Flavia Montaño-Centellas
@fla_montano
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Integrative Ecologist. 🇧🇴. #NewPI @LSU_BioSci . @UFWildlife alumna. Mom 👶. #WarmiCiencia #WomeninSTEM #DEI 🐦🦇🍒🌄
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I know it is a small step, but today we start collecting the first data set (our pilot) for the Montano Lab!.
Fieldwork led by
@RhayzaCortes
, we are back in the Bolivian Yungas <3
A great moment to share a glimpse of our new look (webpage under construction)
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Officially opening the Montaño Lab
@LSU
next year!
I am looking for 2 PhD students to start Fall '24. We will focus on ecological questions related with community assembly and the mechanisms behind diversity patterns across scales and taxa.
Please share or contact me!
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Life announcement 🍾
I am happy to finally be able to share these news! I will be starting my own lab! Soon I will join the amazing faculty
@LSU_BioSci
as an Assistant Professor.
Stay tuned!!! As I will be recruiting students and a postdoc soon (most likely Fall '24)
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I applied and was offered a position in this lab in 2019. Sounded like a dream... but then I was recommended by SEVERAL (seniour) faculty to talk with former lab members. After 3 or 4 zoom calls, I declined. All agreed it was hell.
A secret long known...
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🚨🚨Paper alert 🚨🚨
Is out!
Our long due collaboration assessing changes in mixed-species flocks across the Andes is out!
An incredible effort (sweat and tears data collection) across five countries. What a great team of collaborators!
Check it out:
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Just started interviews this week!
I am looking for 2 PhD students to start in Fall 24.
More info here:
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Is out!
@PLOSBiology
Our examination of the extra burden (aka costs) of being a non-native English speaker in Science.
Beautifully lead by
@tatsuya_amano
"The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science"
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Our recent manuscripts were featured in
#Science
!
Check it out 👇
Latin America’s bird scientists issue manifesto to end marginalization
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I guess this is a good time to share the news...
I will be joining
@LSU
as a postdoctoral fellow in January!!😍
It will be just my baby and I, so great adventured ahead!
If you are there, please let me know. Would be great to meet you!
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Consequences of English linguistic hegemony in Science. An example with Colombian young researchers but TOTALLY real for all of us who are not native speakers.
Great work
@Valeria_RamCas
Preprint:
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Am I overreacting?
@AcademicChatter
I just received an invitation to review a paper from a well known journal.
It is addressed to: Ms. Flavia Montano
Are any male researchers addressed as "Mister" or "Mr" when requested to serve as reviewers?
😡😡😡
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
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Paper accepted on May 18th.
~9 weeks for the editorial process (proofs, details, etc.) to be done... , finally out today...
I open the link...and...
MY LASTNAME IS MISSPELLED!
Is it that hard to type an ñ for a journal?.
I am latin, my lastname has a ñ. Respect it! 🤬😡😠
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Manuscript submitted!
The first of an amazing collaboration that gives me the privilege -and pleasure- to work with Bolivian data. Nothing better than putting your science where your heart is: the Bolivian Andes.
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Reviewers should really be less brutal...
Coming from a non-native English speaker (rev. 2) to a non-native English author (undergrad working on his first manuscript)😡
"I consider that English is precarious for a scientific journal with the prestige of XX"
It was NOT.
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Our paper is now on Early View
@EcographyJourna
We examine potential mechanisms driving avian community assembly along elevation while correcting for imperfect detection with N-mixture models.
#WarmiCiencia
#Bolivia
#Andes
#Yungas
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Happy to share our new prepint.
We share our collective thoughts (214 LatAm authors) on the challenges Neotropical Ornithology faces when examined only under "Global North" lens, and some insights on how to move forward and beyond.
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Today I will have a beer (after my little one goes to sleep), to celebrate an email I just got.
This is a first for me!
Manuscript came back with only minor revisions on the first round!
Cheers!
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Happy to share our paper
@JBiogeography
Multiple dimensions of bird beta diversity support that mountains are higher in the tropics
We test predictions inspired in Janzen's (1967) seminal paper using a global dataset of bird diversity 🌎🐦⛰️🗻
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The first chapter of my dissertation research is finally out!
"Using functional and phylogenetic diversity to infer avian community assembly along elevational gradients"
@GEB_macro
.
@BetteLoiselle
@ChristyMcCain
#UF
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June is here, and also the new cover of
@EcographyJourna
featuring one of the gorgeous species that join mixed-species flocks in Yungas. Photo taken during my fieldwork by Miguel Angel Montenegro.
