Sergio Cabrera
@serchenheim.bsky.social
Guiado por la curiosidad. Hasta ahora: aeroecología, aves, contaminación lumínica, energía eólica, migración, mortalidad, murciélagos. Intereses en evolución. Síndrome del impostor.
INECOL AC, México
INECOL AC, México
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
January 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
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We should not use gen AI to “hone” or “clarify” our writing. That’s part of the valuable struggle! Sitting with and fighting ideas to make them clearer is part of the gift of science. It helps us become better communicators because we’ve been in the trenches with our ideas
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We should not use gen AI to “hone” or “clarify” our writing. That’s part of the valuable struggle! Sitting with and fighting ideas to make them clearer is part of the gift of science. It helps us become better communicators because we’ve been in the trenches with our ideas
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This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
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Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/
Avian Conservation and Ecology: Our Editors
ace-eco.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/
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Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
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We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The first study to survey insect populations on a continental scale finds no evidence of widespread decline, at least over a recent 10-year period. https://scim.ag/4pnb6hN
Radar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catch
Study of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle
scim.ag
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The first study to survey insect populations on a continental scale finds no evidence of widespread decline, at least over a recent 10-year period. https://scim.ag/4pnb6hN
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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This thread:
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This thread:
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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There is much wisdom and vision here ... "multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a “dangerous tool” that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science." #TheoryShouldAlsoGuideModelSelection 🧪
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There is much wisdom and vision here ... "multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a “dangerous tool” that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science." #TheoryShouldAlsoGuideModelSelection 🧪
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Check out the new Key Biodiversity Areas website at www.keybiodiversityareas.org. Helpful guidance on what KBAs are, how they are being used by governments & other end-users, how to get involved, unprecedented access to the full dataset etc. @keybiodiversity.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
Key Biodiversity Areas
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October 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Check out the new Key Biodiversity Areas website at www.keybiodiversityareas.org. Helpful guidance on what KBAs are, how they are being used by governments & other end-users, how to get involved, unprecedented access to the full dataset etc. @keybiodiversity.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
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Population-level migration modeling of North American birds through data integration with BirdFlow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679621v1
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Population-level migration modeling of North American birds through data integration with BirdFlow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679621v1
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Sampling bias obscures biodiversity patterns, reveals data gaps in priority conservation areas: a call for improved documentation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.13.676052v1
September 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Sampling bias obscures biodiversity patterns, reveals data gaps in priority conservation areas: a call for improved documentation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.13.676052v1
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Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
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The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673375v1
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673375v1
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Are you a WOS member interested in generative AI? We are seeking volunteers for a new ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around its use for the society.
Seeking Members for New Committee on AI Usage
Join our ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around the use of generative artificial intelligence.
wilsonsociety.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Are you a WOS member interested in generative AI? We are seeking volunteers for a new ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around its use for the society.
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Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice
All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)"
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)"
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice
All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)"
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)"
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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Excited to share our new study on how language barriers affect conservation science. We found that non-English research especially in Hungarian, Polish, Korean & Russian is undercited in English, despite local impact.
Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Excited to share our new study on how language barriers affect conservation science. We found that non-English research especially in Hungarian, Polish, Korean & Russian is undercited in English, despite local impact.
Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC
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We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations.
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
May 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations.
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations!
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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I'm launching a completely new open and free online course in early December, along with the first batch of video courses for openvisualizationacademy.org I'll announce the (long!) list of (great!) contributors very soon #dataViz 📊
Who here took @albertocairo.com's MOOC on dataviz 📊 back in the fall of 2012?
Years ago, on the old platform, we realized that so many of us who now have a career in dataviz were there.
Reply to this thread if you took part. 👇 🧵
Years ago, on the old platform, we realized that so many of us who now have a career in dataviz were there.
Reply to this thread if you took part. 👇 🧵
May 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm launching a completely new open and free online course in early December, along with the first batch of video courses for openvisualizationacademy.org I'll announce the (long!) list of (great!) contributors very soon #dataViz 📊