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Catherine Hulshof
@hulshof.bsky.social
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Chicana ecologist and poet. Biodiversidad y cambio climático. Associate Professor. Fulbright scholar + CAREER awardee. Founder Big Red Pen Grant Review. biodiversityresearchlab.com

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 7d
Resist and unsubscribe. #resist #unsubscribe
profgalloway.com Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 9d
Trump cares most about the markets. The best strategy is to opt out.

We’re asking you to join a monthlong national economic strike targeting tech and AI companies. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Reposted by Els Torreele, Catherine M. Hulshof

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 9d
Trump cares most about the markets. The best strategy is to opt out.

We’re asking you to join a monthlong national economic strike targeting tech and AI companies. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 21d
I couldn't decide if this was a requiem for an American dream or an American illusion. Written by an author who overly recognized their privilege, not leaving much hope for the rest of us. Still worth a read.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Catherine M. Hulshof

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · Jan 8
New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference.
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Matching climate to biological scales
Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depe...
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Jan 3
I've been working towards my degree equivalencia in Spain. If you've recently made the leap from U.S. faculty to E.U. or España in ecology fields please DM. I would love to pick your brain about ERC, ATRAE, etc.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Jan 3
Please add our lab. We are launching multi taxa biodiversity monitoring in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica this year. Gracias!

Reposted by Jesse R. Lasky, Catherine M. Hulshof

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · Jan 3
I’m an accidental Professor of Latin American Studies, but am nevertheless comfortable asserting that - given the US track record when it comes to regime change in Latin America - this is going to be a fucking disaster.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Jan 1
2026 San Antonio style.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Dec 25
Just love the graphics and collage effects of this video.
aeon.co Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Dec 25
Blending live action, animation, and a soulful, hip-hop-infused beat, director Tajana Tokyo offers a rich snapshot of how relationships are understood in Sierra Leone, and how those views diverge from Western ideas – from divorce and cheating to why you should never ‘marry a man you like too much.’
Never marry a man you love too much, and other views on romance in Sierra Leone | Aeon Videos
A playful collage of audio interviews captures candid and revealing reflections on love, sex and marriage in Sierra Leone
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Dec 25
Blending live action, animation, and a soulful, hip-hop-infused beat, director Tajana Tokyo offers a rich snapshot of how relationships are understood in Sierra Leone, and how those views diverge from Western ideas – from divorce and cheating to why you should never ‘marry a man you like too much.’
Never marry a man you love too much, and other views on romance in Sierra Leone | Aeon Videos
A playful collage of audio interviews captures candid and revealing reflections on love, sex and marriage in Sierra Leone
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Reposted by Catherine M. Hulshof

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Dr Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi @olivierjlmanzi.bsky.social · Dec 24
A great way to end the year! Our new paper, led by Daniel B. Metcalfe and published in @NatureComms, shows how biases in tropical research risk undermining environmental policy where it matters most. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gaps in tropical science from unrepresentative distribution of sampling and citation across natural terrestrial environments - Nature Communications
Research in the tropics is unevenly distributed across regions and biomes. Here, the authors find that moist broadleaf forests account for 73% of all tropical citations but cover 29% of the land area,...
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Dec 23
I just won a $20 bet from my sister. I haven't been home 1 hour and my dad asks what I'm gonna do with that box of stuff I have in the closet.

The time capsule has to stay. Happy Holidays from the Hulshof's!

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Dec 21
At the end of each year we do strategic planning for the next year, a good time to review principles of slow productivity.
1. Work on fewer things
2. Work at a natural pace
3. Quality over quantity

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Dec 17
A bit ago there was a paper or thread making the rounds arguing against Bonferroni correction when looking at many correlations. Anyone remember source?

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julia Koricheva, Garry Peterson , and 21 more

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · Dec 16
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Reposted by Anthony Ricciardi, Stephen D. Murphy, Catherine M. Hulshof

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Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · Dec 15
In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.
Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews
Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des
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Reposted by Catherine M. Hulshof

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Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social · Dec 2
Researchers choose Dryad for all kinds of reasons. One of the biggest is our curatorial team.

Expert data curators screen each submission and work with researchers to ensure high-quality, FAIR-compliant data publications.

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#opendata #openscience #openaccess #datasharing #scisky
How Dryad data curators help make data sharing simple for researchers | Dryad news
Data sharing can be challenging. Dryad’s experienced data curators smooth the way with expert, hands-on support for researchers to ensure that all the data we publish is findable, accessible, interope...
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Reposted by Catherine M. Hulshof

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Harim B. Gutiérrez @harimbgutierrez.bsky.social · Nov 29
1- El truculento caso de la revista "Science of the Total Environment" que cobra 3600 euros por publicar un paper, y cuyo director figuró como coautor de 200 artículos publicados allí mismo. elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia
Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 29
'Nobody wants to scale back the industrialization of education it would mean losing money'

Are we still not convinced that education is outdated, not meeting needs of millions and perpetuating inequities? But I've yet to see viable alternatives (except maybe the return of trade schools)

Reposted by Catherine M. Hulshof

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Nov 29
This is wild:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 27
I had the same Q. Many people handle a manuscript (editor, handling editor, reviewers). Who's not doing their job and how do we oust these bad actors? If we don't, publishing in certain outlets becomes meaningless. That's why I publish w/ society journals. You know the people behind the process.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 27
In it's early days @nytwirecutter.bsky.social was the alternative to Consumer Reports but now it just encourages rampant consumerism, wrapped up in mirages of 'quality'. Today's digestif long read:

Why I Broke Up With Wirecutter share.google/Eve6L92jBbKB...
Why I Broke Up With Wirecutter
Graham Downey tells us about how he tried to stop worrying and love the Wirecutter—and how it quietly took over his life.
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 27
When the turpials arrive, hurricane season is over, trade winds start, and surf is up in #PuertoRico. The tropics have many seasons too if you know how to look.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 24
Where does everyone send their tropical plant samples for species identification using DNA barcoding? Guelph?🙏 Leaves are preferable, but if the leaves are too high for pole pruner, what then? Cambium? Thanks for any leads.

Reposted by Catherine M. Hulshof

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Nov 19
🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 18
So: if you were to suspend your knee-jerk reaction and, instead, imagine a perfect world, what qualities would a pay-peer-reviewers model have to have for it to work? Now that's the interesting question/thought exercise no importa (y no judgement) whether you are for or against.

Fin.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 18
I'm not for or against. But I specialize in exploring ideas outside of how we currently operate. Because how we currently operate clearly ain't working.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 18
We are comfortable with NSF honorariums for review panelists but not comfortable with paying for manuscript reviewers. Why? NSF has prestige advantage? Volume/workload is different? Stakes are different?

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Nov 18
We love data yet are convinced by anecdotal feelings of how this would be a very bad, no good, terrible idea...without any kind of pilot data/info to base those feelings on...what do existing models out there say? I honestly don't know. Just spit-balling and looking for fellow spit-ballers.