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Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal
@npjuncal.bsky.social
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Soil scientist working with underwater soils. Anthropologist in training. she/her
#seagrasses #saltmarshes #biogeochemistry
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frodsan.bsky.social
Two years ago we got together in a beautiful mountain to learn and develop #rstats packages for ecology

After {labeleR} (ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/) and {BlueCarbon} (ecologyr.github.io/BlueCarbon/), {mappestRisk} is now officially out! See thread by lead author @dario-ssm.bsky.social 👇
Collaborative development of R packages for ecology https://ecologyr.github.io/workshop/
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
npjuncal.bsky.social
We have the publication associated to the BlueCarbon library!

Very happy with the review process and transparency of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social
Please cite this article if your are one of the more than 1700 downloads of the package :D

bsky.app/profile/joss...
joss-openjournals.bsky.social Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 1d
Just published in JOSS: 'BlueCarbon R package: Estimation of Organic Carbon Stocks and Sequestration Rates From Soil Core Data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08333
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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em-oyster.bsky.social
📣 OYSTER EuroMarine – Call for New Members 📣
⌛ Call is open! Deadline: 19 December 2025 ⌛

More information here: euromarinenetwork.eu/news/oyster-...
@euromarine.bsky.social

#EuroMarine
#OYSTER
#EarlyCareerResearchers
#MarineScience
#ECRNetwork
#OceanCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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dario-ssm.bsky.social
🗺️🐛 mappestRisk is now on CRAN! We developed this R package to help non-expert R users create pest-risk maps based on experimental data of the thermal biology of crop-pest species.

github.com/EcologyR/map...
GitHub - EcologyR/mappestRisk
Contribute to EcologyR/mappestRisk development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 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
Reposted by Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal
fmazcarate.bsky.social
¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto?
No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13
Copernicus
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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em-oyster.bsky.social
🚀OYSTER 4th Call for #ECR #Cooperation Projects is now open🌊

💡 On-line Networking & Information Session on September 5th
💰 #Funding for 2 projects up to €7000
⏳ Apply by October 10th
📚 Check Info and documents 👇
EuroMarine
EuroMarine is a member-based, interdisciplinary, collaborative network of European marine organisations and research institutes.
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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cascarelo.bsky.social
O cartaz da Queimada de Cervo deste ano fíxoo Dani, o fillo de Vizoso. Na base hai dous Vizosos, un vivo e un morto, que beben queimada. O vivo leva o lapis na mao e o morto pícalle con el os collós ao demo. 😍

#Vizoso #OfCourseCeltic
August 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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oaggimenez.bsky.social
I talk to lots of junior colleagues about this stuff. They want a lot of different things. But mostly they want more senior academics to recognize and talk about these problems. It’s not like it’s a secret that there are replication and reliability problems at the highest levels of research. It’s that the most successful academics talk about it the least. Recognition would help not only with morale, but also with momentum to get things done.
July 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
npjuncal.bsky.social
I can finally show a large part of my work from the last 4 years! We have modelled OC decay rates in salt marshes, seagrasses and mangroves along centuries and millenia! We have now a good idea of how much OC will remain after 100 (9%) and 1000 years (0.1%) in their soils :)
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Soil organic carbon depth profiles and centennial and millennial decay rates in tidal marsh, mangrove and seagrass blue carbon ecosystems - Communications Earth & Environment
Around 9% of the soil organic carbon in coastal blue carbon ecosystems worldwide can remain stabilized after 100 years of burial, and 0.1% remain for 1000 years, suggesting that residence times of org...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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annleckie.com
The idea of the world being "disenchanted" once science and "rationality" take hold has never sat well with me. You want to tell me that people who lived in a time when demons were considered a legit cause of disease somehow felt more mystical about life? I don't buy it.
May 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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atinygreencell.bsky.social
Come with me as I try to build a modular open-source 24-well Plate Reader from scratch. I'll post updates regularly on this thread and then compile it to my open lab notebook later. Let's make some tools!

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May 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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jorgedioni.bsky.social
El debate es si algo tan crítico como la energía puede ser privado.
April 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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monicabyrne13.bsky.social
Reading The Dawn of Everything ruins at least half of popular history books you try to read afterwards. Because if an author starts building their case with a simple, linear narrative of human history…you already know it’s bullshit. What else are they going to be wrong about?
January 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
npjuncal.bsky.social
For those that missed the The BlueCarbon R library workshop, it was recorded and it is available here thanks to the @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social group of the @eco-aeet.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrr...
Seminarios Ecoinf | Nerea Piñeiro - BlueCarbon R package: get carbon stocks and sequestration rates
YouTube video by Ecoinformatica AEET
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
npjuncal.bsky.social
This is today!
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ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · Jan 24
On Tuesday 28 January at 16:00 h we will have the seminar ‘BlueCarbon R package: get stocks and sequestration rates estimations directly from raw laboratory data’ by
@npjuncal.bsky.social
We hope to see you all there👇
ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · Jan 8
El martes 28 de enero a las 16 h tendremos el seminario "BlueCarbon R package: get stocks and sequestration rates estimations directly from raw laboratory data" impartido por
@npjuncal.bsky.social
Os esperamos😉
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social
On Tuesday 28 January at 16:00 h we will have the seminar ‘BlueCarbon R package: get stocks and sequestration rates estimations directly from raw laboratory data’ by
@npjuncal.bsky.social
We hope to see you all there👇
ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · Jan 8
El martes 28 de enero a las 16 h tendremos el seminario "BlueCarbon R package: get stocks and sequestration rates estimations directly from raw laboratory data" impartido por
@npjuncal.bsky.social
Os esperamos😉
January 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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eschneider.bsky.social
A Kameron Hurley WWII fantasy novel? Take my money. :)
November 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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carlosvieito.gal
Son ás 3:30am e podo dicir que Bluesky xa está traducido ao galego na súa totalidade. Agora esperar a que acepten a tradución.

#Blueskyengalego
November 19, 2024 at 2:32 AM