The SETAC SciCon virtual space is getting ready to welcome you, starting with the opening ceremony on Sunday May 3rd! In this blog, Kelly Derom from SETAC Europe is giving us a sneak peek of what’s ahead from May 3-7.
Continue readingThe German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is hiring a scientist to evaluate ecological impacts of drugs used in human and animal medicine, within its department of chemical safety located near Leipzig.
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In this post, Lara Petschick talks about the recent publication “Modeling Regulatory Threshold Levels for Pesticides in Surface Waters from Effect Databases”, which explains how existing ecotoxicological effect databases can be used to generate high-quality effect thresholds for large-scale environmental risk assessments.
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In this post, Lara Petschick, Sebastian Stehle and Carsten Brühl share their experiences when visiting Costa Rica to establish a collaboration on Tropical Ecotoxicology with colleagues from the University Nacional in Heredia.
Continue readingRWTH Aachen University is hiring a junior professor (W1, tenure track) in computational life science and environmental sciences.
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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 RECETOX Centre of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic offers 2 PhD positions within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network “Best chemical risk assessment professionals for maximum Ecosystem Services benefit (PRORISK)”.
Continue readingUniversity of Sheffield in the UK is offering two PhD positions in ecology and ecotoxicology as part of the European Training Network PRORISK.
Continue readingThe Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is looking for a Global Executive Director.
SETAC’s mission is to support the advancement and application of scientific research related to contaminants and other stressors in the environment, education in the environmental sciences, and the use of science in environmental policy and decision-making.
The Global Executive Director serves the SETAC World Council with delegated authority, both as an ambassador and principal administrator for the Society.
For more details, please see the official job posting.
The Syngenta product safety team is currently seeking an aquatic risk modelling PostDoc for their Basel office, Switzerland.
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