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Pamm Santana

@pammsantana.bsky.social

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Postdoc in Ecology and Evolution in SPACE group (SPeciation, Adaptation, & Co-Evolution) at Lund University LatinaInSTEM Human development, Art, and Plant lover

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Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Aug 11

What a great last month! 🤩 So good to see our studies coming out as publications. This one is special as it done with data stingless bees in Bolivia! Take a look 👇🏼

Sissi Lozada Gobilard @slozadagobilard.bsky.social · Aug 9

🚨Just published🚨In Bolivia’s Yungas, we studied 3 rescued stingless bees sp. We found distinct foraging patterns within & among species → niche partitioning at multiple levels. 🐝🪻🌺#Pollination #Meliponini #Neotropics
doi.org/10.1111/btp.70… @biotropica.bsky.social with @pammsantana.bsky.social

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Sissi Lozada Gobilard @slozadagobilard.bsky.social · 9d

📢Paper alert!🐝🪻 We studied flower advertising and temperature on Royal irises. Flowers heat 10-35 min faster than ambient, likely offering the pollinators a head start in the morning. @telavivuni.bsky.social @yuvalsapir.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jpe/article/...

Flower display and temperature in Royal irises (Iris section Oncocyclus, Iridaceae)

Abstract. Large flowers are typically more conspicuous to pollinators and are associated with more nutritional rewards than small flowers. Flower size can

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Darren Evans @dmevans.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wonderful #EcoNet2025 dinner at the Hancock with old and new friends from across the globe @sciencesncl.bsky.social

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Sara Mendes @sarammendes.bsky.social · Nov 14

🔥 Paper in Science🔥

We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍

#seeddispersal

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis

Seed dispersal is crucial for ecosystem persistence, especially in fragmented landscapes, such as those common in Europe. Ongoing defaunation might compromise effective seed dispersal, but the conserv...

www.science.org

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Feb 25

I am now fully onboard with the idea of using the legend of a map to provide additional information about the data.

A map showing project time of arrival of some species for Québec, with the legend replaced by a barplot giving the proportion of the landscape additionally gained at each year

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Aug 11

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Panels one and two:
Two white mice make their way through a maze.

Panel three:
Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says:
“Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.”

The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!”

Panels four and five:
The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen”

Panel six:
The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Aug 12

A la luz de los acontecimientos actuales en Palestina, un gran número de cineastas han puesto sus películas sobre #Palestina a disposición en línea de forma gratuita. Aquí una lista 🇵🇸
fediscience.org/@jgpausas/11...

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Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Aug 11

What a great last month! 🤩 So good to see our studies coming out as publications. This one is special as it done with data stingless bees in Bolivia! Take a look 👇🏼

Sissi Lozada Gobilard @slozadagobilard.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Juli Tavella @julitavella.bsky.social · Jul 22

New publication! Our new study shows that herbicides indirectly disrupt plant-pollinator networks, 1/4 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Aug 10

Goodnight.
River Landscape By Moonlight, George Henry, 1887.

River scene at night with full moon, Painting.

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Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Aug 9

Our study, conducted with great care and attention, is out! It went through a meticulous community peer-review process under open science practices, and I’m proud to be part of it. The results may not be what we hoped for, but they are what we need to move toward real inclusivity in science. 💜

Melina Leite @melinaleite.bsky.social · Aug 5

Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Is the audience gender-blind? Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia

www.nature.com

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Intercept Brasil @intercept.com.br · Mar 18

Em vez de uma mudança sustentável, o neoliberalismo ambiental aposta em um rebranding eco-sustentável, ou simplesmente greenwashing. Na prática, as empresas criam o problema enquanto vendem a solução. 👇🏼 tibr.in/neoliberalis...

Neoliberalismo ambiental agrava o caos climático enquanto vende soluções verdes | Intercept Brasil

Em vez de promover uma mudança estrutural, o neoliberalismo ambiental tem apostado em um rebranding eco-sustentável, pintado de verde – ou, simplesmente, greenwashing.

tibr.in

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EcoDebate @ecodebate.com.br · Mar 11

Metade das emissões de CO2 vêm de 36 empresas
Embora mudanças no estilo de vida sejam importantes, os dados mostram que a maior parte do problema está concentrada em um pequeno grupo de empresas

Metade das emissões de CO2 vêm de 36 empresas

Embora mudanças no estilo de vida sejam importantes, os dados mostram que a maior parte do problema está concentrada em um pequeno grupo de empresas

buff.ly

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you, @eseb.bsky.social!

