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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 9h

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · 1d

Just published in @journal-evo.bsky.social: Different diets, different speciation rates in the most ecologically diverse family of mammals, the amazing Phyllostomidae 🦇

tinyurl.com/5xd3p3mz

Para un pequeño resumen, ve las figuras 👇

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · 21d

and the "ones on top"/established academics can be the real (if solely the most important) actors of change compared to ECRs, which are bound to follow the status quo to advance their careers...👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career

www.nature.com

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · 22d

Si están o andarán por Medellín, Colombia, están invitadxs a esta charla en la Universidad de Antioquia en el marco del primer curso de Macroecología para el posgrado de Biología de la UdeA.

Si conoces a algun/a interesadx, avísale!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22d

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.com

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks! I'll spread the word ;)

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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey, check out this new reflection on the challenges and paths for making scientific publishing more affordable, accessible, and equitable:
peeer.net/2025/09/08/n...

Navigating Scientific Publishing: Challenges and Paths Toward Equity

Current changes in scientific publishing are among the most radical in over 50 years, with the range of publishing options rapidly expanding. Publisher-owned journals often dominate the landscape, …

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 5

Murciélagos y flores!

🦇🌸 In this new study, we show that both threatened and non-threatened bats are important for the structure and maintenance of bat-flower interaction networks at global and regional scales.

#GlobalEcology

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Threatened and non-threatened bats play equivalent roles in bat-flower meta-networks at global and biogeographic realm scales - Biodiversity and Conservation

In tropical and subtropical ecosystems, nectar-eating bats are essential pollinators of numerous plant species; however, the global organization of bat-flower interaction networks remains poorly under...

link.springer.com

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Rafaela Missagia @rmissagia.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 4

New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho

This red squirrel’s hands display tiny nail-bearing thumbs, alongside large claw-bearing digits.

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Biogeography.News @biogeographynews.bsky.social · Sep 3

🆕ECR feature: @drjoshbrian.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at King's College, London, reviewed the use of scale terms in plant biology🌱- highly relevant for biogeographical studies! Read about the interesting results Josh and his colleagues found: biogeographynews.org/2025/09/03/e...

ECR feature: Josh Brian

Josh is a Postdoc researcher at King’s College London. He is a community ecologist with special focus on plant invasions. Here, Josh shares his recent work which reviews the use of scale terms in p…

biogeographynews.org

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 3

Indeed! Yo también 😉

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 2

Not quite what you're looking for, but somewhat related and perhaps interesting:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The developmental renaissance in adaptationism

From an adaptation perspective, unoccupied patches of morphological space are inferred to be empty because they are of low fitness and selected agains…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oportunidad de trabajo en el INECOL - Instituto de Ecología, A.C. 👇
PERSONA INVESTIGADORA EN: BIOLOGÍA, ECOLOGÍA, COMPORTAMIENTO Y CONSERVACIÓN DE ARTRÓPODOS EN ECOSISTEMAS TERRESTRES

www.inecol.mx/index.php/bo...

CONVOCATORIA PUESTO INVESTIGADOR EN: BIOLOGÍA, ECOLOGÍA, COMPORTAMIENTO Y CONSERVACIÓN DE ARTRÓPODOS EN ECOSISTEMAS TERRESTRES

CONVOCATORIA PARA OCUPAR PUESTO DE INVESTIGADOR (TITULAR A)

www.inecol.mx

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Species On The Move 2026 @sotm2026.bsky.social · Aug 31

Abstracts call closes Nov 10, 2025 ⏰ We hope you’ll join us at SOTM 2026 !!! www.speciesonthemove.com #SOTM2026 #speciesonthemove

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 1

Couldn't agree more! Descolonicemos los curricula (materias/disciplinas) de nuestrxs alumnxs y presentemos una visión más amplia de nuestra disciplina

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great! Those guys are lucky to have you. Best of lucks in this new endeavor.

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Aug 29

#Biogeography If you ever felt frustrated for lacking a method to reconstruct ancestral ranges at fine-grain resolutions without relying on large-scale regions defined apriori, then SBEARS is for you ;) 👇

Thanks to @duarteldas.bsky.social and the whole team for the invitation to collaborate.

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Aug 29

One more step towards more insightful analyses in Evolutionary Macroecology. Thanks @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and all coauthors still not blueskylized for the collaborative endeavor!

SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species

Abstract. Assessing the geographic dimension of diversification is paramount to integrate macroecology and macroevolution. Estimating ancestral ranges of s

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Frédérique Reverchon @drafred.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 ¡Estamos buscando a dos investigadorxs postdoctorales para unirse a nuestro proyecto multi-institucional sobre #microbiomas de #Fabaceae!

📌 Sedes: Pátzcuaro o Ensenada
📆 Fecha de inicio: febrero 2026

Requisito: nacionalidad o residencia permanente en México 🇲🇽

Más información 👇
#microSky #SynCom

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · Aug 21

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

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Dylan Craven @dylancraven.bsky.social · Nov 12

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Aug 20

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Science deserves better than profit-driven publishing. Change starts from within the community — here’s how we can reclaim it: peeer.net/2025/08/18/r... #BetterPublishing

Rethinking Scientific Publishing: A Call for Change

Scientific publishing lies at the core of academic life. It is the main mechanism through which knowledge is shared, careers are built, and progress is evaluated. However, this system has evolved i…

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PEEER @peeer.bsky.social · Aug 4

Scientific societies should rethink allowing for‑profit publishers at meetings. They may support the meeting in part, but these same publishers charge unsustainable fees year‑round and undercut academic independence. The trade‑off? Researchers lose. peeer.net/2025/08/04/t...

Two problems with scientific conferences

Akin to the problems in scientific publishing driven by the ever-increasing influence of for-profit publishers since the 1950s and particularly emphasized in the past two decades, problems are also…

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