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Would you like to work at the heart of a global ornithological membership society?
BOU are seeking a Journal and Engagement Manager to play a central role in delivering our mission
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A flyer advertising an open PhD position titled "Evolutionary Ecology of Avian Energetics" at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. It is funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). The text outlines a project investigating avian energy metabolites using fieldwork, macroevolutionary analyses, metabolomics, and advanced statistics. It lists essential qualifications including an MSc degree, and offers a fully funded position with guaranteed income and student housing. Applications require a CV, a max 400-word motivation letter, and references, submitted via a provided link. Review begins March 16, 2026. The flyer features photos of field researchers, a bird being measured with a blood glucose meter, and a research team working together around a table.
Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! ๐จ๐ฟ๐ช๐บ
Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids).
๐ฆ Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines)
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๐ป Adv. stats in R
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#EcoEvo #PhD
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
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"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"
Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.
The Philosophy program at the CUNY GC is hiring a logician at the Associate level. Please share! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
A Richard Scarry cartoon of a scared looking hippo in the water next to a green barge that's on fire. A worm with a life saving ring is flying through the air towards the hippo. The caption reads 'How your email finds me:โ
How your email finds meโฆ (h/t @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social)
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Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support!
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New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it wonโt be just as bad for those.
#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. ๐ง ๐#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org
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About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems โ and the broader context that AI systems operate in โ have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent โground truthโ in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
are you displeased with todayโs AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me
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Sharing these three-year early career fellowships at Durham University, UK. Open to all nationalities and disciplines. I was lucky to have a senior fellowship here many years ago and had a very positive experience. Details are below:
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2026. WildWing: An openโsource, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring. ["We validate the system through field deployments tracking groups of Grevy's zebras, giraffes and Przewalski's horses"] besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the 13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference (September 14-18).
Organizers are seeking philosophical talks on all aspects of health and medicine, broadly construed.
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Iโm gonna name it. This isnโt a case of โlegitimately differing opinions.โ It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only โethical useโ or reasonable stance is to keep it out
A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.
Calling early-career neuroscientists in Africa ๐ Join this 2-week #training to learn about cerebral inflammation, its cognitive & behavioral consequences, and how to conduct research effectively & ethically
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MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any birdโs lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
2026. Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost well-being phys.org/news/2026-01...
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. ๐
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
if youโre passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you
A few more days left to apply for our PhD studentship in primate cognition at NTU - join us!
I canโt just do science. I have to organize, protest, volunteer beyond science, so that we can keep having science. Even in better times, science benefits when scientists participate in society broadly and deeply. I encourage my students to find where they can make a difference beyond our lab.
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I donโt have great answers.
I would love to hear from mentors about advice theyโre giving to trainees/ colleagues.
talking about AI as a bubble doesn't make sense. AI/tech has become integrated into critical social/financial infrastructure means fall of AI = fall of these institutions. just like govnt's bailed banks during the financial crisis, they will do same with AI so long as AI remains social infrastrctr
Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems are prioritized, how evidence is translated into practice and who ultimately benefits from scientific advances. theconversation.com/science-is-b...