Letter to ESEB members

The European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) stands with fellow scientific societies in being profoundly concerned about the negative impacts upon science of recently-issued Executive Orders within the United States. Scientific research is a critically important endeavour for humanity, and modern society depends upon it for its well-being as well as for the search for understanding of our world. Recent challenges to the scale, scope and continuity of research funding in the US exemplify how rapidly scientific endeavour can be impeded. The US has contributed immeasurably to our field, and to science in general, and so these actions damage both the US and the global scientific enterprise. ESEB is particularly concerned about the potential for negative impacts upon the careers and aspirations of early career researchers, who represent science’s future.

ESEB maintains that science is fundamentally enabled and strengthened by academic freedom and the open and free exchange of views within a diverse scientific community. Scientific research also flourishes when underpinned by a foundation of independent, transparent and equitable peer scrutiny. ESEB opposes all efforts to impede these core principles. We support our fellow scientists and remain committed to our core aim of supporting the study of organic evolution within a safe, inclusive and respectful environment.

We are working with other scientific societies to unify and amplify our support and welcome your suggestions for how to be most effective in supporting science and our fellow scientists.

Sincerely,

ESEB Executive

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Conexão Planeta @conexaoplaneta.bsky.social · Oct 4

A campanha "Somos Todos #Saíra-apunhalada" chama a atenção sobre essa belíssima #ave que só é encontrada no Brasil, mais especificamente, no Espírito Santo. População atual da espécie é de apenas 20 indivíduos

Uma das aves mais ameaçadas do mundo, a brasileira saíra-apunhalada ganha campanha de proteção

A campanha "Somos Todos Saíra-apunhalada" chama a atenção sobre essa belíssima ave que só é encontrada no Brasil, mais especificamente, no Espírito Santo. População atual da espécie é de apenas 20 ind...

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Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Jan 7

So happy to see this out there!

Erika M. Santana @erikamsantana.bsky.social · Jan 6

Ever wondered how flowers compete for space on a pollinator's body? Check out our new paper! 🌸

Led by @pammsantana.bsky.social, we reveal how plants with granular pollen can exhibit a last-male advantage. 🤓

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Jan 1

Here is a nice mushroom

A single 1” tall splitgill mushroom grows off the end of a broken branch, upturned so it’s underside can be viewed against a brown forest background

All photos by me

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polli.NET @pollinet.bsky.social · Dec 19

O PolinizAÇÃO no Podcast "Palavrões de Ciência"! 🎙️

João Loureiro (@jloureiro13.bsky.social) e Sílvia Castro do @flowerlab.bsky.social juntaram-se a @cnobresoares.bsky.social e Marco Neves no episódio intitulado "Polinizadores, os taxistas do amor"! 🐝 💛

Saibam mais sobre os insetos polinizadores.

Polinizadores, os “taxistas do amor”

Palavrões da Ciência · Episode

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · Dec 15

🇧🇷Rapazinho-do-chaco
🌎Nystalus striatipectus

O rapazinho-do-chaco é uma ave galbuliforme da família Bucconidae

📷 Almir Almeida #birds

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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · Dec 10

Three positions as assistant professor in #Biodiversity
You could become my colleague. I'll be at the #BES2024 conference from tomorrow Wednesday if you want to chat about it.
Maximum 7 years since phd . Excellent package comes with the positions
#stockholmUniversity 🌍🧪

www.su.se/english/news...

Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University

www.su.se

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Rocio Perez-Barrales @rorrodew.bsky.social · Dec 10

Call for postdocs #JuandelaCierva if you completed your thesis between Jan23 and Dec24 contact me if interested in the ecology and evolution of pollination interactions, floral evolution, flowering phenology, and/or implementing genomic tools for population genetics...you are spoilt for choice!

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Instituto Serrapilheira @serrapilheira.org · Nov 29

🤩Chamadas no ar! Lançamos nesta sexta-feira (29) duas novas chamadas públicas de apoio a jovens cientistas do Brasil. O investimento dos editais totaliza R$ 8,4 milhões, a serem utilizados tanto no pagamento de bolsas quanto no financiamento de pesquisas. 👇

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Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Dec 1

Can you please add me?

Pamm Santana @pammsantana.bsky.social · Dec 1

Can you please add me?

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · Nov 30

🇧🇷Topetinho-vermelho
🌎Lophornis magnificus
Estado de conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O topetinho-vermelho é um Apodiforme da família Trochilidae.

📷 Celso B Almeida #birds

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Nov 25

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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