J. Sebastian Tello
@sebastello.bsky.social
Director of the Latin America Program at the Missouri Botanical Garden 🌿 - Describing and Protecting Plant Bioiversity | Passionate about research and conservation 🌎 | Views are my own.
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
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Such a nice job by @tropicalbotany.bsky.social presenting this month’s #LSUsciencecafe it was a packed house and besides lots of cool facts about botanizing in the Andes, Laura made a compelling argument to #savetheNSF and reaching out to your representatives to stop this grant freeze
January 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Such a nice job by @tropicalbotany.bsky.social presenting this month’s #LSUsciencecafe it was a packed house and besides lots of cool facts about botanizing in the Andes, Laura made a compelling argument to #savetheNSF and reaching out to your representatives to stop this grant freeze
Join the Missouri Botanical Garden! If you are interested in conservation, restoration, or plant systematics in Latin America, this is a great opportunity to work at an institution driven by a passion for describing and conserving plants. One more week to apply!
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January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Join the Missouri Botanical Garden! If you are interested in conservation, restoration, or plant systematics in Latin America, this is a great opportunity to work at an institution driven by a passion for describing and conserving plants. One more week to apply!
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New review: the role of rivers in the origin and future of Amazonian biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The role of rivers in the origin and future of Amazonian biodiversity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Amazonia features a highly biodiverse range of organisms and habitats. This Review explores the geological history and characteristics of Amazonian rivers and their role in shaping the biodiversity of...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New review: the role of rivers in the origin and future of Amazonian biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil.
Read more on how the year has been for Latin America:
Read more on how the year has been for Latin America:
Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope
Throughout a year in which Latin America saw elections in six countries and prepared for the biodiversity COP16 in Colombia, the region continued its struggle with extreme weather events, criminal act...
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January 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil.
Read more on how the year has been for Latin America:
Read more on how the year has been for Latin America:
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Scientists studying Peru’s Boiling River found 11% fewer tree species for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in temperature - hotter areas not only had fewer species overall but were dominated by heat-tolerant trees that typically grow in the warmest parts of South America.
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Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future
“You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at the University of Miami, tells Mongabay. He’s describing the Boiling River i...
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December 22, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Scientists studying Peru’s Boiling River found 11% fewer tree species for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in temperature - hotter areas not only had fewer species overall but were dominated by heat-tolerant trees that typically grow in the warmest parts of South America.
Read more:
Read more:
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Interesting read:
💰The high costs of peer review & grant writing
📊Bibliometrics as a partial alternative to peer review
🚀Exploring better ways to evaluate impact & fairness
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#grantwriting #funding #science #peerreview #bibliometrics
💰The high costs of peer review & grant writing
📊Bibliometrics as a partial alternative to peer review
🚀Exploring better ways to evaluate impact & fairness
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#grantwriting #funding #science #peerreview #bibliometrics
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
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December 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Interesting read:
💰The high costs of peer review & grant writing
📊Bibliometrics as a partial alternative to peer review
🚀Exploring better ways to evaluate impact & fairness
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#grantwriting #funding #science #peerreview #bibliometrics
💰The high costs of peer review & grant writing
📊Bibliometrics as a partial alternative to peer review
🚀Exploring better ways to evaluate impact & fairness
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#grantwriting #funding #science #peerreview #bibliometrics
The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is seeking a Scientist to join our Latin America Program!
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
December 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM
The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) is seeking a Scientist to join our Latin America Program!
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
The successful candidate will establish a collaborative research program, with a focus on the Tropical Andes or other regions where MBG is engaged.
Apply here: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mbg/CA...
The Missouri Botanical Garden is launching a major initiative to revolutionize species identification! By combining data from our 8-million-specimen herbarium with AI tools, we aim to advance the study of plant biodiversity and provide unique insights for its conservation. 🌿
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Revolutionizing Species Identification (RSI)
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December 10, 2024 at 7:48 PM
The Missouri Botanical Garden is launching a major initiative to revolutionize species identification! By combining data from our 8-million-specimen herbarium with AI tools, we aim to advance the study of plant biodiversity and provide unique insights for its conservation. 🌿
shorturl.at/tccro
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Missouri Botanical Garden International Fellowships! 🌿
This year, we proudly welcome eight exceptional fellows from five countries. Their selection reflects MBG’s ongoing commitment to advancing plant biodiversity and conservation research.
This year, we proudly welcome eight exceptional fellows from five countries. Their selection reflects MBG’s ongoing commitment to advancing plant biodiversity and conservation research.
December 9, 2024 at 3:08 AM
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Missouri Botanical Garden International Fellowships! 🌿
This year, we proudly welcome eight exceptional fellows from five countries. Their selection reflects MBG’s ongoing commitment to advancing plant biodiversity and conservation research.
This year, we proudly welcome eight exceptional fellows from five countries. Their selection reflects MBG’s ongoing commitment to advancing plant biodiversity and conservation research.
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Diversification of #Annonaceae. Unravelling the evolutionary history of this major tropical plant family using a near complete species level phylogeny. With ERC GLOBAL project postdoc Laura Holzmeyer & Fabien Condamine from CNRS.
November 30, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Diversification of #Annonaceae. Unravelling the evolutionary history of this major tropical plant family using a near complete species level phylogeny. With ERC GLOBAL project postdoc Laura Holzmeyer & Fabien Condamine from CNRS.
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It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identifying Major Factors for Success & Failure of #Conservation Programs: #Natura2000, #WaterFrameworkDirective & #RewildingEurope 🌿 Challenges: #biodiversity damaging subsidies & conflicting policies; facilitators: outreach & stakeholder involvement -see our study
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Identifying Major Factors for Success and Failure of Conservation Programs in Europe - Environmental Management
In Europe, various conservation programs adopted to maintain or restore biodiversity have experienced differing levels of success. However, a synthesis about major factors for success of biodiversity-...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Identifying Major Factors for Success & Failure of #Conservation Programs: #Natura2000, #WaterFrameworkDirective & #RewildingEurope 🌿 Challenges: #biodiversity damaging subsidies & conflicting policies; facilitators: outreach & stakeholder involvement -see our study
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...