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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yesterday, I went back to Doñana's marshaland after almost one year. The extraordinay flooding of this spring and summer made innaccesible the area by car until now, what is a problem to replace batteries and cards of #AudioMoths. Always a luxury to work here. #BIRDeep

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Carlos 🐾 @carlosgarsan2.bsky.social · Sep 4

📷 Cogujada montesina (Galerida theklae)

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Javier Martín @txaverius.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Más de un 3% de las hubaras canarias podrían morir anualmente a causa de la depredación por gatos, que pasaría a ser la tercera causa de mortalidad de origen antropogénico, sólo superada por las colisiones con tendidos eléctricos y telefónicos y los atropellos".

En @revistaquercus.bsky.social

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Aug 22

Following Matthias Rillig's advice, I'm celebrating that the just received evaluation of the grant #BIRDeep (2022-2024), in which I was the PI, is overall positive. The evaluation committee qualified the results of the project as "satisfactory". It's a relief and a small milestone in my career

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Aug 21

Celebrating the small wins in academia….a reminder to myself (and maybe you….)

Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)

open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Celebrating the small wins in academia

A little reminder...

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In

The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In

peercommunityin.org

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Aug 21

What kinds of life are possible? How can we know about that regarding life origins? Here's our new paper to appear in @royalsocietypublishing.org with C Kempes & S Stepney. Check our space of the possible for replicators. @sfiscience.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · Aug 20

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery

A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification of hidden cell types and the dev...

www.cell.com

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Aug 19

En este divertido podcast de
@SEO_BirdLife
hablamos de ecoacústica y de cómo las nuevas tecnologías permiten avanzar en el seguimiento de aves. Un placer colaborar con el equipo de #lasavesenserio
#bioacoustics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqCU...

🎙️Ep. 2x02 - "Futurimiento": tecnología en el mundo pajarero.

YouTube video by SEOBirdLife

www.youtube.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

doi.org

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Si alguno está cerca de Navajeda (Cantabria) esta tarde y le apetece venir al chulísimo bar de La Central Navajeda, daré una charla sobre inteligencia artificial aplicada al seguimiento acústico pasivo de aves en Doñana. #BIRDeep #Ecoacoustics

www.elfaradio.com/2025/08/13/a...

Así está ayudando la inteligencia artificial al seguimiento de las aves en Doñana - El Faradio | Periodismo que cuenta

Tiempo de lectura: 3 min Comparte en redes Facebook Twitter Bluesky Whatsapp Email La Central Navajeda, el proyecto que ha recuperado el antiguo bar de este pueblo de Entrambasaguas y lo ha dotado de ...

www.elfaradio.com

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is the 1st August (school holidays and official holidays at the University) and I received five requests as reviewer/editor at the same time... It's great that authors want to submit their paper before holidays, but the also reviewers and editors need a break.

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Jose A. Esteban @jaestebancbm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Y aquí va la distribución completa de proyectos:
- 2/3 partes de los proyectos tienen 50.000€ o menos por año. Esto no cambia.
- La financiación media por proyecto baja ligeramente (2%) respecto al PID2023.
- El porcentaje de éxito cae al 46% (49% en el PID2023).

La ciencia en España se estanca. 😕

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sure, Matthew, I am prone to collaborate with you! I have another project in which I collected faeces of birds to analyze their content using metabarcoding, but I'm still looking for funding for this. Contact me in September, please, and we can plan better your future visit to Seville!!

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jul 23

You can find here the link to the online article, published open access in Ecological Informatics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#bioacoustics #BIRDeep

A bird song detector for improving bird identification through deep learning: A case study from Doñana

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which uses devices like automatic audio recorders, has become a fundamental tool in conserving and managing natural…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm thrilled to share with you our lattest publication with the brilliant Alba Márquez as the first author. We propose here a two-stage pipeline for analyzing audios from a acoustic monitoring programme in #Doñana; 1) using a detector of vocalizations, 2) a fine-tuned classificator. #bioacoustics

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Cazar con plomo no tiene sentido: contamina la cadena trófica y perjudica la salud de los que se alimentan de la carne cazada. Un grupo de científicos hemos pedido un cese total y sin excepciones del uso de plomo en la caza.
www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

Científicos urgen al Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación a apoyar un cese total y sin excepciones del uso de plomo en la caza | Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC

www.ebd.csic.es

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Jun 27

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Our field kits are better equiped for snake bites than for #menstruation". Very impacting presentation from @paleobicha.bsky.social explaining how we overlook menstruation in field work campaings. #SIBECOLAEET2025 @eco-aeet.bsky.social www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

Very excited of being here in Pontevedra with such a great offer of interesting talks, posters, and scientific interactions!

III SIBECOL & XII AEET MEETING @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social · Jun 2

And we’re off! The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail. This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ups, I missed it!

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

This was the full list of speakers. And the chairs of the session! Come to chat if you are around the #SIBECOLAEET2025 meeting.

Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

We have had a great session on ecoacoustics at the #SIBECOLAEET2025 meeting in Pontevedra. Great speakers and very interesting questions from the audience, it was a great success! @eco-aeet.bsky.social @bigbiodataaeet.bsky.social #REIE #bioacoustics

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Laura Hernández Mateo @laurahmt.bsky.social · Jun 3

We have started!with the great @phenogirl.bsky.social talking about Doñana birds trends using EcosAcustic to monitor them🐦🐦‍⬛🐧
#SIBECOLAEET2025 @bigbiodataaeet.bsky.social @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

#BIgBioData

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Zaida Ortega Diago @zaiortega.bsky.social · Jun 3

Great talk by @phenogirl.bsky.social on bioacoustics at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

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Irene Mendoza @phenogirl.bsky.social · May 19

A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings

www.researchsquare.com

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