Our editors-in-chief published this post for the International Women's Day #8M 2026. We continue our commitment to transparency, responsible editorial practices, and the analysis of editorial data that help move scientific publishing toward equity.
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📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología.
¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica?
¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados?
¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras?
Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇
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La primavera empieza con millones de pequeñas arquitectas de la naturaleza: las hembras de las abejas silvestres que construyen nidos y llenan el paisaje de vida. Hoy celebramos también a las mujeres que estudian y protegen la biodiversidad.
#DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer 💜🐝
@ebdonana.bsky.social
Hoy, #8M, es un día magnífico para que conozcáis el monumental proyecto de la musicóloga @svmusicology.bsky.social y su Mapa de Creadoras.
Una forma muy visual de descubrir compositoras y músicas de todo el mundo, que igual muchas no te suenan por lo que sea.
svmusicology.com/mapa
i love data, me too meme
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Never been prouder to live in Spain 🇪🇸 edition.cnn.com/2026/03/04/w...
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This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G
And I participated in this follow-up on Bee conservation planning. op.europa.eu/en/publicati... cc
@ebdonana.bsky.social
IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
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Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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📢New episode of #VALORpartners is live!
@ibartomeus.bsky.social talks about the @csic.es & @ebdonana.bsky.social, their involvement in VALOR and his expertise. He also highlights @safeguard-pollinators.eu and how its insights feed the VALOR project.
👉 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRq...
Totally unrelated to the important science part, but... I see that red door and I... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ir...
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New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
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1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.
We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
Just published a post on our recent paper in Nat Comm with colleagues from @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. The study suggests that gains in life expectancy in Germany have partly masked the imprint of climate change on heat-related mortality.
More info here:
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Sincronizadas con las de Sevilla. Justo hoy las he visto por primera vez este año.
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.
Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa
Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.
For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics
Ole!
17.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tela! ¿Y qué tal tus Arabidopsis?
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Pollinators have been disappearing. It’s time to bring them back!
Whether you’re tending a yard, a community garden, a local park, or even just a tiny balcony, our Bring Back the Pollinators program has you covered with guides, videos, free events, & more!
Get started ➡️ bringbackthepollinators.org
[new paper] Coevolution of phenological traits shapes plant-pollinator coexistence royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Great idea conceived and implemented by @fduchenne.bsky.social
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En este #11F queremos hablar de un dato incómodo:
Aunque las mujeres representamos casi un tercio de la comunidad científica, nuestra presencia en puestos de decisión sigue siendo mínima 🚪❌
No es por falta de talento, sino por barreras que se repiten una y otra vez
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This is also climate change...
09.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Me encanto! Me gusta mucho la de conflictos internos que tiene la autora. Nada es blanco o negro.
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The world is going to blow past the 1.5 C goal of the Paris Accords. Even limiting global warming to 2 C will be very hard.
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
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Pollinator research travels.🗺️
During a one-month research stay in the UK, @ibartomeus.bsky.social delivered three seminars across leading institutions while advancing key VALOR work on pollinator dependencies and pollination services.
👉Read the full story: valor-project.eu/news/ignasi-...
Acabo de probarlo y a mi si me entra... ni idea.
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