I got to write about mammals pooping up in the branches of strangler figs in Costa Rica! This was SUCH fun.
A few things that didn't make it into the story:
www.sciencenews.org/article/clou...
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
www.sciencenews.org
The strangler fig is a keystone species in the tropics, providing food and shelter, and a place to poop for 17 different mammal species.
I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
anil oza
Bethany Brookshire
Scientist sees squirrel! From 10 Recipes for Immortality, Salvador Dali. Dali Theatre Museum, Figueres, Spain
www.statnews.com
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but...
...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
Stephen Heard
Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...
Bethany Brookshire
Jenn Sunday
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
Dr. Holly Walters
Metabolic scaling is thought to scale very steeply with size in unicells but what if that steepness is simply an artefact? Out today in Ecology Letters, we show that metabolic scaling is not superlinear in unicells but instead scales at ~0.86 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!)
@esajournals.bsky.social
I am happy to share this new review of physiological constraints on heat adapation in #birds, recently published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social and the first major output of @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. 🧵
shorturl.at/Bv58e
May you stride into your week with the confidence of this Chaffinch not using his wings.
#MondayMotivation
📷 Kiran Simpson
🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity
🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾
💡 Big ecological Qs
📡 Geophysical scanning
🌍 Field ecology & behaviour
📊 Big data & code
with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social
APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
