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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The state of the ecology job market

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sisyphus would have loved the 2026 job market. Wake up, check job boards, repeat.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Returning to small-batch artisanal stack overflow when AI can't solve your code problem #rstats #LittleAnalystOnThePraire

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Every PhD I know is buying jesus robes so they can actually be recognized as doctors

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Submit manuscript Major revision 1 Major revision 2 Minor revision 1 Rejection 🫠

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Academic wellness routine: 1. Wake up 2. Check job boards 3. Despair

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

[Every science organization's career page]: You will love working with us, we are a family. Get ready to make a difference, because endless opportunity awaits! *No current opportunities*

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

[me]: AI will never take over my job! *AI produces terrible, nonsense code with no documentation [me]: Oh no...

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Employers two seconds after asking you to upload a pdf of your CV

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Inside every ecology job posting there are two wolves. The first demands you earned your PhD within the past 5 years. The second demands you come with 27 years of field-relevant work experience.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just incredible timing for those astronauts to set a record for furthest humans from Earth #Artemis

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The best way to beat Artificial Intelligence is with Genuine Stupidity.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I regret to announce I did not get the Pokemon Ecology job

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"Its about the journey, not the destination" I whisper to myself on the brink of madness in R #rstats

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Since someone posted the Pokemon ecology position on the ecoevo job board its been endless entertainment seeing real enthusiasm for a position. The clear influence of pokemon on young ecologists is wild.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Every job after getting a Phd is technically a postdoc

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Physalia-courses@ONLINE @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Make your R analyses truly reproducible - your code need to run anywhere, anytime! Join us in June and learn Quarto, renv, Git/GitHub & Docker to make your workflows fully reproducible. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #ReproducibleResearch #RStats #DataScience @sortee.bsky.social

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Reproducibility data analysis with R

8-11 June 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yes I know I have a reference manager, and yes I know I have catalogued pdfs of many papers. But I am still going to just google the paper and download it for the 100th time to re-read a tiny paragraph.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Landscape Ecology > Portrait Ecology

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reminder: a little over one week left to submit abstracts for the individual‑based conservation topical collection. Happy to chat if you’re considering contributing!

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized] #rstats

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Individual-based Ecology @ibe.pensoft.net · 06/12/2024

We're a brand-new academic journal aimed at promoting an individual-based perspective in ecology. We publish under a diamond open-access model with @pensoft.bsky.social - if you-re studying individual-based ecology feel free to get in touch! blog.pensoft.net/2024/09/12/p...

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Pensoft launches new journal: Individual-based Ecology | Blog

IBE joins a number of open-access ecology journals published by Pensoft

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I need to write. I also need to watch Olympic hockey. Fortunately I am a master of work life balance:

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Want more Bad Bunny? Check out our lab's research on how snowshoe hares help drive coyote populations in Alberta's Oil Sands region. Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands - Clarke - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands

Energy development has fundamentally reshaped the boreal forest of Canada's oil sands region. Dense networks of linear features, including roads and seismic lines, have created new landscapes that su...

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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay 2026 with a quick look at the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the largest wetland in North America. Home to many Indigenous people, a massive storehouse of peat, and is habitat for wildlife. I teach a 15 day field school entirely in the Hudson Bay Lowlands each year in August.

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aederocher.bsky.social @aederocher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Latest paper from our Hudson Bay polar bear research. It's hard won data & explores a topic we know little about: predator / prey relationships. Lead author supported by @PolarBears post-doc. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... [open access]

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

First time I've ever come across a dragon in a wildlife paper! Figure caption, "...upper panel with dragon icon symbolising all tetrapods)". Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

TWS highlight on research coming out of our lab! Great work by Jamie Clarke!

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Cole Burton @coleburton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📷🦌Cover article! Congrats to @wildco.bsky.social PhD candidate Taz for leading this nuanced paper showing that the effects of wolf reduction on caribou calf survival depend on landscape context. Compensation by other predators may limit benefits for caribou. #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/jwmg....

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Couldn't sleep last night thinking about authorship order if the members of the fellowship of the ring wrote a paper. Frodo gets first author, but Gandalf or Sam senior author? Who goes in the acknowledgments?

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Question on listing publications on a person website. Do people prefer a plain list of papers, or a more elaborate section with details? For example a picture/graphical abstract and a short summary?

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm starting over on a personal website to host a portfolio of the work I do, and wondering what are some key elements people look for in scientist websites?

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I recently started as an associate editor at the Journal of Wildlife Management, and the first manuscript I worked with was just published. Quite fun being on the "other side" of the publishing process! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

What is missing from Bluesky to make it feel like the days of classic science twitter? You know before everything turned terrible.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Yesterday (Jan 7th) I had one paper submitted. Today (Jan 8th) I had two new ones submitted. I am right on track to have 587,135,645,693,458,306,972,370,149,197,334,256,843,920,637,227,079,967,676,822,742,883,052,256,278,652,110,865,924,749,596,192,175,757,983,744 papers submitted by end of year.

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A first for me, one of my papers was cited in a recent pub, but listed as an "Uncited Reference". What does this mean??

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - NOAA Firebird - Illinois Natural History Survey/PRI - Application Deadline: February 15, 2026

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