Ehsan Moqanaki
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Ecology & Conservation | Wildlife population models | S, M, L + XL carnivores | Postdoc at University of Montana 🧬📸 🛰️🐻🐆🐺🦌😾 http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ehsan_Moqanaki
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🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).

The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?

(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs.  The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men. A raccoon knight on a javelina steed.  "Onward, Pigasus!  Let us show them the meaning of haste".  Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.
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currentbiology.bsky.social
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
You've heard of the many analysts projects, right?

Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.

Why is that?

Data cleaning!

This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
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pnas.org
Wolverines are bouncing back in Scandinavia, 50 years after they were reduced to a relict population in the snowy alpine. The brawny carnivore is moving into boreal forest, which was previously considered suboptimal habitat for wolverines. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Scandinavian wolverine (Gulo gulo). 

CREDIT: Jon Martin Arnemo
emoqanaki.bsky.social
We present new evidence about the successful recolonization of wolverines + discuss challenges of their monitoring and management.
emoqanaki.bsky.social
We analyzed 9 years of 🧬 monitoring of wolverines to quantify temporal trends in the relationships btw wolverine density and different environmental covariates as the population is expanding.
emoqanaki.bsky.social
🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
natecoevo.nature.com
New Perspective:

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril

Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
Fig 2 from Davidson et al. outlining proposed set of standards for bio-logging data.
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andrewabraham.bsky.social
It's been 10 yrs since Marius the giraffe was controversially culled by Copenhagen Zoo. So, what's happened since?

Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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danlarremore.bsky.social
😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏

- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs

arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study
Retractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg...
arxiv.org
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journalofecology.bsky.social
We apologise for the AI-generated image on the cover of our November issue & are happy to confirm that we have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen again!
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ecologistgreen.bsky.social
As if the crisis in scientific publishing couldn't get any worse... 🧪

Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
www.nature.com