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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh you mean manuscript central?

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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

Brief updates are great if you're in a pinch!

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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

I've been using it to make pictures of my cat fatter. I received a very angry call from my mother about his weight.

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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 · 17/04/2026

As a scientist I see the evidence. As a coffee enthusiast I refuse to listen.

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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

physalia-courses.org

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 · 21/02/2026

Glad others are in the same head space 😂

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

Structural Equation Modeling [2026, colourized] #rstats

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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Has to be the first one, anything else is unacceptable

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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...

blog.pensoft.net

Pensoft launches new journal: Individual-based Ecology | Blog

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

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