mastodon 4.7.3Professor in Environmental Data Science. Research + software + education. @weecology & Data Carpentry co-founder. #datadon #DataScience #ecology #rstats #python #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource searchable
'I have heard it said, more than once, in research contexts, that an LLM can do some task “better than a graduate student.” That language makes me uncomfortable, because it is taking an extremely instrumental view of graduate students. Are graduate students in our groups and our laboratories and our universities to do work? Or are they here to learn? I very much hope the latter, or, if they are here to work, it is because that work is also critical to their learning' - David Hogg
Join us (@weecology@ecoevo.social) as a postdoc working on your choice of ecological forecasting or drone + computer vision based monitoring of the iconic Everglades ecosystem. Applications due Friday. Happy to answer question about the position.
https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/postdoc-job-ad-wading-bird-ecology-in-the-everglades/
.@weecology@ecoevo.social is looking for a postdoc to join our group working on long-term dynamics of wading bird colonies in the Everglades with a focus on either cross-scale drivers of wading bird breeding activity and success or automated drone-based monitoring of nest success using aerial imagery and computer vision.
Spring in the desert
"Planning to run a workshop under air raids and blackouts required us to think of many things not covered by The Carpentries Handbook."
https://olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/02/24/resilient-carpentries/
Florida folks - it's crucial that we stop the latest attack on teachers unions in the state (SB 1296). Please contact the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee today by 4 pm using:
