José Ramón Martinez Batlle

Dutch solar parks approach pollinator & plant biodiversity levels of extensive grasslands, but only on the surface not covered by panels. Soil-emergent arthropods and butterflies lack behind. Proud of Timea for leading besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social

Periodic excretion patterns of seabirds in flight Uesaka and Sato report on the excretion patterns of seabirds in the open ocean determined using a rear-facing video logger.

@currentbiology.bsky.social has always been one of my favorite journals but I think they have now outdone themselves www.cell.com/current-biol.... And picked up by the @nytimes.com as well! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

New R package: rgeomorphon 📦 by Andrew Brown

Classifies terrain forms using a parallel C++ implementation of the geomorphon algorithm.

🔗 github.com/brownag/rgeo...

#RStats #GIS #TerrainAnalysis #RemoteSensing #RSpatial

Hola Elisaury. Sigue funcionando, aunque hoy concretamente la tuve que retirar momentáneamente. El FC-203 es un lugar eléctricamente desafiante; le estoy colocando protecciones para evitar daños (UPS, transistores, apagado de emergencia, etc.). Alternativa: rtk2go.com:2101/SNIP::MOUNTP...

Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets. Publication from @luzuzek.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Bascur, @annabertani.bsky.social, @ricgallotti.bsky.social. This project is supported by European Media and Information Fund. Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding related to the topic evolved rapidly. Along with scientific information being discussed widely, a large circulation of false information, labelled an infodemic by the WHO, emerged. Here, we study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter (now X) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We built a comprehensive database of 407M COVID-19 related tweets and classified the reliability of URLs in the tweets based on Media Bias/Fact Check. In addition, we use Altmetric data to see whether a tweet refers to a scientific publication. We find that many users find that many users share both scientific and unreliable content; out of the 1.2M users who share science, also share unreliable content. Publications that are more frequently shared by users who also share unreliable content are more likely to be preprints, slightly more often retracted, have fewer citations, and are published in lower-impact journals on average. Our findings suggest that misinformation is not related to a ``deficit'' of science. In addition, our findings raise some critical questions about certain open science practices and their potential for misuse. Given the fundamental opposition between science and misinformation, our findings highlight the necessity for proactive scientific engagement on social media platforms to counter false narratives during global crises.

New preprint! 🚨

We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before.

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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

"What we’ve got to do now is hunker down. The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together. Finland is offering a great example"

#ClimateSky

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Ecology is sexy. Teaching ecology is therefore the art of presenting a fascinating topic to well-predisposed audiences. It is not easy: the complexities of modern ecological science go well beyond the introductory chapters taught in high schools or the marvellous movies about ecosystems presented on TV. But well-predisposed audiences are ready to make the effort. Numerical ecology is another story. For some unclear reasons, a majority of ecology-oriented people are strangely reluctant when it comes to quantifying nature and using mathematical tools to help understand it. As if nature was inherently non-mathematical, which it is certainly not: mathematics is the common language of all sciences. Teachers of biostatistics and numerical ecology thus have to overcome this reluctance: before even beginning to teach the subject itself, they must convince their audience of the interest and necessity of it.

I keep coming back to this: the opening paragraph of the preface to Numerical Ecology by Borcard, Gillet, and Legendre (2018). Few texts capture so sharply the challenge of bringing mathematics into ecological thinking.

Tiny bush-cricket camouflages with the cestrum flowers it feeds on.

🦗 Meet a tiny bush-cricket from central Chile. Most are green, but this yellow male camouflages perfectly with the cestrum flowers it feeds on, showing how insects can play important roles in pollination.

📸Francisco Rivas

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Left: Three people operate a ground penetrating radar system on a grassy area. Right: A person strikes a metal plate with a hammer as part of a seismic refraction survey, while a group observes behind a line of geophones.

Interested in borrowing geophysical instruments for field education? We have a helpful suite of new video tutorials that walk you through the field set-up for ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity, and seismic refraction surveys.

Watch tutorials 📽️➡️ https://loom.ly/4deb2Sw

Digitized Optical Counting Reduces Sample Errors in Mosquito Surveillance Digital software for counting mosquitoes caught in surveillance traps offers improved accuracy, speed, and reliability over measuring by mass or volume, according to a new study.

Digital software for counting mosquitoes caught in surveillance traps offers improved accuracy, speed, and reliability over measuring by mass or volume, according to a new study. entomologytoday.org/2025/06/30/d...

Vertical land motion in Greater New Orleans: Insights into underlying drivers and impact to flood protection infrastructure Satellites provide perspective on the sustainability of New Orleans.

