Rachel Germain
@gerlame.bsky.social
Asst. prof at UBC 🌿cat enthusiast, 🏳️🌈 in STEM - species coexistence x evolutionary ecology research
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[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.
Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!
www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Please share far and wide 🚀
(See thread)
Looking for a paper for lab meeting/a discussion group? Look no further!
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Looking for a paper for lab meeting/a discussion group? Look no further!
I wish there were more (any??) graduate fellowships that are based more on improvement or recent record of success, ignoring an initial rough start
October 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wish there were more (any??) graduate fellowships that are based more on improvement or recent record of success, ignoring an initial rough start
🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!
I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!
August 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...
I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!
I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!
I can't remember the last time I successfully logged into NSERC or the CCV portal without needing support to manually unlock my account, due to being unable to remember which childhood best friend I used as a security question when I made my account 15 years ago
July 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I can't remember the last time I successfully logged into NSERC or the CCV portal without needing support to manually unlock my account, due to being unable to remember which childhood best friend I used as a security question when I made my account 15 years ago
Closing in on @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social !
July 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Closing in on @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social !
Is @tessgrainger.bsky.social trying to tell me something 🤔
June 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Is @tessgrainger.bsky.social trying to tell me something 🤔
Today in lab meeting we are going to do a workshop for each student to develop an organizing conceptual schematic for their thesis (e.g., to be used for the thesis introduction or exit seminar). Anyone here willing to share theirs for inspiration? Here's mine as an example of what I mean 👻
April 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Today in lab meeting we are going to do a workshop for each student to develop an organizing conceptual schematic for their thesis (e.g., to be used for the thesis introduction or exit seminar). Anyone here willing to share theirs for inspiration? Here's mine as an example of what I mean 👻
Ecologists are obsessed with linking process and pattern, but quantifying the core processes of community assembly (and their interactions) in a natural setting is extremely hard. But we've done it! Using a fun new method.
Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳
Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳
Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Species occupancy is inflated by sink populations in productive environments but not unproductive environments
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April 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ecologists are obsessed with linking process and pattern, but quantifying the core processes of community assembly (and their interactions) in a natural setting is extremely hard. But we've done it! Using a fun new method.
Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳
Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳
Reposted by Rachel Germain
Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturebiotech.bsky.social
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturebiotech.bsky.social
#PlantScience
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturebiotech.bsky.social
#PlantScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturebiotech.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Reports of USA border officials demanding access to people's devices and denying entry due to evidence of political leanings...this post alone will probably get me banned 😆
April 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Reports of USA border officials demanding access to people's devices and denying entry due to evidence of political leanings...this post alone will probably get me banned 😆
I simulated a fake dataset with a binomial distribution and used that fake data in a glmmTMB with A. a binomial error distribution and B. a beta error distribution (to test the consequences of my choice)
The beta distribution had a hugely lower AIC. Anyone know why??
The beta distribution had a hugely lower AIC. Anyone know why??
March 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I simulated a fake dataset with a binomial distribution and used that fake data in a glmmTMB with A. a binomial error distribution and B. a beta error distribution (to test the consequences of my choice)
The beta distribution had a hugely lower AIC. Anyone know why??
The beta distribution had a hugely lower AIC. Anyone know why??
Hot tip for fellowship applications (imo): I see a lot of people being vague about their TAing load/other activities that take up time. Reviewers sometimes use this information to weight productivity. e.g., if two people have the same output but one person TAed way more
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hot tip for fellowship applications (imo): I see a lot of people being vague about their TAing load/other activities that take up time. Reviewers sometimes use this information to weight productivity. e.g., if two people have the same output but one person TAed way more
$3400 cad to publish a paper with the currency conversion 😬 i.e., 10% of my nserc
March 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
$3400 cad to publish a paper with the currency conversion 😬 i.e., 10% of my nserc
The default smiley on outlook changes the vibe in a way I don't love - it's almost dead in the eyes, can't put my finger on it
March 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The default smiley on outlook changes the vibe in a way I don't love - it's almost dead in the eyes, can't put my finger on it
Peer review is nothing compared to 300 students carefully scrutinizing every sentence, word, symbol, choice of formatting in a midterm exam
March 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Peer review is nothing compared to 300 students carefully scrutinizing every sentence, word, symbol, choice of formatting in a midterm exam
Gotta love that the reason for threatening tarriffs keeps changing over time 🤔
March 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Gotta love that the reason for threatening tarriffs keeps changing over time 🤔
Maybe this is more of a PSA for instructors. YouTube recently changed their policy so all PowerPoint embedded videos now have ads, even of they didn't a year ago. This means your class could get interrupted by an ad for an R rated movie etc. YouTube is aware of the issue but has no plans to fix.
Problem of the day: how to get a youtube video to play in lecture without first playing an ad for pants
February 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Maybe this is more of a PSA for instructors. YouTube recently changed their policy so all PowerPoint embedded videos now have ads, even of they didn't a year ago. This means your class could get interrupted by an ad for an R rated movie etc. YouTube is aware of the issue but has no plans to fix.
Problem of the day: how to get a youtube video to play in lecture without first playing an ad for pants
February 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Problem of the day: how to get a youtube video to play in lecture without first playing an ad for pants
Stats question: without doing math, does anyone know of a package that does inverse predictions for glmmTMB? E.g., I have a fitted equation and I want to know the value of a predictor that yields a specific value for the response
February 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Stats question: without doing math, does anyone know of a package that does inverse predictions for glmmTMB? E.g., I have a fitted equation and I want to know the value of a predictor that yields a specific value for the response
Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...
If anyone needs really good examples of really bad logic/hypotheses for class, watch an episode of Ancient Aliens
February 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If anyone needs really good examples of really bad logic/hypotheses for class, watch an episode of Ancient Aliens
Reposted by Rachel Germain
American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages
2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
event.fourwaves.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages
What better time than now to choose @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social for this year's conference trip 🇨🇦 see you in Sherbrooke, QC!
February 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What better time than now to choose @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social for this year's conference trip 🇨🇦 see you in Sherbrooke, QC!