The older I get the more I realize I don’t have to deal with people’s bullshit qnd pettiness. I can just walk away or not interact with these people. The world doesn’t end.
Gabby Palomo, PhD
@gabspalomo.bsky.social
Carnivore Ecologist 🐅🐆🦝🦨🦦🐾 Assistant Professor Data scientist 👩🏻💻 Latina in STEM 🇬🇹 rstats, ecology, Bayesian stats. gabspalomo.github.io
📖 Published📖 This study compiles a list of ten simple rules to help team members engage and excel throughout the entire process as they embark on ecological synthesis journeys🧑🤝🧑 📈 🧪
Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research
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A great example is file organization systems for project management & data management
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4d agoThe things that adults went "obviously this is self-evident, why on earth would you need to learn it?" were the very first things to be forgotten.
A topic I cover almost every year in my lab because most undergrads didn’t learn where files go when they download them or any strategies to save and manage data and information. I also try to encourage students in my upper level courses to save class materials in a folder or reference manager.
A major advice I try to pass on: science is only worth it if you can delight in the discoveries of others. It’s great to make your own discoveries but they are too few to sustain you over the long haul.
Costa Rica has approved a law requiring wildlife crossings in public road infrastructure where ecological connectivity is affected—bringing connectivity conservation directly into infrastructure planning and policy. delfino.cr/2026/08/asam... @fletcherecology.bsky.social
Asamblea aprueba ley que obliga a incluir pasos de fauna en la infraestructura pública del país
Iniciativa aprobada por unanimidad indica que MOPT, municipalidades y otras entidades públicas deberán coordinar con el Sinac para estudiar la necesidad o no de estas estructuras en nuevas obras viale...
delfino.cr
😸 Think you know your cats? Celebrate felines big and small with Dr. Kayce Bell, Associate Curator of Terrestrial Mammalogy, just in time for International Cat Day!
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 6d agoAre deadly fungal storms bad
Am I being too pedantic in telling people it is not pronounced Lah-tex as in the material but Lay-tech or Lah-tec? They hated me today and said they were going to keep saying it the way they always said it with the x sound as in ax.
I’m watching old Poirot episodes —feeling nostalgic, I guess— and it’s surprising how much the characters smoke in each episode. Eventually, at later seasons even Poirot starts smoking.
Urgent: A botulism outbreak at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge is already killing hundreds of birds, and without immediate action, tens of thousands more could die. TAKE ACTION: birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/...
Urgent: Water Needed at Klamath to Avoid Deaths of Thousands of Birds
Urgent: A botulism outbreak at Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge is already killing hundreds of birds, and without immediate action, tens of thousands more could die. Please urge the Bureau of Reclam...
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In epidemiology, when a disease carrier infects a large number of individuals that cause a chain reaction of disease spread, it's called a 'superspreader event'. The same applies to a vector (ships) introducing invasive species to a large number of environments (ports). www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...
'Worst-case scenario': Ships blocked from the Strait of Hormuz pose invasive species threat | CBC Climate Change News
Ships stalled in the Gulf region due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could pose an 'immense' threat, according to a paper published last week. Experts say biofouling on hundreds of ships over ...
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I am starting to notice a trend where all the infographics and posters are starting to look alike and that is because they are all Using the same A.I. model and not even including in the prompt color palettes, fonts to use, a specific style or modifying the result in any way.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
If you are at #ESA2026 stop by our poster!! I’m not there but my friends are. If you are interested in mentoring and learning more about how to improve your mentorship or discussing mentorship in general please make sure you visit our poster. @cregabrodsky.bsky.social and Diana Lafferty are there.
I need to get my ducks in a row again. Ever since I finished my last postdoc my ducks have been so misaligned I don’t even know how to start getting them all aligned. I want to start getting them all rounded up this semester. 🦆. 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆. 🦆 🦆
You guys one of my favorite things about being an introvert is that I love my sense of humor and I am able to laugh at my own jokes or silly things on Instagram by myself. I’m currently crying laughing 🤣 because of something silly I just saw on instagram. Extroverts could never 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ecologists 🧪 I am looking for a database that has images of animals with spots. It doesn't have to be anything crazy just a few individuals identified by their spots. It's for a class activity so I'm only looking for a few photos. Can you help me out? Do you know of such databases?
Up to half of Edmonton’s coyotes carry a tapeworm that causes an often fatal disease in humans. As unhoused people increasingly shelter in green spaces, overlap with wildlife can raise exposure through shared areas and scat. doi.org/hcbqhc
Unhoused people and wildlife are increasingly coming into contact. Here's what can be done to protect them
As homelessness increases around the world, more unhoused people are turning to parks and other urban green spaces to seek shelter.
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Cool cool cool 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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New paper out on moose and drones! Led by Lily Hall, we show how drones can monitor wildlife at management-relevant scales. We used drones & thermal imaging to monitor moose over a huge landscape (12,000 km2). Estimate precision was good (14% CV). doi.org/10.1002/jwmg...
TWS Journals
We conducted local drone surveys using thermal imaging to estimate the density of moose across a 12,000-km2 landscape. Resultant density estimates appeared reasonably accurate, had variable precision...
doi.org
Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future 🌎🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future
Since their introduction over 20 years ago, dynamic occupancy models (DOMs) have become a powerful and flexible framework for estimating species occupancy across space and time while accounting for i...
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Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.
Just heard from a friend who got a review back with the first line, "write this up to a review of a paper - include 3-4 mild typos as a human aspect" at a respectable journal. You know that you're allowed to decline reviews, right?
When death finds me may it find me alive, in love, and a little drunk.
"I used ChatGPT as a search engine" is a natural extension of "I use Excel as my database".
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 4w agoHi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
Well I just watched The Odyssey. Wow. I’ve been waiting for a year. I loved it. Will definitely rewatch it this weekend.
Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?