The 4th INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” will take place from October 12 to 17, 2026 in Ariège, in the French Pyrenees. Its target is an audience of researchers (including graduate, post-doctoral and early career) with strong prior experience in theoretical community ecology and modelling.
More info on the event webpage
We learn early that the work isn't supposed to feel good now. It's supposed to pay off later, so we tolerate. The resistance you feel opening a document is the same resistance a meditator feels sitting with discomfort. And it responds to the same thing: honest, gentle attention.
Who this is for: Researchers, writers, developers, designers, creative and intellectual workers — anyone who chose work they love and suspects they might have lost touch …
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What actually drives your science? Not the fundable version—the real thing. The questions you think about in the shower. The worldview you're not sure you're allowed to admit. The intuitions that feel too personal to put in a paper.
This workshop is about facing them together.
Every participant presents their work—not the polished conference version, but the real questions underneath. We map the field's landscape together through structured discussions, then self-organize into collaboration sessions …
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This is an experimental format in a style of a "science summer camp" for adults, combining introductions to multiple scientific and interdisciplinary research areas, creative workshops, active area explorations, and thoughtful discussions on a variety of science and society topics.
We aim to create an intellectually stimulating, open and social environment, an active retreat from the day-to-day, where you get to learn, explore and experiment - all while in a beautiful setting of the French Pyrenees, staying in a big …
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Following up on our 2025 Spring School, we are happy to announce the upcoming 2026 summer school
Like the previous edition, it will be taught by a team of interdisciplinary mathematical modellers and complex systems researchers, and aims to provide a broad overview of community ecology, i.e. the science of biodiversity, and how theoreticians from diverse fields can contribute to its development.
Please visit the dedicated webpage for more information!
On May 8, our friend Sébastien Ibanez, co-founder and member of INTP from 2020 to 2024, passed away at the age of 44 in an accident on the Aiguille de l’Olan.
Sébastien was an exceptional alpine ecologist, philosopher and mountaineer, as profound in his thinking as in his teaching, activism, and ability to confront extreme physical challenges. His latest work spoke to the Balance of Nature, to the virtues and pitfalls of understanding ecosystems as living entities or collectives, …
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We had the pleasure of welcoming a group of PhD students from INRAE Occitanie-Toulouse for a full week of focused work.
Highlights of the week:
Intense working sessions
Rich exchanges
Shared meals, because good science happens over good food
Meaningful human and intellectual connections
A huge thank you to these brilliant PhD students for their energy and enthusiasm. We hope to see you again soon!
We are organizing a writing retreat (for articles, theses, personal projects, fiction...) at INTP the end of this month, from Monday Oct 27 to Friday 31.
For participants who want it, we will propose a working agenda (writing sessions of 50 min with 10 min break), but it is not compulsory of course!
If interested, feel free to register through here, as for our normal residencies (same conditions apply), or send us an email if you have any questions.
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The 3rd INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” will take place from October 6 to 11, 2025 in Ariège, in the French Pyrenees. Its target is an interdisciplinary audience of researchers (including graduate, post-doctoral and early career) with strong prior experience in theoretical community ecology and modelling.
Every edition draws on the previous ones to progress toward a more unified perspective on theory in community ecology. The program is constructed jointly by the lecturers, revisiting a broad …
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A 3- to 5-day retreat where participants (researchers or doctoral students) make progress on their own research, while sharing daily scientific discussion times, both indoors and during mountain walks.
Discussions will especially aim to address challenges and roadblocks in one's current work, brainstorm ways to overcome them, drawing on insights from a group of colleagues with a common background.
We hope that the retreat may also foster new collaborations between researchers of different institutes, who might not otherwise have such …
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