Reposted by Sergio CabreraTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. 431917503
Reposted by Sergio CabreraQuentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/20261/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found: 12502183
Reposted by Sergio CabreraWayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 18/07/2026An important and beautiful paper on the central role of natural history in ecology and evolutionary biology. 05426
Reposted by Sergio CabreraAmerican Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 25431
Reposted by Sergio CabreraPaul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵 210459
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunitiesaeroecolab.comPurdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities 02639
Reposted by Sergio CabreraarXiv cs.HC Human-Computer Interaction @cshc-bot.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Cynthia A. Huang, Mitchell O'Hara-Wild, Rob J. Hyndman, Matthew Kay: ggtime: A Grammar of Temporal Graphics arxiv.org/abs/2510.25656 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25656 arxiv.org/html/2510.25656 044
Reposted by Sergio CabreraTim O'Connell @tinosaurs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026With colleagues across ornithological societies and led by Nathan #Thayer, Ashley #Dayer, and Dai #Shizuka, I'm happy to share this first publication from some collaborative research we began in 2022 to study the role of #belonging in #ornithology: lnkd.in/gYGQzHer. 0138
Reposted by Sergio CabreraMiska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 20/01/2026#datavis of the month 1315
Reposted by Sergio CabreraJakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 01/02/2026R Coding for Ecology chapter on cblindplotR 🎨 Shows how to create colourblind-friendly maps and visualizations in R. doi.org/10.1007/978-... #RStats #DataViz #Accessibility #OpenScience #RSpatial 0111
Reposted by Sergio CabreraAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization 8240106
Reposted by Sergio CabreraJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing. 7245121301
Reposted by Sergio CabreraGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government. 29573172312
Reposted by Sergio CabreraDr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1 7485155
Reposted by Sergio Cabreragavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025We should not use gen AI to “hone” or “clarify” our writing. That’s part of the valuable struggle! Sitting with and fighting ideas to make them clearer is part of the gift of science. It helps us become better communicators because we’ve been in the trenches with our ideas 1227
Reposted by Sergio CabreraElizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 12/12/2025This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪neal.funSize of LifeFrom an amoeba to a blue whale 0229
Reposted by Sergio CabreraDr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/ace-eco.orgAvian Conservation and Ecology: Our Editors 1109
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧youtu.beStructuring the skies: Diel dynamics of migratory animalmovement in the lower atmosphereYouTube video by Kyle Horton 13217
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 24519
Reposted by Sergio CabreraScience Magazine @science.org · 21/11/2025The first study to survey insect populations on a continental scale finds no evidence of widespread decline, at least over a recent 10-year period. scim.ag/4pnb6hN scim.agRadar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catchStudy of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle 3289
Reposted by Sergio CabreraMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!" 268199547647
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did. 97108972198
Reposted by Sergio CabreraBrian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 22/10/2025There is much wisdom and vision here ... "multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a “dangerous tool” that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science." #TheoryShouldAlsoGuideModelSelection 🧪 1293
Reposted by Sergio CabreraStu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Check out the new Key Biodiversity Areas website at www.keybiodiversityareas.org. Helpful guidance on what KBAs are, how they are being used by governments & other end-users, how to get involved, unprecedented access to the full dataset etc. @keybiodiversity.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.socialkeybiodiversityareas.orgKey Biodiversity AreasHomepage description 095
Reposted by Sergio CabrerabioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Population-level migration modeling of North American birds through data integration with BirdFlow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 011
Reposted by Sergio CabrerabioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Sampling bias obscures biodiversity patterns, reveals data gaps in priority conservation areas: a call for improved documentation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 021
Reposted by Sergio CabreraiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist 6665257
Reposted by Sergio CabrerabioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 131
Reposted by Sergio CabreraWilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Are you a WOS member interested in generative AI? We are seeking volunteers for a new ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around its use for the society.wilsonsociety.orgSeeking Members for New Committee on AI UsageJoin our ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around the use of generative artificial intelligence. 393
Reposted by Sergio CabreraNature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 11/08/2025Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comLarge reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & EvolutionClimate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr... 13918
Reposted by Sergio CabreraMartin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)" @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 26024
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKelsey Hannah @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Excited to share our new study on how language barriers affect conservation science. We found that non-English research especially in Hungarian, Polish, Korean & Russian is undercited in English, despite local impact. Read the full paper: lnkd.in/gj7UDewC 075
Reposted by Sergio CabreraTatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We showed that non-English papers receive citations largely from the same language, indicating that conservaiton evidence rarely crosses #languagebarriers. Having an English abstract = more English citations. 2nd paper from @kelsey-hannah.bsky.social's PhD - congratulations! doi.org/10.1111/cobi... 02211
Reposted by Sergio CabreraAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/05/2025I'm launching a completely new open and free online course in early December, along with the first batch of video courses for openvisualizationacademy.org I'll announce the (long!) list of (great!) contributors very soon #dataViz 📊 0335
Reposted by Sergio CabreraElly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 14/05/2025New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics 1/nsciencedirect.comHawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifierPassive acoustic monitoring is rapidly emerging as a dominant approach for studying acoustic wildlife, with neural networks used as an increasingly co… 22613
Reposted by Sergio Cabrerafranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below. 13530631302
Reposted by Sergio CabreraBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 14/04/2025HawkEars: A regional, high-performance avian acoustic classifier | Ecological Informatics | www.sciencedirect.co... | #ornithology 🪶🧪 #bioacoustics 🔉 0126
Reposted by Sergio CabreraBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 01/04/20251/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵 #ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪 14116
Reposted by Sergio CabreraKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/03/2025What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky. Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia. Credit: Joshua Rozells 391636635
Reposted by Sergio CabreraDavid Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The alemdro tree doesn't just survive lightning strikes--it appears to use the electricity to fry parasites and kill competitors. Fascinating story by @erikstokstad.bsky.social for @science.org!science.orgShocker: This tropical tree thrives after being struck by lightningThe almendro withstands thunderbolts that blast away parasitic vines 69437
Reposted by Sergio CabreraRichard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025This is a great read about where to submit your papers in #science #ecology #ornithology And, as Editor, I'm proud to highlight that #BirdStudy is a society journal of the BTO @btobirds.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbi... 1287
Reposted by Sergio CabreraEvan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 12/03/2025As horrific as the future will be, humanity deserves everything that's coming, for we are knowingly creating it daily--"A new 4-lane hiway cutting thru tens of 1000s of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the city of Belém." www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say. 185
Sergio Cabrera @serchenheim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"La expedición nos permitió conocer científicamente a las especies que nosotros ya teníamos registrado en nuestra cultura" Qué bueno que incluyeron este apunte👍 010
Sergio Cabrera @serchenheim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"...while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving." 000
Reposted by Sergio CabreraNature @nature.com · 08/02/2025Are AI tools and search engines making us lazy? go.nature.com/4gqD9rCgo.nature.comAre the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science saysNature - Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do. 67315
Reposted by Sergio CabreraHarvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Scientists who taught rats to drive gave them a choice of a shorter trip to a treat on foot vs a longer trip via driving. Two of three chose the longer drive. The implications for moving beyond car dependency for humans are profound.bbc.comI taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier livesTeaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love. 17316
Reposted by Sergio CabreraZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 12/01/2025Scientists developed the first climate models in the late 1960s (for which the Nobel Prize in physics was recently awarded!). How have these models held up against what happened in the real world after they were published? Surprisingly well, it turns out: 14559237