Francois Keck
@francoiskeck.bsky.social
Digital community ecologist. I pursue the laws of nature on my computer.
#rstats | #eDNA | #biodiversity | #ecology | and more
https://francoiskeck.fr/
#rstats | #eDNA | #biodiversity | #ecology | and more
https://francoiskeck.fr/
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Francois Keck
@francoiskeck.bsky.social
· Mar 26
Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature!
Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Utilizing aquatic #eDNA 🧬 to address global 🌍🌐 #biodiversity targets 🎯
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
Our #article @natrevbiodiv.nature.com is now freely available (upon registration) till Feb 16th: ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... part of special collection 📚 on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF 🌍 🦐 🐟 🧬
This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.
New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....
Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager
Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager
pedermisager.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.
Seriously considering adopting Swiss Cheese Mono as my default font for all future correspondence
www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...
www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...
Swiss Cheese Mono font (uppercase only)
Swiss Cheese Mono is a chunky, sans-serif, monospaced display font created primarily from squares with circular "holes" in them. Currently available in uppercase only. When Rob posted some images of ...
www.heirloomagency.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Seriously considering adopting Swiss Cheese Mono as my default font for all future correspondence
www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...
www.heirloomagency.com/store/p/swis...
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Vibe coding kills open source.
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
January 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Vibe coding kills open source.
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
@ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
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Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Reposted by Francois Keck
176 tiny maps (1850-2025)
Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.
This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.
Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.
This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.
January 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
176 tiny maps (1850-2025)
Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.
This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.
Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.
This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.
Reposted by Francois Keck
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
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Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order.
The stats literature:
The stats literature:
January 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order.
The stats literature:
The stats literature:
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Found the code to do this strange attractor while looking for something else. Thought I'd see how fast I can render 360 frames of this with denoising.
What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Found the code to do this strange attractor while looking for something else. Thought I'd see how fast I can render 360 frames of this with denoising.
What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
What used to take hours now takes slightly more than 60 minutes.
#rayrender adventures, an #rstats tale
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January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Happy 2026! 🎉
My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.
My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.
January 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Happy 2026! 🎉
My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.
My only good resolution is to publish more here, and many exciting things are coming! It's our responsibility to share good stuff and interact to make this place better than the other site.
Great pro-tips for #rstats package development here!
My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment
Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU
Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Great pro-tips for #rstats package development here!
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and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
Size of Life
From an amoeba to a blue whale
neal.fun
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
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🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down.
🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.
🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.
🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down.
🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.
🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.
🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪
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One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊
And it's finally here!
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/
#DataViz #RStats
And it's finally here!
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/
#DataViz #RStats
Data Visualisation Gallery
Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.
nrennie.rbind.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
Reposted by Francois Keck
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looks like the science community has found a home.
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
May 9, 2024 at 6:55 PM
In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
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👋 I’m back with some project updates: ecosystem function, Europe-wide experiments, policy papers, a global biodiversity synthesis… and most exciting of all — a new baby💥 Big year and its not even🎄yet😉
Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8
Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
👋 I’m back with some project updates: ecosystem function, Europe-wide experiments, policy papers, a global biodiversity synthesis… and most exciting of all — a new baby💥 Big year and its not even🎄yet😉
Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8
Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8
Reposted by Francois Keck
In massive #collaborative #effort, we assembled published & unpublished #fish 🐟 #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding datasets, covering ~2000 sampling sites/>100 river systems globally. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌐 🌍
Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
#aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis
1/6🧵
Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
#aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis
1/6🧵
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In massive #collaborative #effort, we assembled published & unpublished #fish 🐟 #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding datasets, covering ~2000 sampling sites/>100 river systems globally. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌐 🌍
Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
#aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis
1/6🧵
Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
#aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis
1/6🧵
If doughnuts are coming back into fashion, let me bring this one back. #rstats #ShowYourStripes #ShowYourTorus
September 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
If doughnuts are coming back into fashion, let me bring this one back. #rstats #ShowYourStripes #ShowYourTorus
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We just launched the Kickstarter campaign of MicroMates, a card game that brings the hidden world of microorganisms to life in a fun, colorful, and scientifically inspired way. Please back us up and spread the word! micromates.se
September 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We just launched the Kickstarter campaign of MicroMates, a card game that brings the hidden world of microorganisms to life in a fun, colorful, and scientifically inspired way. Please back us up and spread the word! micromates.se
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On my way to #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social annual ecology conference in Würzburg www.gfoe-conference.de 🌳 🐟 🔬 🧪 🦀 🦋 🐝
Very much looking forward to catch up with my German & International #Ecology colleagues, please DM for a meeting/chat!
Very much looking forward to catch up with my German & International #Ecology colleagues, please DM for a meeting/chat!
September 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM
On my way to #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social annual ecology conference in Würzburg www.gfoe-conference.de 🌳 🐟 🔬 🧪 🦀 🦋 🐝
Very much looking forward to catch up with my German & International #Ecology colleagues, please DM for a meeting/chat!
Very much looking forward to catch up with my German & International #Ecology colleagues, please DM for a meeting/chat!