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ibartomeus.bsky.social
Do you want to make ECOSISTEMAS a well-used and fair journal? We are looking for associate editors.
ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 56m
¡Atención!

¡Buscamos nuevos Editores Asociados! 🔎

Abrimos la convocatoria para incorporar nuevos editores asociados a nuestra plantilla, principalmente para aquellas áreas aún poco representadas. ¿Estás interesado/a? Te contamos más en los siguientes tweets.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Ole!
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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paniw.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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gorizaola.bsky.social
Have a happy day and let's celebrate #Darwin!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alioli_...
Alioli de membrillo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Google Scholar is trying AI, and it's not too bad: scholar.google.com/scholar_labs... I like that it mainly ranks papers by relevance (and gives a quick assessment), and let you read the actual titles, etc...
scholar.google.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Regarding COP outcomes and the climate and biodiversity crises:
globalecoguy.bsky.social Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 2d
I think we need to stop putting so much emphasis on federal governments and international negotiations. Yes, they could help. But they've failed us badly during the last 30+ years.

Maybe we can put a bit more attention on community-based solutions, affordable decarbinization tools, and markets?
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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willglennyphbee.bsky.social
Turns out, a lot of the plants we use for bee habit enhancement are already common and mostly support those darn common generalists!

Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social for the help getting this across the line

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Flowers for habitat enhancement primarily benefit common insect pollinators across temperate grasslands
Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators. By defining the ecological roles...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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saoirsekelleher.eco
Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/
Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Quarto / Rnw) Documents in Google Drive
Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Quarto / Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or Quarto / .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily re...
claudiozandonella.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Reformation of Science Publishing
The Stockholm Declaration sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...
The Stockholm Declaration | sciii-it.org
The Stockholm Declaration calls for reform to protect academic freedom and integrity
sciii-it.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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billurbektas.bsky.social
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social
Mi carta en @science.org sobre la necesidad de alinear la prevención de incendios forestales con la conservación.
Los incendios de 2025 en España han reavivado políticas basadas en la eliminación de los arbustos, en contra de los objetivos de conservación de la UE.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Gracias, me encanto estar ahi!
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Let's make @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social a fair and well-used journal!
dannykay68.bsky.social Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 10d
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Gracias, a ver si la sacan ya y pudo citarla :)
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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jpollecol.bsky.social
Managed honeybees affect the foraging behaviour of bumblebees in Geranium sylvaticum - new study out by Soininen et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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leibnizlib.bsky.social
#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035

@cscherber.bsky.social
Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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esrebelcientif.bsky.social
Entre el 12 y el 17 de noviembre salimos junto con el resto de colectivos que componemos la Alianza por el Clima a las calles de toda España durante la COP30.

📍✊ Busca tu movilización más cercana de Alianza por el Clima en este mapa:

www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/e...

🌎 Con el mundo, por el planeta
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Ha salido publicada ya?
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Are you a pollinator taxonomist? EPIC project wants to know about you: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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elenadconcepcion.bsky.social
Because fine words butter no parsnips on 🌍 protection, the EU must move forwards from good intentions to action now‼️
I tell about it in a 📝 just published in #npjBiodiversity
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
EU’s fork in a changing world: leading the transition or losing momentum? - npj Biodiversity
The EU institutions must align their visions for the future and decide if the EU will lead the transformative systemic change required to achieve the United Nations’ goals on climate, biodiversity, an...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Con un emoticono de sonrisa detras ya todo bien
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Reclama eso! (Educadamente)
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNsF...
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM