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ibartomeus.bsky.social
Reformation of Science Publishing
The Stockholm Declaration sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...
The Stockholm Declaration | sciii-it.org
The Stockholm Declaration calls for reform to protect academic freedom and integrity
sciii-it.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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billurbektas.bsky.social
🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life!
Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍
We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social
Mi carta en @science.org sobre la necesidad de alinear la prevención de incendios forestales con la conservación.
Los incendios de 2025 en España han reavivado políticas basadas en la eliminación de los arbustos, en contra de los objetivos de conservación de la UE.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Let's make @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social a fair and well-used journal!
dannykay68.bsky.social Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 3d
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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jpollecol.bsky.social
Managed honeybees affect the foraging behaviour of bumblebees in Geranium sylvaticum - new study out by Soininen et al.: doi.org/10.26786/192...
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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leibnizlib.bsky.social
#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035

@cscherber.bsky.social
Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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esrebelcientif.bsky.social
Entre el 12 y el 17 de noviembre salimos junto con el resto de colectivos que componemos la Alianza por el Clima a las calles de toda España durante la COP30.

📍✊ Busca tu movilización más cercana de Alianza por el Clima en este mapa:

www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/e...

🌎 Con el mundo, por el planeta
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 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:

a 🧵 1/n

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
ibartomeus.bsky.social
Are you a pollinator taxonomist? EPIC project wants to know about you: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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elenadconcepcion.bsky.social
Because fine words butter no parsnips on 🌍 protection, the EU must move forwards from good intentions to action now‼️
I tell about it in a 📝 just published in #npjBiodiversity
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
EU’s fork in a changing world: leading the transition or losing momentum? - npj Biodiversity
The EU institutions must align their visions for the future and decide if the EU will lead the transformative systemic change required to achieve the United Nations’ goals on climate, biodiversity, an...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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steamtraen.eu
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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saraaagesen.bsky.social
¡Tenemos acuerdo! 🍃

Hemos pactado una ley del clima con objetivo vinculante del 90% de reducción de emisiones para 2040

España llegaba al Consejo de Medioambiente con la máxima ambición y estamos satisfechos tras una larga noche de negociaciones

Hoy gana Europa: el multilateralismo es el camino
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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esrebelcientif.bsky.social
Proponemos crear un Parlamento Ciudadano Permanente con participación real en la toma de decisiones e integrado al futuro Pacto de Estado sobre emergencia climática. Con una estructura participativa sólida, acceso garantizado a información, capacidad de decisión y mecanismos de rendición de cuentas.
climatica.coop
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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jpollecol.bsky.social
Discover a new data paper by Barberis, Bitonto, Costantino et al. where they make "Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the Life4Pollinators project" available: doi.org/10.26786/192...
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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tessgrainger.bsky.social
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social
Comenzamos el reto #30DayMapChallenge 2025!!

El tema de hoy es: Puntos, así que hemos pensado en hacer un mapa... con las ubicaciones de los y las integrantes de EcoInformática AEET!
Es un mapa interactivo #leaflet, que además puedes ver alojado en nuestra web (ecoinfaeet.github.io/miembros.html)
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
November is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jin...
Mari Samuelsen – Max Richter: November (Live from the Forbidden City, Beijing / 2018)
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
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October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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sthlmresilience.bsky.social
The climate negotiations must be guided by science.

This year’s “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report urges action over promises, warning that the world can no longer afford delays.

Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.226014ea19...
Image of map of ocean showing water temperatures over the years
October 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Network specialization increases plant reproductive success

Arceo-Gómez and Carneiro @arceo-gomezg.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Weighted plant–floral visitor networks arranged by plant species partner diversity and contribution to nestedness from highest to lowest.
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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blancaac.bsky.social
🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change.

⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.
animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 20d
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd

@blancaac.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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safeguard-pollinators.eu
📝 The first plant-pollinator interaction network in Europe maps the intimate connections between pollinators and the plants they visit.

🔎 Check out the latest #SafeguardPractices: www.safeguard.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/Project/Publ...
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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iicg-urjc.bsky.social
📢Cómo se meten ocho millones de especies en un planeta-Ignasi Bartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social @csic.es

🗓️11 noviembre. 12:00h.

📍Salón Grados, Departamental II, Campus Móstoles @urjc.bsky.social

👉🏻 Organiza: Grupo de investigación de alto rendimiento en Ecología Evolutiva-IICG

¡NO TE LO PIERDAS!
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
ibartomeus.bsky.social
When publishing a paper about an R package, how do you ensure the source code is permanently stored? CRAN or GitHub does not grant long-term persistence. Is issuing a DOI via linking GitHub with Zenodo a good idea for R packages? Or are there better ways? Maybe @ropensci.org knows.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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curromolina.bsky.social
Las hembras de la familia Melittidae, se caracterizan por ser pilosas y tener escopas muy desarrolladas para recoger polen.
1(Dasypoda cingulata)
2(Dasypoda iberica)
3(Dasypoda dusmeti)
4(Dasypoda morotei)
5(Dasypoda visnaga)
6(Dasypoda pyrotrichia)
Falta mucho para primavera?
@ebdonana.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM