@gabspalomo.bsky.social
Carnivore Ecologist 🐅🐆🦝🦨🦦🐾 Data scientist 👩🏻💻 Latina in STEM 🇬🇹 rstats, ecology, Bayesian stats. gabspalomo.github.io
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) has evolved egg features (top row) to mimic eggs of different host species (bottom row). PHOTO: SWETLANA MESHCHERYAGINA0
Stunning illustration of mimicry! Common cuckoo eggs (top row) imitate the eggs of their host species (bottom row). The 30 October issue of Science explains this dazzling coevolution with genomic data — though I admit, it’s complex enough that I’d struggle to teach it! 🧪🌿🌎🦉
01.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 84 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 3Fight it 😃
01.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#rstats people I'm sure I remember someone had recently developed a package or at least a hack for getting around the fact that geom_ribbon can't map the fill aesthetic to a variable (continuous or not), but now I can't find it, can anyone point me to it?
31.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0My most destructive trait I have is that every single day, after lunch, I crave something sweet. I gotta have something otherwise I can't stop thinking about it all afternoon.
31.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My photo collage shows four images of Roman-era clear-glass cups painted with colourful enamel decoration depicting animals from the Roman Arena. Known as ‘circus cups’, fourteen of which have been found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark. Dated AD 200s. The top two images show two sides of the same cup. Top left: a brown lion with shaggy mane, its front and rear legs outstretched as if running at full speed. Top right: a green spotted leopard. Out of shot, a blue goat is being hunted down by the lion and the leopard. Bottom left: fragmentary glass cup decorated with a light brown lion with shaggy mane. Nose and lips outlined in black. Bottom right: image of a gladiator with green leggings and blue shield, and in front of him a large brown bear.
Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s.
Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
A pet peeve of mine is to see students' homework formatted with justified text and single spacing. I don't know why anyone would think that awful squarish alignment is ok.
31.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal
📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu
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#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
My boyfriend and I have a shared calendar in Google and I can’t even begin to tell you how much joy that brings me every time he puts an event in it like a doctor’s appointment or something. Who knew my love language was shared calendars 😂😂🗓️💻
29.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every time we make a call, our voices reveal personal information that #AI can extract and exploit.
Computer Science Assistant Professor Nirupam Roy and his team developed a system that defends our data from automated surveillance while keeping conversations clear ⤵️
New paper on the functional significance of medium-sized mammals for the dispersal not only of plants but also numerous small invertebrates. Would be interesting to study zoochory by the large species such as wisent and red deer!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
LinkedIn accounts can be stolen easily. This now has happened to two people I know personally, most recently this morning. There appears to be no viable way to protect your account from this attack, as the attack goes through LinkedIn support.
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📢 Thrilled to share our new paper 🌍
We found synthetic debris in nearly 1/4 of Eurasian otter spraints examined across five European countries, revealing how plastics infiltrate freshwater ecosystems.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#plasticpollution
🚨New paper out
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology
I didn’t know this!! This is so cool. The purrr package hex sticker has always been one of my faves. So simple yet so incredibly accurate.
21.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`.
It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
Large globe on wooden mount
This is the oldest surviving spherical representation of Earth, created in 1492. It's so old that the entirety of the Americas are missing, and other parts of the world are pretty hazy.
20.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0University educators: what's the current prevailing wisdom?
Are people still recording lectures and posting them and/or having live zoom links to regular classroom lectures?
I understand there are advantages and disadvantages to both and no easy answer either way but any thoughts are useful.
I am leading graduate students through a discussion on effective writing practices. How do you push through writer’s block when it hits you? Please share your tips!
20.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 13 📌 0Sounds great! I’ll keep an eye out for the official announcement because I would love to get a copy. In the meantime let’s see if we can start a book club on it for DSLC. 🙌🏻💯🎉🥳
20.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📸 A clouded leopard was photographed in Jilong County, Tibet—1,000 km from its known range. With 97% of its habitat lost in China, this discovery offers hope and calls for urgent cross-border conservation 🐾 doi.org/pf3w
18.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Ideas are easy. The difference between an idea and a story is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.
17.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 161 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 3Dan I’ve always been curious about this… do you use mist nets with an audio lure to trap them? 🦉💚
17.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey @nrennie.bsky.social quick question. Are you still writing and polishing your data viz book or is it done already? We are thinking about reading it for a new DSLC cohort.
17.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📖Published📖
Check out our new research article by Dorazio et al. 👉 An evaluation of multi-species occupancy models with correlated species occurrences
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🌍 🧪
Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.
17.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 28 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2
The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study
PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard.
But surely not *this* hard?
#AcademicSky
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Because we are living in unprecedented times my boyfriend and I have developed a new good morning greeting where we wish each other an uneventful boring day at work. We yearn for precedented times.
16.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This crucially important and obviously visionary work makes me feel vindicated for having said the same thing last year, albeit with much less evidence, while being mercilessly mocked by the city and its residents. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
15.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0“Discriminant function analysis indicated a 98.67% likelihood that the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ was a squirrel (...) Given local population densities, an eastern grey squirrel likely represents the most parsimonious species-level match.
15.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
