Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez

I thought everyone knew how cuckoos reproduce, but apparently not! Since we need more beautiful and interesting stories around, here it goes:

What needs to change to limit overshoot and bring global warming back to 1.5°C by the end of the century? From renewable energy to coal and methane, UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report sets out the changes needed to help make that possible. Read more: https://ow.ly/PgXu50ZZEY5

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

Academic Publishing is Broken. We’re All to Blame An editorial by Mike Schmierbach Free to read via doi.org/10.1080/1520...

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

*Job alert* We are looking for a *postdoc in ecological modelling*, starting from spring 2027. Wondering how lags in mountain plant distribution shifts might turn out in the future? Apply and find out! 🪻🏔️↗️⏳ All details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost and share widely!

This is a good excuse to say if you prefer difference scores, you can still condition on the pre score. You can think of it as a difference-score ANCOVA, and it brings the same power advantages as the conventional ANCOVA. Here's a full blog post on the topic: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...

How we are approaching AI at openRxiv - new blog post prompted by growing adoption by researchers, submission patterns, and questions from the community openrxiv.org/approach-to-... 1/n

On the tension between agent-assisted software coding and open-source projects and developers 👇🏼

Today I learned the hard way that evidence synthesis is about to get a whole lot harder with AI-generated fake publications. Particularly unpleasant: I learned this while hunting down a climate change impact attribution study for a systematic review.

'A plausible paper can now be produced in a day, and the process of producing it does not necessarily enhance knowledge, build a resource, train a student, or advance any other goal of biology research' 'we could use this surge to acknowledge that paper counts are meaningless'

A major Australian funder will now use a conditional lottery to award funding. I think this is a great policy change and lotteries are likely to become more common as AI-driven application numbers grow theconversation.com/some-austral...

[new paper] Animal Pollination Under Human-Induced Rapid Environmental Change www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Writing this review was really inspiring, and it was a pleasure to work with two young talented scientists @blancaac.bsky.social and @nermonper.bsky.social cc @ebdonana.bsky.social

Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

It happened in a seminar yesterday at my institute that somebody bullied a phd student to change an analysis, because two of the predictors were correlated. Multicollinearity is a brain worm, isn't it? It never makes sense to choose control variables based on pre-model correlations.

'In the workplace, the product is the thing. But in education, the product is seldom the point. Teachers have them do these tasks because they provide practice in cognitive abilities that we think matter' #AI #teaching

We really need to make Meng's Big Data Paradox central to teaching, don't we? Researchers don't know this stuff bc they have never been exposed to it. But it is fundamental. (Link to paper PDF statistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...)

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

La semana pasada celebramos las II Jornadas de Ecoinformática @eco-aeet.bsky.social en Sevilla! Fueron un par de días fantásticos en los que tuvimos oportunidad de aprender y reflexionar sobre múltiples temas, como ciencia reproducible y el uso de IA en Ecología, entre muchas otras!

📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Package Development and Maintenance #rstats #cran By Lluís Revilla and Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Package...

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

La segunda versión de la base de datos #AFLIBER 🍀🌲🗺️ está ya publicada, incorporando nuevos registros de publicaciones y herbarios Muchas gracias a todos los colaboradores del GT Corología de SEBOT por el trabajo! Écha un ojo al artículo aquí! 👀 revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MB...

New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8

An AI revolution is sweeping through education. But teachers who can convey the excitement of thinking and learning are irreplaceable go.nature.com/4AuoGWQ

Many people have asked us how to start an independent Diamond open-access journal. So we have written "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Starting an Independent Diamond OA Journal". We hope it helps many more community-led journals follow. systems-ecology.org/index.php/se... #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!

🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!

The number of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications in 2026 (21,627) has more than doubled since 2024 (10,360 proposals) and more than tripled since 2022 (7,044). Stating the obvious here but this is not sustainable.

Interesting report from OpenAI... Maybe we shouldn't blindly trust these tools to do our science yet? #AI openai.com/index/model-...