📢 Uruguay #Biodiversidata invita al taller teórico-práctico de dos días “Gestión y publicación de datos de biodiversidad”. 📅 lunes 8 y martes 9 de junio, 2026 🕤 9:30 a 15:30 hs 📍 CURE (Universidad de la República), Maldonado Inscripciones forms.gle/LXT3NYfTq4SC... (hasta el 1 de junio) @gbif.org

🌱LatinR es R en todos los campos: ecología, salud, encuestas, política pública, humanidades, educación, ML… Si usás R en lo tuyo, hay lugar para tu trabajo en Medellín 🇨🇴 🗓️ Cierre: 1 de junio 📍 openreview.net/group?id=LAT... 🌐 latinr.org/blog/es/2026... #LatinR2026 #RStats

🎉 At our next SORTEE Code Club (May 19th, 16:00 - 17:30 UCT (+01:00)), we will walk you through how to create your own (free!) personal website with Quarto. Join the Code Club mailing list using the link below. sortee.org/code_club/ Looking forward to seeing you there!

I 💚 iNaturalist and NaturalistaUY

Esta mantis verde (Stagmatoptera hyaloptera), observada en Salto por juanjor, ¡es nuestra Observación del Mes en NaturalistaUY! Más detalles en www.naturalista.uy/observations... #Mantodea #Mantidae #faunasudamericana #observaciondelmesnaturalistauy

Our friends are seeking funds for a student camp on the Samaná River, in Antioquia-Colombia. If you know or want to support this cause of The River Collective, we appreciate it. Or if you know where financial support may be available, we would be happy to hear about the possibilities as well.

De lo mejor que tenemos en Uruguay: Tiranos Temblad🎢 youtu.be/sQj6L57dN30?...

Help identify the millions of records made during #CityNatureChallenge2026 You don't need to be an expert, with beginner-friendly resources available to support you to sort observations into broader groups. Identify now: tinyurl.com/yemu3knu @inaturalist.bsky.social

Watch Milo J Bring South American Folk & Uruguayan Murga to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert

Un carpincho de referencia 💚 @naturalistauy.bsky.social www.naturalista.uy/observations...

🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de

Useful report on "Licensing Best Practices for the Sharing of Scientific Data" 🧪

Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience #SORTEE

Great conference, this time in América Latina :)

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

📣 Applications for 2026 DataCamp licences are OPEN! 🍄 Join more than 500 biodiversity professionals in the GBIF network who have completed data courses across topics such as Python, RStats, SQL, AI and GitHub. 🔗Apply: gbif.link/DCD_2026 #DataCampDonates

One of my favourite bugs 💚 With cute little pom poms in the antenna 😍

Back to snowing today 🥹🫠

📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/

Today I was in Olomouc to give a seminar at the Palacký University invited by Vladimír Remeš. The topic: temporal change of biodiversity at “intermediate” scales ⏳🌎🦜 Beautiful city 🤩 Looking forward to come back for a hike around Litovelské Pomoraví soon!

The governing body for 14 Dutch universities (UNL) has published a "Vision on Publication Culture" that is so inspiring and forward thinking. Worth a read for those trying to changes publishing and research assessment practices. Take a read: www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public...

I have always struggled with the use of call playback in birds. I reviewed the published evidence & wrote "Ethical Use of Call Playback" together with Dave Bakewell & Andrew Whitehouse. Was surprised at what the data shows. malaysianbird.report/wp-content/u...

Registration is now open for Herramientas de Ciencia Abierta 🆓 Free online course in Spanish 🗓️ April 15 to May 6 🖥️ 4 sessions 🗂️ #OpenScience resources, references in Spanish, and a peer-to-peer exchange network Join us: metadocencia.github.io/herramientas...

Get ready for the second webinar about open vegetation data, co-hosted with EVS! On March 27, Martin Večeřa, Salza Palpurina, and Ilona Knollová will show us how to get from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset. Join the meeting at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026! Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon. Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026 To join the mailing list for conference updates, click: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Esta Aristolochia fimbriata, observada en Cerro Largo por jazmindelpais, ¡es nuestra Observación del Mes en NaturalistaUY! Más detalles en www.naturalista.uy/observations... #Aristolochiaceae #florauy #florasudamericana #observaciondelmesnaturalistauy @inaturalist.bsky.social

Nice!

“Freedom needs to be defended”. Massive protest in Prague 🇨🇿

Filosofía a la gorra de Diego Singer open.spotify.com/episode/4N12...

Recently out of our MOBI Lab, led by Carmen Soria 🧪🌎 #macroecology doi.org/10.1111/geb....

El 20 de marzo de 2008 se subió la primera observación a @inaturalist.bsky.social. Desde entonces, millones de personas como vos han ayudado a construir uno de los conjuntos de datos más increíbles de observaciones de la naturaleza en el mundo 💚🌎

Wow, this looks pretty cool 🤩

Vuelve "Herramientas de Ciencia Abierta" de la mano de @metadocencia.org 🚀 gratuito, online, en español y con doble certificación de la NASA y MetaDocencia. ¡No te lo pierdas! Más info metadocencia.github.io/herramientas...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Lectura de fin de semana accesoalconocimiento.lat/2026/03/13/i...

📢 New preprint out! tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's! 138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

A massive collaborative effort looked at 1800+ @britishecologicalsociety.org papers to see how "Open" our science really is. Check out the results and recommendations: doi.org/10.32942/X26... #OpenCode #OpenScience #Ecology

🦀 GBIF.org organiza una nueva sesión del Data Use Club dedicada a las buenas prácticas para el uso de datos accesibles a través de GBIF. Es una oportunidad estupenda para aprender de especialistas, seguir la mesa redonda y plantear preguntas en directo. 📅 11 de marzo de 2026 🕒 15:00–16:30 CET 👇

Thrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️

Tortuga campanita del norte de 🇺🇾💚

Security notice: An unauthorized party briefly accessed our email service provider and sent a fraudulent email to ~6,100 users with the subject "New Ledger Live Update." This was not from iNaturalist. We've secured the system and are investigating. More details: www.inaturalist.org/blog/125132-...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And here is some of the amazing news coverage of our paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c... by @catrineinhorn.bsky.social

Wonderful and important paper by Amy Sater! "Inclusive excellence in faculty hiring to advance environmental and sustainability sciences" Must read if you are ever somehow involved in hiring in academia. Believe me. www.academia.edu/2997-6006/3/...

🧵 New Perspective in People and Nature “Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies” Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

For this week's #MemeMonday, don't be like Aragorn! If you're able to, please consider publishing your data in a reputable repository. We here at DRP deposit our rescued data in #DataLumos from @icpsr.bsky.social

Feb. update to the LLM+R guide 💪 8 new packages including: code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R🤯 ,and more! available in English 🇱🇷 and Spanish 🇲🇽 luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/ #rstats

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen! 🇧🇷

Hola 👋🏼 somos #NaturalistaUY el sitio de @inaturalist.bsky.social para Uruguay 🇺🇾 y hoy sumamos una nueva red social 💚

Study escaped my radar, but I am so glad to see it! 🩸🌿 Regarding menstruation & fieldwork in the natural sciences: • 48% report significant menstrual pain in the field • 85% say first aid kits lack menstrual products • Only 30.5% feel comfortable discussing issues with male supervisors