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Maite Fernández de Bobadilla
@maite-bobadilla.bsky.social
Entomologist 🐜🦋🐞🐛🐝
Postdoc investigating interactions between cover crops 🌾🌸🌺🪻, ants 🐜, pests 🐛, natural enemies 🕷️🐞 and the effect on biological control.
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Are you planning to write a grant or research proposal in the coming months? Then don't miss the FREE activities I have lined up during March for you all about grant writing. Register at the link, and let's get that funding! buff.ly/9trZTk9 #NewPI #ECRchat #MSCA #HorizonEU #ERCCoG #ERCStG #ERCadv
FREE class to get funded 🎊
An online event with the FREE class Getting funded: 4 mistakes to avoid when you write your next grant. And more!
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March 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Would you like to apply the simple system I use to plan my days and weeks? get our FREE weekly planner, and start scheduling your most important tasks 🙌🏼 And yes, writing should be there 😜 Link at the 📸 buff.ly/4hva5QK #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #AcWri #Postdoc #NewPI
Printable weekly planner for scientists
Planning while having clear priorities is the key to a productive week. This is a two-page planner that you can print and use to plan and create mental space 🙌🏼 It includes space to reflect about…
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March 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The concept of the “extinction of experience” has been used to describe the dwindling human connection with nature, often applied to the general public.

But ecologists themselves are not immune. Across universities and research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat.

mongabay.cc/w0Tc9L
Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.
Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of damp ...
www.butlernature.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives.

An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Quite a read...
"...it is unlikely that spillover rates will decrease w/in the next few decades: w/o sig. improvements in both outbreak prevention & preparedness, epidemics & pandemics will continue to increase in frequency, effects & duration for at least a generation." 🛟😷📉 health policy idsky
Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Beginning of field work 🌸🌺🪻🌾🐜🐞🦋🐛🐝
February 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM