Paolo G. Albano

A #mollusc of spectacular beauty!

...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr

...that made quitting X an easy decision 1.5 years ago. No users, no social media.

Congratulations @odealab.bsky.social @erinmdillon.bsky.social & colleagues!

Shifted baselines in the Indian Ocean...!

He/She glows.

Un’oasi climatica nel Mediterraneo orientale: qui la biodiversità resiste alla crisi climatica Lungo la costa sud-occidentale di Cipro un fenomeno di risalita delle acque difende in modo naturale gli ecosistemi dalla tropicalizzazione del mare: “Protegge…

Italian newspapers featuring our work on the climate refugium for marine biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean: www.repubblica.it/green-and-bl...

November 01 2024 The strain on scientific publishing Open Access Mark A. HansonCorresponding Author ORCID logo , Pablo Gómez Barreiro ORCID logo , Paolo Crosetto ORCID logo , Dan Brockington ORCID logo Crossmark: Check for Updates Author and Article Information Quantitative Science Studies (2024) 5 (4): 823–843. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327 Article history Cite Icon Cite Open the PDFfor in another window Permissions Share Icon Share Views Icon Views Open Menu

The Drain of Scientific Publishing Fernanda Beigel, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Gemma Derrick, Aileen Fyfe, Pablo Gomez Barreiro, Mark A. Hanson, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière, Christine Noe, Stephen Pinfield, James Wilsdon The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and Universities, to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market. Comments: 1 Figure, 1 Table, 1 Supplementary Table Subjects: Digital Libraries (cs.DL) Cite as: arXiv:2511.04820 [cs.DL] (or arXiv:2511.04820v2 [cs.DL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Dan Brockington [view email] [v1] Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:20:22 UTC (2,101 KB) [v2] Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:05:17 UTC (2,113 KB)

The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self Paolo Crosetto1*, Pablo Gómez Barreiro2 , Mark Austin Hanson3* 1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GAEL; Grenoble, France 2. Department of Science Operations, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Wakehurst, UK 3. Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter; Penryn, Cornwall, UK * corresponding authors – PC: paolo.crosetto@inrae.fr, MAH: m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) PC: 0000-0002-9153-0159 PGB: 0000-0002-3140-3326 MAH: 0000-0002-6125-3672

All set for New Horizons 💎 #OpenAccess in Nijmegen! Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak on the Strain, Stain, & Drain of scientific publishing.

Looking forward to great conversations on moving #ScientificPublishing forward!

bit.ly/StrainQSS
www.horizondiamond.nl#schedule

Will there be written records of the meeting?

The most beautiful #snail ever to exist!
Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles

#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug

Hydatina is elegantly beautiful!

Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Upwelling generates a unique refugium from climate change in the fast warming Eastern Mediterranean Sea - Biodiversity and Conservation The identification of areas resistant to climate change is a strategy to support biodiversity conservation on a warming planet. Such ‘refugia’ are often detected by modeling future climate and species...

Southwestern #Cyprus hosts the only refugium against #climate warming in the easternmost #Mediterranean Sea! Great collaboration with many colleagues hoping to contribute to the protection of this area! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
🧪🌍🌐
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ready to attend #TIBS2026 in Denmark presenting my viewpoint on the future #biogeography of the Mediterranean Sea, with @roellammerant.bsky.social showing how altered seasonality in the eastern #Mediterranean connects warming to #biodiversity collapses. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

Doctorat INPhINIT Coneix les 60 beques de doctorat dINPhINIT per a investigadors que vulguin realitzar estudis de doctorat en universitats d'Espanya i Portugal.

Interested in a PhD at @icmcsic.bsky.social with me & @fonamental.bsky.social? We’re seeking motivated candidates for an #INPhINIT incoming fellowship to study mesophotic coral ecosystems as thermal refuges & holobiont responses across depth gradients. Info: fundacionlacaixa.org/ca/beques-do...

In Italy, it's on show in #Milan only though, with most of the country at many hours of travel.

Special Delivery | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum Bidyut Kalita (India) photographs a potter wasp carrying caterpillar prey for its young.

...and this wasp with prey, a #macro photo literally on the fly.
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

Synchronised Fishing | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum Qingrong Yang (China) shows a ladyfish snatching its prey from right under this little egret’s beak.

...this hunting scene...

www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

Fractal Forest | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum Ross Gudgeon (Australia) reveals the exquisite forest-like structure of a cauliflower coral from the inside out in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition shows the diversity of shapes and colors, behaviours and interactions that only #Nature can offer. Many very young photographers! Among my favorites this soft #coral photographed from within...
www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

A great guide to write reproducible #code by @britishecologicalsociety.org. Tip of the day: "Split long scripts: Make scripts do just one thing". Hundreds of lines of script are overwhelming for peers and supervisors alike.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

The next edition of the CPEG meeting to be hosted in London in August 2027! A great multidisciplinary meeting, don't miss it!

Glad to read a quantitative appreciation of #taxonomy and field studies! "ongoing species discoveries substantially alter our understanding of macroecological patterns" And this is about terrestrial #vertebrates, think about the #invertebrates...
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines through AI at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines through AI at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀

Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social
@uclcber.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The fact that a large research institution drifts away from privately-owned databases which became the main system to assess scientists, institutions and science itself triggers the hope that critical mass to build a novel scientific ecosystem may soon be reached.

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Science of the total environment (elsevier) gets deindexed.

This is your regular reminder to please stop chasing impact factors and shitty metrics so we can stop feeding this awful system...

An alternative is to publish in more society journals (when possible).

Thank you! Hopefully it's not established yet. The presentation you linked had a quite long list of species rafting across the Atlantic!

Hey @dantheclamman.blog which Arca is this exactly? Any paper on its invasion of Europe? Thanks!

A unique historical baseline uncovers harvesting impacts on intertidal molluscs at Inhaca Island, southern Mozambique Abstract. The effects of ocean exploitation are especially pronounced in coastal, more easily accessible, regions. However, long-term ecological shifts oft

We used a really unique museum collection in #Mozambique as #baseline to quantify impacts due to harvesting of intertidal #molluscs. Action is needed to guarantee long term sustainability of this vital resource to local communities and biodiversity conservation.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...

We need new collections but - most importantly - the future generations of scientists will need new collections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...