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Flo Grattarola
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Uruguayan in Czech Republic | Postdoc in #Macroecology | #CommunityScience | #BiodiversityInformatics | #OpenScience | Leading biodiversidata.org 🇺🇾🧉 and naturalista.uy 💚

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Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social · May 28
I present to you: the NaturalistaUY Bot (ecoevo.social/@Naturalista...) 🤖🇺🇾💚

Here you can find more info about how it works and why we did it (in Spanish): www.naturalista.uy/blog/94967-l... 🧪
Naturalista 🇺🇾 Bot (@Naturalista@bots.uy) profile
<p>Destaco registros de <a href="https://naturalista.uy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">naturalista.uy</a></p> <p>Hecho por <a href="https://ecoevo.social/@flograttarola" target="_blank" r...
ecoevo.social
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cts.cuni.cz
‪New paper by David Storch, @graceridder.bsky.social & Jordan Okie in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social applying the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics to Cenozoic diversity. Temperate diversity likely below equilibrium; tropical diversity may be above it.
🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m5jLcZ3X3...
authors.elsevier.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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florianhartig.bsky.social
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
www.uni-regensburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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gbif.org
Do you find yourself wishing you had a few more technical skills in your data toolkit? 🧰

📊 Through our partnership with DataCamp, hundreds of users have enhanced their skills in areas such as SQL, R, Python, and data visualization.

Want to learn more? 👀 gbif.link/datacampdo...

#DCDonates
Photo of a bright yellow nudibranch and the GBIF and DataCamp logos overlaid
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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latinrconf.bsky.social
¡Ya se encuentran abiertas las inscripciones para LatinR 2025! Sumate a esta octava edición

🗓️1–5 de diciembre
💻 Online y gratuita

Reservá tu lugar en www.eventbrite.cl/e/latinr-202...

#LatinR2025
Imagen con fondo de una conferencia donde una persona está exponiendo frente a un auditorio. Sobre la imagen se lee el texto “LATINR – Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre el uso de R en Investigación + Desarrollo”. Debajo, en tres idiomas: “Inscripciones abiertas / Inscrições abertas / Registrations now open”. Al pie, la fecha del evento: “1 al 5 de diciembre – ONLINE & GRATUITO”, junto con los íconos de redes sociales y el sitio web latinr.org.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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biogeography.bsky.social
Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Our article about #RegRed (an effort to collate data on species' Red List assessments at regional, national, and sub-national levels) is now available on @natureconservation.pensoft.net. Follow our GitHub project for news and updates 📣 github.com/RegRed-project
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Back to Prague 🇨🇿 after a month of visiting family and attending a workshop in Montevideo 🇺🇾, attending a conference in Bogotá and having a little trip in Colombia 🇨🇴. Loads to catch up! Wish me luck 🖖🏼
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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milanchytry.bsky.social
In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
We co-chaired a fantastic session today together with Thore Engel and Diana Bowler #LivingData2025 Gracias a a todas las personas que presentaron y participaron de la discusión 🙌🏼
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
For those eager to see @siobhanleachman.bsky.social's wonderful #LivingData2025 #Wikidata presentation (there was a technical hiccup at the conference), you can find it here: Video: youtu.be/ySyiwfIi_Wc
Slides: bit.ly/LivingDataEx...
Documentation: bit.ly/BHLWikidataW...
#DatosVivos2025. 📖 👩‍💻 🔗
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
The power of community engagement 🙌🏼 by Thore Engel #LivingData2025 @idiv-research.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
El poder de hacer una datatón en América Latina (antes y después) 💪🏼👩🏻‍💻 Gran trabajo el de MiCoDa, presentado por Clara Arboleda-Baena 🧬🦠 #LivingData2025
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Toma la palabra la gran Patricia Koleff, referencia para nuestra región y el mundo 🌎 #LivingData2025
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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siobhanleachman.bsky.social
Britt Andermann gives an amazing talk about extracting biodiversity data from archives. 🤯 #LivingData2025
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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ulicny.bsky.social
I'm currently at the #LivingData2025 conference in Bogotá with @flograttarola.bsky.social
I am presenting EcoParse - a species-level data extraction app.

Flo is presenting our project #RegRed focused on collecting regional redlist data from all over the world!
Poster for EcoParse. A species-level data extraction app
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Next is my turn to present our #RegRed project at #LivingData2025. If you are interested in regional, national l, and subnational red list data get in touch! 🚨🐆🌴🐠🪲 Also, make sure to check @ulicny.bsky.social’s poster too!
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Fantastic work from Steph Jurburg 👏🏼 Look at all that data in Latin America 🤩 #LivingData2025 @ufz.de
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Que legal @tiagolubiana.bsky.social 🇧🇷 ! Connecting Wikimedia + iNaturalist 💚 #LivingData2025
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
Great presentation by @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social on our work evaluating the use of @inaturalist.bsky.social data on the literature. Read it here doi.org/10.1093/bios... #LivingData2025
Corey presenting at the conference, with a slide pointing at the main discussion points derived from the publication
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
flograttarola.bsky.social
En Colombia 🇨🇴 para participar del congreso #LivingData2025. Feliz de que este gran evento sea en la región 🌎 and very excited for the next few days 🙌🏼
Pantalla de la sala principal del congreso mostrando la diapositiva inicial con el título del congreso y las organizaciones coordinadoras
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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charlotterubyp.bsky.social
🚨 Excited to share our new research! 🚨

We tackle a big question in conservation: how can we make smarter use of existing surveys to learn about places and species we haven’t yet been able to survey? 🏔️

🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
flograttarola.bsky.social
La semana pasada estuve en Montevideo (🫶🏼🇺🇾) para participar del Explorer Leadership Workshop organizado por la National Geographic. Compartí días con gente increíble y tuve la oportunidad de reencontrarme con mi misma. Fueron días muy introspectivos, de mucho aprendizaje y cariño. Muy agradecida!
Reflexionando junto a otrxs 4 exploradores entorno a una mesa Presentando nuestro papelógrafo frente al resto del grupo, con dibujos que representaban cómo nos percibe el resto de las personas Ronda sentadxs, compartiendo mates Mi presentación de 2 minutos
October 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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carancho.bsky.social
Juntada bluskera (?) de exploradores de National Geographic. Con los capisimos @alepietrek.bsky.social y @flograttarola.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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gbif.es
Los #carnívoros del Neotrópico tienen ahora un dataset único: 21 años de registros de presencia y ausencia listos para investigación y conservación. Un recurso abierto en @gbif.org que ayuda a entender su futuro:
▶️ natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/1406... #CiteTheDOI @flograttarola.bsky.social
Los registros de presencia de carnívoros del Neotrópico muestran dónde vemos a estas especies, pero también dónde no aparecen: una clave para entender su futuro. Foto: Herpailurus yagouaroundi. Autor: Olvan Gonzalez (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/olvan_gonzalez). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) El área neotropical, de México a Argentina, revela vacíos de información que aún debemos llenar con más datos y colaboración. Figura: Distribución de a) los registros de ocurrencia de solo presencia (PO) (n = 60.179) y b) los muestreos de presencia-ausencia (PA) (n = 271) de especies de carnívoros del Neotrópico. El valor está en combinar fuentes: ciencia ciudadana, colecciones, monitoreos y literatura científica en un mismo recurso Foto: Tremarctos ornatus. Autor: osoandino (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/osoandino). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Con estas bases, podemos modelar distribuciones, evaluar riesgos y orientar decisiones de conservación en escenarios de cambio. Figura: Número de registros (a) y especies (b) para los datos de solo presencia (PO), y número de registros (c) y especies (d) para los datos de presencia-ausencia (PA) en nuestro conjunto de datos. En escala de grises se muestran las familias de carnívoros.
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM