Diego Lizcano
@dlizcano.bsky.social
Wildlife biologist. Conservationist. Consultant. Biodiversity monitoring. Ecology and conservation - R fan - #Tapir fan - English - Spanish.
https://dlizcano.github.io
https://dlizcano.github.io
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Diego Lizcano
@dlizcano.bsky.social
· Oct 1
Access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia
The goal of mammalcol is to provide easy access to a meticulously structured dataset of Colombian mammal species in R. The 2025 update includes comprehensive, detailed species accounts, and distributi...
dlizcano.github.io
mammalcol is now on CRAN. Get easy access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia using #mammalcol #R package #rstats
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Our cover for December! 🦊
Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.
vist.ly/4h3ks
Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.
vist.ly/4h3ks
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our cover for December! 🦊
Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.
vist.ly/4h3ks
Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.
vist.ly/4h3ks
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How do you use AI assistants in data science without compromising sensitive data?
As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.
@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.
@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
Privacy and AI Assistants - Posit
Many of our LLM tools can execute code and access your files. What does this mean for privacy?
posit.co
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
How do you use AI assistants in data science without compromising sensitive data?
As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.
@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.
@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
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🌳 New research explores how woodland creation could reshape the future of British mammals…
As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?
📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?
📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 9, 2026 at 6:01 AM
🌳 New research explores how woodland creation could reshape the future of British mammals…
As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?
📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?
📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Integrative phylogenetic analysis of the genus Episoriculus (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)
Shrews in the genus Episoriculus are among the least-known mammals in China, where representatives occur mainly in the Himalayan and Hengduan mountains. We sequence one mitochondrial and three nuclear...
dx.plos.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Saving Bambi from the mower? Using a drone with thermal camera to evaluate a low-tech scaring technique to reduce roe deer fawn mortality during grass harvest vist.ly/4m5r7 #Drones #Cameras #AUV
January 9, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Saving Bambi from the mower? Using a drone with thermal camera to evaluate a low-tech scaring technique to reduce roe deer fawn mortality during grass harvest vist.ly/4m5r7 #Drones #Cameras #AUV
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Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”
#AstroPhotography #Photography
#AstroPhotography #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”
#AstroPhotography #Photography
#AstroPhotography #Photography
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Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability vist.ly/4gc8i #UrbanEcology #Diet #Competition
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability vist.ly/4gc8i #UrbanEcology #Diet #Competition
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New to town: home range size, habitat selection and behavioral adaptations by urban hares vist.ly/4g364 #UrbanEcology #Movement
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New to town: home range size, habitat selection and behavioral adaptations by urban hares vist.ly/4g364 #UrbanEcology #Movement
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“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications
Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
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Buenos días. Les comparto este paper donde mi amiga y colega Elizabeth García trabajó, junto a los investigadores de la Corporación Gio.
doi.org/10.47603/man...
doi.org/10.47603/man...
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Buenos días. Les comparto este paper donde mi amiga y colega Elizabeth García trabajó, junto a los investigadores de la Corporación Gio.
doi.org/10.47603/man...
doi.org/10.47603/man...
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Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
August 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.
Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.
Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a decade, two Indigenous communities deep in…
news.mongabay.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.
Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.
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Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla): This incredible mammal from Central & South America can eat 30,000 termites or ants in a day. Great photo taken by Marjorie Socha in Brazil. #anteater #ants #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #brazil
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla): This incredible mammal from Central & South America can eat 30,000 termites or ants in a day. Great photo taken by Marjorie Socha in Brazil. #anteater #ants #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #brazil
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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social asks which of BHL’s 63 million pages are the most important. Clearly the most important page on BHL is the first scientific description of the platypus 😉: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #LivingData2025 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs
October 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social asks which of BHL’s 63 million pages are the most important. Clearly the most important page on BHL is the first scientific description of the platypus 😉: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #LivingData2025 #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs
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Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
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If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you’re at #LivingData2025, visit us at the Biodiversity Heritage Library booth. Ask us about the 63 million pages of #BiodiversityKnowledge we’ve made accessible & discoverable online, and how we’re transitioning to become an independent, global and sustainable consortium. #ILoveBHL
Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data
Biodiversity loss due to agricultural expansion and intensification is well documented.
Accordingly, the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for transforming agroecosystems
towards sustainable managem...
www.cell.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cultivated lands: blind spots in global biodiversity data: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Saving Sound Level Data from BirdNET-GO to a CSV file. dlizcano.github.io//english/Sou... #BirdNET-Go #Docker #BirdNET #Homelab #HA
Saving Sound Level Data from BirdNET-GO to a CSV file
BirdNET-GO is a newer BirdNET-based project.
dlizcano.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Saving Sound Level Data from BirdNET-GO to a CSV file. dlizcano.github.io//english/Sou... #BirdNET-Go #Docker #BirdNET #Homelab #HA
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It went well!!!
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It went well!!!
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Excited to have been part of the developer team! 🐾 Beyond providing access to the List of Mammals of Colombia, it helps map species records and validate coordinates against administrative boundaries. Looking forward to feedback & future updates! #science #MamíferosColombia #CienciaCriolla #SCMas
mammalcol is now on CRAN. Get easy access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia using #mammalcol #R package #rstats
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol
Access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia
The goal of mammalcol is to provide easy access to a meticulously structured dataset of Colombian mammal species in R. The 2025 update includes comprehensive, detailed species accounts, and distributi...
dlizcano.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Excited to have been part of the developer team! 🐾 Beyond providing access to the List of Mammals of Colombia, it helps map species records and validate coordinates against administrative boundaries. Looking forward to feedback & future updates! #science #MamíferosColombia #CienciaCriolla #SCMas
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph
academic.oup.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...