Researcher in ecology / subterranean biology at CNR in Verbania, Italy. I like spiders, chess, caving, trail running, and other stuff—in random order.
Stefano Mammola
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#ProcB in @nature.com | Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences? doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific #conferences? #ProcB #BiologicalSciencePractices #TheoreticalBiology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Subterranean ecosystems are key to water, climate, biodiversity & culture. But to what extent?
As part of @biodiversa.eu DarCo we demonstrate that they contribute to 75% of classified ecosystem services. Read OA in Biol Rev:
doi.org/10.1002/brv....
Illustration @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social
Royal Society Publishing
Stefano Mammola
Royal Society Publishing
How the #arts and #science can jointly protect #nature – our new article on building synergies between #art and #biodiversity #conservation now published in in Front. Ecol. Environ. @esajournals.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.
Scientific conferences can be a bore. Can jokes liven them up?
Science Careers speaks with ecologist @stefanomammola.bsky.social about the power of humor to enhance science communication. https://scim.ag/4uCVf1N
In @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social, we just released a open dataset on subterranean spiders, with >30000 georeferenced localities for >600 cave spider species:
doi.org/10.32942/X2M...
The kind of information we need to implement evidence-based subterranean conservation!
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Non-native parrot species expand the trait space of avian communities by filling empty niches in urban areas | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Fabio Marcolin, Riccardo Alba, Stefano Mammola, Giacomo Assandri, Luca Ilahiane, Diego Rubolini, Luís Reino, Dan Chamberlain | #ornithology 🪶
🕷️ Working with cave spiders? Fascinated by trait-based ecology?
We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.
Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
Who is making jokes at scientific conferences? Which type of joke land?
To find out, we collected quantitative data on jokes at 14 scientific conferences – now published OA in @royalsociety.org ProcB:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
w/ @rcorreia.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social and more
Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.
NEW on #theBOUblog from Fabio Marcolin
Are parrots filling ecological niche space?: How non-native parrots become established in urban bird communities
bou.org.uk/blog-marc...
Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
#ornithology 🪶
Science speaks with ecologist Stefano Mammola about the power of humor to enhance science communication
