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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo

@eboterod.bsky.social
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Behavioral & spatial ecologist. Founding member & Director of Conservation Science at @selvaorgco.bsky.social. Research Associate at Smithsonian Bird Friendly Program. Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Data Management Better Science Guide has been updated! 🚨 A big thank you to Natalie Cooper and Robert Barber for editing the guide, and everyone who contributed to the writing! (1/3)
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
¿Qué hemos aprendido acerca del #ColibríDeSantaMarta? ¿Cómo priorizar esfuerzos para encontrar al #PeriquitoDelSinú? Nos vemos este jueves 8 de octubre a las 09:00 para hablar de #Ciencia, #Aves y #EspeciesPerdidas. ¡No se lo pierdan! @selvaorgco.bsky.social
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Se viene un número muy especial en #ElHornero sobre biología reproductiva para que investigadores de #LATAM publiquen resultados sobre este aspecto poco conocido de las #aves de la región. ¡Envíen sus resúmenes antes del 16-10-2026! Info aquí 👉 bit.ly/4r7X99u
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Have you checked out the shade-grown coffee trees online catalog yet? An excellent resource that summarizes information on the main species found in coffee agroforestry systems in Colombia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Peru. #DrinkBirdFriendly Take a look👇 www.shadecoffee.org
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📖 Forest cover drives bird occupancy across guilds and habitats in a Colombian coffee-farming landscape 🦜 🌳 Find out more👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 29/07/2026
Tropical forests can recover rapidly after disturbance, but certain old-growth specialist trees will be missing. A study in Costa Rica shows that low abundance and low seed production hold back these trees, suggesting targeted plantings could help. In PNAS: ow.ly/Shla50ZtWMN
A forest in Costa Rica. Stock photo.
CREDIT: Nora Connors Photography / Shutterstock.com
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Status, threats and conservation of Earth’s migratory birds www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Status, threats and conservation of Earth’s migratory birds - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Migratory bird species are globally ubiquitous but rely on diverse habitats and locations across their annual cycles, requiring unique conservation solutions relative to non-migratory birds. This Revi...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Si mañana colapsa la civilización, podré identificar las aves que cantan, reconocer las constelaciones que brillan y discutir a Kierkegaard mientras me muero de hambre. Quiero pensar que todo eso era una búsqueda de la verdad. Que oportuno resulta que la verdad tampoco se coma 😌
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🌳 Local canopy cover, shade tree identity and landscape tree cover shape leaf-cutter ant nest density and herbivory in cacao agroforestry systems🌍 👇️ Read more besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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SELVA: Investigación para a Conservación en el Neotropico @selvaorgco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our paper on Andean birds in coffee landscapes is the July cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social. Data suggest that regional forest cover drives bird occupancy and regulates the success of local scale conservation.. doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/2) @eboterod.bsky.social
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our latest paper on how surrounding forest cover influences bird occupancy in Andean coffee-growing landscapes is featured on the cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! The paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365... The Issue: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exceeding nature’s biological speed limits | @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Identification of camera trap images by artificial intelligence and human experts produces similar multi-species occupancy models @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4GAHKTCP…
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“… las necesidades de la vida fuerzan y tuercen a la ciencia a que se ponga al servicio de ellas, y los hombres, mientras creen que buscan la verdad por ella misma, buscan de hecho la vida en la verdad.” Miguel de Unamuno Del sentimiento trágico de la vida
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Missing the forest for the trees: Conservationists emphasize the need for intact forest in coffee landscapes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
More forest cover in the landscape benefits everyone. Whether in a forest patch or a coffee farm, the probability of finding forest specialists, generalists, and open-area birds increases with forest cover. So do different bird dietary guilds. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📖 New paper Beyond first clutches: Second broods reshape selection on breeding timing in forest and urban great tits 🌍 🐦‍⬛ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/GMphd7x
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 02/06/2026
The Greenland shark, believed to be the longest-lived vertebrate animal, has had its genome sequenced. The unusually large genome offers insights into the molecular basis of the exceptional longevity of the fish. In PNAS: ow.ly/2kxI50Z6hnb
Illustration for A history of the fishes of the British Islands, by Jonathan Couch, 1862.
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Sip Coffee, Build for Change @sipgoodcoffee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#shadecoffee & #forestconservation are twin strategies to protect #native #birds incl #migratorybirds. Neither are necessary / sufficient on their own #birdfriendly #birdfriendlycoffee #coffee
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
¿Qué hace que un paisaje cafetero contenga más aves? ¿El manejo de las fincas o la cantidad de bosque que las rodea? ¡Lean nuestra última publicación en @jappliedecology.bsky.social y entérense! Y permanezcan atentos para recibir más noticias sobre este estudio. @selvaorgco.bsky.social
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them? Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
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SELVA: Investigación para a Conservación en el Neotropico @selvaorgco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In Andean coffee landscapes, surrounding forest cover drives bird occupancy across ecological guilds. Conserving forest and enhancing practices like shade coffee are complementary strategies to sustain diverse communities. @eboterod.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Forest cover drives bird occupancy across guilds and habitats in a Colombian coffee‐farming landscape
Increasing landscape forest cover would improve occupancy for nearly all bird guilds using coffee and forest habitats in the Eastern Colombian Andes. Conserving forest and enhancing shade coffee are ...
