Catherine Hulshof

An incredibly fun Fulbright collaboration with Sara Palacio and Pablo Tejero Ibarra @ipe-csic.bsky.social and Nishi!

Extreme environments in a world of new extremes Extreme environments, whether defined by climate, soils, or disturbance, at landscape or micro-scales, are prevalent across Earth's surface and have long served as crucibles for ecological and evolut...

Nearly 50% of Earth's land cover and upwards of 70% of Biodiversity Hotspots are extreme environments. Yet many ecological theories fail in these habitats. Here, we explain why and showcase what extreme environments can tell us in a world of new extremes. #Fulbright

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Resist and unsubscribe. #resist #unsubscribe

I couldn't decide if this was a requiem for an American dream or an American illusion. Written by an author who overly recognized their privilege, not leaving much hope for the rest of us. Still worth a read.

Matching climate to biological scales Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depe...

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference.
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@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

I've been working towards my degree equivalencia in Spain. If you've recently made the leap from U.S. faculty to E.U. or España in ecology fields please DM. I would love to pick your brain about ERC, ATRAE, etc.

Please add our lab. We are launching multi taxa biodiversity monitoring in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica this year. Gracias!

I’m an accidental Professor of Latin American Studies, but am nevertheless comfortable asserting that - given the US track record when it comes to regime change in Latin America - this is going to be a fucking disaster.

2026 San Antonio style.

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Just love the graphics and collage effects of this video.

Gaps in tropical science from unrepresentative distribution of sampling and citation across natural terrestrial environments - Nature Communications Research in the tropics is unevenly distributed across regions and biomes. Here, the authors find that moist broadleaf forests account for 73% of all tropical citations but cover 29% of the land area,...

A great way to end the year! Our new paper, led by Daniel B. Metcalfe and published in @NatureComms, shows how biases in tropical research risk undermining environmental policy where it matters most. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just won a $20 bet from my sister. I haven't been home 1 hour and my dad asks what I'm gonna do with that box of stuff I have in the closet.

The time capsule has to stay. Happy Holidays from the Hulshof's!

At the end of each year we do strategic planning for the next year, a good time to review principles of slow productivity.
1. Work on fewer things
2. Work at a natural pace
3. Quality over quantity

A bit ago there was a paper or thread making the rounds arguing against Bonferroni correction when looking at many correlations. Anyone remember source?

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

This is excellent: Tips and Tricks for Writing Constructive Peer Reviews

Perhaps the most excellent part is this subhead: "Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls". Right? Peer review should improve papers (and OK, gatekeep a little) - not make an author regret their career choices!

How Dryad data curators help make data sharing simple for researchers | Dryad news Data sharing can be challenging. Dryad’s experienced data curators smooth the way with expert, hands-on support for researchers to ensure that all the data we publish is findable, accessible, interope...

Researchers choose Dryad for all kinds of reasons. One of the biggest is our curatorial team.

Expert data curators screen each submission and work with researchers to ensure high-quality, FAIR-compliant data publications.

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#opendata #openscience #openaccess #datasharing #scisky

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año

1- El truculento caso de la revista "Science of the Total Environment" que cobra 3600 euros por publicar un paper, y cuyo director figuró como coautor de 200 artículos publicados allí mismo. elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

'Nobody wants to scale back the industrialization of education it would mean losing money'

Are we still not convinced that education is outdated, not meeting needs of millions and perpetuating inequities? But I've yet to see viable alternatives (except maybe the return of trade schools)

I had the same Q. Many people handle a manuscript (editor, handling editor, reviewers). Who's not doing their job and how do we oust these bad actors? If we don't, publishing in certain outlets becomes meaningless. That's why I publish w/ society journals. You know the people behind the process.

Why I Broke Up With Wirecutter Graham Downey tells us about how he tried to stop worrying and love the Wirecutter—and how it quietly took over his life.

In it's early days @nytwirecutter.bsky.social was the alternative to Consumer Reports but now it just encourages rampant consumerism, wrapped up in mirages of 'quality'. Today's digestif long read:

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When the turpials arrive, hurricane season is over, trade winds start, and surf is up in #PuertoRico. The tropics have many seasons too if you know how to look.

Where does everyone send their tropical plant samples for species identification using DNA barcoding? Guelph?🙏 Leaves are preferable, but if the leaves are too high for pole pruner, what then? Cambium? Thanks for any leads.

🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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So: if you were to suspend your knee-jerk reaction and, instead, imagine a perfect world, what qualities would a pay-peer-reviewers model have to have for it to work? Now that's the interesting question/thought exercise no importa (y no judgement) whether you are for or against.

Fin.

I'm not for or against. But I specialize in exploring ideas outside of how we currently operate. Because how we currently operate clearly ain't working.

We are comfortable with NSF honorariums for review panelists but not comfortable with paying for manuscript reviewers. Why? NSF has prestige advantage? Volume/workload is different? Stakes are different?

We love data yet are convinced by anecdotal feelings of how this would be a very bad, no good, terrible idea...without any kind of pilot data/info to base those feelings on...what do existing models out there say? I honestly don't know. Just spit-balling and looking for fellow spit-ballers.

Few people are willing to suspend disbelief and 'play' from a place of imagination/creativity...skills we are suppose to be good at.

Most people hate the idea for all the obvious reasons. Already part of service, where would $ come from, blah, blah, blah.