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I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you work in a Global South country and would like to host a Workshop? Next deadline for topic proposals: 29 May 2026 The Company of Biologists logo to the left and a map of the world to the right, highlighting Global South countries in orange.

Additionally, we are again looking for proposals for the Global South. These proposals will differ from the standard Workshop programme as we will bring the event to your region. Find out more at
biologists.com/workshops/pr...
#BiologistsWorkshops

How to Reduce Word Count Your scientific paper draft exceeds your journal's word limit? Here is how to cut down the word count - without reducing the content! Must-read for every researcher.

One of the top struggles I hear from researchers is keeping your word count down while writing papers. 📉

Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/

#AcWri #phd #Postdoc

Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad - Heredity Heredity - Complex range expansion and selective regime in the introduced Florida cane toad

New paper led by my former student Cinnamon Mittan... find out what those cane toads have been doing once they got established down there in Florida... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A preprint of our paper on #CausalInference in #Ecology - Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - led by Hannah Correia is now up as a preprint ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🧪🌍

This came from a GREAT workshop last year, and gives a solid framework and howto

We've just updated the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data and code review following great feedback at @peercommunityin.bsky.social.

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

We now have an app: github.com/SORTEE/DCQC and a website: eivimeycook.github.io/DCQC/

Milano Cortina: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, primo or...
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/sport/speciali/milano_cortina_2026/2026/02/14/milano-cortina-lucas-pinheiro-braathen-primo-oro-per-il-brasile-la-differenza_b1f59c13-a5f0-4691-bcb9-243751716d4f.html

For those who might want to use ChatGPT tools to help figure out colleges to apply to, a free, open source, non-AI alternative I made uses federal data and a Bayesian classifier to find colleges where students with similar interests & background actually graduate: collegetables.info/predict.html

Here’s What It Can Cost to Detain and Deport Just One Person After one man was sent to multiple detention centers across the country and spent over 4 months in custody, his journey shows deportation under the Trump administration is anything but straightforward...

🚨🚨👀👉🏼

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Opinião - Vinicius Torres Freire: Toffoli, o agente secreto, e os segredos que facilitam a mutreta empresarial Fundos e empresas donos de outros fundos e empresas estão na base do caso Master

#OPINIÃO
📝 Vinicius Torres Freire | Toffoli, o agente secreto, e os segredos que facilitam a mutreta empresarial. Fundos e empresas donos de outros fundos e empresas estão na base do caso Master.

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To think we dismantled the world’s finest research machine to build fucking concentration camps.

Temporal span of biodiversity monitoring mediates the effects of area and environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.09.704769v1

Global Economy Focus on Growth Is Harming Nature, Major UN Report Says More than 150 nations signed off on the study

More than 150 nations signed off on the study

Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New! Transactions B special issue on The biosphere in the Anthropocene: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... Hope you like the cover and lineup!

New way to get a list of species by country from IUCN Summary: Using IUCN Red List API v4 in R to compute species counts per country with an updated getNspeciesPerCountry function

New way to get a list of species by country from IUCN

https://flograttarola.com/post/species-by-country-iucn_v4/

#rstats #datascience

There is no way to fix the core problem, which is that the statistical production of symbols by definition is not based on their meaning

Only one week left to apply for the HSS Student Grant!
Don’t let your project miss out on funding. Find out more & apply here: herpsocsg.com/hss-student-...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

FAST Principles – ASAPbio

Elevate Preprint Feedback with FAST Principles!
✨Focused: Tackle the science, not the person.
✅Appropriate: Keep it respectful and bias-free.
🎯Specific: Provide actionable insights.
🌐Transparent: Be open about your role.
asapbio.org/focus-areas/...

Saddest thing is. These, monsters, were given elite positions, grants, supervised students, given prestigious awards and decades-long veneration, with at most, slap on the wrist for hurting thousands with their actions. Their crimes lost to time, unlike their individual "achievements".

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"Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour."

A new article from @conphysjournal.bsky.social takes you through some key tips on how to write a constructive peer review: oxford.ly/3NEZjhj

Vem pra cá que a gente te acolhe de braços abertos, igual ao Cristo :)

@brunalab.bsky.social rapaz... a coisa agora atingiu níveis nunca antes vistos

Why is understanding the historical interplay of natural and human drivers of environmental change crucial for building effective management strategies today?

See this Comment in #EnvironmentalConservation on the landscape of #Madagascar

#environment #history 🌍 🌐

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Iran warns of regional warfare if US launches attack Iran warns of regional warfare if US launches attack

Iran warns of regional warfare if US launches attack

<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte...

How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

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