Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal

Ese curso fue un antes y despues en mi uso de R y la principal razon por la que pude publicar el paquete BlueCarbon! Mas que recomendable. Solo siento no poder anotarme nuevamente a esta edicion.

La fuerza de La Marea Te necesitamos para blindar nuestra independencia

👏🏼Gracias a todos esos peces que os estáis uniendo a nadar a contracorriente.

Nos quedan solo 6 días. El periodismo independiente te necesita.

🙌🏽 Dona y difunde. www.goteo.org/project/la-f...

Two years ago we got together in a beautiful mountain to learn and develop #rstats packages for ecology

After {labeleR} (ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/) and {BlueCarbon} (ecologyr.github.io/BlueCarbon/), {mappestRisk} is now officially out! See thread by lead author @dario-ssm.bsky.social 👇

We have the publication associated to the BlueCarbon library!

Very happy with the review process and transparency of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social
Please cite this article if your are one of the more than 1700 downloads of the package :D

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GitHub - EcologyR/mappestRisk Contribute to EcologyR/mappestRisk development by creating an account on GitHub.

🗺️🐛 mappestRisk is now on CRAN! We developed this R package to help non-expert R users create pest-risk maps based on experimental data of the thermal biology of crop-pest species.

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A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Copernicus

¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto?
No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13

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O cartaz da Queimada de Cervo deste ano fíxoo Dani, o fillo de Vizoso. Na base hai dous Vizosos, un vivo e un morto, que beben queimada. O vivo leva o lapis na mao e o morto pícalle con el os collós ao demo. 😍

#Vizoso #OfCourseCeltic

Soil organic carbon depth profiles and centennial and millennial decay rates in tidal marsh, mangrove and seagrass blue carbon ecosystems - Communications Earth & Environment Around 9% of the soil organic carbon in coastal blue carbon ecosystems worldwide can remain stabilized after 100 years of burial, and 0.1% remain for 1000 years, suggesting that residence times of org...

I can finally show a large part of my work from the last 4 years! We have modelled OC decay rates in salt marshes, seagrasses and mangroves along centuries and millenia! We have now a good idea of how much OC will remain after 100 (9%) and 1000 years (0.1%) in their soils :)
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Puedes mandarme un DM si tienes dudas :)

No es mucho pero ayuda... Si no es tu primera carrera o no puedes matricularte en el año completo, la UNED tiene la carrera de magisterio (creo) y te permite matricularte en asignaturas sueltas. Como no es presencial puedes compaginarlo con trabajos. Por si quieres estudiar posibilidades.

Buenos dias. Si es tu primera carrera y accedes a una universidad publica puedes solicitar la beca del estado. Se conceden segun nivel de ingresos y pagan la matricula mas una cantidad fija al año que te ingresan directamente en la cuenta (hace años eran 3000 o 6000€ dependiendo de tus ingresos).

The idea of the world being "disenchanted" once science and "rationality" take hold has never sat well with me. You want to tell me that people who lived in a time when demons were considered a legit cause of disease somehow felt more mystical about life? I don't buy it.

Come with me as I try to build a modular open-source 24-well Plate Reader from scratch. I'll post updates regularly on this thread and then compile it to my open lab notebook later. Let's make some tools!

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El debate es si algo tan crítico como la energía puede ser privado.

Eu 🥲 que nunca lle miro o prezo o chocolate cando compro

Reading The Dawn of Everything ruins at least half of popular history books you try to read afterwards. Because if an author starts building their case with a simple, linear narrative of human history…you already know it’s bullshit. What else are they going to be wrong about?

YouTube video by Ecoinformatica AEET Seminarios Ecoinf | Nerea Piñeiro - BlueCarbon R package: get carbon stocks and sequestration rates

For those that missed the The BlueCarbon R library workshop, it was recorded and it is available here thanks to the @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social group of the @eco-aeet.bsky.social
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This is today!
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On Tuesday 28 January at 16:00 h we will have the seminar ‘BlueCarbon R package: get stocks and sequestration rates estimations directly from raw laboratory data’ by
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We hope to see you all there👇

Pero se e Moaña xD Dunas incipientes da praia da Xunqueira.

Pois ten pinta de sistema dunar incipiente

A Kameron Hurley WWII fantasy novel? Take my money. :)

Son ás 3:30am e podo dicir que Bluesky xa está traducido ao galego na súa totalidade. Agora esperar a que acepten a tradución.

#Blueskyengalego