Eliphaleth Carmona
@eliphaleth.bsky.social
Mexican Plateau-based conservation & wildlife biologist. In love with sparrows, deserts, behavioural & quantitative ecology🍃
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Anyone with access to the New Mexico State University library, I would be very grateful if you could share this Black-throated Sparrow PhD disseration with me: t.co/5AnKdnXSmN
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Anyone with access to the New Mexico State University library, I would be very grateful if you could share this Black-throated Sparrow PhD disseration with me: t.co/5AnKdnXSmN
Anyone with access to the New Mexico State University library, I would be very grateful if you could share this Black-throated Sparrow PhD disseration with me: t.co/5AnKdnXSmN
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Anyone with access to the New Mexico State University library, I would be very grateful if you could share this Black-throated Sparrow PhD disseration with me: t.co/5AnKdnXSmN
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Ah yes, the disastrous consequences of hubris strikes again #Deëxtinction (yes I know, I’m a broken record)…
With no grading to do this weekend, I think I'm going to catch up on the Jurassic World franchise.
Time to suppress my instinctive reaction of Pratt being Worst Chris.
Time to suppress my instinctive reaction of Pratt being Worst Chris.
September 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Ah yes, the disastrous consequences of hubris strikes again #Deëxtinction (yes I know, I’m a broken record)…
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In the @newscientist.com article, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said "...our goal is to inspire scientists, not tear scientists down". Yet this is what Colossal is doing when Ben tweets the following. Not very inspiring at all! Hint: the headline was tongue in cheek 😜 (theconversation.com/first-the-di...).
August 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In the @newscientist.com article, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said "...our goal is to inspire scientists, not tear scientists down". Yet this is what Colossal is doing when Ben tweets the following. Not very inspiring at all! Hint: the headline was tongue in cheek 😜 (theconversation.com/first-the-di...).
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Thanks @newscientist.com for shining a light on the smear campaign against @toriherridge.bsky.social, @devoevomed.bsky.social, @flintdibble.bsky.social & myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks @newscientist.com for shining a light on the smear campaign against @toriherridge.bsky.social, @devoevomed.bsky.social, @flintdibble.bsky.social & myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿
Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.
Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD
Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.
Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD
Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
July 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿
Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.
Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD
Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.
Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD
Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
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July 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
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Just watch all those pundits that cry "keep politics out of science" (whenever it's suggested that scientists shouldn't be passive in the face of bigotry and pseudoscience) stay absolutely silent about this clear case of a political ideology interfering with science
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Just watch all those pundits that cry "keep politics out of science" (whenever it's suggested that scientists shouldn't be passive in the face of bigotry and pseudoscience) stay absolutely silent about this clear case of a political ideology interfering with science
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As someone who works in the very specific sliver of science communication that focuses on creating programs, opportunities, and spaces for my local community to experience science in person, I am SO happy to see Sarah doing this!!
Share and apply! 🧪
Share and apply! 🧪
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
docs.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As someone who works in the very specific sliver of science communication that focuses on creating programs, opportunities, and spaces for my local community to experience science in person, I am SO happy to see Sarah doing this!!
Share and apply! 🧪
Share and apply! 🧪
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Hoy hace cuatro años que mi amiga Wendy Sánchez fue desaparecida. Hoy se cumplen cuatro años de impunidad por parte del gobierno de Jalisco, Nayarit y federal. Les comparto una pequeña crónica que escribí para una investigación que hicimos. Se agradece el RT #TeBuscamosWendy
January 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hoy hace cuatro años que mi amiga Wendy Sánchez fue desaparecida. Hoy se cumplen cuatro años de impunidad por parte del gobierno de Jalisco, Nayarit y federal. Les comparto una pequeña crónica que escribí para una investigación que hicimos. Se agradece el RT #TeBuscamosWendy
Both
November 28, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Both
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Where did our lost rhinos roam?
Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene.
These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart
Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene.
These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart
November 21, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Where did our lost rhinos roam?
Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene.
These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart
Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene.
These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart
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Crystal Palace mentioned, time to repost my favorite meme
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*arriving at the club*
my girlfriend: do you promise you wont turn into an inaccurate 1800s reconstruction of iguanodon this time
me: i promise
me 3 drinks later:
[An illustration of the model for the Crystal Palace Iguanodon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxxe6se6d5bf3r2wsi6w7yol/bafkreic7o6pigrbm4yzbdfmbxgwglx6imwvtsvo2ym7g6k54osap6oz4ye@jpeg)
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Crystal Palace mentioned, time to repost my favorite meme
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Still a few spots left on the Early Career Ecologists starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Still a few spots left on the Early Career Ecologists starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to be included!
go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
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Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
go.bsky.app/MzND7nX
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American kestrel at #YoloBypass just before sunset. It was flying in front of a very shadowed area but it was in the sun, so it looks a bit like this was done with a flash at night. Taken with a Nikon D500 and Nikkor 500 mm f 5.6.
