What's interesting about this is that I think I could find plenty of people who would believe this is BAD scientific writing, for exactly the same reason I think it's GOOD scientific writing: it's interesting, engaging, and fun (while still being clear).

Benjamin Freeman@benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · yesterday

good scientific writing alert "In the Hawaiian honeycreepers, the progression “rule” is more of a polite suggestion" from nice new paper on Hawaiian honeycreeper phylogeny www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We quickly went from: "Wikipedia is not a valid source of information" to "ChatGPT told me to do this"

Hope everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is enjoying summer amongst the heatwaves, fires and smoke but sharing a reminder that the seasons do not coincide across the globe. Check out @melissatraveler.bsky.social's excellent piece on this - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Season’s mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academia

Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive.

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New Paper! Tall trees are more invasive #bioinvasions nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Taller trees with higher seed output are more likely to invade temperate forests in Patagonia

Tree invasions threaten native forests worldwide, yet little is known about how to prevent this process. To detect these invasions early it is vital to anticipate potential invaders: identifying trai...

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You don’t need perfect English or “great writer” skills. You need clarity, honesty, and persistence. Writing is a craft - you get better with practice Read Claudia Ratti’s full essay in A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing

I need to print this and hang it in my office

Martin A. Nuñez@martin-nunez.bsky.social · 3d ago

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

It is so nice to see that many people are buying my writing and publishing book for their incoming grad students. THANKS! My main goal was to have a book for early researches so they could learn faster what i learned in years mybook.to/ScienceGuide #Academia #PhDLife #ScienceWriting 🧪🌐

New paper! From the Ground Up: Can Root Traits Help Understand Invasion Dynamics? dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Another way of academic extraction is inviting collabs from the Global South to build databases then leave them off the papers that use them. I once attended a talk where this was compared to the colonial practice of extracting artifacts to fill museums in imperial capitals. Same logic of extraction

Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella)@floryannelli.bsky.social · last wk.

I can't stress enough how disrespectful it is when colleagues in the Global North publish papers about our realities without a single author from the region. It's not "just data." Context matters. Interpreting our realities through your own framework isn't just exclusionary, it's weaker science.

""Helicopter science" describes a practice where scientists from wealthier, developed regions travel to under-resourced communities to collect data, then leave to analyze and publish it without involving local researchers or benefiting the host community"

Frédérique Reverchon@drafred.bsky.social · last wk.

This one un particular blew my mind! Study on lichens of the Atacama desert, no co-author from Chile. Oh but the authors acknowledge the "exceptional understanding of the ecosystem" of the Chilean National Park rangers. 😕 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Even worse, when the discussion and contextualization of the findings then is only supported with citations to papers all written by people from the global north. I truly can't believe this needs to be said in 2026.

I can't stress enough how disrespectful it is when colleagues in the Global North publish papers about our realities without a single author from the region. It's not "just data." Context matters. Interpreting our realities through your own framework isn't just exclusionary, it's weaker science.

This guy is a top 5% researcher 😂😂😂

We mostly know about the impacts of plant invasions on the dynamics of the soil's first 10cm. However, for trees, this may not provide a whole picture of their impacts on soil traits, which may be important for restoration. We talk about this here in this paper led by the brilliant Priscila Powell 🤩

Pablo Garcia-Diaz@pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 3w ago

New pre-print with @floryannelli.bsky.social & others: we evaluated how privet invasion changed soil features. Check it out! Deep impact: invasive non-native trees alter the entire soil profile in montane forests invaded by Ligustrum lucidum 🌎🌐🧪 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1...

🤚📷😉| #Mundial #Fútbol #Football

Useful review of our new book, 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences', from Tara Rider on H-net reviews. Really happy to see this book, coauthored with the excellent Bethann Garramon Merkle @bgmerkle.bsky.social, getting some attention! 🧪

In case you were curious. US Soccer will receive $27.6 million dollars for making the World Cup round of 16. They keep 20%. All players on the USMNT & USWNT will receive ~$473,000. The men's & womens share US Soccer prizes equally to promote unity & equity. Unions matter

#streetart #wc

Borges once said "Defeat has a dignity that noisy victory does not deserve" I don't understand this text too well, but the defeat of Cabo Verde yesterday had a lot of dignity Never seen something like that Best game of the world cup and probably best game for a country the never play a WC before

“According to a new study of more than 8000 researcher parents in 119 countries, only 21% of women & 27% of men started to have children during their Ph.D. program. And mothers face particular challenges when navigating parenthood while in grad school, the study findings indicate.”🧪

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last mo.

Having kids in grad school comes with more costs for women than men. "Citation scores for women who started to have children before the age of 30 were 14% lower than comparable men and 21% less than women who waited until their late 30s to start having children." www.science.org/content/arti...

Just published! 📄 We found that seed predation of a non-native conifer increased along a Patagonian precipitation gradient. Predation was higher in open microhabitats at low precipitation and in closed microhabitats at high precipitation, although the pattern depended on temporal context.

👉🏾 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/ amazing team: @martin-nunez.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social @rodriguezcabal.bsky.social Mauro T. Thanks @oikosjournal.bsky.social

New paper!! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The interacting effects of precipitation and microhabitat on non‐native seed predation are contingent on temporal dynamics

Understanding how different drivers of global change interact to shape ecological processes remains a major challenge in ecology. Climate change is reshuffling the interactions that structure communi...

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🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide