Mexican macroecologist (maevolab.mx) and music junkie
Fabricio Villalobos
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Well done Farshad on this project!
I thought that if individuals can choose habitats based on their traits that it would prevent competition from forming range limits
but I was wrong - it actually makes competitively-formed range limits SHARPER
and Farshad can cogently explain why
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
That's #FrontiersMedia ladies and gents. The strain on scientific publishing is motivated by journal groups wanting to streamline the publishing of papers. Gold OA ties papers published to revenue. The more you can pump out, regardless of quality, the better.
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub
New study led by S. Llorente-Culebras on drivers of knowledge gaps in global mammal traits databases.
📊 Traits like diet & body mass are known for >97% of species, but reproductive traits for <17%.
🚨 Biggest gaps: data-deficient, recently described, range-restricted species far from major cities.
Couldn't agree more. Even for-profit publishers should (wishful thinking) have a responsibility to ensure an ethical and equitable publication environment. At @peeer.bsky.social we have some recommendations for publishers towards this goal: peeer.net/publishers/
Two pleas from a journal editor:
1. If you're mid-career or senior and are declining a review, please recommend a junior colleague.
2. If you're early-career and want to be asked to review papers, please ensure editors can readily discover your expertise, current affililation, and email address.
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
