Dávalos Lab
@labdavalos.bsky.social
Principal Investigator 👉🏽 https://lmdavalos.github.io/ Editor-in-Chief 👉🏽 @qrb.bsky.social/ recent Fulbright Amazonia scholar (https://www.fulbrightprogram.org/amazonia/), news from lab and beyond
I was so skeptical that such amazing birds were so close to the bustle yet there they were along with so many others. What a great, hopeful project!
January 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I was so skeptical that such amazing birds were so close to the bustle yet there they were along with so many others. What a great, hopeful project!
That town is amazing!
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
That town is amazing!
On this subject I found this illuminating legalform.blog/2025/07/29/f...
From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus
‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…
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January 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
On this subject I found this illuminating legalform.blog/2025/07/29/f...
Data are sparse but here’s what a few years look like for Amazonian Brazil. There’s more in the text on Venezuela.
January 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Data are sparse but here’s what a few years look like for Amazonian Brazil. There’s more in the text on Venezuela.
Agree with most of this except the Atlantic via the Amazon is ascendant and already violently contested www.authorea.com/users/387152...
Criminal control shapes options for Amazon forests
Transnational crime networks trafficking cocaine and gold are increasingly active in the Amazon. How international demand, trafficking, and impacts have changed, however, remain underexplored. We show...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Agree with most of this except the Atlantic via the Amazon is ascendant and already violently contested www.authorea.com/users/387152...
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But now, when I hear "well, I use chatgpt because I can code in R / analyse my data / do literature review again", my answer is systematically: no, you cannot.
I think the loss of technical skills is dangerous for research, because it prevents a sound understanding of feasibility.
I think the loss of technical skills is dangerous for research, because it prevents a sound understanding of feasibility.
January 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
But now, when I hear "well, I use chatgpt because I can code in R / analyse my data / do literature review again", my answer is systematically: no, you cannot.
I think the loss of technical skills is dangerous for research, because it prevents a sound understanding of feasibility.
I think the loss of technical skills is dangerous for research, because it prevents a sound understanding of feasibility.
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My students increasingly don’t. It doesn’t matter how nuanced and pedagogically strong the architecture of my bespoke historical LLM is if my students have gotten used to turning to ChatGPT to offload their work and thinking for everything else outside of my class +
January 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
My students increasingly don’t. It doesn’t matter how nuanced and pedagogically strong the architecture of my bespoke historical LLM is if my students have gotten used to turning to ChatGPT to offload their work and thinking for everything else outside of my class +
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Scientists have to pivot to new work to get new funding. But pivots take time. A lot of time. This project that I started in Sept '21 was actually a pivot for me because of political interference in NIH policies in 2020. Yet here I am in 2026 still trying to get that pivot funded. /7
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Scientists have to pivot to new work to get new funding. But pivots take time. A lot of time. This project that I started in Sept '21 was actually a pivot for me because of political interference in NIH policies in 2020. Yet here I am in 2026 still trying to get that pivot funded. /7
And also scholars from 🇻🇪
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
And also scholars from 🇻🇪
🧪Now for the ask, Maria Alejandra is looking for a grad opportunity, do you have one? Here is her profile www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...
#bioinformatics #rnaseq #transcriptomics #captivity | Maria Alejandra Bedoya Duque
I am very pleased to finally share our most recent publication in Biology Letters: “Gene expression comparisons between captive and wild shrew brains reveal captivity effects”: https://lnkd.in/du-niHU...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
🧪Now for the ask, Maria Alejandra is looking for a grad opportunity, do you have one? Here is her profile www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...
🧪this list highlights what is needed to support science: infrastructure of all kinds, fellowships for🌎🌍🌏scholars - all stages, grants to keep 🧪🔬🧫going, libraries, free flows of information among colleagues, and openness to ideas and people; 2025 taught me to 💪🏽for the open society that nurtures these
January 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
🧪this list highlights what is needed to support science: infrastructure of all kinds, fellowships for🌎🌍🌏scholars - all stages, grants to keep 🧪🔬🧫going, libraries, free flows of information among colleagues, and openness to ideas and people; 2025 taught me to 💪🏽for the open society that nurtures these
Check it out, @darmenteras.bsky.social's longstanding work on 🔥🔥🔥: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Check it out, @darmenteras.bsky.social's longstanding work on 🔥🔥🔥: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
🧪For me, #ERL from @ioppublishing.bsky.social was another aspirational journal; yet, thanks to another 🌎collaboration, we got another paper out! My #FulbrightAmz🇨🇴host’s work on fires in the Orinoco basin, with hierarchical models from our lab bsky.app/profile/darm...
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Environ Res Lett (Dec15, public-private partnership project fibale): “Afforestation reduces fire occurrence in Colombia’s tropical savannas”—strategic planting cuts fire risk (for now). Scalable restoration vs climate change. See iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Environ Res Lett (Dec15, public-private partnership project fibale): “Afforestation reduces fire occurrence in Colombia’s tropical savannas”—strategic planting cuts fire risk (for now). Scalable restoration vs climate change. See iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
January 2, 2026 at 9:40 PM
🧪For me, #ERL from @ioppublishing.bsky.social was another aspirational journal; yet, thanks to another 🌎collaboration, we got another paper out! My #FulbrightAmz🇨🇴host’s work on fires in the Orinoco basin, with hierarchical models from our lab bsky.app/profile/darm...
We first met in 2023 in Belém🇧🇷thanks to a joint 🇧🇷🇺🇸#Fulbright program drawing 🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪🇸🇷🇺🇸 scholars of Amazonian people&environment, we share 1 continent 🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Weather disasters are surging in the Amazon. Reporting isn’t.
The Amazon’s climate hazards are growing faster than governments can track.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
We first met in 2023 in Belém🇧🇷thanks to a joint 🇧🇷🇺🇸#Fulbright program drawing 🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪🇸🇷🇺🇸 scholars of Amazonian people&environment, we share 1 continent 🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...