We believe that this transparency increases the constructive dialogue during peer review and decreases the number of reviewer 2's.

We can have rigorous peer review and be thoughtful / kind about it. They're not mutually exclusive!

Thanks! We find that the collaborative nature helps create higher-quality science.

How well does it work for computing conferences?

Oh -- very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

You can read the full article in @stacksjournal.bsky.social at the link below. It's one of the latest articles from the Martes Working Group's Special Issue.

It’s #OpenAccess and went through our new model of peer review that is ethical and transparent.

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But there’s hope!

Successful mitigation strategies include:
⇶ Landscape-scale forest connectivity
🌳 Climate-aligned reforestation
🦊 Better integration of wildlife into carbon policies

Why are they so vulnerable to climate change and ecological breakdown?

🌎 Narrow habitat preferences
❄️ Cold-adapted ranges (especially in the fast-warming Arctic)
🌲 Fragmented forests
🔄 Low adaptive capacity

From wildfires to deforestation to the collapse of prey populations, this research maps out how 11 Guloninae species are vulnerable to climate and ecological breakdown.

TLDR: 10 of 11 species are at medium or high risk.

You can read the full article in @StacksJournal.bsky.social at the link below -- it's the latest installment from the Martes Working Group Special Issue.

It’s #OpenAccess and went through our new model of peer review that is streamlined and ethical.

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This new technique could be really helpful for other non-invasive monitoring because it is:
💰 Cost-effective: Only one temperature logger needed
🦊 Efficient: Detects when animals are inside, not just nearby
📈 Scalable: Automatable—ideal for long-term monitoring

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Then they matched how temperature changes inside the den boxes were correlated with animals entering, staying, & leaving the boxes.

And they found...

Every fisher and marten visit triggered a consistent temperature spike. Even better—those spikes were distinct enough to tell the species apart!

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Researchers had an interesting idea -- what if you could use the rate of temperature change in den boxes to identify the wildlife visiting them?

So to investigate, they installed 86 den boxes with a temperature logger and remote camera in northern Minnesota and monitored them for three years.

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You can read the full article and learn more in @stacksjournal.bsky.social at the link below.

It's part of the Special Issue from the Martes Working Group, #OpenAccess, and went through our new model of peer review that is streamlined and ethical.

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Why does this matter?

Because how we define species has real consequences and can lead to:
🧩 Misidentification
📉 Misguided conservation
🧪 Missed ecological complexity

This work deepens our understanding of interspecies gene flow in wild mustelids.

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Researchers used 11 microsatellite DNA markers to analyze 246 individuals from Siberia.

The surprise? In 6 out of 11 sable populations, some animals were actually pine marten hybrids.

And – morphology alone couldn’t tell them apart.

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