José M. Riascos, PhD
@zambo-riascos.bsky.social
Urban marine ecologist Universidad de Antioquia and CEMarin. Scientific Editor. A young, happy grandfather
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GREAT blog about scientific publishing including this provocative figure:
danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
GREAT blog about scientific publishing including this provocative figure:
danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo...
danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo...
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Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
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I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭
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Wir könnten unseren Kindern einen lebenswerten Planeten hinterlassen, aber dann müssten wir Verbrennungsmotoren abschaffen, mit Wärmepumpen heizen und weniger Fleisch essen. 🤷🏼♂️
#Klimaschutz #COP30
Cartoon: Chan Lowe
#Klimaschutz #COP30
Cartoon: Chan Lowe
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Wir könnten unseren Kindern einen lebenswerten Planeten hinterlassen, aber dann müssten wir Verbrennungsmotoren abschaffen, mit Wärmepumpen heizen und weniger Fleisch essen. 🤷🏼♂️
#Klimaschutz #COP30
Cartoon: Chan Lowe
#Klimaschutz #COP30
Cartoon: Chan Lowe
Beautiful piece by Zadie Smith questioning how much does #Britain actually value their culture
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Beautiful piece by Zadie Smith questioning how much does #Britain actually value their culture
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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People condemn these journals publicly, but privately many use them as a shortcut when the pressure to publish outweighs the desire to contribute meaningfully. The challenge isn’t (only) that predatory publishers exist - it’s that academia keeps creating the demand that sustains them.
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
People condemn these journals publicly, but privately many use them as a shortcut when the pressure to publish outweighs the desire to contribute meaningfully. The challenge isn’t (only) that predatory publishers exist - it’s that academia keeps creating the demand that sustains them.
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The eagle owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the most fascinating birds we can see in the city of Madrid.
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The eagle owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the most fascinating birds we can see in the city of Madrid.
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Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free. | @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social | www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free. | News | The Harvard Crimson
The high cost of publishing open access has plagued researchers for years, but a dedicated group of Harvard scientists and librarians are fighting to alleviate the costs of publishing.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free. | @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social | www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Years after I started observing birds on this green roof, I can still add new species. For example, Motacilla cinerea is a new observation not previously reported. However, year after year, I generally observe the same species behaving as they did in the results reported in the published paper.
October 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Years after I started observing birds on this green roof, I can still add new species. For example, Motacilla cinerea is a new observation not previously reported. However, year after year, I generally observe the same species behaving as they did in the results reported in the published paper.
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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
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Please Use it and SHARE!
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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
ag.ny.gov
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Congrats to @natureportfolio.nature.com for increasing the transparency of the review process supporting the research they publish behind a thick, black pay wall 🧪
://rdcu.be/eKm66
://rdcu.be/eKm66
Making peer review transparent
Nature Geoscience - For research papers first sent for peer review from mid-August, authors will be able to choose whether to publish the reviewers’ reports and their responses with their paper.
rdcu.be
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Congrats to @natureportfolio.nature.com for increasing the transparency of the review process supporting the research they publish behind a thick, black pay wall 🧪
://rdcu.be/eKm66
://rdcu.be/eKm66
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🖥🧬🤖👾🧪🔬🔭🧫🦠🌍
Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com
#OpenScience #FAIR
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com
#OpenScience #FAIR
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🖥🧬🤖👾🧪🔬🔭🧫🦠🌍
Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com
#OpenScience #FAIR
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com
#OpenScience #FAIR
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which approaches would we need to identify killers during the current holocaust?
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Which approaches would we need to identify killers during the current holocaust?
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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🙄 the congressional resolution is just embarrassing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🙄 the congressional resolution is just embarrassing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Let me get back to you in seven years, when I should be qualified to review this paper.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
September 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Let me get back to you in seven years, when I should be qualified to review this paper.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
"We fight for the day on which the pen beats the wallet" G. Monbiot
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"We fight for the day on which the pen beats the wallet" G. Monbiot
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The wall may be clear, but the image will never disappear.
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The wall may be clear, but the image will never disappear.
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Stephen Jay Gould was born OTD in 1941.
“Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.”
🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio
“Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.”
🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio
September 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This study challenges key assumptions supporting #bluecarbon strategies... 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites - Nature Geoscience
Experiments suggest aerotolerant archaea produce methane in the surface layers of coastal sandy sediments and that this activity is driven by seaweed and seagrass metabolites.
www.nature.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This study challenges key assumptions supporting #bluecarbon strategies... 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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📢 North Carolina is showing up BIG on Labor Day to remind those in power who they actually answer to 🇺🇸
Stop the Billionaire Takeover.
Find a protest or march near you! ✊
open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/...
#MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC
Stop the Billionaire Takeover.
Find a protest or march near you! ✊
open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/...
#MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📢 North Carolina is showing up BIG on Labor Day to remind those in power who they actually answer to 🇺🇸
Stop the Billionaire Takeover.
Find a protest or march near you! ✊
open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/...
#MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC
Stop the Billionaire Takeover.
Find a protest or march near you! ✊
open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/...
#MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC
@elsevierlsj.bsky.social: There is something wrong here, doesn't it?
September 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
@elsevierlsj.bsky.social: There is something wrong here, doesn't it?
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