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SELVA: Investigación para a Conservación en el Neotropico @selvaorgco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
En cafetales andinos, el bosque circundante impulsa la ocupación de aves de todos los gremios. Conservar el bosque y fortalecer prácticas como café bajo sombra son estrategias esenciales complementarias para sostener comunidades diversas 🧵Eng below besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🧬Genomic life history traits deterministically predict how grassland communities reshuffle due to habitat loss and nutrient pollution. Irrespective of the considered global change driver: diploids decline, polyploids thrive! 👉️ buff.ly/0cjIOze
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SELVA: Investigación para a Conservación en el Neotropico @selvaorgco.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Si produces 1.000 kg de café pergamino por hectárea, no contar con la polinización mediada por las #AbejasCaficultoras puede significar una pérdida de entre 54 y 77 kg/ha. Esto y más encontró @sofia-lc.bsky.social en un reciente estudio, del cual SELVA fue parte. www.selva.org.co/wp-content/u...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2026
North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/4bkrafP
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Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
9/9 La ciencia sigue produciendo conocimiento, pero la verdad requiere tiempo, replicación y consolidación. Si la aceleración se vuelve norma, la circulación puede confundirse con solidez. El riesgo no es la desaparición de la verdad, sino el adelgazamiento de sus bases.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
8/9 La situación es ambigua. La ciencia necesita disrupción, porque sin novedad hay estancamiento. Sin embargo, como advierte Lipovetsky, la hipermodernidad convierte la renovación en mandato. Cuando renovarse es obligatorio, la profundidad compite con la visibilidad.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
7/9 Cuando la novedad es recompensada, los conceptos proliferan. Surgen nuevos nombres para variaciones menores; los marcos se multiplican más rápido de lo que se integran. Bourdieu lo llamaría posicionamiento dentro del campo. La diferenciación puede desplazar a la integración.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
6/9 Escribo como científico formado para cuestionar. Esa formación hoy se extiende a la propia literatura científica. No por rechazo, sino por reconocer que la ciencia opera dentro de una estructura hipermoderna. Leer críticamente es también percibir el ritmo que nos gobierna.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
5/9 La aceleración acorta los ciclos de relevancia. Los marcos teóricos apenas se estabilizan antes de la siguiente ola. La innovación impulsa el descubrimiento, pero al volverse mandato, la obsolescencia se acelera. El riesgo no es la falsedad, sino la fragilidad epistemológica.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
4/9 Lipovetsky sostiene que la seducción organiza la modernidad tardía (reciente). En ciencia, lo disruptivo o de frontera no solo describe hallazgos; también posiciona. El artículo circula como conocimiento y signo. La estética del “breakthrough” se cruza con los resultados.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
3/9 Bourdieu señala en “Homo Academicus” que la academia es un campo de capital simbólico. Reconocimiento y citación no son efectos 2rios, sino estructura. Si la novedad deviene capital central, los investigadores se alinean con ese sistema. La tendencia puede ser estructura.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
2/9 En “El imperio de lo efímero”, Lipovetsky afirma que la modernidad consagra la obsolescencia y el culto a lo nuevo. La moda es una lógica de reemplazo continuo. Hoy, la novedad en la publicación científica opera bajo un imperativo similar. Pero lo nuevo no siempre profundiza.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
1/9 La innovación en ciencia es indispensable. Pero en la condición hipermoderna, la novedad puede volverse requisito de legitimidad. En “Los tiempos hipermodernos”, Gilles Lipovetsky describe una cultura de aceleración. ¿Qué ocurre cuando la ciencia adopta ese ritmo?
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
La semana pasada escribí en inglés una reflexión sobre hipermodernidad y publicación científica. Vuelvo ahora a ella en español, no buscando repetirla, sino con la intención de pensarla nuevamente.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nonnative forestry plantations: invasion epicenters? @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Cryptic species are widespread across vertebrates 🦈🐸🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦭🦧 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Conservation targets and how to achieve them royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Science will not collapse, for sure. It still generates truths. But truth requires time, replication, and consolidation. If acceleration becomes the norm, circulation may be mistaken for solidity. The risk is subtle: not truth’s disappearance, but thinner foundations.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The tragedy is ambiguous. Science requires disruption, and without novelty, it would stagnate. Yet, as Lipovetsky argues, hypermodernity transforms renewal into a permanent injunction. When renewal becomes compulsory, depth must compete with visibility.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Under conditions where novelty is rewarded, concepts proliferate. New terms emerge for incremental variations; frameworks multiply faster than they consolidate. Bourdieu would describe this as positioning within the field. Differentiation can outpace integration.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I write this as a scientist trained to doubt and question appearances. That training now extends to the literature itself. Not from hostility, but from recognizing that science operates within a hypermodern structure. Critical reading becomes awareness of tempo.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Acceleration shortens cycles of relevance. Theoretical frameworks barely stabilize before the next conceptual wave. Innovation propels discovery. Yet when it becomes mandatory, obsolescence accelerates. The danger is not falsity, but epistemic fragility.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Lipovetsky suggests seduction becomes central to late modernity. In science, the rhetoric of the “cutting-edge” or “disruptive” signals frontier status. A scientific paper circulates not only as knowledge, but as sign. Breakthrough becomes aesthetic as well as argument.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In Homo Academicus, Pierre Bourdieu describes academia as a field structured by struggles for symbolic capital. Recognition and citation are structural, not incidental. When novelty becomes capital, researchers adapt accordingly. What looks like trend may simply be alignment.
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In The Empire of Fashion, Lipovetsky links modernity to obsolescence and the cult of the new. Fashion becomes a logic of replacement. And in scientific publishing, to be publishable is to be new. But, does the new deepen understanding?
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Scientific innovation is essential to knowledge. In the hypermodern condition, novelty risks becoming a prerequisite for legitimacy rather than the outcome of inquiry. In Hypermodern Times, Gilles Lipovetsky describes a culture of acceleration. What if science adopts that tempo?
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo @eboterod.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It has aged well 🦜 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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