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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When the AI returns it will not say 'I am AI', it will say 'Did you know that you can now report AI slop?'

Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m honoured to have been invited to give a keynote at the 22nd European Carabidologist Meeting in Tartu, Estonia, this week. A wonderful experience - and a real pleasure to meet and exchange ideas with fellow carabidologists from across Europe! 🪲🇪🇪

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

... or for someone to overthrow the Moskau regime - German inactiveness is not directional 😉

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Alfredo @alfredoventuro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Grateful for this amazing experience in Leiden for the #ECCB2026. With our symposium we managed to connect wildflower planting optimisation for biodiversity with landscape conservation and cooperation with farmers. Thanks to all participants for their crucial contribution!!! @fboetzl.bsky.social

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mission accomplished! 🪲 In the scorching heat of last weekend I finally photographed the last German tiger beetle species that had eluded me: the Viennese tiger beetle (Cylindera arenaria viennensis), highly threatened by the loss of dynamic river systems. #tigerbeetles #entomology #biodiversity

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New meta-analysis: #Pollinator responses to distance from #crop field boundaries depend on pollinator taxa, crop type, and adjacent agri-environment habitats. Smaller field sizes can foster pollinators within crop fields. 🦋🐝🌾 #agroecology #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Come join us on the editorial board of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We're looking for a Commissioning Editor to seek Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives and Policy Directions. The role comes with a small stipend. Please share! apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

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Commissioning Editor - Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the direction of one of the leading journals in applied ecology. Contract: 3 years (Initial term of 1 year)Stipend: £1500 per yearLocation: Remote, anyw...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Recipe clarification needed: Is it all beetles = 5 mins or only scarabs? 🤔

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fresh off the press! 📄We find that crop fields and semi-natural grasslands support complementary #biodiversity across #Europe. Semi-natural habitats alone are insufficient to ensure farmland biodiversity - biodiversity-friendly management of crop fields is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Honestly, I am only good with carabids 😅 But if you are looking for carabid identifications, feel free to get in touch 🙃 I charge co-authorships

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Meet #Licinus cassideus — a beetle that hunts snails, loves sun-scorched calcareous grasslands, and hadn't been seen in #Unterfranken since 1955. After being undetected for 71 years, we found it again in its typical habitat. #Carabidae #beetles #biodiversity #fieldwork @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Given the recent explosion of review durations experienced in my submissions and those of many of my colleagues, I suspect they don't.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happened a few times to me recently as well, never happened before. I wonder if we have reached the breaking point of the system.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Horn combined scientific excellence with moral clarity - his tiger beetle taxonomy still largely stands, and he never yielded to fascism.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Further apologies to the Japanese and Belgian communities will be necessary 😂

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

... and the lack of quest markers (or a functioning questlog) made me write things down in a notebook, effectively creating my own questlog. I still remember many of these quests while I have forgotten the majority of Skyrim's quests ....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This immediately brought back memories of when Tom Cruise joked about eating the placenta of his newborn daughter in 2006 (or was he?). This will be engrained forever in my brain ....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Ich finde ja am besten dass sie das 'schulmedizinische' gestrichen haben - da sahen sie wohl das größte Problem ....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's all becuase Obama wore this tan suit ...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I have obtained a hand-written manuscript of an identification key that the great Russian carabidologist Kryzhanovsky could not publish any more before his death - written in cyrillic cursive. Google lens translates the text without probelm. I think the potnetial is huge.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

And that would still be unreachable because the Tesla would burst in flames on the way ....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I immediately thought I was not reading correctly and checked the date twice ....

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Has @elsevierconnect.bsky.social hit a new low? I just recieved a demanding email imforming me that my review was a negative three days late ... three days before the deadline for my review. This is honestly not ok.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ich glaube vor kurzem im gleichen Zug gewesen zu sein mit selben Problem (1.92). Habe erst nach einer Stunde bemerkt dass man das graue Teil hoch schieben kann. Dann ging es.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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/...

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.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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 ...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Where does one even find such things?!? 😅

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Ging das nicht schon seit Jahren in jedem vernünftigen Grafikprogramm? Bild öffnen, Pipettentool, hexcode der Farbe anzeigen lassen, online hexcode nachschauen.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Have to work on my Eastern Europe 😬

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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 ...

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Alle Nazis haben Brötchen geschmiert!

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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).

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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!

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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