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Gabby Palomo, PhD

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Carnivore Ecologist 🐅🐆🦝🦨🦦🐾 Data scientist 👩🏻‍💻 Latina in STEM 🇬🇹 rstats, ecology, Bayesian stats. gabspalomo.github.io

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · Nov 10

I made a Carnivore Ecologists Starter Pack! If you want to be added, please let me know 🤩🐻🐻‍❄️🐺🦨🦡🐾🦭🦊🦦🦝🐆🐅

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Seth Magle @sbmagle.bsky.social · 4h

This crucially important and obviously visionary work makes me feel vindicated for having said the same thing last year, albeit with much less evidence, while being mercilessly mocked by the city and its residents. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ | Biology Letters

The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ is a remarkable full body impression ostensibly created by a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) crossing fresh concrete in Chicago’s Roscoe Village that became a viral sensation. Whi...

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 3h

“Discriminant function analysis indicated a 98.67% likelihood that the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ was a squirrel (...) Given local population densities, an eastern grey squirrel likely represents the most parsimonious species-level match.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4h

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 1d

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

A two row figure displaying the occupancy patterns of bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens (top row) in Yosemite and how canopy cover, heterogeneity in canopy cover, and topography/snowpack (bottom row) shaped these patterns of occurrence.

A two panel figure diet patterns of bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens via composition of major prey groups detected through high-throughout sequencing (left figure) and how inter specific diets overlapped in niche space (right panel)

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 3d

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A place for natural history in the 21st century

Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 3d

The only M&Ms that are worth something are Peanut M&Ms. The rest are just noise.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 29

All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 3d

#ornithology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5d

Changing our diets is one of the best things we can do for ourselves … and for the planet.

Here is our assessment of how modest changes in diet could have big impacts on climate change.

drawdown.org/explorer/imp...

Improve Diets

The Improve Diets solution is coming soon.

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 4d

Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 4d

“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍

#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience

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Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism

We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....

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Ben Schneider @bschneidr.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to the interesting {capybara} R package, I just came across this nice Hadley Wickham quote:

> “He who gives up code safety for code speed deserves neither.”

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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 5d

Greater noctule #bats use echolocation to track migrating #birds and consume them on the wing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 5d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Kim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 6d

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 7d

Advocacy in support of 'wild horses' in the West has become so strong that even in sensitive areas like the scenic Mono Basin, agencies are now more inclined (or forced) to let entire landscapes be chronically degraded by overgrazing. Another example where science-based mgmt has been steamrolled. 🌍

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 7d

Magnificent story from @lilaseidman.bsky.social about a plan to limit environmental damage caused by wild horses in California's Eastern Sierra — and the fascinating pushback, including from some local tribes: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Majestic wild horses are trampling Mono Lake’s otherworldly landscape. The feds plan a roundup

Federal officials plan to round up wild horses roaming the Eastern Sierra, citing hazards and damage. But local tribes and others seek a different outcome.

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 6d

How the Queens Zoo is helping to save a New England rabbit, writes the @nytimes.com.

The New England cottontail population has shrunk by more than 80 percent since the 1960s.

🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

How the Queens Zoo Is Helping to Save a New England Rabbit

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 6d

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 6d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

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Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 7d

I’m putting together a Zoom workshop for graduate students and researchers who want to keep track of the impact of their research. Is this something that you’d be interested for your students? It can be 40-60 min long. 🌎

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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 9d

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

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Adam L @lauretig.bsky.social · 9d

There’s a Stairway to Heaven, but a Highway to Hell. This implies Heaven is a walkable community, and Hell is a congested interstate.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 8d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 9d

Alien Earth

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Alexander L. Metcalf, PhD @metcalfhdlab.bsky.social · 9d

I have four (!) papers that have been in review so long that my mind, energy, and entire lab has moved on yet they still linger waiting for the minor-ist of edits to make their way through the never ending gauntlet of reviewer/AE/editor back and forth checkboxing. Good lord this system is broken.

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