Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella)
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Invader | Ecologist | Politically opinionated scientist | I swear a lot | Rants = mine | #sentipensante | #academicmom | 🚫 No cops on campus | ✊ No one is free until we all are free 🍉
Our paper "With knowledge comes responsibility: increasing conservation scientists’ impact in a time of global crises" has been accepted in Conservation Letters! Another publication from our wonderful ANDINA workshop in Conguillío NP (Chile). Such a wonderful group of people ❤️
Ross, Rachel, and Phoebe Excitedly Jumping
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Here are 70+ accounts to help you follow along at home for #Botany2026. Are you attending and not in the starter pack? Reply here to be added.
Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson@hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 6d agoI can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW
Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …
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🔥SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS❄️ #AJB and #AppsPlantSci are accepting proposals for joint special issues focusing on how temperature shapes & constrains plant biology. Proposal deadline: 30 Sep 2026 More info: bit.ly/4fmMhPu @seemasheth.bsky.social #botany #climatechange #ecology #Botany2026
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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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
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event - Biological Invasions
The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are causing substantial humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical impacts and disrupting global trade. While the human and economic effects remain the focus of ...
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We need to start seriously addressing the ecological impacts of all military actions we keep seeing, from the perspective of climate change as well as biological invasions. It's not only about how much $$ and lives it costs directly, but also the impacts to our lives & ecosystems in the near future
The Ricciardians@ricciardilab.bsky.social · 3d agoQue la pacha nos perdone tanto daño. El jueves sin falta a la calle.
📢 Applications are now open for the 9th ANDINA Meeting (June 2027) in the stunning Burren, Ireland! Theme: Future Biodiversity – How can we explore and rewrite its story? ✨ Early Career Researchers: Meeting registration, accommodation, and meals are fully funded. Learn more & apply: andinaburren.com
1st F*ck Milei 2nd Us A quick reflection on the online hate Argentina received during the WC: we became everyone's punching bag, from the left to the right. Now that hostility is being used by Milei to fuel + hate. Before stereotyping an entire country, do the bare minimum: read beyond social media
Facing a Surge of Criticism, Argentines Have Something to Say (Gift Article)
Many Argentines condemned their players’ racist chants and aggressive behavior during the World Cup, but rejected what felt like a sweeping stigmatization of their entire nation.
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Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating helicopter research in the Global South journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating helicopter research in the Global South
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me writing a proposal for yet another time limited position while 4 manuscripts are waiting for my attention
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New research estimates the Earth has 2 to 3x more insects species than previously thought. The true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million. #IPBES This has profound implications for understanding the scale, richness, and future of biodiversity on Earth. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation | PNAS
Estimating the number of insect species on Earth is a daunting challenge. The current consensus estimate—about six million species—is likely far to...
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Almost 3500 years ago, an Egyptian artist decorating a tomb painted a hunting scene that included bird predation by domestic cats Some 200 years ago, a foreigner found the fresco and sold It to the British Museum, where It is shown today Cats still predate on birds. A lot. Keep cats indoors
Negative, neutral, and unexpected results are not failures: they're evidence. Great initiative from @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social to give these studies the visibility they deserve. Better science means learning from what doesn't work, too.
Ecological Solutions and Evidence Call for Proposals: Unexpected, Failed, and/or Neutral Results in Applied Management
<em>Ecological Solutions and Evidence</em> is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.
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Mientras Milei insulta al presidente de nuestro principal socio comercial de la región, también parece reservarse el monopolio de insultarnos a nosotros. Solo Milei puede odiar, discriminar y ejercer violencia contra Argentina y les argentines. Cuando lo hace alguien de afuera se hace el ofendido.
Ananias Oliveira @ananias1979.bsky.social · 6d agoO calhorda do presidente da Argentina decretou o estrangeiro que criticar a Argentina pode ser expulso ou proibido de entrar no país. E esses cretinos ainda querem dar lição sobre liberdade de expressão ao Brasil.
🐾 Feast or famine: How food deserts, wealth and greenspace correlate with coyote diets in Seattle, Washington 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/6FXIvdI
ICYMI Need a review article on soil fungal ecology; with a focus on global change impacts? Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems | @natrevmicro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
"In this model, researchers frequently based in the Global North retain decision-making power over questions, methods, funding, and publications without being physically present in the study sites." 👉 Local collaborators often relegated to marginal roles with limited authorship recognition.
Pablo Garcia-Diaz@pablo-ecology.bsky.social · last wk.Have you seen this paper that makes a distinction btw helicopter, parachute, and remote-control science? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
""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....
I bet there'll still be that passenger who has a comment rather than a question
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · last wk.This is a thing? We are allowed to lecture at length to captive airplane passengers? This changes everything, I'm now practicing conference talks on my way to the conference.
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.
iNaturalist has its ups and downs. But it really excels at tracking the spread of large, easy to identify invasive species. Fascinating to watch the Joro spider spread out from individual propagules: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Observations
Observations of Joro Spider
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![Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
(Des bâtiments de guerre nazis ressurgissent [ici du Danube] en raison de la chute du niveau des eaux dûe aux canicules.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdlngvwhel3itjfaud2gcq73/bafkreigbhowrn7hgzgpzn6pkrs5quvbolsoftplxmamcquuwd6sjy46jza)
