Pedro Tarroso

There are alternatives. Check out two Diamond Open Access journals in #ecology and look for others in your field.

Examples:
Web Ecology (www.web-ecology.net)
Biodiversity Informatics (journals.ku.edu/jbi)

Resources:
Diamond Discovery Hub (ddh.diamas.org)

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

Scientific publishing has shifted but not improved.

First, readers couldn’t access papers.
Now, authors can’t afford to publish them (APCs ~$3000).

With today’s open-source tools, it may actually be cheaper for institutions to run journals than to pay APCs.

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

He has brought some clarity to the presidential campaign. He makes easier to distinguish between the absurdity meant purely for amusement and the abhorrent absurdity of most of today's political debates

Go Iran! It is inspiring to see citizens standing up and making their own demands for change. True, lasting transformation comes from within, without needing external interference to reclaim a country's future and resources. I'm moved by your courage!

The recent collapse of a high-profile journal is not just a scandal but hopefully a warning sign of a system that has drifted far away from its core mission.

Sources for more information:

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/scie...

www.science.org/content/arti...

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Science belongs to everyone. Knowledge should flow freely, not be trapped behind paywalls, resold to the researchers who produce it, or silenced by costly publishing fees over unpaid work.
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We moved from an era where accessing science was forbidden due to expensive paywalls, to an era where publishing has become impossibly expensive! It is inaccessible to many researchers to publish without institutional backing or reserving significant percentage of science funding to pay publishing
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Authors pay $4,500 per article while journals publish 40+ papers per issue. Scientific publishing has become a billionaire industry built on unpaid editorial and peer-review labor. With automated and non-printed workflows the production costs are near zero and still using online ads along articles
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The journal Science of the Total Environment has now been removed from the Web of Science index! A dramatic fall triggered by editorial practices that inflated number of articles, including some approved through fake peer reviews.

#Science #OpenScience #Research #OpenAccess #ScienceForAll

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Just released a flexible #LaTeX template for short #CV!

- Modular layout panels
- Optional bibliography/reference section
- Clear styling for academic and professional use

Check it out on github.com/ptarroso/shortCV

#DataScience #OpenSource #Publications #Resume

Amazing animation of aerosols in the atmosphere by NASA. Check more details at the source: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/

🌐 #RemoteSensing #GIS

'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? – video Reporter Matthew Cassel speaks to Israelis in Tel Aviv, to see what they think of the war, famine and genocide happening next door, and the growing international condemnation against it

I feel privileged that I never had to hate my neighbour, that I don’t need to paint over genocide to stay blind to it.

This is deeply tragic. The destruction is overwhelming. An unbearable nightmare. Unacceptable and incomprehensible. The disregard for human life is horrifying. Killing by bombs was wrong, fostering famine is beyond any measure of decency.
So sad that it feels wrong to react to this post with a heart

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out. But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time. Members of Jordan’s military stand among pallets of aid about to be dropped on Gaza. Continue reading...

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky

What an interesting opinion piece, with a thought-provoking title! Are the most 'segregated' among us actually those who choose to isolate themselves in an elite bubble, unwilling to socialise with others? I believe that this is something far more widespread, not only UK.

A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans | Aeon Videos Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents

This video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides an unprecedented look at the intricate, interconnected flow of ocean currents around the world

Power back after 10h with major power outage affecting Portugal and Spain! Movie like: no ATMs , no money, no fuel... #power #outage

Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship Knowledge about species abundance across broad spatial areas is crucial for unraveling ecological processes. Yet, abundance estimation often demands extensive sampling effort associated with logistic...

Happy to share the third paper from David Ferrer-Ferrando's PhD project, published in @ecography.bsky.social, about abundance–suitability relationships 📈🐦📊 Check it out! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pacevedo.bsky.social @ptarroso.bsky.social

Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation

Feeling a bit anxious for these data! 🌐 #remotesensing #forest #biomass @esa.int

YouTube video by ynetnews Israeli Palestinian documentary 'No Other Land' wins Oscar

To those who claim Israelis and Palestinians cannot live together: Anyone can live peacefully with their neighbor if they choose to. These artists have shown us even more — they create together, strengthen their voice as brothers, and prove what others call impossible. Listen to them! ✊

Middle East crisis live: Israel’s defence minister says countries which opposed military operations in Gaza should take Palestinians Israel Katz orders army to prepare plan to allow ‘voluntary departure’ of residents from Gaza as Spain rejects suggestion it should accept displaced people

Now imagine if Trump proposed friendly gathering of Palestinians into camps where they could work, and the elderly and sick would be cared for at no cost...
Spurious correlation: hate and global temperature rise together....

‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot Trump calls emergence of DeepSeek a ‘wake-up call’ amid doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom

This kind of shows that is science, research and openness that foster leadership and progress rather than wars, borders or tariffs...

Note that although the chatbot can leak data to China it is open source! You can set up a local version of it on your controlled environment.

A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges.

Sounds like Global Ecology !

sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread !

go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv
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Speciesdigitizer example

If you have point data on maps and need to retrieve coordinates, check out the updated #speciesdigitizer R package! It's now compatible with the latest packages to ensure full functionality. Explore it here:
github.com/ptarroso/speciesdigitizer

#GIS #Mapping #DataAnalysis

A starter pack of scientists that use a variety of platforms and sensors to detect, monitor and measure plants and animals. Please reply to be included or removed. I’ll add folks who have relevant terms in their bio. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🦊 #auswildlife #drones #cameratraps

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Great starter pack! Add me in, please

#pipesRunix

phylin: an r package for phylogeographic interpolation phylin is a package for the r programming environment which offers different methods to spatially interpolate genetic information from phylogeographic data. These interpolations can be used to predic...

If you are interested in more details, check out the publications!

doi.org/10.1111/1755...
doi.org/10.1111/1755...

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Applications of Phylin (Part 3 of 3) This is the last post of a series of 3 dedicated to phylin. The idea was to show different uses of phylin that would go beyond the typical application of the method as detailed in the publications. Th...

Not only for genetics! Pairwise distances like Jaccard can also be spatialized! This opens up exciting applications:

ptarroso.github.io/Phylin3/
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Applications of Phylin (Part 2 of 3) The previous post started a series of 3 posts dedicated to the package that I have developed with my colleagues. After using 3 dimensional distance matrices, we will now move to connectivity using res...

What about #climatechange? Phylin lets you explore resistance distances and analyze their impact over time. 🌡️

ptarroso.github.io/Phylin2/
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