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 AM
American kestrel at #YoloBypass just before sunset. It was flying in front of a very shadowed area but it was in the sun, so it looks a bit like this was done with a flash at night. Taken with a Nikon D500 and Nikkor 500 mm f 5.6.
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Should probably remind folks I’m also an illustrator, you might see my work out in the wild on a cover like this recent one for Scientific American
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Should probably remind folks I’m also an illustrator, you might see my work out in the wild on a cover like this recent one for Scientific American
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Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to Will Kay and Tiago Marques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration.
You can access the PDF here 👉 tinyurl.com/33keh22s
You can access the PDF here 👉 tinyurl.com/33keh22s
November 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to Will Kay and Tiago Marques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration.
You can access the PDF here 👉 tinyurl.com/33keh22s
You can access the PDF here 👉 tinyurl.com/33keh22s
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It's time to announce A Life in Sound. Please join us in getting word out on this project... bit.ly/alifeinsound My friend Nick Lyon has built a team of A-list wildlife filmmakers who are volunteering their time to make a poetic, high-end film about one man’s life recording the sounds of the planet.
Donate to Support 'A LIFE IN SOUND' - A bold, environmental film, organized by The Listening Planet
A Life in Sound - Environmental Film
My name is Nick Lyon… The Listening Planet needs your support for Support 'A LIFE IN SOUND' - A bold, environmental film
bit.ly
October 23, 2024 at 1:50 PM
It's time to announce A Life in Sound. Please join us in getting word out on this project... bit.ly/alifeinsound My friend Nick Lyon has built a team of A-list wildlife filmmakers who are volunteering their time to make a poetic, high-end film about one man’s life recording the sounds of the planet.
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Well, I know what *I'm* making this weekend.
July 2, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Well, I know what *I'm* making this weekend.
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New paper! If you use animal tracking data, this one's for you!
Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging
Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u
Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging
Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u
June 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
New paper! If you use animal tracking data, this one's for you!
Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging
Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u
Proud of this collaboration with fellow @exetercec.bsky.social ECRs @liamlangley1.bsky.social, Stephen Lang, & Luke Ozsanlav-Harris to aid reproducible coding in biologging
Open Access @animalecology.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/58k2fa7u
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🫤facts about Prairie dogs.
📉We've killed ~98% of them since colonization of the west.
🦬They're #grassland keystone sp, w/ impacts that likely eclipsed #bison in some areas.
☠️You can kill PDs with no limits across most western states & on public lands.
📉We've killed ~98% of them since colonization of the west.
🦬They're #grassland keystone sp, w/ impacts that likely eclipsed #bison in some areas.
☠️You can kill PDs with no limits across most western states & on public lands.
Prairie dog towns increase grassland bird diversity at the landscape scale | meridian.allenpress.... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology
June 4, 2024 at 5:08 PM
🫤facts about Prairie dogs.
📉We've killed ~98% of them since colonization of the west.
🦬They're #grassland keystone sp, w/ impacts that likely eclipsed #bison in some areas.
☠️You can kill PDs with no limits across most western states & on public lands.
📉We've killed ~98% of them since colonization of the west.
🦬They're #grassland keystone sp, w/ impacts that likely eclipsed #bison in some areas.
☠️You can kill PDs with no limits across most western states & on public lands.
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BOOM, #BirdTwitter! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in @Nature: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... From the #B10K #Bird10K project, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves. 🧵
#ornithology #phylogenomics 🪶
#ornithology #phylogenomics 🪶
![Collage of Elementaves bird species, arranged following the classical elements, from bottom to top, of water, earth, air, and fire. All images with CC0 license, unless otherwise stated. Water: Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti), Common Loon (Gavia immer). Earth: Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) [Hari K Patibanda, https://flic.kr/p/2oM6rs3, CC BY-NC 2.0], Tasmanian Nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii). Air: Common Swift (Apus apus), Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia). Fire: Sunbittern (Eurypygia helias) [Jean Ogden, https://flic.kr/p/2puQRv2, CC BY 2.0], White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tqb6ne6mq5swvirjh5wghajw/bafkreidaf4hbizaejhkqztuv6m55rb45zrd4jfzk34dfvy2f6gbtjqoqcy@jpeg)
April 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM
BOOM, #BirdTwitter! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in @Nature: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... From the #B10K #Bird10K project, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves. 🧵
#ornithology #phylogenomics 🪶
#ornithology #phylogenomics 🪶