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Julen Astigarraga

@julenastigarraga.bsky.social
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Ecology, forests, global change, biogeography, rstats, data science | Ekosistemetan ematen diren aldaketak ulertzeko ahaleginean

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Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda @gabrisanguesa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Climate-induced forest #dieback will drive severe compositional shifts across our forest ecosystems. The III #ReDeC meeting brings together researchers and managers at the Soria Campus: youtube.com/shorts/ePtdF... #ForestEcology #GlobalChange #Science @uva-es.bsky.social
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III Reunión de ReDeC en 53 segundos | Decaimiento forestal.
YouTube video by Audiovisuales Campus de Soria
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
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UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests
Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority
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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
¡Lanzamos una llamada para contribuir a un monográfico sobre teledetección! 🌍 Si eres investigador/a y trabajas en este campo, te animamos a participar en este monográfico, planeado para final de 2027. Con él pretendemos ofrecer una visión actualizada de la teledetección aplicada a la ecología.
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!
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PULSE — Virginia Domínguez-García
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BayesAna(Anabel Forte) @bayesana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Buenos días almas diversas! Por si os apetece echarle un ojo hoy escribo en @Conversation_E sobre el miedo que debe (o no) tener ma comunidad matemática a la IA. theconversation.com/el-miedo-al-...
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El miedo al lado oscuro de la IA en la comunidad matemática
El anuncio de OpenAI sobre la resolución de un Problema del Milenio y las advertencias sobre el riesgo existencial de la IA abren una reflexión sobre el miedo que despierta esta tecnología entre exper...
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Fernando Valladares @fernadovalladares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cierra el refugio de Sarradets, emblema del pirineísmo, el segundo mas alto de la cordillera. Un icono junto a la brecha de Rolando. No hay agua en la surgencia del complejo karstico que lo abastece, incendios y el Gobierno de Aragón fueron la puntilla. arainfo.org/fuego-y-mont...
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Fuego y montaña
El fuego y la sequía amenazan el futuro de nuestros santuarios de alta montaña. El fuego entró este verano en los parques naturales pirenaicos y la sequía
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our new paper led by Leo Miranda in @science.org - Comparing #Amazon protection strategies reveals that avoiding deforestation is most cost-effective for carbon storage, while avoiding forest disturbance yields the highest benefits for #biodiversity 🌎🪶🌴🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protecting tropical forests is more cost-effective for biodiversity and climate than restoration
Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A century of inertia in quantitative ecology education @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #ecopubs doi.org/10.1111/2041...
In this perspective, we revisit longstanding concerns about quantitative learning and literacy in ecology and posit why, despite enduring and widespread agreement on educational goals, progress in quantitative ecology education has remained limited. We suggest that the challenge facing quantitative ecology education is no longer simply identifying what and how ecologists should learn, but understanding why progress towards achieving quantitative literacy has been constrained. We then offer a vision to overcome the inertia.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/09/2026
A study using thousands of tree-ring sites around the world suggests that as the climate warms, more trees will experience growth constraints from dryness by 2100, limiting carbon sequestration. In PNAS: ow.ly/oI6k50ZMEbn
Douglas-fir, one of the studied tree species, shows growth suppression at both very high and very low vapor pressure deficits.
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Antoine Cabon @acabon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great team effort based on the work of dozens of people through the years!
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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great collection of Shiny apps (and R package) for #teaching #ecology. Apps come in different languages (including Spanish) ecoevoapps.gitlab.io
Partial list of Shiny apps designed for teaching ecology, hosted at https://ecoevoapps.gitlab.io/
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 24/07/2026
This week on my substack: a write up of my talk "y code when ai" (my thoughts on why knowing how to code is still relevant), along with a brief description of how I turned a video of my talk into this post. Read it at open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi... !
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y code when ai?
