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Pierre Casadebaig
@pcasadebaig.bsky.social
┣ research-research: crop ecology, 🌻, {🌾+☘️}
┃ INRAE, FR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7225-936X
┣ research-creation: creative coding, ink
http://art.casadebaig.net
┣ #rstats, and 🚲 enthusiast
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Hi, i'm Pierre, I'm a plant scientist and study how crops respond and adapt to their growing environment, by using concepts & tools from ecophysiology and applied maths.
I only recently noticed that scientific and artistic approaches are very similar, so i fear i might also be coding for fun!
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The INTP 2026 calendar is coming soon!

We are currently finalizing the program and we would be delighted to include your projects!
Would you like to organize a working group, a research residency, or an artistic workshop in a setting conducive to creativity, surrounded by nature? 🧪🌐🌍
👉 Contact us!
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Normative framework of bigger tech

(aka, me trolling the tech audience)
Come to my lightning talk
At @pydataparis.bsky.social in a few minutes
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🤔 using modelling and simulation for (crop) science
😊 designing media to communicate agricultural systems complexity

Eager to think beyond academic papers with @intp-science.bsky.social!
🎉 Our project SEMIS - Ecological Systems Modelled and Interpreted Simply - has been selected by the Science and Society #TIRIS program – Toulouse Initiative for Research’s Impact on Society! 🌐🧪 Stay tuned !
@inrae-france.bsky.social
@cirad.bsky.social
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/communaute-t...
Lauréats – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
July 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
indeed, outside it is. A book about creative processes for rule-based concrete poetry. Lovely and informative essays alongside the illustrations! A fine way to support artists, imho.
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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📢 INTP Autumn School Syntheses in Theoretical Community #Ecology 🧪🌐🌍
📅 October 6-11, 2025
🙋‍♀️ Apply before July 31
👉 intp.science/en/events/20...
Team: Matthieu Barbier (CIRAD), Azenor Bideault (INTP), Arnaud Sentis (INRAE) + Michel Loreau (CNRS) and Mathew Leibold (online, University of Florida)
June 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem
June 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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It has been a great priviledge to participate to this extensive review on plant diversity and crop protection. Congrats to the lead authors Aude Vialatte, Anais Tibi and Vincent Martinet and all the Regulnat team!

@urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Protecting crops with plant diversity: Agroecological promises, socioeconomic lock-in, and political levers
Plant diversification—such as cultivar mixtures, intercropping, agroforestry, and rotations at the field scale, or hedgerows, grasslands, and crop mosaics at the landscape scale—is a key strategy for ...
www.cell.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The INTP Spring School "Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology" has started yesterday! We are very excited about this week of #science and #mountaineering activities taking place in the #Pyrenees ⛰️ 🧑‍💻 🌐🧪
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer
Fonts in R
Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity
www.tidyverse.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Holy charts, Batman...
April 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Cornalism is much less appreciated than brutalism but of course objectively far superior.
Give us this day our daily corn
April 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"The point of statistical inference is not to produce the right answers with high frequency, but rather to *always* produce the inference best supported by the data at hand when combined with existing background knowledge and assumptions." —Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Voila des petits glissements, renoncements qui inquiètent, des petites musiques qui confondent sciences & techniques, qui montrent la fragilité de la fabrique de la science en France a l'aune de ce qui se passe aux US.
Lutter contre le changement climatique passe par davantage de Sciences Sociales!
Supprimer les sciences sociales du CNRS alors qu'il nous faut affronter les crises démocratiques, sociales et environnementales ?
NON
#StandUpFOrScience défend toutes les sciences et leur collaboration. Comment imaginer éclairer les enjeux actuels sans les sciences sociales ? #SolidaritéST-SHS
March 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🧪🌍A little cheer up between a lot of negative news: Our paper about the importance of food-web complexity 🌱🐛🪲🍄 for ecosystem stability has just been accepted! Great lead by Maowei Liang, together with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and Dave Tilman. Preprint: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
Consumers Modulate Effects of Plant Diversity on Community Stability
Biotic complexity, encompassing both competitive interactions within trophic levels and consumptive interactions among trophic levels, plays a fundamental role in maintaining ecosystem stability. Whil...
www.authorea.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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As I said elsewhere: What's supposed to be surprising about arriving at different results under different models making different assumptions, using different methods that also make different assumptions? It's almost as if our inference depends on the model & method.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets
Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions. Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2023 at 6:13 PM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We are opening a permanent #INRAE research engineer position in agroecosystem modeling/simulation in our BioEcoAgro research unit (www.bioecoagro.eu), in France, Hauts-de-France region! ⤵️
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Approval ratings for the asteroid have reached 37%
February 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Quelques mots sur mes recherches, mais surtout l'occasion de découvrir d'autres métiers qui font la diversité de l'INRAE !
Découvrez le #portrait de Pierre Casadebaig @pcasadebaig.bsky.social chercheur INRAE

Il étudie l’adaptation des cultures à leur environnement, en combinant expérimentations contrôlées et modélisation mathématique 🌱💻
Et utilise l'art algorithmique en dehors du travail 🤩

▶️ url.inrae.fr/4hEAcoB
February 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM