By far my favorite paper this year. A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵

Chapter 15: Ecological Modeling & Geocomputation 🌱🗺️ Modeling the floristic gradient to reveal distinctive vegetation belts! 📌 Learn spatial modeling techniques with random forests & hyperparameter tuning to analyze ecological data in R. 🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/eco #rstats #rspatial #geocompx

🚨New paper🚨 With @remiduflot.bsky.social, we reviewed the effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in temperate, boreal, and montane forests. Published in @avianbiology.bsky.social ! 🧪🍁🌍🦉🌐 doi.org/10.1002/jav....

@lavanguardia.com, Paco Alonso Juzgar un concurso de cocinar una especie en peligro de extinción no debería consistir en ver el origen del pimentón que se usa No hay anguilas para esto. Hay que parar ya La tradición como excusa para la extinción (sigue) www.lavanguardia.com/local/valenc...

First paper of my PhD! 🎉 about biomass systems and their potential role on land use diversity. Published in @gcb-bioenergy.bsky.social Check it out here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcbb...

Chapter 9: Mapping & Visualization 🗺️🖼️📊 Introduces tools for making static, animated, and interactive maps in R. Covers the tmap package and web-based options for sharing geographic data visually. 🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/adv-map #rstats #rspatial #geocompx

Ahh 😌 what a nice week we had in the #SIBECOL&AEET2025 in Pontevedra! Ecology, nice weather ☀️ , navajas and 🍷 Thanks to the @sibecol.bsky.social for funding this amazing experience 🎊

@miguelangel-blanco.bsky.social is presenting our amazing study on landscape heterogeneity after 🔥 If you are at the #9CEF, grab some snacks and go check it out! 😎

Chapter 8: Geographic Data I/O 📂🌍💾 Covers how to read and write spatial data in various formats, access open geoportals, and work with geographic web services in R. Includes tips on metadata and exporting maps. 🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/read-write #rstats #rspatial #geocompx

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week. Here’s a s’more for your efforts.

Uhuu!! 🎉🎉🤘🏽

📣Get ready for the next Cutting vEdge Tools webinar in our series on ecological databases! On May 9 at 14 CEST, Jens Kattge will talk about the widely known TRY plant trait database. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... only 100 places!

Heard my first pied flycatcher of the year in Finland—its song was so different from the ones I heard last week in Catalonia. Turns out they really do sing differently across regions—and they learn it socially! Found out in (Rajan et al., 2024) doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @samyuktharajan.bsky.social

Congrats also to my colleagues Tahamina Khanam and Marina Peris-Llopis for this nice paper! 🎉

Puffin's Bluff

Quality over size: acorn preference in Eurasian Jays (Garrulus glandarius) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

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#30DayChartChallenge week 3 Clusters of victims on their way across the Mediterranean sea. I'm visualizing IOM data while working with D3 in HTML 📊🌍

Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊 Slides + exercises here: 🔗 https://jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/output/landscape_metrics.html #rgis2025 #rstats #landscapemetrics #gis #rspatial

Let's start personal! @30daychartchall.bsky.social Unpaid labor has been on my mind ever since reading Invisible Women by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social. I wanted to explore differences between men and women by comparing my home country with the places I’ve lived over the past few years🌎🌍

Natural disturbances are often invoked as an argument against creating new forest reserves. But are reserves more affected by disturbances than managed forests? For C Europe the answer is no, in fact reserves have lower disturbance rate & severity than managed forests! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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No one can make me feel like I’m in a particular moment of prehistory like @restingdinoface.bsky.social In her fantastic new book you will go around the world and through time to learn about plant 🌱 history but also the animals that consume them and how together they changed the world.

Last week I presented my research on plantations and connectivity 🌳🐦 in the @oikosfinland.bsky.social conference, held in @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social. Tons of inspiring talks and amazing researchers 👩‍🔬 Thanks to @nordicoikos.bsky.social for the financial support to assist, and the @skr.fi.