A talk on AI and coding
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Francisco M. Azcárate @fmazcarate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
1/29 Los incendios forestales no van a desaparecer. Las soluciones simplistas solo sirven para reforzar prejuicios, no para entender el fenómeno.🧵
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GoldenViz @goldenviz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📣 GoldenVizR v0.1.0 is now available on GitHub. An R package providing rule-based quality checks for ggplot2 visualizations, based on the 25 Golden Rules of Data Visualization. to try : 🔽 github.com/WajdiBenSaad... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 21/07/2026
🚨 Nature is in decline — but change is possible. The IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment reveals what drives biodiversity loss & how we can build better futures for nature & people. 🎨 Michaël Olbrechts 🔗 www.biodiversity.be/4128
Five-panel comic about environmental decline. First shows declining biodiversity graph with animals. Second illustrates global interconnected crises affecting Earth. Third and fourth panels depict rolling stones representing deep-rooted social patterns affecting nature's decline. Final panel shows diverse group of people observing wildlife and nature, suggesting hope for better futures. Marked as Chapter 1 and 2, illustrated by Michaël Olbrechts
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats
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Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie
Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...
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Darío San Segundo Molina @dario-ssm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🐛🗺️💻 Our paper introducing and describing the mappestRisk package is now published in @peerj.bsky.social ⏬ peerj.com/articles/21428 #AgriculturalScience #Biogeography #Bioinformatics #Ecology #Zoology
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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/07/2026
New research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/4eOcwhy
The tallest 1% of trees store more than half the carbon in the world’s forests. It is widely assumed that height limits canopy hydration of tall trees; however, direct evidence that this happens for tall trees such as the Koompassia excelsa, shown here, is lacking. Research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought.

Photo: Nick Garbutt/Minden
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Pascal Schneider @pascal-schneider.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌦️🌳 Why are more trees dying in European forests? Extreme summer droughts are definitely part of the story, but our new paper shows that tree mortality is shaped by climate variability across seasons, not by single extreme events alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rising tree mortality in France is associated with distinct seasonal climate anomalies - Nature Communications
This study explores climate-driven tree mortality risk beyond summer drought. It links rising tree mortality in France to distinct seasonal climate anomalies, including winter and spring warming, diff...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
¡Hoy lanzamos nuevo monográfico! 😱🎉 En esta ocasión traemos un ámbito de investigación novedoso que no habíamos tratado anteriormente, la Educación en Ecología. Un ámbito, por cierto, cada vez más presente en las sociedades científicas a nivel internacional. Os lo contamos en este hilo ⬇️
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research. Food for thought @jdrakephd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #ecopubs
For the past two decades, the message to young ecologists has been consistent: learn to code, learn statistics, learn machine learning, learn ‘modelling’ (GIS, differential equations, species distribution modelling, etc.). That message was correct and remains so. But it is incomplete. The researchers who will hold a durable comparative advantage in the decades ahead may be those who invested in the patient, expensive, logistically difficult work of building field programs, maintaining experimental infrastructure and cultivating the expertise required to collect data that no one else can collect.
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Daniel 🕹️ @strengejacke.de · 24/06/2026
A new paper by @dominiquemakowski.bsky.social, @mattansb.msbstats.info, me and colleagues just out! We show how to choose informative priors in Bayesian regression models using a systematic simulation study and a practical step-by-step tutorial in #Rstats and #Stan! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... >
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Georges Kunstler @gkunstler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
PHD POSITION: FOREST ECOLOGY & CLIMATE CHANGE 🌲 Project: "Seed Rain, Pollen Limitation, and Climate Change" Supervision: G. Kunstler (LESSEM-Grenoble) & S. Venner (LBBE-Lyon) Focus: Quantify climate & pollen limitation impacts on tree fecundity. Details: urls.fr/LoFZKJ #PhDPosition #ForestEcology
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Projet de Thèse : Pluie de graines, limitation pollinique et changement climatique - sfecologie.org
1. Contexte et Enjeux Les forêts fournissent des services écologiques et économiques essentiels. Cependant, leur capacité à résister et à s’adapter à la rapidité et à l’ampleur des changements climati...
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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 17/06/2026
📍 Interesting early-stage project: RQGIS Console An R console integrated directly into QGIS -- letting you write and run R code inside QGIS with full access to your active project (layers, CRS, extent, and metadata). github.com/jsmendozap/r... #QGIS #RStats #GIS #Geocomputation #RSpatial
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
After some internal discussion, we published our genAI lab guidelines: bartomeuslab.com/2026/06/15/g...
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genAI lab guidelines
Generative AI (we are not talking about machine learning research applications here) is taking over science. It is being forced into our workflows by big tech companies, and sometimes also by our e…
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Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Ten simple rules for teaching data science
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SARE Lab @sarelab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We are hiring a new postdoc to join our team! 🐝👀🧬 Learn more about the position here: www.bc3research.org/en/job_offer...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Molecular Ecology and Bioinformatics for GorBEEa Project
BC3 offers a full-time postdoctoral researcher position to support the research activities, and specifically to work on the international project GorBEEa, funded by the European Commission through an ...
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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
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Journal of Statistical Ecology Journal of Statistical Ecology
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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What if conservation could respond before the crisis hits? In 2024, howler monkeys were falling dead from trees in Mexico. Our model had flagged that region before the crisis. We present the first global early warning system forecasting extreme heat exposure for biodiversity here rdcu.be/fm8ml
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A global early warning system for predicting exposure of biodiversity to extreme heat
Nature Climate Change - The authors develop an early warning system to predict the risks of extreme temperatures for 30,585 vertebrates 1–9 months in advance. They identify species and...
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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/06/2026
This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....
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What is an agent?
Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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ForestPaths Project @forestpaths.eu · 01/06/2026
🤩 New open datasets just dropped for Europe's #forests! Three satellite maps. Whole continent. Free on Zenodo. → Disturbances 1985–2023 → Canopy height, cover & complexity → Dominant tree genus Read more about the maps and their impact: forestpaths.eu/news/new-hig...
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Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The new generation of adults knows fewer plant species than the old people do. Lindemann-Matthies et al. @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🌳🪴🌱
Relationship between the probability that participants correctly identified the individual plant species and their age.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/05/2026
“… it took time to figure out how to let go and lead without hovering over every single move, to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel.” #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/42y5hoi
When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived
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Fernando Ojeda @ojedacopete.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Are pine plantations helping or hurting nature? Let me share our research-supported view of pine plantations in Mediterranean landscapes, and how they relate to wildfires, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Beyond the forest-centric bias: rethinking extensive pine plantations in mediterranean landscapes
This contribution examines the significant ecological consequences of extensive pine afforestation in the western Iberian Peninsula since the mid-20th…
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/05/2026
“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. scim.ag/4en9MsX
People diving into a pool of books and figures, with text: How I learned to teach like a scientist
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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Las II Jornadas de Ecoinformática ya están aquí! Serán en @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social Sevilla el 1-3 oct. Charlas, talleres, visitas excursiones! Estamos muy emocionadxs con la 2ed! Tu también? Apúntate! 👉 ecoinfaeet.github.io/II_jornadas_... (plazas limitadas) Colabora @ebdonana.bsky.social
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 04/05/2026
📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!
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spatialData: Cool Spatial Datasets
Provides spatial datasets ready to use for ecological modelling and raster companion data for prediction: Neanderthal presence during the Last Interglacial (Benito et al. 2017 <doi:10.1111/jbi.12845>)...
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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 04/05/2026
On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...
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Map projections: a practical guide to common mistakes and how to fix them
Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3
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mori: Shared memory for R objects
mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.
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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#BlogAEET "Desbiologizar lo vegetal" Carlos Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la tendencia creciente que existe a manipular (o ignorar) conceptos biológicos, como manifestación de negacionismo científico y el objetivo de defender fines extractivistas. blogaeet.org/2026/04/20/d...
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Desbiologizar lo vegetal
Deshumanizar, despojar de su condición humana al enemigo, adversario o simplemente diferente, ha sido a lo largo de la historia un paso previo a la aniquilación física del grupo deshumanizado (Hasl…
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Julen Astigarraga @julenastigarraga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Statistics presented in a very engaging way that show how the world has changed since 2011 by @natclimate.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/s4...
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15 years of change
This month, Nature Climate Change turns 15 years old. In this infographic we show some of the ways the world has changed since we started.
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