#TeamSillu
#Bolivia
#WarmiCiencia
#Yungas
Text:
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Amidst the crazy times we are all living, a little good news.
The second chapter of my dissertation on mixed-species flocks of birds in the Andes is finally out in Early View
@EcographyJourna
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Sweet (literally) welcome from the
@lsuscience
!
I was surprised by the amazing skills to fit my whole last name in the cookie. This is great!
Yes, we do have TWO last names, and I am so happy for my new institution to acknowledge it.
#GeauxTigers
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Paper accepted!
The second chapter of my dissertation, on networks of mixed-species flocks will be soon out!
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Took a long and painful trip. It will be harder than expected to settle in the city (no car until the license.. and no license in a couple of months... bc Lousiana)
No joke with a baby... in a pandemic.
But, as of yesterday, I am officially a part of the
@LSU
family 🎉🎊
Salud
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Our long, long overdue manuscript on Andean mixed-species flocks was finally submitted today!
An amazing collaboration among peers who are as crazy and in love with bird flocks and mountains as I am.
Fingers crossed and let the editorial games begin!
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A little late, but as of today I am officially in the job market 😱
First time, so wish me luck!
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So proud of my brother who designed, wrote and produced a comic book with legends from the
#Guarayos
people from Bolivia.
Art and education. Reviving stories from one of the many cultures our country has.
Looking forward to having a printed copy in my hands!
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Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change
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TODAY, two years after graduation, moving to two countries, faced a pandemic and having a baby... the third chapter of my dissertation is accepted
@EcographyJourna
Thanks to coauthors
@mwtingley
@BetteLoiselle
and to my little 4mo collaborator.
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please RT
If you have a passion for
#Neotropical
#birds
🐦consider contributing to our new Bulletin!
@AsborBoletin
#ornithology
#ornitologia
#LatinosInSTEM
First issue was launched yesterday!
👉
Here is why: 🧵
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Having a really hard time now. Personally, mentally and healthwise. And can not stop feeling overwhelmed and guilty, and stressed, about the constant entry of emails, due dates and duties.
Can we just pause? For one second? I can not get on my feet just yet. We cannot.
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Because academia is hard, we should (and must) celebrate all victories. Today, our manuscript came back with minor revisions!
Chapter 4 soon to be out! 🌎🐦⛰️🗻
@BetteLoiselle
ChristyMcCain
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So the paper submitted to Auk (now Ornithology) came back with minor revisions!
This one did not make it to the dissertation, but almost, so Chapter 3b is almost out!
Also, was the first project I focused on as part of
#WarmiCiencia
More soon!
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It took for ever, or felt that way.
But today, I finally submitted the first manuscript of the postdoc.
First MS written completely with a baby shark et al. soundtrack, during MANY weeks with lil one fighting varied viruses caught at daycare.
@Momademia
#WomenInSTEM
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So happy to close this thread with a loud and strong:
I DID IT! Soon to be Professor Montano (will need to short the super long Montano-Centellas??)
I am super proud and happy, for all the moms, single moms, women in STEM, WOC, Global South researchers: We can. We will.
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More than a year ago, my husband decided to just leave and not be a husband nor a father anymore.
And he left my country without ever looking back.
So, this divorce was a solo battle, in my own country and our own laws. Costly, long and painful.
And is now done. Cheers🍻!
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We attended an important online meeting today. Together.
It was not easy (it was his playtime time) but I did my best. This should count as an achievement.
It does, to me.
@Momademia
#phdmom
#SciMom
#LatinaInStem
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If you have a passion for
#Neotropical
#birds
and have worked with species/ecosystems present in 🇧🇴 consider contributing to our new Bulletin!
#ornithology
#ornitologia
#LatinosInSTEM
#DiversityInSTEM
please share and RT
@LatinxinSTEM
@GeoLatinas
@caminosciencia
Contribute and support
#Bolivian
#ornithology
🇧🇴🐦
Deadline fast approaching (Nov 10th) to submit manuscripts to our new journal of the Asociacion Boliviana de Ornitologia
#ASBOR
Instructions for authors (English) 👇
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Accepted today in
#OrnithologicalApplications
@AmOrnith
!
Happy to share our new prepint.
We share our collective thoughts (214 LatAm authors) on the challenges Neotropical Ornithology faces when examined only under "Global North" lens, and some insights on how to move forward and beyond.
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And paper submitted!
The first one of our collaborative group focused on
#ParrotEcology
(aka
#ParrotAvengers
).
Strengthening/extending our collaborations and using the extensive curated data we have is our main goal for '24-'25.
If interested in
#Psittacidae
, let me know!
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After a long, long and stressful process and a battle against Bolivian bureaucracy, today, I am officially divorced.
I know it sounds bad... but really, it comes as a little win to me.
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And it is a wrap!
Paper accepted!
Soon more details about our comparisons of mixed species flocks across the Andes (and the really cool dataset we curated for it!.
Our long, long overdue manuscript on Andean mixed-species flocks was finally submitted today!
An amazing collaboration among peers who are as crazy and in love with bird flocks and mountains as I am.
Fingers crossed and let the editorial games begin!
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Submitted 3 days before my due date 👶, so took longer than expected. But is finally out!
@AmOrnith
👉
We test if diversity patterns of avian flocks' across elevations mirror the whole community or if they are structured by environmental variables 🐦⛰️
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There is a new species (and genus) of tanager for Bolivia and Peru.
Inti tanager
Tangara Inti
Heliothraupis oneilli
Perfect name. Inti... the sun.
Paint by D. Lane
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Getting ready for
@theATBC
this July in
#Cartagena
#Colombia
. Stay tuned for the amazing activities the
#DEI
committee is preparing. Lets take diversity to the next level!
@CarrascoFarah
behind the camera. So proud of our Committee Chair!
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And paper was accepted today
@GEB_macro
!
Soon our MS on multiple dimensions of raptor diversity will be out. Thanks to the great team of collaborators:
@_djli
@BaiserLab
@lbtrotta
Alicia McGrew
It took for ever, or felt that way.
But today, I finally submitted the first manuscript of the postdoc.
First MS written completely with a baby shark et al. soundtrack, during MANY weeks with lil one fighting varied viruses caught at daycare.
@Momademia
#WomenInSTEM
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I understand the need for
#OpenAccess
on publications... but the "Pay to Publish" rule is a huge punch for some of us.
Even with a discount, I will have to withdrawal a submission... Who really pays the price?
Another barrier for
#GlobalSouth
Scientists 😒
#Wiley
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There we go, second meeting of
@theATBC
Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Great things to come!
Stay tuned!
@CarrascoFarah
@MaasBea
@biplangyadok
@vinita_gowda
@cardelus1
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YES.
VERY relevant information on conservation is published in other languages.
If you conduct reviews on conservation DO THE EFFORT to include these studies
Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity
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Just published!
Our paper led by Eben Goodale,
@baeolophus
and
@kartik_shanker
is in Early View in Biological Reviews. Cheers!
Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed‐species animal groups
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Aceptando contribuciones para el naciente Boletin de la Asociacion Boliviana de Ornitologia 🦜🇧🇴
#ASBOR
@AsborBoletin
A apoyar el crecimiento de la
#OrnitologiaBoliviana
!
Y arrancamos!
Estamos en camino a lanzar el primer numero del Boletin de la Asociacion Boliviana de Ornitologia ASBOR en diciembre de este año!
#OrnitologiaBoliviana
#AvesBolivia
#ASBOR
#Bolivia
#ViveLasAves
#CulturaPajarera
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Participants of the amazing second meeting of the
#BioDiversityRCN
#BioDivRCN
#CrossScalesRCN
held at the
@UF
last week. Looking forward to the next steps of this amazing group!
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Randomly searching for functional traits of some Andean species, I came across this incredible review on Bromeliads and their role for birds.
Tiny (and some huge) microcosmos within ecosystems.
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Just because I am missing mountain birds these days... and... talking about stress, a very alert pair of Red-crested cotingas. Yes, we know how they feel.
#TeamSillu
#Bolivia
#Yungas
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Kudos 👏to
@RhayzaCortes
for just submitting her first first-author paper!
Reviewers be nice... Let her share her story about montane birds and acoustic adaptations to elevation
#WarmiCiencia
#TeamSillu
#Bolivianbirds
#CienciaConLlajua
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#Andes
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So excited that the fieldwork of our
#urbanpollinator
project in La Paz, led by
@RhayzaCortes
is almost finished!
Stay tuned for some cool changes in network structure across landscape configuration in one of the seven
#wondercities
of the world
Ph: Araceli Gomez
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Yesterday was a great day!
Our project/idea to support, promote and strengthen skills in young females in
#STEM
in
#Bolivia
is giving its first steps!. Stay tuned, this team is going to be incredible!
#WarmiCiencia
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
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@Valencia_planet
I published my first paper, as an undergrad, as Flavia Montaño. I proudly printed a copy and showed to my parents. Dad: que belleza hijita! Mom: Montaño? Y que, yo no cuento? 😄. A powerful woman will raise a poweful daughter... so the credit is hers. Montaño-Centellas it is.
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Today I was invited to give a talk on
#intraspecific
#variability
to the Interspecific Interactions class at the University of San Andres
@UMSAlamejor
.
How could I not end the talk with this jewel
@BetteLoiselle
gave us recently!
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Almost 2 years ago I joined a team to work on avian urban ecology in
#Peru
. The project will explore mechanisms driving spatial (and temporal) patterns of bird diversity in the city of
#Arequipa
.
Led by
@mugartelewis1
, the impressive field work is virtually done!
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So incredibly proud to be part of these two pieces!
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🚨New paper alert 🚨
To make
#ornithology
more equitable, the
#scientific
community needs to remove major
#barriers
- our new study states 🧵👀👍
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Advice needed!
Our manuscript was submitted in May, in August we submitted a revised version (comments were not too bad).
And until now... the journal was unable to find two reviewers for our revised version.
What to do?
Withdraw and start over 😩?
Or just sit tight and wait?
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And... paper accepted! 🎉🎊
Soon in
@JBiogeography
we test hypotheses inspired in Janzen's (1967) seminal paper using a global dataset of mountain biodiversity.
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Because Natural History papers should never stop!
A contribution led by Paola Velasquez on the floral ecology of the Bolivian endemic Puya atra (Bromeliaceae)
#Bolivia
#TeamSillu
#EcologiaEnBolivia
#Andes
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Porque el primer paso para cambiar esto, es hablarlo...
Como biologas, todas lo hemos vivido.
Todas lo hemos escuchado.
Todas lo hemos incluso comentado a amigos y coleg
@s
. Y a todas nos han dicho "es broma no mas"...
Pero ya no. Ahora, queremos gritarlo...
🧵
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👏👏👏👏
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our own Dr. Bette Loiselle, who has received the 2021-2022 UF Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award.
Thank you, Dr. Loiselle, for your excellence and dedication in guiding students through their culminating projects!
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WARNING: STRONG IMAGES
This is how the year ends in my home country
#Bolivia
. Police brutality and abuse... yet again. The world needs to know. Please RT.
🧵THREAD: Protests in
#Bolivia
& police repression currently in
#SantaCruz
. The Bolivian govt has taken the military out to repress protests with police
I have received all videos from people on the street, authorized to be used by intl' media, I'll update as protests continue⬇️
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Third week of work (remote) with an incredible team of young
#WomenInSTEAM
to support and motivate each other in advancing our research in a much less than supportive environment 💪Yes. We can!
#WarmiCiencia
#Bolivia
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So proud to have contributed to such an amazing effort led by
@ja_tobias
.
#AVONET
compiles data for 11,009
#birdspecies
(90,020 individual) across the globe. A magnificent
#database
indeed!
An incredible home for my ~2500 measured individuals!
#Bolivianbirds
@Ecology_Letters
I didn't expect this to synchronise with breakout of war and economic collapse, but some positive news for bird people: the global dataset many of you helped to collect is now finally released - - as part of a special issue
#T10K
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When you leave a project for a while and dropbox bullies you about it 🤣
I swear.. it has not been that long...
@jstello_geoecol
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Gator pride! Best program in Wildlife Ecology
Because it's great... to be... 🐊🐊🐊
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... we got this comment. And the rev. went on to:
"The use of the gerund is recurrent in the text".
Just shared it with my colleague (the one that English-proofed the MS). And they agree... this screams bias.
Doesn't it?
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Happy to finally re-join our meetings!
@theATBC
@diversityATBC
to work on
#DiversityEquityInclusion
#DEI
#ATBC
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Fresh from the oven:
Importance of tropical mixed‐species flocks for migratory birds in shade‐grown coffee: implications of foraging together
Congrats to the authors!
@jen_munozz
and Gabriel Colorado
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#WarmiCiencia
Hace unas semanas, me preguntaron quienes (o que) era WarmiCiencia.
