Subsidiary Q: Do some preprints out there eventually never get accepted and published in a PR journal? I would think so, and if so, what's the point beyond cluttering science?

Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭@fattebertj.bsky.social · 2d ago

Honest Q Has any1 evr got a preprint eventually published as is? I mean,as flawed as peer-review might be,I'm expecting substantial changes btwn the submitted v of a MS & its final published v,if not (desk)rejected 2 start with Askin 4 a frnd who nvr got the concept of preprints that stay up 4ever

Honest Q Has any1 evr got a preprint eventually published as is? I mean,as flawed as peer-review might be,I'm expecting substantial changes btwn the submitted v of a MS & its final published v,if not (desk)rejected 2 start with Askin 4 a frnd who nvr got the concept of preprints that stay up 4ever

Chris Farley: No Idea!

ALT: Chris Farley: No Idea!

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Q&A: Does the world need 'carbon-capture and storage' to reach net-zero? Described by IPCC as "critical", it has repeatedly fallen short Today, it captures just 0.2% of global CO2 from fossil fuels Great piece by my @carbonbrief.org colleague @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/...

We made the cover! First pub ever for @kalpapran.bsky.social from his MSc! Very enjoyable cosupervision with @antoniouzal.bsky.social Congrats to the team!🥳💪🍾

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very interesting research! 💭 You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Why Is Europe Burning?

“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.”

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New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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🆕 in "Ecology": what marking nearly 1,700 bees reveals about their movement across the landscape

iBartomeus@ibartomeus.bsky.social · last wk.

This one of the best papers of the year: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC.... We know virtually nothing about dispersal in bees. Amazing field work to answer this question.

🦏🤝Familiarity and aggression shape long-term associations and mortality risk in a solitary ungulate 📷Jenny Hishin vist.ly/5czgc #BlackRhinoceros #DicerosBicornis #Fitness #Groups #Offspring #Social #SolitaryLiving

There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new NTU-led study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions. Just published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Raft of targeted conservation efforts may help boost leopard numbers in sub-Saharan Africa, study suggests

There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions.

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Very interesting research! 💭 You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa

By integrating density modelling with habitat suitability, we provide a decision-support framework for leopard conservation across sub-Saharan Africa. The results identify where conservation investme...

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NTU News@ntunews.bsky.social · 4w ago

There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new NTU-led study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions. Just published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Really excited that this paper’s out! Hoping it will have on-the-ground applicability and help conservation managers make evidence-based conservation decisions for leopard recovery in Africa.

Fridolin Zimmermann@zifridolin.bsky.social · last mo.

Check it out Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa - Patowary - 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fatbear-bio.bsky.social @fattebertj.bsky.social

The deadliest myth regarding the pangolin is the persistent, unscientific belief in the healing powers of its carapace. Despite the keratin scales having the same remedial properties as human nails, traditional Chinese homeopathic medicine underpins the robust demand for illegal pangolin body parts.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Traditional Chinese Medicine" is a pseudoscience legitimized and massively promoted by the Chinese state, to the degree that skeptics sometimes face political persecution and job losses. It is also a $92 billion pharma industry.

Ah cool! I've done the same before for base R vs tidyverse: emitanaka.org/rsyntax/data...

Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

A recent study analyzed three years of videos from camera traps on canopy bridges in Costa Rica. Researchers found that usage of the crossings increased over time with different species displaying a stronger preference for certain designs. Read more: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

How effective are canopy bridges really?

New research from Costa Rica shows canopy bridges become more effective over time and animals prefer rope bridges over ladder bridges.

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One of those little academic victories 😁

Tajikistan’s markhor population has rebounded from a few hundred to more than 7,000 after years of conservation work https://ow.ly/N6bK50Zmqto #Tajikistan #Markhor #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeRecovery

Tajikistan Notes Conservation Success as Markhor Population Grows - The Times Of Central Asia

The population increase reflects years of conservation measures and local community efforts to protect the markhor, which is indigenous to mountain regions in

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Check it out Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa - Patowary - 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fatbear-bio.bsky.social @fattebertj.bsky.social

Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa

By integrating density modelling with habitat suitability, we provide a decision-support framework for leopard conservation across sub-Saharan Africa. The results identify where conservation investme...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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

Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality vist.ly/59eid

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Biodiversity

Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not on...

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🧵 Have you ever wondered how far an animal can actually travel? We did, and the answer will blow your mind. 1/4 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A 2100‐km jaguar journey redefines mobility and large‐scale conservation priorities during large carnivore dispersal

Click on the article title to read more.

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President Moetai Brotherson announced an expansion of marine protections, placing 30% of French Polynesia’s waters under full protection from industrial fishing and seabed mining. The 1.4 million-sq-km (540,500 mi2) reserve shields critically endangered sharks, marine mammals, and seabirds.

French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this move, 30% of…

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🌍 Global Translocation Study – call for contributors 🐾 We’re compiling post-release movement data from translocated, reintroduced, relocated & rehabilitated vertebrates worldwide. Interested in taking part? Quick survey below 👇 tinyurl.com/global-trans... Feel free to pass it on to colleagues 😊

New online! A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators

A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00173-xBiodiversity indicators are essential for tracking progress towards international biodiversity goals, but existing indicators have important shortcomings and are not based on animal movement data. This Perspective outlines why incorporating movement data into biodiversity indicators can help to address these shortcomings, improve monitoring and inform effective conservation actions.

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Ask a LLM😅

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do any of you have an AI policy document for your lab group clearly stating expectations regarding student / postdoc use of LLMs in background research, coding, writing, reviewing, etc? I'd be interested in a model as we develop one.

"We employed an interdisciplinary approach to maximize the use of data collected opportunistically and non-academically to report a previously undocumented natural phenomenon, the Mababe Cape buffalo mega-herd, which includes a minimum of 3676 animals, making it the largest buffalo herd on record"

AleX Caron@bactouch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️‼️Publication Alert ‼️‼️ Roaming buffalo 🐃 🐃 🐃 🐃 from the air!! In #Botswana 🧪🌍 Making the best of an amazing footage from SILVERBACK FILMS for Netflix featured in #ourplanet documentary. @cirad.bsky.social @ilri.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yup.

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's a persistent fantasy that maybe some other nice countries will start mass-hiring US scientists. That's not going to happen. A few high-profile, big name researchers will get poached, sure. But most countries, including some very nice ones, are underemploying their own scientists already.

Yes, yes, the Swiss and the Swedes are playing each other in the IIHF worlds 1/4 finals tonight, and they're from 2 different countries! 😜

Intense #hunting pressure drives roost use in the Egyptian fruit bat: Conservation and #OneHealth implications zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #fruitbats #batroosts @wileyecology.bsky.social