José M. Riascos, PhD

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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.

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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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Shamefully elected by their people...

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.

Congrats to @natureportfolio.nature.com for increasing the transparency of the review process supporting the research they publish behind a thick, black pay wall 🧪

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Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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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...

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

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...

🙄 the congressional resolution is just embarrassing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Let me get back to you in seven years, when I should be qualified to review this paper.

Hope that helps.

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

"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...

The wall may be clear, but the image will never disappear.

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

Scientists are increasingly using AI to write their articles, and journals are increasingly using AI during the peer-review process. You see where we are heading

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.

This study challenges key assumptions supporting #bluecarbon strategies... 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A convicted felon leading the rich. What can people expect from this? Unfortunately, people voted for this to be the reality.

Do you know the source supporting the claim of that being one of the most abundant bird species on Earth?

$3,000 to publish
$50 to read
$0 to understand #AcademicPublishing is broken

🧪 #SciPub

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Stop the Billionaire Takeover.

Find a protest or march near you! ✊

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#MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC

@elsevierlsj.bsky.social: There is something wrong here, doesn't it?

Did researchers pay? The article states, "Without contacting individual authors, it is difficult to identify who was responsible for paying the APC or whether waivers or discounts were in place." Most often, institutions pay (i.e.public funds, mainly)

What is transgenerational plasticity, and how can we measure it? Caitlin McAndry, Alastair. J Wilson, Peter. A Cotton, Manuela Truebano This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Living organisms have a gen…

📰Published📰What is transgenerational plasticity, and how can we measure it?💡

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I want it!

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I would never pay to help funding U.S. immigration enforcement. U.S. citizens should NOW be in massive civil disobedience, instead of keeping business as usual while the convicted felon dismantle the country

Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research

In one word: cowardice!

Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#AcademicPublishing: The only industry where you do the work and foot a $3000 bill. 🧪

Great, thanks!

I am curious -why an European conference would be held in a non-european country? Getting a visa for UK is a nightmare for many potentially interested students

Good piece, congrats. I think we scientists are failing to realise how much of the pressure to implement AI tools to assist or -even better- replace humans in the peer review process comes from the economic interests of the publishing industry.