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Abdesslam Chai-allah
@achaiallah.bsky.social
Data scientist and researcher (PhD) #firstgen
🏳️‍🌈 he/him, Amazigh ⵣ🇲🇦
📍Paris 🇫🇷
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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⚠️ Postdoc position on the #AgroForageTreeProject

Economic assessment of inovative grassland-based livestock production #economist #agriculture #postdoc #agroforestry
@agroscope.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher on the economic assessment of innovative grassland-based livestock production - Agroscope
Agroscope is looking for Postdoc Researcher on the economic assessment of innovative grassland-based livestock production
jobs.admin.ch
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Exciting vacancy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Professorship of Farm Management in the Digital Transformation

uni-goettingen.de/en/701219.html
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🛰️🌿💻 #PostDoc Alert! PhD in #EnvironmentalSciences, #RemoteSensing or #ComputerVision, and sound ecological knowledge of #biodiversity? You work comfortably with statistical computing and scripting languages? We offer a 2-year PostDoc position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1792/... #ecology #ScienceJobs
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted.

Let's cut ourselves free.

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS
Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub

12/12
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Assistant Professorship on Biodiversity, Land Use and Spatial Planning at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

Deadline: 30.11.2025
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...
Vacancy — Assistant Professor Biodiversity, Land Use and Spatial Planning
Are you committed to contribute to stop the decline of biodiversity? Do you have experience in academic teaching? Do you want an academic career? Then please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
workingat.vu.nl
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Somewhat troubling:

Suzgun et al. in Nature Machine Intelligence

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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90% of you probably don’t need to read this.
But maybe some of you are curious & 10% will feel seen. Or a little less alone. This isn’t about seeking sympathy.
It’s about sharing something hard to say out loud;
partly to heal, partly in case someone needs to hear it too. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/DudinO
Omaya Dudin
Interview with Omaya Dudin, who uses Ichthyosporea as models to study how and why unicellular organisms evolved multicellularity at the University of Geneva.
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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The European Commission finds Meta and TikTok are preliminarily breaching the Digital Services Act. The DSA mandates researcher access to platform data for studying misinformation, but companies are reportedly obstructing these efforts, limiting accountability.
Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Please share this with anyone who may be interested in a post-doc in Germany:

jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

This is quite an exciting opportunity to push the boundaries of what is known regarding the molecular basis of the formation and demise of photosymbiotic relationships in marine habitats.
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Professorship for Co-development of livestock-based mixed cropping systems 🐄🌾
ZALF + Universität Kassel
Lead a research group at ZALF 🌍 | Teach in Witzenhausen 🎓
🌱 Want to co-design circular #organic #farming systems?
#Agroecology #Sustainability #JobAlert #Agriculture

stellen.uni-kassel.d...
October 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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👀 "Développement d’une alternative open-source sous R aux logiciels propriétaires de calcul de taille d’échantillon en oncologie"

Stage de M2 au sujet très intéressant !
Salut tout le monde !
On cherche un·e stagiaire M2/ingé pour un projet R.
Pas besoin de formation pointue en stats.
À Gustave Roussy, près de Paris (métro 14). Le/la stagiaire apprendra plein de choses !
oncostat.github.io/internships_...
N'hésitez pas à partager ou à me demander des précisions 😊
oncostat.github.io
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🚨 Job Alert 🚨
3-year Postdoc position in Coastal Ecology at the University of Oldenburg! 🌊
First 2 years: Join the DFG Research Unit DynaCom – collaborate with outstanding partners across five synthesis projects.
Final year: Pursue your own research + build your academic profile.
👉 uol.de/job773en
Postdoctoral researcher in coastal ecology (DFG Research Unit DynaCom) // University of Oldenburg
uol.de
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Finland is downgrading almost 300 Frontiers and MDPI journals to its lowest rating – a de facto blacklisting move that might soon be replicated in other countries, according to an expert

#AcademicSky #EduSky
Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit?
Decision to downgrade 271 journals on quality and operating model concerns sparks debate
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]
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mstdn.ca
September 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Happy to see our new paper out! In short:

"Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization"

Find the open-access paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Thanks to Solen and @robertfinger.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @usyseth.bsky.social
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September 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The Department of Biological Sciences at @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Freshwater Ecology. lnkd.in/gMt2i9C7
#FreshwaterEcology #AcademicJobs #AcademicChat #EnvironmentalScience #AquaticEcology 🧪
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August 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM