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Nicolas Mouquet Apr 6, 2023

📢 2023 #CESAB FRBiodiv call is opening today ! We’ll fund 3 Synthesis and 4 DataShare groups. Amazing chance to collaborate in a positive vibe & beautiful town of Montpellier. Let's get some work done!

DATASHARE ➡️ http://bit.ly/3KClXTb
SYNTHESIS ➡️ http://bit.ly/416bvZO

[Call for proposals DATASHARE 2023] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

The aim of this DATASHARE joint call is to accelerate the sharing of open-access and large scale ‘novel’ biodiversity related datasets. This call complements classical biodiversity synthesis calls, which aim at fostering the analysis of existing data and the synthesis of ideas and concepts, with a specific focus on data compilation and sharing. It can […]

Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

Nicolas Mouquet Apr 3, 2023

Finally a package for dyslexics in R, it starts small but will grow exponentialy, I am sure ! thanks, will use it every day ! 🙏♥️ Jacob Bradley & Isabella Deutsch

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lenght/index.html
#rstats

lenght: Allow Misspellings of Length Function

Convenient aliases for common ways of misspelling the base R function length(). These include every permutation of the final three letters.

Nicolas Mouquet Mar 22, 2023

Great perspective article on disconnection from nature by Thomas Beery et al. in People and Nature : they argue for considering social and collective factors of disconnection beyond individuals. Check out their wheel of disconnection ! #NatureConnection @darwin
https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10451

Nicolas Mouquet Feb 20, 2023

Fully agree with Callie Chappell @eco_genome & Louis Muglia that researchers are #artists ! Nice opinion piece in @PLOSBiology : Academia should promote science-art collaboration and offer opportunities to engage in artistic practices in research.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001992

Fostering science–art collaborations: A toolbox of resources

Scientists and artists are both motivated by creativity and curiosity. Similarly, science and art can be mutually reinforcing, supporting discovery and innovation. This Community Page provides resources for individuals, groups, and institutions to advance science–art collaborations.

Nicolas Mouquet Feb 17, 2023

Great paper by @anneurai & C. Kelly in @eLife : academia must change to respond to the climate crisis, by shifting from a business producing papers and graduated students to a system that works towards well being, community building and fairness ! 🌈 🤝
https://elifesciences.org/articles/84991?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Point of View: Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis

Universities must change so that the scientific enterprise can respond to the climate crisis.

eLife

Nicolas Mouquet Feb 15, 2023

Hi Canadian 🇨🇦 fellows ♥️ ! Here is a great opportunity to join a #CESAB group in Montpellier for 1 meeting.

Check this call http://bit.ly/3YM7ZlW with CIEEICEE & #CESAB FRBiodiv funded by the French consulate in Vancouver.

Just need to choose an ongoing group here http://bit.ly/3YysHWL and contact PI 🤝

Apply

The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE) and the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (FRB-CESAB) are pleased to announce a competition to enable Canadian-based...

CIEE/ICEE

Nicolas Mouquet Feb 15, 2023

Quality research needs good working conditions. Great opinionpaper in #NatureHumanBehaviour by @rmrahal
et al 👏! Its time for a paradigm shift in academia toward qualitative rather than quantitiave science and to put quality of life as a basis for creativity ! 🌈
http://rdcu.be/c5brE

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