Proper design of your figures is an important step towards successful science communication. In this blogpost, I want to provide you with the basics of colors and how to correctly use colors for plotting your results.
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Creating and exporting figures in R can be tedious for beginners or intermediates. Therefore, I created a ggplot2 template for figures that follows the formatting requirements of the Science Magazine.
Continue readingRifcon in Hirschberg, Germany, is hiring within their effect modelling and statistics team to apply and develop ecological and ecotoxicological models for environmental risk assessments.
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Increased efficacy of pesticides comes along with decreased applied amounts in agriculture – but does this translate to lower risks to non-target species? The answer is NO, if you ask scientists at the University of Koblenz-Landau who recently published a study in Science assessing changes in the use of 381 pesticides and toxicity to eight non-target species groups over the course of 25 years. In our blog, the authors explain the shifts in applied pesticide toxicity they found, and which species are increasingly at risk.
Continue readingThe Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) is hiring a tenure-track group lead in integrative ecological systems analysis for model-based analysis of ecological and environmental data from aquatic systems.
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Eurofins MITOX in Southern France is hiring a Study Director and Facility Assistant who will be responsible for the performance of regulatory GLP field studies according to the relevant OECD guidelines.
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In this post, Andreas Scharmüller introduces Standartox, a tool that continuously incorporates the ever-growing number of ecotoxicity test results in an automated process workflow. It provides single aggregated data points for a specific chemical-organism test combination that represents the toxicity of a chemical. These values can be used for the derivation of toxic units (TU) or species sensitivity distributions (SSD).
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How to get started in the statistics program R? In our free online course, you will learn to manage, analyse, and visualise your environmental data. The aim of this workshop developed by Landau researcher Jakob Wolfram is to teach environmental scientists the basics in R, so that they can further their career or studies.
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In this article, Jakob Wolfram talks about their recent publication “Graphing Ecotoxicology: The MAGIC graph for Linking Environmental Data on Chemicals”. This work detailed how a novel database structure was used to manage, aggregate, and harmonize different environmental databases in order to address large-scale environmental issues.
Continue readingThe European Commission is offering a traineeship on analysing temporal trends in chemical exposure using their Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring (IPCHEM).
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