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Sasha Vasconcelos

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Postdoc at the Mountain Research Center (CIMO-IPB) working on modelling ecosystem service supply in forest systems. ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒณ I've mostly worked with impacts of different forms of land use change on arthropod communities. ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿฆ—๐Ÿชฒ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ

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"ร‰ uma tragรฉdia" que "caiu que nem uma bomba". Cientistas chocados com extinรงรฃo da FCT sem aviso prรฉvio Decisรฃo anunciada esta tarde pelo Governo apanhou de surpresa a comunidade cientifica, que questiona o futuro da ciรชncia em Portugal

The ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น government just imploded science in Portugal by extinguishing several scientific entities including the FCT (Foundation for science and technology, the main funder in PT). Imagine DFG was extinguished in Germany, the CNRS in France, or the NIH in the USA ๐Ÿงช
cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/...

01.08.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐ŸŒ๐Ÿชฒ New research shows that citizen scientists are shaping stag beetle conservation in Portugal!

๐Ÿ“– Full study here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...

@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @cjrego.bsky.social

#StagBeetles #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #CitizenScience

18.01.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today!

๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿชฒ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿชฐ๐ŸŒฒ

Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...

07.01.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Thanks :)

10.12.2024 16:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi, I'd like to be added too! :)

10.12.2024 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi! Could I be added too? :)

07.12.2024 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โš ๏ธ Hot off the press!

The BASS project in Portugal is studying how tiny changes in sunlight and soil impact plants, insects, and ecosystems. ๐Ÿž๐ŸŒฑ
๐Ÿ‘‰https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341

#Ecology #Biodiversity #Science

@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

06.12.2024 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. ๐Ÿงช #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

19.09.2024 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 803    ๐Ÿ” 221    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Cรดte d'Ivoire) African forest-savannah mosaics are complex landscapes holding mixtures of woody grasslands (savannah) and different forest systems (gallery forests aโ€ฆ

I'm a bit late to the blsky party but I thought I would also share it here - our newest paper on ant diversity in a West African forest-savannah mosaic! ๐Ÿœ

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.11.2024 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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