🎙️ Just published a new episode of BioScience Talks: Systemic Sexism in Academia, with Olivia del Giorgio, María Piquer-Rodríguez, and Silvia Lomáscolo. Have a listen:
New paper in Biological Conservation! 📣
A comprehensive framework for managing human-wildlife conflicts: The case of smallholder livestock depredation by puma (Puma concolor) in the Argentine Dry Chaco 🐾
👉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWCl1R%7EeaP0U
@o-delgiorgio.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Mapping deforestation frontiers - before deforestation happens! Check out the work by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social together with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social on mapping land control dynamics in the South American #Chaco - just published on PNAS #Sentinel-2 #Landsat @humboldtuni.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Our paper 'Revealing land control dynamics in emerging agricultural frontiers' just published in PNAS 🌱
Please don't hesitate to reach out for access to the PDF!
In it, we bring up four main hurdles we and other women around us have faced through the early stages of our careers, and outline several (of many other) actions that we see as necessary for achieving gender equity in academia.
(Nice synthesis of our piece here: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...)
Just published a piece in BioScience with @mariapiquerr.bsky.social, Gabriela Fontanarrosa, and Silvia Lomáscolo on what systemic sexism looks like for us as early career researchers.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Important comment on the urgent need for better protection of Bolivia's forest - like in the Chiquitano Dry Forest and Amazon, from forest fires --> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #FCBC @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
Over the past years, a theme has recurrently popped up in conversation among us (the present authors): Discussions over Zoom, at conferences, on bumpy road