Maria Paniw

and then, if you don't make it open access via their system, you're paper won't appear on new fancy AI based research summary engines (like the one presented here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 🤷‍♀️

I‘ve always shared my code & am religious about it in my lab. It doesn’t have to look great, it has to work! me sharing code has resulted in many collabs! when contacted by someone, it is much easier to point them to a GitHub repo than having to parse x-year old code from your local drive

Reminder: a little over one week left to submit abstracts for the individual‑based conservation topical collection. Happy to chat if you’re considering contributing!

Spain’s Sanchez says ‘no to war’ | CNN Spain’s Pedro Sanchez said early Wednesday his country’s position was “no to war”

Never been prouder to live in Spain 🇪🇸 edition.cnn.com/2026/03/04/w...

Yes! I see increasingly more editors who don’t seem to look at, never mind summarise, reviewers comments & instead just send an ms out for re-review. This is also a strain on authors, who sometimes feel pressured to do minor revisions that are basically just style opinions by reviewers!

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

😍

Figure showing how the correlation between mass and recruitment in Wytham Great Tits depends on environmental conditions - in particular note switch from almost none to very strong with increasing population density

New research just out in J Evol Biol: led by @lbliard.bsky.social with @jsmartin.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social & Arpat Ozgul using the very cool Covariance Reaction Norm approach to test environmental dependence of trade-offs in great tits
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

🌧️☀️ Are reproductive tradeoffs fixed, or do they shift with the environment?

🐦 Using 58 years of great tit data, @lbliard.bsky.social
applies a new covariance reaction norm to test whether ecological harshness reshapes the classic quantity–quality tradeoff.

Old questions. New stats. Fresh insights

Sorry, but I partially disagree. Using AI to help improve flow or to translate (not to generate completely new text of course) is a game changer for ESL academics

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm feeling this... original article here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Las publicaciones científicas se fían menos de las investigadoras Un análisis de más de 36 millones de artículos escritos por científicas evidencia que la brecha de género en la investigación también se refleja en las revistas especializadas

Todavía no hay equidad entre hombres y mujeres ni en la ciencia. Un análisis de 36 millones de trabajos muestra que los encabezados por ellas pasan más tiempo en revisión 👇
elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

This is just fantastic!

New topical collection 'Individual-Based Conservation' calls for abstracts While conservation science often focus on the 'big picture' of populations and ecosystems, the unique traits of the individual are frequently overlooked. To address this, the diamond open-acce...

📣Call for Abstracts: Individual-Based #Conservation

🦁Explore how individual #heterogeneity drives conservation success in this new topical #collection from our💎Diamond #OA journal.

📅Deadline: 15 March 2026

More information can be found here⤵️

What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models YouTube video by Bottom of the Heap

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.

On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R

📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...

#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

The European EFI Chapter's February seminar is next Wednesday, Feb 11 at 1pm CET.

Find the abstract and details for joining the call at: euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

Ah, pues no, pero ahora las pongo online y te paso el link

Fue un placer enorme participar en esta reunión ❤️ muchas gracias a los organizadores 😘

join us now for an exciting seminar!

Science (all of it) peaked in 2021 An ecologist friend* noticed that the annual number of times he’s been cited grew throughout his career up until 2021, when it peaked. It then declined for a couple of years straight. Then it…

Did all of science peak in 2021 and is yet to recover from the pandemic? Jeremy Fox has a new post about this. I know my own productivity didn’t go up (altho citations did!) even in the 1st year of covid (existential fights for tenure can do that) & I’ve continued to struggle with motivation since.

The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati....

Interesante artículo en @jappliedecology.bsky.social de expertos #incendios y eco. terrestres en el que se resalta papel plantaciones forestales pinos en: (1) exacerbación severidad incendios y mayor facilidad extensión a masas contiguas... (1/9) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great study on temperature effects 🌡️ on #dwarfmongooses

Why matriarchs reign supreme in the meerkat world As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough choices for survival.

Lovely piece on how meerkats deal with climate change by @chameauleon.bsky.social in National Geographic: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... I had the pleasure to chat with Camille about the importance of understanding how extreme heat changes food availability 🐛 for meerkats

Video shows orcas and dolphins teaming up to hunt more efficiently Scientists say the aquatic allies were observed apparently relying on one another to find prized prey: large adult Chinook salmon.

...Orcas use dolphins to increase their chances of locating salmon; dolphins gain protection from predators and feast on bite-sized salmon scraps. Dolphins have even been seen tossing salmon to orcas to break it into more manageable pieces: wapo.st/4aJuZeE (gift). 🌎

The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you have a STEM background & would like to use it to develop predictions in complex systems, do reach out! We are a diverse, interdisciplinary team (globalchangeeco.com), and Sevilla is a fantastic place to live

Interested in doing a PhD in biodiversity predictions 📈🐦🌸🪲📈? The Ciaxa Foundation has launched a call for PhD fellowships in 🇪🇸 Excellence Research Centers. @ebdonana.bsky.social is one of them: lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-... 🧪🌎

Ecological Forecasting Initiative December 2025 Newsletter Email from Ecological Forecasting Initiative EFI Newsletter Issue 54| December 9, 2025 Trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage As an annual tradition, this month's newsletter highlights the upcomi

Issue #54 of the EFI Newsletter is now available at: conta.cc/3MpMWF0

Lots of info about

- conferences, including the new EFI2026 Conference website,
- a Social Science and Ecoforecasting Award RFP due Dec 15,
- upcoming virtual seminars,
- new community manuscript guidelines

and more!