#Cesab
Sending buckets full of solidarity from Montpellier, France to the #StandUpForScience movement. Officially, with support from my institute #FRBiodiv @frbiodiv.bsky.social - and less formally with my #Cesab crew ✊🔬🌐🗽
March 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 Opening in April

Stay tuned ! 🌈

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February 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚀 The #CESAB is launching its 1st training course “AI for Ecologists: a Toolkit”!

📅 May 19–23, 2025, Montpellier, France

💡 Learn AI concepts & tools : lectures + hands-on practice on ecological data

🎯 Adapt algorithms for your research

👉 250€ (lunch included). Registration : bit.ly/3ZmClyI

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[FRB-CESAB] AI for ecologists: a toolkit - 2025 - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The Cesab – Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity – of the FRB is opening the first session of the training course «Artifical Intelligence for ecologists: a toolkit». This five-day tra...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.bsky.social 🧪🌐
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions

Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds

Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sharing some time with the #CESAB postdocs during our annual 3 days retreat in Montpellier. Amazing people, great science, and, above all, human kindness!

Love you all 🫶

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July 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📢 Migrating is not enough for planktonic foraminifera in a changing ocean !

Check our the last publication from our #CESAB group FORCIS, by soniachaabane.bsky.social tdegaridel.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

... their abundances have already decreased by 24 % !

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November 20, 2024 at 9:45 AM
hot off the press doi.org/10.1111/geb....
led by @oldenfish.bsky.social and featuring an array of fishy isotope folk funded by the CESAB programme of the @frbiodiv.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Want to download spatial shapefiles of protected areas for world countries using the World Database on Protected Areas API (WDPA) ?

👉 Here is the #CESAB worldpa #R pkg : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/

👉 vignette : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/arti...

Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 !

🧪🌐 🌍🦤#rstat
January 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🐟 #CESAB ONLINE conference 🐟

Fish biodiversity facing global change

📅 Dec 5
⏰ 2 to 6 pm Paris time
🔗 umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/95406319308

👉 Topics will cover imputation of missing fish traits, Red list assessments, heat waves, homogenization, fish stocks and fishery management

🧪🌐🌍🦤 #addOcean
December 2, 2024 at 10:36 AM
One equation to rule them all ? A unifying formal equation for eco-evolutionary change ✨

Check out the last publication of our #CESAB & #sDiv synthesis group #UNICOP by @victorluque.bsky.social & @bradduthie.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

👉 arxiv.org/abs/2409.10766

🧪 🌍 #evolution #ecology #popgen
November 22, 2024 at 12:47 PM
[📝Publication] Comprendre les déplacements des animaux dans des paysages fragmentés 🐾

Des lynx aux loutres, la modélisation peut guider les décisions de conservation. bit.ly/4akSsk1
#Cesab #Discar

@umontpellier.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @maeliskervellec.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🪱 Putting Earthworm conservation on the map!

Check out the last publication of our #CESAB LANDWORM and IMPACT groups by @sylvaingrd.bsky.social et al.

👉 bit.ly/4ij7sTg

🔑 They are soil keystones & face global threats, demanding broad-scale, multifaceted diversity indicators for conservation.

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December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM

🔬 Check out the official #CESAB GitHub repository for data, code, and resources to boost your biodiversity synthesis research ... from functional ecology to world pa, litterarure scraping, bayesian analysis and more! 🛠️

👉 frbcesab.github.io

#OpenScience #Biodiversity #DataSharing #R
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November 21, 2024 at 1:26 PM
🚀 Want to make your R code reproducible ?

👉 This post explains how to work with the #CESAB #R pkg rcompendium : bit.ly/4i1A6bn

🔑 Principles:
1️⃣ Organize files by conventions
2️⃣ Separate data, code, & results
3️⃣ Specify the computational environment

Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 !

🧪🌍🌐 #rstats
November 25, 2024 at 7:35 AM
‪Another wonderful CESAB FOOD-WEBS working group meeting in Montpellier! Super productive and creative time together. Funding: @frbiodiv.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
[📢 Call for proposals – FRB-CESAB 2026]
Two calls now open, funding 3 projects in total:

🌍 FRB-CESAB call (2 projects)
Biodiversity synthesis projects (natural & social sciences)

🌊 Thematic call with FFP (1 project)
Cumulative impacts on marine exploited ecosystems

+ info: bit.ly/41vLnK7
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[FRB-CESAB 2026] Two calls for proposals now open - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
FRB-Cesab 2026 General Call (two projects funded) Open to any synthesis project on biodiversity, involving natural sciences and/or social sciences and humanities. Projects exploring interactions betwe...
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April 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Want to list all packages used in you R project ?

👉 Here is the #CESAB rdeps #R pkg frbcesab.github.io/rdeps/

🔑 Principles:
1️⃣ Identify all external pkg used in a project (package, compendium, website, etc.)
2️⃣ List them in the DESCRIPTION file

Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 !

🧪🌐 #rstat
December 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier.
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS
[📢 Postdoc offer in Montpellier] Work on intraspecific diversity & translocation in Nature-based Solutions 🌿

Join the EVOLUTION Knowledge-Hub at the #FRB-CESAB

🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z

@cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Funding: CESAB programme of @frbiodiv.bsky.social. Great list of co-authors and fun working group! @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwfreshwater.bsky.social @profchrisharrod.bsky.social @profchrisharrod.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
✊ Science et connaissances sont à la base d’une action durable : l’équipe FRB soutient la mobilisation #StandUpForScience

➡️ Rendez-vous sur standupforscience.fr pour plus d'infos sur le mouvement

#FRBiodiv #Cesab
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Great must-read review paper on species redistribution ecology under anthropogenic climate change by Jake Lawlor et al. from the awesome #CESAB #BIOSHIFTS working group !

Out this week in NatRevEarthEnv

t.co/KD9sCDoF8s

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April 23, 2024 at 7:32 AM
We are opening our call for Biodiversity Synthesis projects at #CESAB in the beautiful, Montpellier 🌈, France

Up to 4 groups will be funded for 3 years: 5 (1 week) meetings + 24 mth postdocs !

Generic synthesis: bit.ly/4aC3fW6

Thematic synthesis: bit.ly/4aeEMq2

Please like and share, thx.

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April 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Another wonderful CESAB FOOD-WEBS working group meeting!. Such a wonderful and productive time (managed to submit 2 papers during the meeting) Special thanks to @profchrisharrod.bsky.social for hosting us at @sceneuog.bsky.social in Scotland! Funding: @frbiodiv.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Still time to apply to the #CESAB IdeaShare & DataShare call to advance BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM