Esteban Botero-Delgadillo
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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo
@eboterod.bsky.social
Behavioral & spatial ecologist. Founding member & Director of Conservation Science at @selvaorgco.bsky.social. Research Associate at Smithsonian Bird Friendly Program. Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.
Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
September 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
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August 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Timing and social dynamics of divorce in wild great tits: a phenomenological approach | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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August 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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We were part of one of the 21 case studies from around the globe applying the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions. Led by Dr. Ruth Bennett from SMBC & with @eboterod.bsky.social as co-author, this chapter is about building Bird Friendly landscapes.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Check out our latest preprint 📣 TADA guidelines 📣

TADA (Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated) helps researchers across disciplines share code, with the ultimate goal of increasing code availability & its quality.

Brilliantly led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social

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August 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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New research reveals evidence that iguanas rafted over 8,000 kilometers from North America during the Paleogene, the longest documented transoceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate.

In @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

In PNAS:
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July 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is successive remating beneficial for short-lived birds? This post discusses one of our recent papers on the advantages of remating in a Neotropical socially monogamous bird. Check it out!

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Is successive remating beneficial for short-lived birds? - British Ornithologists' Union
Mate replacement versus mate retention in the Thorn-tailed Rayadito
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July 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Monitoring population extinction risk with community science data 💬🌎

Leveraging 'the power of people' allows estimating local persistence probability as a risk-based population viability, closely aligning estimation from standardized, systematic monitoring 🧪

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July 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A study finds that Mountain Chickadees are changing their songs in areas where they overlap with Black-capped Chickadees. The songs have more notes and smaller pitch changes compared to those living in isolation. Read the full article and hear the difference www.allaboutbirds.org/news/mountai...
July 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The geometry of life: testing the scaling of whole-organism surface area and volume using sharks | Royal Society Open Science
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July 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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As part of the Ciencia Serrana collective, we keep doing research along with #WorldParroTrust & #ProCAT-Colombia. Now we want to know through a pilot study if #SantaMartaParakeet use of nest boxes depends on its design and its location. Stay tuned for more!
June 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Causes and consequences of material variation in avian nest building
@avianbiology.bsky.social

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June 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Urabá region in NW Colombia is an obligatory stop along the migration route of many birds. However, the region's forests are increasingly fragmented. This year, we launched an initiative with local communities to create and enrich a network of habitat islands where hungry migrants can refuel.
June 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Rules all PIs should follow | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rules all PIs should follow
www.science.org
June 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Thrilled to see a news piece by @science.org on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began

www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology
Fewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices
www.science.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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..."we found evidence to support 150+ years of previously untested conventional wisdom and the hypothesis that winter cold and not summer heat likely limits arboreal diversity in temperate forests."
buff.ly
June 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🚨Paper alert🚨
Hot off the press, our latest paper on the link between plant-associated bacterial communities, farm management practices (sun vs. shade-grown) and coffee flavor! Published in Nature Scientific Reports a couple of days ago. @selvaorgco.bsky.social
More👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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How plant-associated microbiome and farm management practices (sun vs. shade-grown) relates to coffee flavor? SELVA researchers were part of this study that aimed at understanding how plant-associated bacteria is linked with flavor. + info👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Decoupling both local and global abundance from global range size, challenging the abundance-occupancy relationship in birds | elifesciences.org/ar... | eLife | #ornithology 🪶
June 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia
The hunter-gatherer gene pool of the Bogotá Altiplano was replaced by Central American ancestry at least 2000 years ago.
www.science.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🚨¡El catálogo web de árboles de los sistemas agroforestales de café de los Andes colombianos ya está en línea!
🌳121 especies de árboles son incluidas en esta maravillosa iniciativa de la que SELVA es parte.
#DrinkBirdFriendly
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May 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Seis científicos colombianos revelaron el misterio del colibrí de Santa Marta: “Es un gran logro para la investigación científica del país”
www.semana.com/mejor-colomb...
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Seis científicos colombianos revelaron el misterio del colibrí de Santa Marta: “Es un gran logro para la investigación científica del país”
Sus hallazgos fueron publicados por una prestigiosa revista científica de Cambridge.
www.semana.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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¡Este lunes 5 de mayo abren las inscripciones para la IV edición de nuestro curso de Fundamentos de Inferencia #Estadística en #Ecología! El curso tendrá lugar del 9 al 15 de agosto. #HagamosEscuela
Detalles 👇
www.selva.org.co/programas/ed...
May 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Redescubren el ave “más rara de Colombia”, pero estaría en riesgo de extinguirse.

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Redescubren el ave “más rara de Colombia”, pero estaría en riesgo de extinguirse
El colibrí de Santa Marta se creyó extinto durante décadas. Reapareció, pero su distribución sería 100 veces más reducida de lo que creían.
www.elespectador.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM