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Gabby Palomo, PhD

@gabspalomo.bsky.social

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Carnivore Ecologist 🐅🐆🦝🦨🦦🐾 Data scientist 👩🏻‍💻 Latina in STEM 🇬🇹 rstats, ecology, Bayesian stats. gabspalomo.github.io

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · Nov 10

I made a Carnivore Ecologists Starter Pack! If you want to be added, please let me know 🤩🐻🐻‍❄️🐺🦨🦡🐾🦭🦊🦦🦝🐆🐅

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 1h

Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 8h

“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍

#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism

We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ben Schneider @bschneidr.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks to the interesting {capybara} R package, I just came across this nice Hadley Wickham quote:

> “He who gives up code safety for code speed deserves neither.”

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 1d

Greater noctule #bats use echolocation to track migrating #birds and consume them on the wing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 1d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 1d

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 2d

Advocacy in support of 'wild horses' in the West has become so strong that even in sensitive areas like the scenic Mono Basin, agencies are now more inclined (or forced) to let entire landscapes be chronically degraded by overgrazing. Another example where science-based mgmt has been steamrolled. 🌍

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 3d

Magnificent story from @lilaseidman.bsky.social about a plan to limit environmental damage caused by wild horses in California's Eastern Sierra — and the fascinating pushback, including from some local tribes: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Majestic wild horses are trampling Mono Lake’s otherworldly landscape. The feds plan a roundup

Federal officials plan to round up wild horses roaming the Eastern Sierra, citing hazards and damage. But local tribes and others seek a different outcome.

www.latimes.com

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 2d

How the Queens Zoo is helping to save a New England rabbit, writes the @nytimes.com.

The New England cottontail population has shrunk by more than 80 percent since the 1960s.

🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

How the Queens Zoo Is Helping to Save a New England Rabbit

www.nytimes.com

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 2d

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 2d

I’m putting together a Zoom workshop for graduate students and researchers who want to keep track of the impact of their research. Is this something that you’d be interested for your students? It can be 40-60 min long. 🌎

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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 5d

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

doi.org

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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 4d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 3d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 4d

Alien Earth

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Alexander L. Metcalf, PhD @metcalfhdlab.bsky.social · 5d

I have four (!) papers that have been in review so long that my mind, energy, and entire lab has moved on yet they still linger waiting for the minor-ist of edits to make their way through the never ending gauntlet of reviewer/AE/editor back and forth checkboxing. Good lord this system is broken.

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 5d

The other thing I want to do today is upload my contributions for TidyTuesday’s datasets. I have the links ready just need to figure out how to make the contribution.

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 5d

I´ve been putting off working on my website and fixing a few issues but today is the day. I did it in Quarto and cannot even begin to tell you how easy it is to fix things and change things around. One of the things I want to start working on is my Data Viz Portfolio.

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Dr Jacinta Humphrey @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social · 7d

Are you looking to attract native birds to your garden this spring? 🦜 🏡 Here's some top tips from @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social and yours truly!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#BirdsInBackyards #UrbanNature #WildlifeGardening #CitizenScience

Birds and cities don’t always mix well. But small changes in our behaviour can make a difference

Spring is a great time of year for noticing neighbourhood birds. Here are some simple ideas for helping the birds in Australian back yards, cities and towns

www.theguardian.com

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Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 8d

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 8d

*affair. Sorry for all the typos. Sticky fingers 🍓 🫙🪼

Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 8d

I hate it when this happens 🤣 I was peacefully enjoying my bagel with strawberry jam and of course it was a messy afair an dall of a sudden bam! a student: “Hi Gabby, sorry to interrupt you but could you help me with this…”. Half my lower jaw covered in jam 🤣

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 9d

One of the best things I learned in therapy is that there is nothing wrong with me or my personality. I just have certain attitudes and behaviors that I can change if I want to. Thought patterns too. This took me years to internalize but once I did I found peace.

Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 9d

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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