TIBS Newsletter – Autumn 2026
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Training Course — Beyond binary maps: fuzzy logic for threshold-free estimates of diversity, similarity and change
Moderator: Dr A. Márcia BarbosaDatesDay 1: Tuesday, February 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2: Wednesday, February 17, 14:00-16:30 UTCDescription:Species have continually changing distributions, and they occur with varying frequency across space. Categorical [...]
Training Course — Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian non-parametric regression trees
Moderator: Dr A. Márcia Barbosa Dates:Day 1: Tuesday, December 15, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2: Wednesday, December 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 3: Thursday, December 17, 14:00-16:30 UTC Description:Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) [...]
Training Course — Strategic Coding Practices: Reproducible Coding For Large Open-Ended Projects
Moderator: Dr. Nicholas J. Gotelli Dates Day 1: Wednesday, October 14, 14:00-16:00 UTC + 17:00–19:00 UTC Day 2: Thursday, October 15, 14:00-16:00 UTC Description: Most researchers know how to [...]
Discussion Forum — Strategies for Successful Publication in Peer Reviewed Journals
Moderator: Nick GotelliPanelists: Ulises Balza, Andressa Cabral, Mark Costello, Simon Darroch, Marta Jarzyna, Mark Lomolino, Pablo Marquet, Toby Pennington, Susanne Renner, Alexandria ShupinskiDate: Thursday, November 12, 16:00 UTCDescription:Peer-reviewed publications are [...]
October 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – I-Ching Chen
The Moving Baseline: Global Biodiversity Redistribution and the Paradigms It Leaves Behind Check back soon! Keep an eye on our social medias and e-mail feed to [...]
September 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – Fangliang He
Are rare species maintained by stronger NDD? A still-unresolved problem A central focus in ecology is identifying mechanisms that maintain species diversity, particularly the coexistence of [...]
Postdoc position in Landscape Ecology & Biodiversity Science, University of Potsdam
The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position (100%, TV-L 13), starting as soon as possible. We work at the interface [...]
August 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar – Carlos Daniel Cadena
The origin and fate of megadiversity: A look from the northern Andes Northern South America harbors an extraordinary share of the world's biological diversity, and [...]