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Miguel Acevedo

@miguelacevedo.bsky.social
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(He,el) Educator and scientist (ecology+stats+R+…) Classical guitar student, music lover and salsa enthusiast

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Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New open-access paper out @consbiog.bsky.social: “How Five Decades of Land-Cover Change Reshaped Suitable Habitat for Puerto Rican Tree Species.” 🇵🇷 🧪 Led by recent PhD grad @laura-moro.bsky.social #LUQLTER 🌱🌱🌱🚜🌱🌱🌱 ➡️ 🌳🌴🌳🌳🌴🌳 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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How Five Decades of Land‐Cover Change Reshaped Suitable Habitat for Puerto Rican Tree Species
Aim Human land-use has dramatically altered the amount, quality and connectivity of habitat for species worldwide. Understanding how these changes affect individual species is essential for predicti...
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Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!
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Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)
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Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society
Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/08/2026
In the forests of Puerto Rico, individual trees from the same species can store, handle, and transport water in different ways based on the dryness of their respective habitats. scim.ag/3U1icy3
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Surprising uniqueness of Puerto Rico’s trees could make them more resistant to drought
Two trees from the same species can vary in how they transport and manage water, improving specieswide drought resilience
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nitanother.bsky.social @nitanother.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're hiring multiple post docs to work on spatial and quantitative models of infectious disease! For details and application materials: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... and see our lab website here: humidlab.com
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Bharti Lab
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Rachael Bay @rachaelabay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My department, Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis is hiring a plant evolution position! I am biased, but it's a great department 😃 apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Dr. Valentina Alaasam @vale-alaasam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com
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Miguel Acevedo @miguelacevedo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The issues identified in this review are likely shared with other common animal/wildlife modeling approaches nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future
Since their introduction over 20 years ago, dynamic occupancy models (DOMs) have become a powerful and flexible framework for estimating species occupancy across space and time while accounting for i...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/07/2026
As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame. Learn more: scim.ag/44sFvTg
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Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing?
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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚨Out today in @society4conbio.bsky.social, in my new paper with @birdmapper.bsky.social, we show a positive relationship between exinction risk and colourfulness across the world's passerine birds! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds
Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as colorati...
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Zuania Colón-Piñeiro @zuaniacolon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Read about our publication in @animalecology.bsky.social in the UF CLAS news! #amphibian #coqui #frog #chytrid #fungus #puertorico #CienciaPR @ecological-nich.bsky.social, Travis Klee, @brittbuchanan.bsky.social, @colettestm.bsky.social, @miguelacevedo.bsky.social, Patricia Burrowes, and Ana Longo
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Orlando Acevedo-Charry @oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Young frogs “play it safe”; when disease strikes, UF researchers find news.clas.ufl.edu/young-frogs-... @zuaniacolon.bsky.social @miguelacevedo.bsky.social
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Young frogs "play it safe" when disease strikes, UF researchers find - News
UF research reveals how early-life decisions about energy use, shapes survival, development and population health.
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two new preprints from my lab, both putting computer science approaches to work for ecology & evolution 🦎 Each tackles the same old bottleneck — turning huge piles of digital images into usable data — and each is a free, open-source web tool you can actually use 🎉 Quick threads on both below 🧵
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Planning a meta-analysis for the summer, or helping a student navigate a project❓ Don’t start without a plan, here are 12 tasks to help boost feasibility and topic knowledge! 🧪 #phd youtu.be/iU0DK-8kwoI?...
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start your meta-analysis with these 12 tasks to boost feasibility and project engagement
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Zuania Colón-Piñeiro @zuaniacolon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hace dos fines de semana estuve hablando sobre mi camino en #ciencia con El Consorcio de Historia Natural de #PuertoRico (elconsorcio.org) en español. Puedes verla en www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pZ.... El sábado 23 de mayo, le toca a @oacevedocharry.bsky.social. Stay tuned; vienen con #podcasts.
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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Ecological Statistician
Ecological Statistician
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Fascinated by tropical phenology and looking for a PhD program? Happy to help with idea and proposal development: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Miguel Acevedo @miguelacevedo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Three Dead From Hantavirus On An Antarctic Cruise Ship. How Did They Get It?
Three dead from hantavirus on Antarctic cruise ship MV Hondius. An ecologist explains the three scenarios for how passengers contracted this rare rodent-borne disease.
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Fully funded @netgain.bsky.social #PhD for UK students: "Bridging policy and practice: Marine Net Gain metrics for sedimentary Blue Carbon and biodiversity" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
ALT: a woman says " would you like to join us " with her eyes closed
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congratulation to @jameststroud.bsky.social on winning our Bicentenary Award 2026! An exceptional evolutionary ecologist with 61 papers and 3,000+ citations, his 2025 paper in Nature caps a decade of landmark lizard evolution work. His outreach programme Lizards on the Loose has engaged thousands!
Photograph of Dr James T Stroud, illuminated in the dark, holding a lizard.
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Instead of dividing the world into urban vs. rural, a new Cary-led #UrbanEcology paper emphasizes connections and mixtures of urban, rural, and wild features. Authors inc Steward Pickett, Shannon LaDeau, Chris Solomon, Winslow Hansen, Elizabeth Cook, + others www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
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Challenging the urban-rural divide in ecology
A new Cary-led paper proposes that many modern landscapes can be managed more holistically when they are understood as a mixture of urban, rural, and wild features.
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3
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mori: Shared memory for R objects
mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thrilled that our Review in TREE is now the cover article-- featuring one of my favorite species from Madagascar, the neon day gecko! Gorgeous lil guys. And we hope this review will be useful for the community: lessons learned on matching climate to biological scales www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
2 weeks left to apply to this postdoc here at @gtsciences.bsky.social! Full details here: www.mcguire.gatech.edu/opportunitie... Deadline: 13th April 🦎🐦🦴⛰️
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Have you had a look at MEEs new article type, Workflows? Workflow articles will describe the design, testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows. Find out more in the links below. Blog post 👉 buff.ly/1sSmEtp Editorial 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/03/2026
Google Zero-Day Alert For 3.5 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway
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Google Zero-Day Alert For 3.5 Billion Chrome Users—Attacks Underway
Google has confirmed an emergency Chrome security update amid reports that attackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities.
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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Anyone up for this?
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Luis Santiago-Rosario, Ph. D. @saltyecoevo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Science communication is at the heart of why I love doing in science. Take a look at this paper we published on a workshop we did on effective ways of doing science communication across multiple settings. @esalatamcarib.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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From Research to Action: Communicating Science Effectively for Real‐World Impact
Click on the article title to read more.
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Miguel Acevedo @miguelacevedo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Outstanding paper and spectacular dataset!! And led by a @gtsciences.bsky.social undergraduate student!!! Congratulations Shreyas & @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social - fantastic!! 🐦🦅🪹
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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New paper out - fun collaboration with @wcratcliff.bsky.social & led by the wonderful Tony Burnetti! IMO, a rare clear example identifying the mechanism underlying priority effects at macroevolutionary scales. Also, continuing to justify my PhD from a plant lab 🍃 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy - npj Complexity
npj Complexity - Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨 This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. 🌍 🧪 Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/AmWPK0C
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🌊 Parasites are not always bad! In blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), trematode infection can buffer acute heat stress, linked to increased heat shock protein expression. A surprising twist on host-parasite interactions under warming conditions 📖 buff.ly/5dVyY6X
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Join us for the Great Backyard Bird Count February 13-16! You can be anywhere in the world, any age & any level of experience. Count birds for at least 15 minutes, then let us know what you see. Your observations help researchers learn more about how to help birds. birdcount.org
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is a wonderful summary of how two common connectivity models used in ecology and conservation are related: Circuit theory is a special case of connectivity modeling with the SAMC (Spatial Absorbing Markov Chains)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2026
Breaking News: Yale will waive tuition for new undergraduate students whose families have annual incomes below $200,000.
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Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000
Other costs would also be waived for students whose families earn less than $100,000. Yale joins other elite schools offering more generous financial aid, including Penn, Harvard and M.I.T.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I don't know who needs a break from the world to read about desert rodents, but I definitely needed a break from the world to write it. Nearly a year has passed, but here's an update on the unprecedented events over the past year at the Portal Project.
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Do you want to scare an academic colleague? Ask them, “What’s the unit of the variance?” … and then quietly leave their office.
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Verena @viralemergence.org · 17/01/2026
We're looking for a full-stack developer! Help us build the best open data platforms for pandemic prediction in the world. Probably a short-term contract, but if you're looking for a full-time gig, let's talk. Inquire within: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! — Verena
The Verena Institute is looking for a full stack developer or full stack development team (hereafter, the “Supplier”) to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen H...
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Recovering tropical forests grow back ~2x as fast when they have enough nitrogen, says a new @natcomms.nature.com paper coauthored by Cary’s Sarah Batterman. Paper suggests strategies to naturally boost soil N and speed up trees' CO2 absorption for ~10 years www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
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Recovering tropical forests grow back nearly twice as fast with nitrogen
A new study coauthored by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies ecologist Sarah Batterman estimates that if recovering tropical forests had enough nitrogen in their soils, they might absorb up to an add...
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Both perspectives are important and both need each other. If you do not go into the field, collaborate with those that do. If you are incredible in the field, find a quantitative friend. 4/4
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics! Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact. expected salary range $111K - $116K. dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! Help Build the Future of Biodiversity Research | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
We’re excited to announce a new, full-time position opening for a Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist, who will focus on biodiversity and bioacoustics research.
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