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Guillermo Fandos
@gfandos.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at @ucm.es studying how we can improve predictions of biodiversity responses to global change.

#ConservationBiology 🌍, biogeography, movement ecology, Citizen science, #Rstats

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gfandos.bsky.social
Muy interesante reflexión 👏. Evaluar ciencia no puede reducirse a un único indicador ni al factor de impacto. Difícil cambiar el sistema, pero el primer paso es asumir que la evaluación es compleja y no cabe en una sola métrica.
birloque.bsky.social Jesús PérezGil (birloque) @birloque.bsky.social · Sep 11
A very qué os parece esta reflexión sobre la forma en que evaluamos y sus consecuencias. Sean los exámenes de nuestros estudiantes o los CV de los concursos de acceso, acreditaciones, etc… ¡La tiranía de Heisenberg!

theconversation.com/la-ley-de-he...
La ley de Heisenberg en la evaluación de los exámenes y la carrera académica
El principio de incertidumbre de Heisenberg afecta a la evaluación de los exámenes y a la carrera académica.
theconversation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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kuba-hrouda.bsky.social
Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️
If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask!
@eounion.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers
May 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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megan-szojka.bsky.social
Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Species occupancy is inflated by sink populations in productive environments but not unproductive environments
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April 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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semperpascual.bsky.social
NEW PAPER! Do you want to know how ocelots and agoutis interact in space AND time in #TropicalRainforests?🌳
Check our last paper led by Andrea Vallejo-Vargas and published @animalecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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anabenlop.bsky.social
New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here:
www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...
March 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
gfandos.bsky.social
📢 Título de experto en Aplicaciones bioinformáticas en biodiversidad, ecología y evolución
📅 26 mayo - 4 julio | ⏰ 15:00 - 20:00
📍 Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
💰 300€
🎯 Metodología 100% práctica con proyectos y tutorización experta
📌 Inscríbete ya! ucm.es/formacion-pe...
March 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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jgrubalcaba.bsky.social
Next week (!!) we are presenting our workshop "integrating mechanisms into species distribution models" - don't miss it! Online 2-4 April www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo... @gfandos.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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rladies-bot.bsky.social
📝 "Useful R Packages & Resources"

👤 Steffi LaZerte

📖 Essential R packages & resources for data science, visualization, & workflows. Check it out!

🔗 https://steffilazerte.ca/posts/useful-packages/

#rladies#rstats#packages#resources#r
March 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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scifri.bsky.social
A new study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Dr. Elise Zipkin and Dr. @nickhaddad.bsky.social join us to discuss what’s causing the decline and whether we can do anything about it.
Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?
A new study of butterfly populations in the US shows a 22% decline among over 500 species in just 20 years.
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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science.org
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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bioeaf.bsky.social
In collaboration with my friend
@juanma-pg.bsky.social
we have just published this article about some worrying trends we have observed in the marking of animals with GPS .... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Call for a critical review of widespread use of animal tracking devices - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Animal tracking has undergone a technological revolution, providing insight into biological details that were previously impossible to address. However, the increasing ease of access to tracking devic...
link.springer.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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eco-aeet.bsky.social
El grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social estrena página web:

ecoinfaeet.github.io
February 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Denelle et al. present bioregion, a package that includes all the steps of a bioregionalization workflow under a single architecture 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

https://buff.ly/3CHqC5p
February 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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ian-mcfadden.bsky.social
📣 Jobs alert- please share!

4(!) PhD positions on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology 🫐🌿🌸🍄🌏

PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mappin... (w/ UCL East)
PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-I... (w/ UCL East)
PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadi... (w/ Kew Gardens)
PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 (CSC)
List of PhD projects currently being (co)advertised in the McFadden Lab, with an image of the earth surrounded by emoji of animals and plants, as well as the UKRI NERC and China Scholarship Council logos.
December 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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frodsan.bsky.social
1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species.

Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis

doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs
Downscaling mutualistic networks from species to individuals reveals consistent interaction niches and roles within plant populations Species-level networks emerge as the combination of interactions spanning multiple individuals, and their study has received considerable attention over the past 30 y. However, less is known about the structure of interaction configurations within species, even though individuals are the actual interacting units in nature. We compiled 46 empirical, individual-based, interaction networks on plant-animal seed dispersal mutualisms, comprising 1,037 plant individuals across 29 species from various regions. We compared the structure of individual-based networks to that of species-based networks and, by extending the niche concept to interaction assemblages, we explored individual plant specialization. Using a Bayesian framework to account for uncertainty derived from sampling, we examined how plant individuals “explore” the interaction niche of their populations. Both individual-based and species-based networks exhibited high variability in network properties, lacking remarkable structural and topological differences between them. Within populations, frugivores’ interaction allocation among plant individuals was highly heterogeneous, with one to three frugivore species dominating interactions. Regardless of species or bioregion, plant individuals displayed a variety of interaction profiles across populations, with a consistently-small percentage of individuals playing a central role and exhibiting high diversity in their interaction assemblage. Plant populations showed variable mid to low levels of niche specialization; and individuals’ interaction niche “breadth” accounted for 70% of the population interaction diversity, on average. Our results highlight how downscaling from species to individual-based networks helps understanding the structuring of interactions within ecological communities.
February 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
gfandos.bsky.social
Exciting opportunity ahead! Join our workshop from April 2nd to 4th and discover how to calibrate both mechanistic and hybrid species distribution models. Don't miss out—register now!
@biogeography.bsky.social
@jgrubalcaba.bsky.social
jgrubalcaba.bsky.social Juan G. Rubalcaba @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social · Feb 18
Interested in mechanistic & hybrid species distribution models? Don't miss our workshop! Online - 2-4 April @gfandos.bsky.social
REGISTER: www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo...
February 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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wadertales.bsky.social
Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds?
Blog from last month may be of interest.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
@amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites.
#ConservationScience🌏
February 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
The cherry blossom prediction competition is on again this year. Submissions due by end of February. I am very much too busy to participate unfortunately. But a good distraction from *gestures all around* for the rest of you perhaps. competition.statistics.gmu.edu/competition-...
February 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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vincentab.bsky.social
{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.

This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
February 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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ernestodmartin.bsky.social
Ya os dije que lo de @nortes1.bsky.social esta semana iba de leones.
www.nortes.me/2025/02/01/d...
Dos leones en la Corte del Rey Felipe VI - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia
El próximo mes de marzo se cumplirán ciento sesenta y cinco años de la batalla de Wad-Ras, un formidable pitote en el que se enfrentaron tropas españolas al mando de O’donnell con las del Sultanato de...
www.nortes.me
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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phoca-sapiens.bsky.social
Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests
Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM