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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

1500th bat species discovered in Africa www.batcon.org/press/1500th...

1,500th Bat Species Discovered in Africa's Equatorial Guinea

Breakthrough marks global milestone in biodiversity.

www.batcon.org

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · 14d

correct email is: [email protected]

Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · 17d

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab @behavecol-lab.bsky.social · 19d

Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

@mncn-csic.bsky.social,
@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

To learn more about our group, you can visit our website www.behavecol.es, or our account on X: @behavecol_lab. If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your CV and a motivation letter at this email: [email protected]

Inicio - Ecología del Comportamiento y Endocrinología

Descripcion del Museo de Ciencias Naturales

www.behavecol.es

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Fundación Global Nature @fundacionglobalnature.org · May 23

Gracias a todas las personas y organizaciones que han hecho posible este encuentro.

Ahora empieza el verdadero trabajo: proteger los humedales a lo largo de la ruta migratoria del carricerín cejudo. 💪

#LIFE_AWOM #Biodiversidad #Natura2000

europe.wetlands.org/awom/

Aquatic Warblers on the Move - Wetlands International Europe

Aquatic Warblers on the Move: Europe and Africa working together to safeguard wetlands The Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), Europe’s rarest migratory songbird: in the last 100 years, its pop...

europe.wetlands.org

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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · May 20

🌍🐦 This week we’re gathering in #Madrid to launch the LIFE AWoM project. An alliance between Europe and Africa to protect the Aquatic Warbler and the #wetlands it depends during its migration to survive.

#LIFE_AWOM

Learn more about the project: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/...

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · May 8

Q: What happens when a #PublishOrPerish" research culture meets #AI readable biomedical databases? A: "An explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries." New in @plosbiology.org... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries, based on the NHANES US national health database

The combination of AI and national health databases offers opportunities, but may also be exploited by unethical agents. This study shows that there has been an explosion of formulaic research article...

journals.plos.org

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Apr 21

Se espera al menos una publicación científica. Si te apasiona la intersección entre tecnología y ecología evolutiva, escríbeme a [email protected]

📩 #Convocatoria abierta hasta el 9 de mayo en:
convocatorias.csic.es/convoca/
📩 #Beca #Oportunidad #Bioacústica #Estorninos

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Apr 21

El trabajo combina:
🔹 Procesamiento de audio y machine learning
🔹 Validación de datos biológicos
🔹 Trabajo de campo: revisión de cajas nido, grabaciones y observación de conducta
🔬🪺🤖

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Apr 21

El objetivo: entrenar y optimizar una red neuronal con 4 años de grabaciones de campo para detectar y clasificar cantos y llamadas de estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor).
Queremos entender cómo y por qué varían sus vocalizaciones a lo largo del día y la temporada.
📈📊

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Apr 21

🧠🎶 ¿Te interesa la inteligencia artificial y el comportamiento animal? ¡Tenemos una beca para ti, del programa JAE-INTRO del CSIC)!

Buscamos estudiante para un proyecto sobre comunicación vocal en estorninos usando redes neuronales (BIRDNET).
🕊️🎙️ #IA #Bioacústica

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Apr 16

Keep up the good work!

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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · Apr 4

New funding programme: From now on, students and PhD candidates can easily apply for up to €1,000 funding immediately after joining the German Ornithological Society. Find out more: www.do-g.de/forschungsfo.... Next application deadline: 1st of June!

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · Mar 7

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song

Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Feb 28

Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Feb 26

Muy bien, presionando a esos piratas!

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Dr Manu Saunders @manusaunders.bsky.social · Feb 16

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Feb 16

So cool!

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Feb 15

Amazing! Do you think that they converge in calls to coordinate migration between species?

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · Feb 14

I am searching for a dedicated someone to take a research support/coordinating role in my lab, working mainly within @erc.europa.eu project "HotLife". MSc level and up, keen interest in energetics, physiology, or thermal biology helpful but not essential. Details 👇 Would appreciate a re-post!

Department of Biology, Lund University @biologylu.bsky.social · Feb 13

Exiting opportunity for lab/field work: Project assistant to support PI @cyanistesnord.bsky.social and wider research group in the research program “HotLife – Pathways to survival in a hotter world” supported by @erc.europa.eu

Please apply no later than 27 February!

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

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