Notices by Megan Lynch (she/her) (ml@ecoevo.social)

If your #SciComm training has encompassed graphic design and social media as well, this seems like an opportunity.

"Non-EU nationals must hold a valid full-time work permit for France at the time of application, or be demonstrably in a position to obtain one by the end of October 2026 at the latest."

Also a good opportunity to get them to orient towards the Fediverse...

#France #EU #Agriculture

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/471250

"It’s known as “college walk.” For 70 years, it was a publicly accessible path through Columbia’s campus. Now the mayor wants the padlocks off and the walk reopened.

Under a 1953 deal, Columbia bought the walk for $1,000 and a promise to build a pedestrian walkway — but whether that’s supposed to be a fully public walkway is in dispute."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y_DaHPp-Qa0 #USpol #HigherEd #Protest

Even before the #FlamingoRevolution broke out in #Albania in late May, Albanian environmentalists were trying to fight development of the Vjosa and the Nartë-Pishë Poro public lands that Jared Kusher & partners got a corrupt dispensation to start encroaching on.

PPNEA has commissioned a mosaic of Albanian fauna that echoes the famous "The Albanians" socialist realism mosaic in Skanderbeg Square. This is a temporary exhibit with info in Albanian & English on Albanian #Biodiversity

There are a lot of reasons I went into horticultural science. But mostly it comes down to:

I love fruit.

I remember the tastes of diverse fruits I had when younger...before markets had gotten consolidated into as huge ones as now.

When folks talk food security, they tend to be talking about grains and pulses. And those are very important.

But fruits aren't optional for me.

I love fruit.

#Science #FruitToot #Pomology #Horticulture #Agriculture

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcastagnetto/117299030173867364

It's more prevalent than you think to confuse "new to the field" or "student" with "young".

I first pursued STEM in school as a 54 year old. The main professional society for horticultural science defines "student" for membership purposes as 26 y.o. or younger.

I've found it hard to get a mentor because everyone assumes only the young need it, etc etc.

This is not even touching how being #DisabledAndSTEM has been treated in STEM academia...

I wish YouTube had a button you could push to give the message: "Sorry, dude, I would have watched your chem ed video but you using genAI thieved from artists shows me you have no respect for my work, so why should I respect yours?"

This chem educator needs that message.

#SciComm #FuckAI #Ethics

RE: https://aus.social/@chrismannolini/117268608036409744

"Immersive Perth art installation with a living wheat field inside an urban office building
EVENT

A field arrives where it shouldn't.
A fluorescent office building becomes a sunburnt landscape.
There is nothing you need to do in here.

Location - 1 Mill St, Perth

Dates - Sept 11 - Oct 11

FREE
book your spot #Australia #Art

https://whac.net.au/

Do any of the web admins here know about "Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA"? A fair amount of the universities in Central and Eastern Europe that I see pop up warnings in LibreWolf because their security certificates are suspicious. When I view the cert, it says it's from "Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions CA".

So I don't know if the sites are truly compromised or if LibreWolf just doesn't like certs signed by this org.

It makes me want to ralph the % of funded PhDs in "computer touching for plant science" there are vs. the % of "plant touching to actually observe the living world, esp during climate emergency, and formulate hypotheses based on that observation" there are.

Especially programmers that care about accessibility, IMO

"16 to 18 Oct 2026, the EU Agri-Hackathon will connect participants with top experts in #agriculture, technology and research as well as business leaders & policymakers from all over Europe.

Are you a farmer, data analyst, developer, researcher, entrepreneur, student, agri-food professional or policy expert from the EU?

Sign up for the first ever EU Agri-Hackathon "

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/vision-overview/digitalisation/eu-agri-hackathon_en

#Agriculture #Hackathon #EU #Accessibility

PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics at Uppsala University

- Have a grasp of key concepts in ecology and evolutionary biology/genetics.
- Have experience with programming and scripting.
- Be highly motivated and curious and thrive in a collaborative environment.
- Be able to take responsibility for carrying out and finishing independent tasks and projects.
- Candidates must be able to express themselves at a high level in spoken as well as written English

https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/type:job/jobID:967249/?where=26

Farm workers mourn Mo Jourdane, who got California to ban el cortito, the crippling short-handled hoe

“His mantra that he often repeated was if you see someone being harmed, you do something about it,” recalled Olivia Flores Jourdane, his wife and partner of more than 42 years. “That was how he lived his life.”

https://ufw.org/farm-workers-mourn-mo-jourdane-who-got-california-to-ban-el-cortito-the-crippling-short-handled-hoe/ #Agriculture #Ergonomics #Labor #Union

"In a 1989 survey of 126 US medical schools, only three of them reported use of the original oath, while thirty-three used the Declaration of Geneva, sixty-seven used a modified Hippocratic Oath, four used the Oath of Maimonides, one used a covenant, eight used another oath, one used an unknown oath, and two did not use any kind of oath. Seven medical schools did not reply to the survey."

Wonder what it would be now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

#USpol #Medicine #Ethics

I would really appreciate it if Mastodon didn't "correct" my camel case'd hashtags to all lower case.

#IgNobel #Accessibility

"In case it’s needed, though, a word to anyone who is still intrigued by this compound: synthesizing or working with dimethylmercury at this point is not cool, edgy, transgressive, or something to impress the crowd with. It is a wildly stupid idea that will endanger your life and the lives of anyone unlucky enough to be around you while this work is going on. Not to mention anyone who is simply unlucky enough to be downwind." - Derek Lowe

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alleged-dimethylmercury-incident #Ethics #Chemistry

I appreciate that INRAE shows these in English, but before using the word 'cocktail' in a long title, you might want to think about how it could be truncated.

n.b. The full title is "Chronic Oral Exposure to a Cocktail of Inorganic Food Additives:
Impacts on the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and Consequences for Health"

Taskmaster Antarctica!

Apparently the scientists, et alia at Antarctica decided to put together their own version of Taskmaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N5Y68ads7U #Antarctica #Taskmaster #Games

Anyone not able to make it to Zurich to see the Ig Nobel Prize award ceremony in person and want to do a watch party here on Mastodon? https://improbable.com/2026/08/24/official-announcement-of-the-official-watch-parties/

September 3, 2026 7PM CET (1PM EST, 10AM PST, 11PM IST)

36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUgqUq53HRw #IgNobel #Science #AcademicChatter #STEM

This PhD seems made for Mastodon:

"Passenger behavioural response to planned railway maintenance disruptions"

https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_WWFu7i2di7aDSu27w8 #Trains #Psychology #Transport #PhD

Followed up a job just listed as "predoctoral position" to find they were looking for folks to teach about the "obesity crisis".

Now having fantasies of organizing nothing but fat scientists with Masters degrees to apply for it...