"Warmi" significa mujer, en Aymara y Quechua
#WomenInSTEM
#CienciaLatina
#womenintech
#womeninscience
#girlsinstem
#Bolivia
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@andrepazv
@cataruga
@darmenteras
@je_light
@LabDavalos
@DrButterflyH
@yolandaleon_
@dechmannlab
@alexccwilson
@AlexisMychajliw
@AngiosSusana
@Lagomarsino_L
@KZ_Cornell
@CorrieMoreau
@AnnaPap16471200
@SandyKnapp
@ScienceisGlobal
@Phi_Ledger
@JaneHillYork
@AlexOlayaCastro
@susyelo
@annaplatoni
@Ruthentomology
@wanfajusoh
@russelam
@theyoderlab
@sexinnature
@ana_bosslady
@WrightingApril
@trayc7
@AnaCaicedoS
@JessicaLWareLab
@LizHadly
@jungvari
@KayceCBell
@coereba
@chickadeehee
@EcoJaneAnderson
@StellarSquirrel
@bat_biomes
And ten more!
@CarrascoFarah
@BetteLoiselle
@RhayzaCortes
@MariDaSilva_
@KarenLosantos
@skmorgane
@vivianarojasbon
@XimeVLiendo
@natiop
@Luscinias
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And... revised manuscript submitted!
Now to focus on Halloween costumes for the little one 👻
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This week two manuscripts led with amazing collaborators were accepted :D.
Off to a good start of the summer!!
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And... revised version submitted!
Fingers crossed everybody and let the (happy-only) Xmas vibes go with this version!
Our long, long overdue manuscript on Andean mixed-species flocks was finally submitted today!
An amazing collaboration among peers who are as crazy and in love with bird flocks and mountains as I am.
Fingers crossed and let the editorial games begin!
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Is tomorrow!
@theATBC
Please join us at 12:30, Room 302
We want to hear your ideas and work together towards
"Making science in tropical biology and conservation more inclusive and accessible"
#DEI
#DiversityandInclusion
#equity
#Juntos
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And a follow up.
Invited by
@AmOrnith
we work on realistic actions to help the inclusion/recognizion of Neotropical researchers in scientific publications.
Beautifuly led by
@ruie680506
and
@CockleKristina
, the paper was accepted today!
Cheers to all authors!
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Successful presentation on
#Andean
#flocks
as part of the Mixed-species animal groups 2021 symposium
My tiny collaborator was kind enough to sleep through the video making and presentation!
Now that is supportive!
@Momademia
#StemMom
#BolivianBirds
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@chandan_gautam
Truth is, this was not secret. I was lucky enough I had good people encouraging me to ask directly about this. Nevertheless, I always think how so many people -in somehow more powerful positions, senior faculty- knew this, and did nothing to stop it.
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Our
#WarmiCiencia
biologist and artist
@KarenLosantos
is finalist for a
@BirdLifeAmerica
contest with her incredible art in charcoal pencil.
Please help her win liking the photo here 👇
#SciComm
#SciArt
#AvesBolivianas
#womeninstem
#SciArt
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I did not participated in this. But I can vouch for each line here!
As a single parent, is even harder. Still, we keep going.
We fight a different fight, at every step.
"...female postdocs with caring responsibilities stand out from other subgroup analyses. We find that mothers are most unhappy, depressed, anxious, stressed by care work and their work as postdocs. They report more personal conflicts ...and are most socially isolated."
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Catching up with some
#ESA2021
talks. Every lil one nap time is an opportunity!
@momademia
#momlife
#academicmom
@OpenAcademics
@AcademicChatter
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We color ringed this individual in June 2016 in the Andes of La Paz (3500 m asl) during the fieldwork of my dissertation research.
Last Saturday (11/14) it was photographed in the exact same place by Gabriela Villanueva.
More than four years after it was marked!
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First day of the Mixed-species animal groups 2021
online symposium is on!
We are truly a mixed flock there, 4 continents, N countries. Looking forward to keep on this amazing collaboration!
#MixedSpeciesFlocks
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I am REALLY upset reading the revisions received by my mentee. Especially because a colleague of ours, a native English speaker, proofed the submitted version.
Yes, we were lucky enough to have someone on our network able to help us with this... yet... 🧵
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Maybe all preprints:
"... bioRxiv is not accomplishing its stated goals and that
authors may be using the platform more to establish priority, as a marketing enhancement of papers.."
bioRxiv: Trends and analysis of five years of preprints
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So... random emails from predatory journals are getting pushy!
"...My approach is to inform you that I need your obligatory submission on or before August 26th"🤣
At least they got my name right this time.
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