Fabian A. Boetzl

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Pummeluff!

Ah, not all have different names though, e.g. Porygon ...

If you're an active researcher or practitioner working in the field of applied ecology - why not apply to join us as an Associate Editor?🌍

We're seeking a range of expertise such as marine ecology, disease ecology & local knowledge!🧪

Find out more 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

35 and getting annoyed when authors don't use pt 12 and double line spacing .... 😅

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network showing more diverse connections over time for editors and reviewers

cover of the paper with title and authors

last paragraph of the abstract: Synthesis and applications. Our results show that editorial diversification is a practical lever for making peer review more inclusive and better aligned with the global distribution of ecological research. These changes make the publication process fairer and improve the quality and global impact of the papers published.

New paper, Great news:
We have been saying for years that making the editorial board more diverse was needed
We now show that diverse team of editors makes for more diverse reviewers
More Inclusive=Better Science
Things are getting better on this❤️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lucky find! My grandfather heard lectures by him at LMU and keeps telling me how boring they were. He claims most other students stayed home after the first two (he financed himself by writing and copying scripts for them) ... but this may also be due to varying personal interest ...

Where does one even find such things?!? 😅

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Ah, you're probably fine - the predictions of bankers have never been wrong ...

I even tend to agree that it is difficult to exclude people based on their personal conduct, BUT Musk is not even a scientist. He should never have ended up there in the first place.

Have to work on my Eastern Europe 😬

At the start of the year I hit 2,000 species on @inaturalist.bsky.social and set myself the goal of adding 1,000 more this year. I finish the year with 1,600 new species recorded. Enormous thanks to the 635 identifiers who helped along the way! 🙌 #iNaturalist #Biodiversity

Das ist theoretisch sicher richtig, im Einzelfall kann man aber durchaus sehr gut und schnell bewerten was eindeutig zu weit ghet und was noch ok ist. Und wenn man eine solche rot hinterlegte Box anfügen muss ging da etwas eindeutig zu weit.

Absolut, das Einhalten von Standards ist keine Zensur. Meine Vermutung aber ist, dass der Drang die eigenen Ergebnisse zu veröffentlichen letztendlich deutlich stärker ist das der, andere zu demütigen. Daher würde ich da eigentlich keine größeren Konflikte erwarten ...

Alle Nazis haben Brötchen geschmiert!

Ich finde das nicht hinreichend. Die Redaktion dürfte keine Artikel annehmen, die nicht den Mindeststandards des normalen Gesellschaftlichen Umgangs entsprechen. Man kann Autoren auch zwingen, entwürdigende Statements zu entfernen (in Fach-Journalen ist das Standard).

It was a pleasure to serve as opponent in the PhD defence of @alfredoventuro.bsky.social at the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU) last week. Excellent work on the long-term and off-season effects of wildflower strips on biodiversity. Well deserved — congratulations, Dr Venturo!

Introducing variables that may be meaningful but are then never used smells like chatgpt to me ....

So her defence is 'Trump is more frail than Biden was'?

Neat new publication in @jappliedecology.bsky.social linking conservation and pest control / food safety - I really enjoyed handling this one!

Fully understand. I also see the other side, I currently receive ~ 5 invitations per week, some of them manuscripts of authors I work with and many not within my expertise. My assumption is that many editors spend too little time researching reviewers.

I have recently been quite successful, rarely invite more than 4-5 for two reviews. It pays out to invest time in searching for possible reviewers, I focus on late stage PhDs and postdocs that are likely to have time and write them why I believe they are a good fit for this manuscript.

Absolutely! There also need to be journals that publish research that is not necessarily novel. But, as you say, quality standards need to be maintained and it seems to me that they treat many of their submissions in the spirit as if they were a 'dump'.

Scientific reports unfortunately has a track record publishing fake science and AI generated slop ...

Bürgersteig is illegal for cycling if you are 12 years or older 👌🏻 Germans are usually very eager to shout this at you as well 😌

This is what we call 'Deutsche Leitkultur' 🙃

Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Yes, lack of novelty. Too much of the same things being published which I believe is caused by the publishing requirements for PhD students that make groups go for "safe" and easy papers instead of novelty and risk ....