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The Journal of the Colombian Mammal Society(SCMas). Promoting the Study of Mammals. Distribution | Ecology | Natural History | Mamíferos.
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📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

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#ScholComm #AcademicSky
Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Significado de #mastozoología mastozoología: dícese del estudio científico de los mamíferos... mastozoología
January 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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In this article, Gatiso et al share their findings on a new natural language processing pipeline that automates global monitoring of wildlife perceptions, tracking progress on #biodiversity targets. Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
January 22, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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One of the world's oldest elephant bone tools has been discovered in the UK! 🐘

The ancient hammer would have been used to sharpen handaxes and other tools that prehistoric humans were using to hunt and butcher animals.

Find out what else this discovery reveals 👇
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Ancient humans made elephant bone tools in Europe half a million years ago | Natural History Museum
A prehistoric tool is reshaping our understanding of Europe’s early inhabitants.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Guía Ilustrada de los Mamíferos de Colombia - Reseña de libro - Mammalogy Notes. doi.org/10.47603/man...
January 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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In Ecuador, the Kichwa Sani Isla community and fStop Foundation are using high-resolution camera traps — some 40 meters up in the canopy — to document local wildlife.

Since Feb, they’ve recorded at least six jaguars, signalling a healthy ecosystem. Ecotourism at Sani Lodge helps protect the forest.
In Ecuador’s Yasuní, cameras reveal the wild neighbors visitors rarely see
Ecuador’s northern Amazon is home to some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, including Yasuní National Park. But visitors are rarely able to see iconic large mammals like deer, lowland…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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On an expedition to a remote Peruvian reserve to search for a squirrel last seen 30 years ago, researcher Silvia Pavan’s team instead discovered a new mouse opossum species, Marmosa chachapoya.

With reddish-brown fur and a narrow face, it highlights how understudied the eastern Andes remain.
Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species
In 2018, Brazilian biologist Silvia Pavan traveled to Río Abiseo National Park, in Peru’s San Martín region, following the trail of a squirrel species first described from there in the 1990s. At the…
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December 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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🐁 New publication: We tested for convergent evolution in rodents and found convergent traits but little support for traditional ecomorph designations.

* collab with @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @guillermodelia.bsky.social & @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social
* illustrations by me

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Prevalence and patterns of convergent ecomorphological evolution in rodents
Abstract. Convergent evolution occurs when independent adaptations to similar conditions lead to species that are more similar than expected given their ph
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December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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TONIGHT join the National Center for Science Education zoom webinar for their Friends of Darwin and Friends of the Planet 2025 Awards! #EvMed #SciComm #Biology #Conservation us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Celebration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us as we celebrate NCSE's 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awardees. This online event is free and will include a Q&A after brief comments from the winners. This year's Friend of D...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Taxonomic and Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecological Correlates of New Mammal Distribution Records in China - Ding - 2025 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Taxonomic and Spatiotemporal Patterns and Ecological Correlates of New Mammal Distribution Records in China
Aim Species' distributions are central to research in biogeography, macroecology and conservation biology. However, incomplete or inaccurate knowledge about species' spatiotemporal distribution rang.....
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December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Primeros registros de la guagua loba (Dinomys branickii) en el Huila, Colombia | Mammalogy Notes doi.org/10.47603/man... #mammal #mammalgynotes
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Caracterización de las señales acústicas de Lasiurus ega (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) en Santander, Colombia. | Mammalogy Notes doi.org/10.47603/man... #mammalogynotes, #mammal, #chiroptera, #bat
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December 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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mammalcol is now on CRAN. Get easy access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia using #mammalcol #R package #rstats
📦 dlizcano.github.io/mammalcol
Access to the List of Mammal Species of Colombia
The goal of mammalcol is to provide easy access to a meticulously structured dataset of Colombian mammal species in R. The 2025 update includes comprehensive, detailed species accounts, and distributi...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM