@flograttarola
Uruguayan in Czech Republic | Postdoc in #Macroecology | #CommunityScience | #BiodiversityInformatics | #OpenScience | Leading biodiversidata.org ๐บ๐พ๐ง and naturalista.uy ๐ ๐ flograttarola.com I mix Espaรฑol and English :)
๐ฆ GBIF.org organiza una nueva sesiรณn del Data Use Club dedicada a las buenas prรกcticas para el uso de datos accesibles a travรฉs de GBIF.
Es una oportunidad estupenda para aprender de especialistas, seguir la mesa redonda y plantear preguntas en directo.
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11 de marzo de 2026
๐ 15:00โ16:30 CET ๐
Thrilled to share our new preprint:
โExtreme Heat as the New Normalโ ๐ก๏ธ๐ฅ
We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat ๐ and linking it to ecology:
๐งญ Species distribution models ๐ฆ
๐ฟ Biophysical models & microclimates ๐ฆ
๐ Population dynamics ๐ฅ
doi.org/10.64898/202... ๐งต โฌ๏ธ
Tortuga campanita del norte de ๐บ๐พ๐
Security notice: An unauthorized party briefly accessed our email service provider and sent a fraudulent email to ~6,100 users with the subject "New Ledger Live Update." This was not from iNaturalist.
We've secured the system and are investigating. More details: www.inaturalist.org/blog/125132-...
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by Franรงois Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s โ but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And here is some of the amazing news coverage of our paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c... by @catrineinhorn.bsky.social
Wonderful and important paper by Amy Sater!
"Inclusive excellence in faculty hiring to advance environmental and sustainability sciences"
Must read if you are ever somehow involved in hiring in academia.
Believe me.
www.academia.edu/2997-6006/3/...
Screen print of a recent paper published in BES Journal People and Nature. Underneath there is a photo from the Conguillรญo NP in Chile and a QR code referred to in a text saying "Read the full paper and the open access statement"
๐งต New Perspective in People and Nature
โStrengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societiesโ
Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
Pippin from Lord of the Rings asking Aragorn "What about your data? Aragorn replies "My data is in the paper" Pippin then asks "But what about publishing your data so it's more findable and reusable?"
For this week's #MemeMonday, don't be like Aragorn! If you're able to, please consider publishing your data in a reputable repository. We here at DRP deposit our rescued data in #DataLumos from @icpsr.bsky.social
Feb. update to the LLM+R guide ๐ช
8 new packages including:
code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R๐คฏ ,and more!
available in English ๐ฑ๐ท and Spanish ๐ฒ๐ฝ
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
#rstats
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen! ๐ง๐ท
Hola ๐๐ผ somos #NaturalistaUY el sitio de
@inaturalist.bsky.social para Uruguay ๐บ๐พ y hoy sumamos una nueva red social ๐
Study escaped my radar, but I am so glad to see it! ๐ฉธ๐ฟ
Regarding menstruation & fieldwork in the natural sciences:
โข 48% report significant menstrual pain in the field
โข 85% say first aid kits lack menstrual products
โข Only 30.5% feel comfortable discussing issues with male supervisors
๐๐งช Preprint out! Amazing work, led by Daniela Mellado Mansilla, shedding light on time and STAR ๐ฆโณ๐ @gortegasolis.bsky.social
Close-up of delicate pink and white fuzzy flower held in hand. Text reads "FOR 60 YEARS, PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS PLANT WAS EXTINCT"
Field of silvery-pink feathery flowers growing among grasses. Text explains Ptilotus senarius hadn't been seen since the 1960s until someone shared it on iNaturalist.
Ground view of flowering plant growing in rocky soil. Text reads "On iNaturalist, community members helped confirm this species had survived, unnoticed, for decades."
Flowering plants in Australian bushland with eucalyptus trees. Text reads "SOMETHING THAT LOOKS ORDINARY MIGHT SURPRISE YOU โ AND EVERYONE."
Ptilotus senarius hadnโt been seen since the 1960s. People thought it was extinct โ until nature-enthusiast and horticulturist Aaron Bean came across it and shared an observation to iNaturalist. There, community members helped confirm what once seemed impossible: this species had survived.
Post Doc Job open with us to work with biologists to build AI models to analyze camera trap data. The specific focus will be to study animal coloration and camouflage, but there will be opportunities to work on other related projects.
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!
๐จ Apply to join us an Associate Editor!
We are seeking a wide range of expertise:
Human-wildlife interactions ๐ถโโ๏ธ
Nature experience and connectedness ๐ณ
Indigenous knowledge systems๐บ๏ธ
Reciprocity and care ๐ค
And more...
Find out more and apply here โก๏ธ buff.ly/LvTJGnW
reading about organisms that arenโt your specialty is like
margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum
define term โeplungulateโ
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
๐ฃ registration for the rainbowR conference is now live ๐
The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.
pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ
Amen
๐ ยกAbriรณ el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci!
Hoy @me_andre @mastodon.social cuenta cรณmo su participaciรณn en el programa fortaleciรณ su proyecto y la conectรณ con una comunidad internacional de software cientรญfico abierto.
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Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero
Toda [โฆ]
Paisaje nevado y brumoso. Hacia la derecha de la imagen se ve un camino en el que la nieve fue quitada y a la izquierda se ve nieve acumulada en el piso, un gran pino con nieve en las puntas y las letras de la universidad, CZU, al costado, tambiรฉn con nieve encima. Al fondo se ve un edificio que queda un poco cubierto por la bruma
Postal del dรญa #ฤZU. Apurate primavera!
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Quรฉ lindo formato el del ensayo! Acรก maravillada con el libro ๐ โUn millรณn de cuartos propiosโ de @tamtenenbaum.bsky.social. El capรญtulo sobre resentimiento me tiene asรญ ๐ฎ๐๐ผ
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This is a Tourmaline sunangel (Heliangelus exortis, I think) we spotted with @flograttarola.bsky.social in the cloud forests around Cocora valley, Colombia. Notice the structural coloration on the neck!
