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Ng Ting Hui
@siputairtawar.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer @ Uni Malaysia Sabah 🇲🇾
Biodiversity, ecology, freshwater molluscs & other inverts, invasive species, natural history collections, Southeast Asia
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-0039
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Ng Ting Hui @siputairtawar.bsky.social · Nov 12
I study the biodiversity and ecology of #freshwater #Mollusca and other #inverts, and #InvasiveSpecies in #SoutheastAsia. Since 2022, I've been a senior lecturer at #UniversitiMalaysiaSabah in 🇲🇾 #Borneo. My research and teaching heavily involves #NaturalHistoryCollections. 🌏🧪 [1/5]
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ebdonana.bsky.social
🔵 Aquaculture is one of the most important pathways for the introduction of non-native species.

Since 1950, one third of species used in aquaculture have been farmed outside of their native ranges.

📄 doi.org/10.1111/raq....

🔗 issuu.com/aquaculturem...
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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jevbio.bsky.social
Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:

"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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marcuschua.bsky.social
Methods tip: Transects are cheaper and more precise at high densities; camera traps cost more but detect rare/low-abundance species and run 24/7.

This study was part of my PhD work advised by Haw Chuan Lim & collab with NParks.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rapid population growth of greater mouse-deer after active forest restoration and African Swine Fever outbreak
Even as a highly urbanized city-state, Singapore has seen the recolonization of extirpated wildlife amidst habitat restoration efforts and ecological …
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November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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marcuschua.bsky.social
[New paper] After the 2023 African Swine Fever outbreak, greater mouse-deer density on Pulau Ubin, Singapore surged to 293/km2—the highest known for the species.

Likely drivers: >98% wild pig mortality, active reforestation and low predation pressure.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Graphical abstract Greater mouse-deer on forest floor.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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marcuschua.bsky.social
Thanks Ang Qing for writing this news story on our research findings of mouse-deer population boom on Pulau Ubin after African Swine Fever all but wiped out wild pigs there.

And kudos for getting Bill Laurance & Matt Luskin to comment on the findings.

www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...
How a fatal virus sparked Pulau Ubin’s mouse-deer boom
The island is now the easiest place in the world to encounter the greater mouse-deer. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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pkp.sfu.ca
📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ScholComm #AcademicSky
Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
siputairtawar.bsky.social
Thor-Seng Liew, Jessey Yee Wei Chai, @ladyfern1991.bsky.social, Martinah Lakim (2025) #Phylogeny and #biogeography of the mountain semi-slugs genus Microparmarion ( #Gastropoda: Ariophantidae) in northern Borneo 🇲🇾
doi.org/10.1093/moll... via J. Molluscan Studies @malacsoc.bsky.social 🧪🌏
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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laraffington.bsky.social
Open access via SharedIt rdcu.be/eThTl & Table 1 Suggestions to fostering a lower stress academic workplace for individuals, groups, and institutions >> osf.io/p6yut/files/...
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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laraffington.bsky.social
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge

I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What ideas would you add? 💡

#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
An eel donated to a natural history museum in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was only first documented this year, when a tick specialist identified the ticks and reported the case in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
siputairtawar.bsky.social
Bethânia Oliveira Resende et al. (2025) Collaborative research networks as a strategy to synthesize knowledge of Amazonian #biodiversity. Proc Biol Sci @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔓 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪🌎🌱
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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fabribald.bsky.social
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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natsca.bsky.social
The Rediscovery of a Challenger Expedition Specimen in William Herdman’s Zoology Museum Collection at the University of Liverpool (and how digitisation is transformative).

Written by Leonie Sedman, Curator of Heritage & Collections Care, University of Liverpool. Along with many other NatSCA…
The Rediscovery of a Challenger Expedition Specimen in William Herdman’s Zoology Museum Collection at the University of Liverpool (and how digitisation is transformative).
Written by Leonie Sedman, Curator of Heritage & Collections Care, University of Liverpool. Along with many other NatSCA members, I care for a mixed collection, meaning that one inevitably becomes something of a 'Jack of all trades’ missing out on the academic satisfaction created by specialisation. As a curator who finds collections research to be the most satisfying part of my job, it can be frustrating when that research is often only possible on a ‘need-to-know’ basis - usually when a new display or exhibition is being planned, or when the specimens are to be used in teaching.
natsca.blog
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
siputairtawar.bsky.social
Guide to the #Ferns of Mount Alab 🇲🇾 by @ladyfern1991.bsky.social, Luiza Majuakim & Geofarry Gunsalam. 🌏🧪📚
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
To read about the history of the Paleontological Research Institution's 1/2 million specimen modern mollusk collections, including many endangered or recently extinct species;

check out page 141 on of the Nautilus issue on the history of malacology collections 🦑🦪🐌

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Front page of "the modern mollusk collection at the Paleontological Research Institution" by Dietl et al
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
siputairtawar.bsky.social
#Histories of #Malacological #Collections special issue in The Nautilus shellmuseum.org/shells-and-s... 🌏🧪🐚🐌🐙🦑🦪🏛️
Publications - Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquariums
The Nautilus The Nautilus is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles on the biology, ecology, and systematics of mollusks.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
siputairtawar.bsky.social
Marinoni et al. (2025) Network of biological collections in Paraná State, Brazil—Taxonline: a success story
@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/biol...
#biodiversity #collections #openScience 🐚🌿🪲🍄🏛️🌏
Network of biological collections in Paraná State, Brazil—Taxonline: a success story
Abstract. Scientific biological collections play a vital role in preserving biodiversity knowledge, particularly in regions experiencing rapid environmenta
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November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Shell-o...is it a Linnean Lens you're looking for?

Tomorrow, Jon Ablett will share some species from our collection – from sex changing seashells, to killer cone shells. We'll hear how molluscs have been used for dyes, clothing, and even musical instruments.

Join online, 2pm, 4 Nov
Linnean Lens | Treasures of the Linnean Shells collection
A shell show-and-tell, with Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca at the Natural History Museum, sharing the Linnean shell collection.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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ladyfern1991.bsky.social
Finally, our paper on climate is published! Those who are interested can read it via this link - doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Dr @ladyfern1991.bsky.social, Luiza Majuakim, Monica Suleiman, Kanehiro Kitayama, Thor-Seng Liew. Comparison of ambient temperature variations at 2 elevations of ⛰️ #Kinabalu, Sabah, 🇲🇾 #Borneo, 2016–2017 in relation to the El Niño event.
🔓via Climate Change Ecology doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... 🧪🌏
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November 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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apaterlini.bsky.social
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
A manifesto for plant science education
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....
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October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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dantheclamman.blog
Shipworms are actually a common food clam, particularly in Asia! Some cultures throw logs or stumps in the water to farm them! Researchers suggest they could someday make for a sustainable market in the West, as they can be cooked similarly to calamari (312) nautil.us/naked-clams-...
A plate of shipworms looking a lot like breaded/fried calamari. They are on buns with sauce and red cabbage
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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dantheclamman.blog
One like, one clam fact
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 21
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
holz-bau.bsky.social Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Jul 21
1 like, 1 housing opinion
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life
Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM