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Guillermo Fandos

@gfandos.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at @ucm.es studying how we can improve predictions of biodiversity responses to global change. #ConservationBiology 🌍, biogeography, movement ecology, Citizen science, #Rstats | www.gfandos.com

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper 🐦 Multi-trait syndromes explain dispersal among close relatives, but simple traits (e.g. body mass) better predict across species. A case for simpler, mechanistic ecology. doi.org/10.1038/s420... Big shout out to @gfandos.bsky.social 🎉 #Ecology #Evolution #Traits #Dispersal #Birds
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Simple mechanistic traits outperform complex syndromes in predicting avian dispersal distances - Communications Biology
An analysis using European continent-wide empirical data shows that single mechanistic traits predict avian dispersal better than complex syndromes. Body mass and life history dominate median dispersa...
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Guillermo Fandos @gfandos.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Muy interesante reflexión 👏. Evaluar ciencia no puede reducirse a un único indicador ni al factor de impacto. Difícil cambiar el sistema, pero el primer paso es asumir que la evaluación es compleja y no cabe en una sola métrica.
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Jakub Hrouda @kuba-hrouda.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️ If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask! @eounion.bsky.social
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers
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Megan Szojka @megan-szojka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Species occupancy is inflated by sink populations in productive environments but not unproductive environments
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Asunción Semper-Pascual @semperpascual.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEW PAPER! Do you want to know how ocelots and agoutis interact in space AND time in #TropicalRainforests?🌳 Check our last paper led by Andrea Vallejo-Vargas and published @animalecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Ana Benítez @anabenlop.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here: www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...
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Job offer: PhD candidate in biodiversity risk assessments - Ana Benitez Lopez
Project Description Red Lists are critical tools for assessing species’ extinction risk, systematically evaluating threats based on past and ongoing environmental drivers. However, global change drive...
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Guillermo Fandos @gfandos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
📢 Título de experto en Aplicaciones bioinformáticas en biodiversidad, ecología y evolución 📅 26 mayo - 4 julio | ⏰ 15:00 - 20:00 📍 Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 💰 300€ 🎯 Metodología 100% práctica con proyectos y tutorización experta 📌 Inscríbete ya! ucm.es/formacion-pe...
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Juan G. Rubalcaba @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Next week (!!) we are presenting our workshop "integrating mechanisms into species distribution models" - don't miss it! Online 2-4 April www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo... @gfandos.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social
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RLadies+ Bot @rladies-bot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
📝 "Useful R Packages & Resources" 👤 Steffi LaZerte 📖 Essential R packages & resources for data science, visualization, & workflows. Check it out! 🔗 steffilazerte.ca/posts/useful-packa… #rladies #rstats #packages #resources #r
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A new study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Dr. Elise Zipkin and Dr. @nickhaddad.bsky.social join us to discuss what’s causing the decline and whether we can do anything about it.
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Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?
A new study of butterfly populations in the US shows a 22% decline among over 500 species in just 20 years.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/03/2025
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.
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Eneko Arrondo @bioeaf.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In collaboration with my friend @juanma-pg.bsky.social we have just published this article about some worrying trends we have observed in the marking of animals with GPS .... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Call for a critical review of widespread use of animal tracking devices - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Animal tracking has undergone a technological revolution, providing insight into biological details that were previously impossible to address. However, the increasing ease of access to tracking devic...
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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
El grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social estrena página web: ecoinfaeet.github.io
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📖Published📖 Denelle et al. present bioregion, a package that includes all the steps of a bioregionalization workflow under a single architecture 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/3CHqC5p
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Ian McFadden @ian-mcfadden.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📣 Jobs alert- please share! 4(!) PhD positions on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology 🫐🌿🌸🍄🌏 PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mappin... (w/ UCL East) PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-I... (w/ UCL East) PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadi... (w/ Kew Gardens) PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 (CSC)
List of PhD projects currently being (co)advertised in the McFadden Lab, with an image of the earth surrounded by emoji of animals and plants, as well as the UKRI NERC and China Scholarship Council logos.
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species. Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs
Downscaling mutualistic networks from species to individuals reveals consistent interaction niches and roles within plant populations

Species-level networks emerge as the combination of interactions spanning multiple individuals, and their study has received considerable attention over the past 30 y. However, less is known about the structure of interaction configurations within species, even though individuals are the actual interacting units in nature. We compiled 46 empirical, individual-based, interaction networks on plant-animal seed dispersal mutualisms, comprising 1,037 plant individuals across 29 species from various regions. We compared the structure of individual-based networks to that of species-based networks and, by extending the niche concept to interaction assemblages, we explored individual plant specialization. Using a Bayesian framework to account for uncertainty derived from sampling, we examined how plant individuals “explore” the interaction niche of their populations. Both individual-based and species-based networks exhibited high variability in network properties, lacking remarkable structural and topological differences between them. Within populations, frugivores’ interaction allocation among plant individuals was highly heterogeneous, with one to three frugivore species dominating interactions. Regardless of species or bioregion, plant individuals displayed a variety of interaction profiles across populations, with a consistently-small percentage of individuals playing a central role and exhibiting high diversity in their interaction assemblage. Plant populations showed variable mid to low levels of niche specialization; and individuals’ interaction niche “breadth” accounted for 70% of the population interaction diversity, on average. Our results highlight how downscaling from species to individual-based networks helps understanding the structuring of interactions within ecological communities.
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Guillermo Fandos @gfandos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Exciting opportunity ahead! Join our workshop from April 2nd to 4th and discover how to calibrate both mechanistic and hybrid species distribution models. Don't miss out—register now! @biogeography.bsky.social @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social
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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds? Blog from last month may be of interest. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... @amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites. #ConservationScience🌏
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025
New release of the {ecmwfr} R package to query the Copernicus ECMWF data store. Most prominently fixes a dynamic file renaming issue as the API returns variable formats, depending on the requested data. github.com/bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr #rstats #climatedata #opendata #package
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GitHub - bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr: Interface to the public ECMWF API Web Services
Interface to the public ECMWF API Web Services. Contribute to bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The cherry blossom prediction competition is on again this year. Submissions due by end of February. I am very much too busy to participate unfortunately. But a good distraction from *gestures all around* for the rest of you perhaps. competition.statistics.gmu.edu/competition-...
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
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Ernesto Díaz @ernestodmartin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ya os dije que lo de @nortes1.bsky.social esta semana iba de leones. www.nortes.me/2025/02/01/d...
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Dos leones en la Corte del Rey Felipe VI - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia
El próximo mes de marzo se cumplirán ciento sesenta y cinco años de la batalla de Wad-Ras, un formidable pitote en el que se enfrentaron tropas españolas al mando de O’donnell con las del Sultanato de...
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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests
Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.
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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Caribou traverse over 1,200km 🦌, while zebras cover ca 500km 🦓. Side by side, their journeys remind us how incredible and resilient the natural world 🌍 truly is. And this is terrestrial only. #MigrationMasters #ProtectWildJourneys #OvercomingBarriers Paper from 2019: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Some land animals embark on epic migration journeys, covering hundreds of kilometers over time as they move between feeding grounds, safer habitats with fewer predators, and their home ranges.

This graphic visualizes the longest known land animal terrestrial migrations in kilometers.

The data comes from the study “Longest terrestrial migrations and movements around the world” by Joly, K., Gurarie, E., Sorum, M.S. et al. published in 2019."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-land-animals-with-longest-migrations/
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Ernesto Díaz @ernestodmartin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Hace más de un año escribí esto para @nortes1.bsky.social La captura y consumo de angulas continúa como si tal cosa, aunque la especie -las anguilas- sigue igual de jodida que entonces. Luego que si la ciencia.
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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
South American tapirs make a historic comeback in Patagonia, marking a major win for rewilding efforts! 🌱 Once extinct in the region, they're now roaming free thanks to persistent conservation initiatives. Proof that nature can heal with our help! 💚 #Rewilding #ConservationWins #ForestGardeners
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The largest continental mammal has reappeared after 100 years, and scientists are calling it a historic event
The cameras of Rio de Janeiro's State Institute of Environment (INEA) have caught a truly wild moment for Brazilian biodiversity: the South American tapir
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 11/01/2025
Following the release of {distantia} 2.0, I wrote the blog post "A Gentle Intro to Dynamic Time Warping" with a conceptual description of the method (no code at all) and a summary of some interesting real-world applications: www.blasbenito.com/post/dynamic...
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A Gentle Intro to Dynamic Time Warping | Blas M. Benito, PhD
Brief introduction to Dynamic Time Warping with a conceptual step-by-step break down.
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 09/01/2025
After one year of intermittent development, version 2.0 of the #Rstats package {distantia} (URL: blasbenito.github.io/distantia) is finally on CRAN! This is a FULL REWRITE of the original package, which now has a fast and efficient C++ core, additional tools, and a much more intuitive API.
Snapshot of R code showing the install of the R package distantia via the command install.packages(), and the version of the newly installed package as printed by the command packageVersion().
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Jeffery Cannon, Landscape Ecology Lab @jefferybcannon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This week, I'm reposting my tutorials for learning #LiDAR in #R as I migrate to BlueSky! Here is Part 2 of a 7-part series to get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Module 2 covers creating raster products like elevation maps! bit.ly/lidR-module2
High resoultion map of a 1km2 area showing gentle changes in elevation and several small creeks and ridges
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Human Macroecology🌍Join @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuni.bsky.social to study human #macroecology from a functional #trait perspective, in #archaeology + #ecology team led by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social👣 🗓️Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 👉Apply: international.au.dk/about/profil...
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2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
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Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
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Tamara Burgos @tburgos-science.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Solo se protege lo que se ama y solo se ama lo que se conoce. Bien lo dijo Cousteau. De ahí la importancia de la divulgación, especialmente en ciencia. Y que mejor forma de empezar el año que con un articulo en Quercus? Puedes leer un anticipo aqui! www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/8953...
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Efectos en cascada en el el caso del lince ibérico
La recuperación del lince ibérico ha supuesto una oportunidad única para estudiar los efectos de la reintroducción de los depredadores apicales a través de las cadenas tróficas y su impacto en el func...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Check our two open PhD positions in #ecology at @econovoau.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/svenni... (note - as always in #Denmark - these positions come w/ full academic salaries) 🐎🍃🌎🌤️ #megafauna #vegetation #wildhorse #modelling
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Jens-Christian Svenning on LinkedIn: #modeling #wildhorses #wilderness #herbivores #ecosystems #ecology…
📢 Exciting PhD Opportunities in Ecology & Biodiversity! 🌍 Are you passionate about understanding and shaping the future of ecosystems? At Center for…
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Jan-Ole Fischer @olemole.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
🛠️ The paper is complemented by the R package LaMa, a fast ⚡ and flexible framework for estimating latent Markov models, designed to make building such models much easier for everyone! 👉 janoleko.github.io/LaMa/ Check out the vignettes and start building models! 🏗️
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Fast Numerical Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Latent Markov Models
A variety of latent Markov models, including hidden Markov models, hidden semi-Markov models, state-space models and continuous-time variants can be formulated and estimated within the same framework ...
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Eneko Arrondo @bioeaf.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Vamos a probar con un pequeño hilo... En que se parecen los submarinos nazis a los pumas??????
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MARE-Madeira @maremadeira.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Join us in Madeira (19–23 May 2025) for the Workshop on Marine Animal Movement Analysis! Explore the challenges of studying #marine #species and learn advanced methods to analyze and interpret #movement data. Applications open now — learn more and register: marcfer3.wixsite.com/website
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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A thoughtful analysis of the risks of #AI in and around conservation. We hear a lot about the positives, and for my research, machine learning has been a game changer. This article brings a broader perspective conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation actions more effic...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/12/2024
Historical Bird Atlas and Contemporary Citizen Science Data Reveal Long-Term Changes in Geographic Range of Kenyan Birds | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Diversity and Distributions | #ornithology 🪶
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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
After popular demand, we have extended the deadline for abstract submission until 17th JANUARY 2025. Don't miss this opportunity!! See you in #AEETSIBECOL2025
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
University of Bristol Life Sciences Building
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Cracking Striped Hawk-moth on Fuerteventura arrived with "calima" dust from Africa overnight. Heading north for Cornwall tonight? @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
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servane mouazan🍉 @servanemouazan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Climate change, nature loss & food insecurity are all inextricably linked. Dealing with them as separate issues won't work, major report warns Check the review of scientific evidence by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hugo/blogdown got too janky to maintain so I migrated my website to a Quarto blog. I wrote a blog post in case anyone else finds themselves doing the same. It covers: - keeping the same URLs - Rmd to qmd - tweaking the home page - fonts - coffee benharrap.com/post/2024-11... #rstats #dataBS
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Migrating from blogdown/Hugo to Quarto – Ben Harrap
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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
What a cool paper! 🤩 Using @inaturalist.bsky.social observations, Mayer et al. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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Basti 🌸 @bastianolea.rbind.io · 11/12/2024
Tip de R: el paquete {pal} te permite crear asistentes de IA que te ayudan con tu código ✨ Por ejemplo, un asistente que explique lo que hace un código, uno que programe a partir de lo que le digas, uno que haga gráficos, directo desde R! 🤖 👉🏼 Tutorial: bastianolea.rbind.io/blog/pal_asi... #rstats
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Un relato de la vergonzosa penuria económica a la que el Gobierno de Madrid está sometiendo a la #Universidad Complutense, por Elisa Silió @elpais.com (Se llama destrucción intencionada de servicios públicos). elpais.com/educacion/20...
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La Complutense: una universidad en los huesos
El campus madrileño padece una falta de financiación que dura 15 años y que se traduce en profesores que ganan menos del salario mínimo, instalaciones de hace 50 años o penurias en las prácticas. Un e...
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