Si te gusta la botánica y vives en Medellín, puedes colaborar con este proyecto para mapear el arbolado urbano:

https://alexespinosaco.github.io/cecropia-medellin/

¡Cualquiera puede aportar!

amazing sigbovik paper this year

"Ask publishers to restore access to the 500,000 books they’ve caused to be removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library."
https://chng.it/kwyym5hYgr

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre – @SWC_Neuro

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

Our efforts continue to diversify our #BiologistsWorkshops programme to support a wider selection of research communities around the world. If you are a researcher working in the Global South, find out more about hosting a Workshop near you. https://www.biologists.com/workshops/propose-new-workshop/#global_south

This is so cool: Zotero's latest PDF viewer automatically links in-line references to the bibliography and displays all the information by hovering over references.

Starting today, the #OECD iLibrary will be transformed into an #OpenAccess platform, making all its publications freely available to everyone to read and download.

https://ejournalscambridge.wordpress.com/2024/06/14/oecd-ilibrary-moving-to-open-access/#:~:text=From%201%20July%202024%20the,end%20on%2030%20June%202024.

1. Don't code when you're tired.
2. Don't login as root on your Linux/Unix boxes when you're tired, guys.
3. See # 1 again.
4. With time you will forget these rules again.

#programming #life #IT #devlife #wisdom

A free one-hour online onboarding session & introduction to #Wikidata is being offered as part of the #IBC2024 Wikidata Workshop. #Botany focused but anyone can attend!

Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe

Register: https://tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf--orz8vEt0osKr1N2A6sXm4zyyXlGxe#/registration

Bonnet #mushrooms have expanded #genomes to make them more adaptable to multiple lifestyles https://phys.org/news/2024-06-bonnet-mushrooms-genomes-multiple-lifestyles.html #fungi #genomics

Extreme overall #mushroom #genome expansion in #Mycena s.s. irrespective of plant hosts or substrate specializations https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(24)00170-8

"Mycena have simply used every possible known trick from the playbook to expand their genomes and apparently for multiple different purposes that are not obviously connected to their known, supposedly preferred lifestyle"

Very interesting paper about Type IV-A CRISPRCas System as a way to control gene expression:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.12.598411v1

@marcrr Even if there are very solid papers published in Nature, it is in my list of journals from which I read too many oversold obviously flawed papers (with Nature Genetics). When I read something from these journals, I do not assume that it has been properly peer-reviewed

If you have symptoms, stay home. Then test two days later.

“If a person with #COVID19 tests immediately with a rapid test when symptoms emerge, they receive a false negative as much as 92% of the time. Waiting two days after symptoms brings that rate down to 70%… Our symptoms are happening sooner, but it takes longer to reach enough virus in your body for it to be detectable.”

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-covid-days.html

Lboost: Es la época de migración de las sandías. Descienden el río para aparearse, y luego sus crías lo remontan hasta las huertas de nuevo.

Ya queda poco para #MissVaca2024... éstas son las candidatas de este año:

@alexespinosaco Ah verdad, mañana si nos acordamos entonces xD

Publiqué algunos consejos útiles para científicos, son solo unos pocos pero supongo que con el tiempo iré añadiendo más cosas:

https://nesper94.github.io/posts/2024/tips/

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

#NewSpecies
New sea slug from #australia just surfaced:

Naisdoris labalsaensis

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587E3-FFDF-EE06-00F9-4B27FD01FE9F
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.3
#Zootaxa #NaisdorisLabalsaensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #slugs #seaslugs

Dear Google,

When I search, I am not looking for The Answer. I am looking for sources. A search that generates only answers will be useless personally, and worse than useless professionally for me.

What I would really like is an internet search engine that works. Google did that once. Then they focused on other things and used it for ad revenue and it became the new Craigslist.

It would sure be nice if Google would reinvent an actual internet search engine.