Dr. Francine A. C. van Neerbos, PhD
@facvanneerbos.bsky.social
Early career researcher in Entomology and Microbiology. Interested in studying complex multi-level, multi-trophic interactions in a climate change context
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None of us are free, until all of us are free 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇸
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None of us are free, until all of us are free 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇸
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
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MDPI published over 18000 special issues in 2023. That’s insane.
With data from >100k special issues, we set out to tackle this problem.
Guest editors publishing in their own issues is a form of "endogeny". In this study, we define special issues with extreme endogeny as Published In Support of Self (PISS).
So, how much of this literature is PISS?
4/n
Guest editors publishing in their own issues is a form of "endogeny". In this study, we define special issues with extreme endogeny as Published In Support of Self (PISS).
So, how much of this literature is PISS?
4/n
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 AM
MDPI published over 18000 special issues in 2023. That’s insane.
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This is in fact me sober
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This is in fact me sober
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
-Always loved nature, but terrified of bugs
-had to do an internship on mites at a biocontrol company during my BSc.
-fell in love with their behaviour
-met a researcher from an ecological institute working on hyperparasitoids and honeydew
-fell in love with that study & dedicated my career to it
-had to do an internship on mites at a biocontrol company during my BSc.
-fell in love with their behaviour
-met a researcher from an ecological institute working on hyperparasitoids and honeydew
-fell in love with that study & dedicated my career to it
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
-Always loved nature, but terrified of bugs
-had to do an internship on mites at a biocontrol company during my BSc.
-fell in love with their behaviour
-met a researcher from an ecological institute working on hyperparasitoids and honeydew
-fell in love with that study & dedicated my career to it
-had to do an internship on mites at a biocontrol company during my BSc.
-fell in love with their behaviour
-met a researcher from an ecological institute working on hyperparasitoids and honeydew
-fell in love with that study & dedicated my career to it
I'm delighted to say that the paper I collaborated on with Gembloux Agro-Biotech last year, finally got published online today in Journal of Chemical Ecology! doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#newpaperalert
#honeydew
#entomology
#newpaperalert
#honeydew
#entomology
Bacterial Communities in Aphid Honeydew Provide Species-Specific Functional Chemical Cues in Aphid-Predator Interactions - Journal of Chemical Ecology
The role of microbial communities in aphid honeydew in shaping multitrophic interactions remains uncertain, while bacterial diversity and its variation among aphid species and ageing are still underex...
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I'm delighted to say that the paper I collaborated on with Gembloux Agro-Biotech last year, finally got published online today in Journal of Chemical Ecology! doi.org/10.1007/s108...
#newpaperalert
#honeydew
#entomology
#newpaperalert
#honeydew
#entomology
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
I'm sorry, I just want to know. Why is it so fuckn difficult to rent a fucking apartment in Bremen?
Either they won't rent it to me because my German is not "good enough", or they require me to go to Bremen in person to view one (1) apartment.
Please, I just don't want to be homeless for my postdoc
Either they won't rent it to me because my German is not "good enough", or they require me to go to Bremen in person to view one (1) apartment.
Please, I just don't want to be homeless for my postdoc
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I'm sorry, I just want to know. Why is it so fuckn difficult to rent a fucking apartment in Bremen?
Either they won't rent it to me because my German is not "good enough", or they require me to go to Bremen in person to view one (1) apartment.
Please, I just don't want to be homeless for my postdoc
Either they won't rent it to me because my German is not "good enough", or they require me to go to Bremen in person to view one (1) apartment.
Please, I just don't want to be homeless for my postdoc
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Veel gevestigde media zijn gewoon keihard deel van het probleem, laten we dat gewoon hardop zeggen, ook ik, juíst ik als journalist. Een extreem-rechtse demo is per definitie gewelddadig. Ga gvd eindelijk eens je journalistieke verantwoordelijkheid nemen.
Hoezeer en hoe vaak er zojuist op het 8 uur journaal benadrukt is dat de insteek van de fascistische demonstratie vanmiddag absoluut vreedzaam was… we are so fucked.
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Veel gevestigde media zijn gewoon keihard deel van het probleem, laten we dat gewoon hardop zeggen, ook ik, juíst ik als journalist. Een extreem-rechtse demo is per definitie gewelddadig. Ga gvd eindelijk eens je journalistieke verantwoordelijkheid nemen.
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We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.
The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.
The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.
The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.
The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.
The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.
The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
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none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too
September 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I've been on holiday in Turkiye for the last two weeks. What did I do? Read some papers, practiced for my 2km open water swim, spotted a bunch of bugs and saved bees. 10/10 Would love to come back 😍
September 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I've been on holiday in Turkiye for the last two weeks. What did I do? Read some papers, practiced for my 2km open water swim, spotted a bunch of bugs and saved bees. 10/10 Would love to come back 😍
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I disagree with the first half but you’ve sold me with the second anyway
September 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I disagree with the first half but you’ve sold me with the second anyway
I'm so thankful for modern day technology. I'm on holiday in Turkey and in a city where not a lot of people speak English. Translate apps have saved my ass more than one way so far haha
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I'm so thankful for modern day technology. I'm on holiday in Turkey and in a city where not a lot of people speak English. Translate apps have saved my ass more than one way so far haha
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July 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Somebody help me, I've been making these cartoons in PowerPoint and now I can't stop 😭 literally so addictive #entoart #entomology
June 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Somebody help me, I've been making these cartoons in PowerPoint and now I can't stop 😭 literally so addictive #entoart #entomology
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if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights
June 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights
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And this is why we all should be concerned about climate change in a serious, visceral way.
The findings indicate that, in some areas, “even the coolest growing season in the present day is warmer than the warmest season that would have occurred 50 years ago”.
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat...
Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change - Carbon Brief
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And this is why we all should be concerned about climate change in a serious, visceral way.
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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
May 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?
I unfortunately for everyone also make extremely unfunny tiktoks
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I'm sorry for this stupid joke #trans #stupidjokes #strawberry
TikTok video by Francine, PhD
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April 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I unfortunately for everyone also make extremely unfunny tiktoks
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjkJQWtB/
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy