-perish" and ChatGPT: a dangerous mix

Academia is vulnerable to LLM-driven disruption because everything that is measured revolves around text, and what gets measured decides about your survival as a scientist. It's time to do better.

Lookalikes and Meanders

Dr Dominic Martin Jan 26, 2023

Gregor Kalinkat Jan 26, 2023

New #openaccess paper investigates how media reporting on #insect declines has changed public attention for insect conservation:

"From science to society to practice? Public reactions to the insect crisis in Germany" by Felgentreff et al

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10434

#biodiversity #conservation

Dr Dominic Martin Jan 26, 2023

PatrickMeyfroidt Dec 27, 2022

Happy to share our newly published study on "Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade"
led by Tiago Reis with a great team.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102633

#landuse #sustainability #supplychains #commodity #trade #network #deforestation #agriculture #economy #geography
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