Paul Savary
Assistant prof. in ecology and spatial modelling, and very curious (biodiversity, geography science and beyond!)
Enseignant-chercheur en écologie et modélisation spatiale
@Labo ThéMA, Univ. Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon, France
- Théo Quant, ça commence ce matin !! 👍
- Les Rencontres de Théo Quant auront lieu du 4 au 6 février 2026 à Besançon, organisées par le laboratoire ThéMA. Si la géographie théorique et quantitative, et ses thématiques connexes, sont au cœur de vos recherches, inscrivez-vous. 👉 theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org
- Quel dommage ! On lit (ci-dessous) : Bixi est passé de 250 000 à 700 000 usagers de 2021 à 2025, et a permis 14.5 millions de déplacements à vélo en 2025 (+9% par rapport à 2024). Son financement passe de 10,5-14 millions/an à 5.5 millions de dollars/an pour 2026-2028. Absurde !
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- New paper out! Savary, Tannier & Foltête. 2026. The negative impact of urban sprawl on biodiversity: a simulation approach to genetic diversity in European cities. Land.Urb.Plan. doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Sprawled cities could host less biodiversity than compact ones for the same overall built-up area
- ThéMA a le plaisir d'inviter Maxime Boivin, Professeur à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, pour une conférence publique sur la "Contribution des géographes à la gestion des rivières au Québec" Le 3 février de 17h à 19h à la MSHE Ledoux de Besançon thema.umlp.fr/grand-public...
- Huge thanks to the organizers of the 2026 Biennial Conference of The International Biogeography Society in Aarhus (Denmark) last week! Lots of great inspiring talks and an excellent organization! @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social
- New review out in Current Landscape Ecology Reports. I checked whether the use of distinct types of spatial networks in ecology has led to research silos or generated bridges among theoretical frameworks. Find out here: doi.org/10.1007/s408... And also: Happy New Year 2026!! 😀
- Les Rencontres de Théo Quant auront lieu du 4 au 6 février 2026 à Besançon, organisées par le laboratoire ThéMA. Si la géographie théorique et quantitative, et ses thématiques connexes, sont au cœur de vos recherches, inscrivez-vous. 👉 theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org
- Reposted by Paul SavaryNo paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
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- Reposted by Paul SavaryReally happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online! We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing. @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
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- Reposted by Paul SavaryOur cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks
- Thanks to Thomas Pradeu and the two hosts of today's PhilInBioMed webinar (Sam Scheiner, Alkistis Elliott-Graves) for a great discussion about the impact of philosophy and theoretical thinking on ecology (recording soon online I assume). I'll stay tuned for the next! philinbiomed.cnrs.fr
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- The analytical workflow does not need to be sophisticated for the empirical result to provide joy! #SundayInTheWoods
- Reposted by Paul SavaryIn our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
- Reposted by Paul SavaryEcology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
- Nouveau livret Graphab 2025 : 12 exemples d'applications du logiciel pour l'analyse de la connectivité des habitats. Merci à toutes les personnes ayant contribué, et aux collègues qui ont mis tout ça en forme ! @xaviergirardet.bsky.social thema.univ-fcomte.fr/productions/...
- Happy to announce an open post-doctoral position (24 months) in the ThéMA lab (Besançon, CNRS-Univ.Marie et Louis Pasteur) to work on the coupled modelling of population genetic structure and metacommunity dynamics in habitat networks. Details here: shorturl.at/7muyx For any questions, contact me!
- New preprint out! I did a literature review to check whether the use of distinct types of spatial networks in ecology has led to research silos or, instead, generated bridges among theoretical frameworks due to their methodological similarities. Find out here 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
- Les Rencontres de Théo Quant 2026 seront l'occasion de parler de géographie théorique et quantitative à Besançon du 4 au 6 février 2026 Fin de l'appel à résumés : 15 octobre 8 sessions sont prévues (dont "Structures paysagères et dynamiques de la biodiversité") theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr
- Reposted by Paul Savary🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️
- Reposted by Paul Savary📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
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- Interested in movement ecology, habitat connectivity, and graph theory? Here is an open post-doctoral position (12 months) proposed by J.C. Foltête in the ThéMA laboratory (CNRS-Univ. Marie et Louis Pasteur). More details here: shorturl.at/zKtpC For any questions, please contact us!
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- Reposted by Paul Savary@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
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- It was a pleasure to attend the @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social in Sherbrooke. The quality of presentations was impressive, the feedback very relevant and kind. I learned so much. Congrats to the organisation committee. I'll definitely recommend the next editions! Immense merci à mes collègues canadiens
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- Merci beaucoup au journal En Direct de l'Université Marie et Louis Pasteur pour cet article de vulgarisation très clair sur les recherches que nous menons avec mes collègues sur la dispersion des espèces et la connectivité des habitats : shorturl.at/4GSeO
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- Reposted by Paul Savary🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com
- Reposted by Paul SavaryReminder: It is next week!
- 📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0
- Encore 2 très bonnes journées de formation à Graphab avec une 15aine de personnes motivées et sympathiques, issues de collectivités, associations, bureaux d'études, labos de recherche Les prochaines dates pour se former à la modélisation des réseaux d'habitats : cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/modelisation...
- Reposted by Paul SavaryNew from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
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- A clever podcast episode about the importance of stupidity in scientific research: nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... I warmly recommend @nightsciencepod.bsky.social (since I use to sleep at night, this is more often "Bike Science" 🚴♂️🎧 than "Night Science" to me!)
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- Happy to share my views on a great paper by Borthagaray, Teixeira de Mello and Arim about the inference of complex fish dispersal patterns: doi.org/10.1111/1365... Thanks to JAE for this opportunity!! Check out this very interesting piece of work: doi.org/10.1111/1365... Congrats to the authors!
- Very interesting paper by Ottaviani et al. in #PCI-Ecology: "On the quest for novelty in ecology" doi.org/10.1101/2023... Great recommendation by F. Munoz: ecology.peercommunityin.org/PCIEcology/a... Are our findings novel or confirmatory? Do we do normal or revolutionary science (sensu Kuhn)?
- Vous pouvez désormais proposer des sessions pour les prochaines Rencontres de ThéoQuant (4-6 février 2026, Besançon) Deadline : 1er juin theoquant2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr Au programme : la géographie quantitative et ses applications (écologie, villes, aménagement du territoire, jeu d'acteurs)
- Reposted by Paul SavaryWhat I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
- Neutral [model] OR [theory], null [model] OR [hypothesis], baseline [model]: I hope that after reading this great paper I do not conflate these terms (anymore! 🤫) Bausman, W. C. (2018). Modeling : Neutral, Null, and Baseline. Philosophy of Science, 85(4), 594‑616. doi.org/10.1086/699021
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- Reposted by Paul SavaryEven accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
- Présentation très intéressante d'Arthur Guérin-Turcq aux rencontres du IALE France 2025 sur les "pyropaysages" créés par l'incendie de 2022 à La Teste de Buch en Gironde Quelques éléments ici : journals.openedition.org/paysage/33737
- La Vigotte Lab : une initiative intéressante de laboratoire vivant sur l'aménagement des paysages, l'agriculture, la foresterie dans un tiers-lieu de partage lavigottelab.org Merci à Léonore Debray pour sa présentation aux rencontres du IALE France 2025
- Merci au IALE France pour les rencontres annuelles d'écologie des paysages à Strasbourg. Au plaisir de revoir la communauté scientifique aux prochaines rencontres ! ecologie-paysages.sfecologie.org/groupe/iale-...
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- Café Géo organisé par les étudiant.e.s de l'AGFC. Rendez-vous le mercredi 2 avril à 18h à Besançon au bar La Fontaine : Mieux comprendre la biodiversité pour pérenniser le vivant Conférence suivie d'un débat. Entrée libre et gratuite shorturl.at/tQMd2
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- Reposted by Paul SavaryOut now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen
- Reposted by Paul SavaryBetween 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