📉 Parts of New Orleans are sinking fast

A new study using satellite radar finds some flood walls and neighbourhoods in Greater New Orleans are subsiding by up to 28 mm per year, raising urgent flood risk concerns.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #ClimateRisk #Floods 🧪

Es difícil que estas cosas se entiendan fuera de RD, pero esto es una base GNSS, triple frecuencia y multiconstelación, a la que tuve que ponerle regulador y UPS para aguantar apagones, fluctuaciones y sobretensión. Lo curioso: está en un edificio en el centro de Santo Domingo. Reparar, adaptar ...

YouTube video by pelempito1 Reunion informativa sobre receptores GNSS de bajo costo, modalidad hazlo tú mismo" ('hands-on', DIY)

Reunion informativa sobre receptores GNSS de bajo costo, modalidad hazlo tú mismo" ('hands-on', DIY) youtu.be/2LZbP8fAYks

Hoy, 4 pm, aula FC-101, UASD: Primera reunión informativa del curso práctico "Armemos receptores GNSS de bajo costo, modalidad hazlo tú mismo" ('hands-on', DIY) maps.app.goo.gl/ngEAL9Ds7XgQ...

Nuevo post. Área de aplicación. Cosas curiosas que he leído este finde y que me parecen interesantes. Reproduzco parte de un post de Jakub Nowosad
muestrear-no-es-pecado.es/2025/05/aoa

Formulario con casillas para seleccionar actividades de la Semana FIA (Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura), con cursos y conferencias distribuidos entre el martes 8, miércoles 9 y jueves 10 de abril. Las actividades incluyen temas como promoción de carreras, tecnología y sociedad, diseño electrónico, programación, SIG, robótica, automatización industrial, cartografía, urbanismo, energías alternativas, soldadura, productos capilares, modelado de sargazo, y uso de GNSS. Participan diversos expositores en distintos laboratorios y horarios.

La Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura de la UASD organiza la Semana Tecnológica FIA 2025, del 8 al 10 de abril, en los Laboratorios de Alta Tecnología. Presentaré: Demostración de Armado de GNSS: Hágalo usted mismo, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., LabFiA206 forms.gle/CwVTmxqLxBFh...

YouTube video by Julia Silge Release an R package with Positron

Check out my new screencast, where I walk through how I use #Positron for #rstats package development work. I decided to release a new version of an R package to CRAN ✨live✨ this time around!

youtu.be/uL3NZQIMrpk

Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment In a field experiment, we tested how priority and year effects influence the aboveground and belowground structure and functioning of dry acidic grasslands. Time since establishment and year of initi...

Does the order in which plants arrive in an community matter? YES! but weather also plays a key role! The second chapter of my thesis is finally out!

If you want to know all the details, here is the full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I tell you about it below ⬇️

Habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output in fragmented landscapes The authors demonstrate that plant reproductive output (seed production) is decreased by habitat fragmentation through edge effects on flowering. This work provides evidence that an important contrib...

Hi. Plant reproductive output (seed production) is decreased by habitat fragmentation through edge effects on flowering. These species-level impacts of fragmentation may provide insight into the mechanisms of fragmentation effects on community-level changes in biodiversity🌍
tinyurl.com/bdectbre

Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes - Nature An analysis of habitat fragmentation using a dataset of more than 4,000 species worldwide shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at all scales, and that increases in β diversity do not compensa...

A couple of hot new papers out in the landscape ecology space!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This one addresses the issue of apparent increased biodiversity with increasing fragmentation. Highlights the need for habitat restoration and connectivity between patches.
#conservation

The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.

Exploring R Package Usage in Academia I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks. This has been my argument for trying to continue research without funding. More funding takes me away from the mission.

Logo for 2025 Society for Freshwater Science Meeting which features a stream flowing from mountains with a freshwater shrimp in the foreground. The central text reads "May 18-22 SFS 2025, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Discounted early registration rates #2025SFS are available until March 16th. Don't miss this exciting meeting May 18-22 in San Juan, Puerto Rico!

To learn more and register visit our conference website: www.sfsannualmeeting.org

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Charles Koch built the neoliberal economic propaganda and climate denial machine, including the Heritage foundation, Project 25 and the Atlas Network. This is very much his victory, intellectual and strategic. Musk and Trump are simply doing his grunt work.
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Headline "US democracy has died"

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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First of all, don't indulge in false comfort if you are lucky enough to not be in the US. Odds are, the neoliberals/fascists in your country are, at this very moment, looking at Trump&Musk, learning, and planning the ways they can take down your own democracy and government.
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#OTD in 1984, #Landsat 5 was launched into space. Far exceeding its three-year design life, Landsat 5 set a #GuinnessWorldRecord for the “Longest-operating #EarthObservation satellite.” Its longevity ensured a continuous stream of data that kept the Landsat archive intact. 🛰️🌎

With so many academics here, no European uni should be on X. The pressure is working as 2 more Spanish unis leave X. Contact your uni communications office.

Spain
Previously: 3 of top 25 not on X
Today: 5 of top 25 not on X

UPC (37K*)
@upc.edu

UPF (45K*)
@upf.edu

* Followers on X