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Dr Manu Saunders@manusaunders.bsky.social |
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Ecologist. Mum. Senior Lecturer. Editor in Chief: Insect Conservation and Diversity. Community Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Insects, Science Communication, Citizen Science. My opinions. She/her.
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Dr Manu Saunders
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I remember feeling liberated writing the Acknowledgements section of my PhD. It was the one section I could 'officially' be my real emotional self outside of science norms, and no one would read it...! #AcademicSky science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Obviously relevant beyond US. Academic work cultures need to change and call out expectations that scientists should prioritise perceptions of career success over their actual life #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Occasionally you peer review a paper that is so mind-blowingly far from any basic standard of science that it would be an excellent teaching example of how NOT to do science. By an emeritus prof too. I've seen it twice now from two different journals #AcademicSky
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Only 10% of native plants can be bought as seed – a big problem for nature repair. Here’s how we can make plantings more diverse 🌏 theconversation.com/only-10-of-n...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Super interesting internet search experiment: most scientists who are referred to (or refer to themselves) as "the world authority" on a topic, appear to be male. Is this even a legit role in a discipline? How do we accurately measure a 'world authority'? #AcademicSky
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Modelling decisions and density dependence in monarch butterflies: A comment on Meehan and Crossley (2023)
#insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thesiswhisperer
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Our survey is live! It's about Work-life balance. Productivity strategies. Experiences of all academics, including carers, neurodivergent researchers, people living with disabilities.
🙏 Can you help us reach 5000 responses! Here's the link, please share! anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Phew, just finished my heaviest teaching period for the year and can finally switch on the research brain again. Reminded of this post I wrote a few years ago on the 'balanced academic' myth...fnding it even harder to juggle now as a parent! #AcademicSky
ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2021/06/02/t...
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Dr. Torrance Hanley
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Virtual Lab Meeting Programs (LaMPs) can address inequities in access to professional networks & knowledge of #HiddenCurriculum in STEM. #EvolvingSeasRCN LaMP mutually benefitted students & host labs; program design, outcomes & ideas for future initiatives. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Peak denial and the danger of desensitization. Don't fall for the 'normalwashing' campaigns. Pandemics, biodiversity loss, climate change, war - the world needs our attention and collective action 🌏 #scicomm www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve...
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Vanda Wilcox
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"Women take longer" rather than "universities promote women more slowly" 🧐🤔
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Always intrigued when I send an editorial system email that is auto-signed from 'Dr Manu Saunders' and the person replies to me 'Dear Mr Saunders'... 🤷♀️ #AcademicSky
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Should I take it as a compliment or an insult that Linkedin is suggesting this new job based on my expertise: an expert copywriter to train an AI tool... #academicsky
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Mike DiGirolamo
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On the latest Mongabay Podcast, economist Rebecca Adamson speaks with @racheldonald.bsky.social about Indigenous economics systems, and why Wall Street's attempt to financialize nature misses the big picture: news.mongabay.com/2024/06/what...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Any scholars looking at grief/mental health impacts of people following evidence-based safety in a 'forget pandemic' world? eg. experiences covid safe people have in work/social communities that aren't advocating safety, loss of opportunities/networks, minimisation effects etc.
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Dr Manu Saunders
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"We have consistently overlooked the repercussions of these advances on the climate crisis" 🧪🌏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Australian academics who are living covid safe and mostly work from home and mask on campus: interested to know if you have formalised WFH with your institution, or just visit campus as needed? Do you seek official/unofficial dept support? #AcademicSky
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Excellent piece by @biancanogrady.bsky.social. Harassment and abuse of scientists (and science) is surging. Not just by trolls but also targeted campaigns by some mainstream commentators and vested interests. Institutions can do more to support academics #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Don't often see a good bit of insect satire! #ozinverts www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Another great analysis from the John Snow folks. Current public and political response to covid is like watching the manufacture of doubt in real time johnsnowproject.org/primers/hone...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Exciting collection of papers on new technologies for global insect monitoring. So much to learn about how to monitor insects effectively and accurately without relying on labour-intensive physical fieldwork, watch this space! 🌏🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Spectacular new fungi-mimicking beetle genus discovered by James Tweed on a camping trip in southeast Queensland rainforest. Despite an extensive history of entomological collecting & research at this location, it is completely new to science #ozinverts www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/_files/ugd/1...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Good news a long time coming. Yet another environmental decision that didn't need to be dragged through political games for so long 🌏 #EPBCAct www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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One of academia's wicked problems. Lots to think about in this great piece on the state of academic publishing by Brian McGill #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/t...
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Dr Susannah Lydon
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This is going straight into my visual #scicomm teaching. A very fine confusagram indeed.
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Yeah, not sure about that one specifically. But technically royalties should be relevant to the type of copyright, regardless of OA. If you look at the standard author agreements for most of the big journal publishers, you transfer copyright to them so any royalties go to the company
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Hey Nature, it's not really that easy... The royalty system is not a scam, but most academic authors won't win from this 'money tree' because they have to sign away copyright to the publisher #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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First time I've received a #peerreview request where the invitation explicitly states that reviewers should not use generative AI to write their review or share the manuscript with an AI entity. Good to see this!
#AcademicSky
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Markus Eichhorn
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Trees are fascinating organisms and we continue to discover incredible things about them, but we do science a disservice when we force these into human narratives. This is a good accessible article on the #WoodWideWeb debacle 🌍 🧪
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Most professional deadlines academics deal with (except grants, which are competitions) are flexible if needed: journal submissions, peer review, thesis, conference...
Internal teaching & learning admins: YOU *MUST* DO THIS THING 6 MONTHS BEFORE IT'S RELEVANT OR THE WORLD WILL END!
#AcademicSky
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Dezene Huber 🌻
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Our brand new orchid pollination review paper, led by @jazjanes.bsky.social, is published in Ecology and Evolution.
OA🔗: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Title: We know very little about pollination in the Platanthera Rich (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae)
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Dr Jasmine Janes
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Our paper is now online 😊
🧪🌸We know very little about pollination in the Platanthera Rich (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae)
#orchids #pollination
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Dr Manu Saunders
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New blog: New data published on post-fire recovery of threatened plants #BushfireRecoveryAU 🌏🧪 ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2024/04/03/n...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Common attitude beyond business/law departments too! The blinkered focus on 'superstar' academics is so damaging to staff morale and department progress. Also metrics used to designate 'superstars' often mostly related to grant income/fame vs value of contributions/performance #AcademicSky
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Happy to finally share this new paper! Rapid on-ground survey of 21 rare & threatened plant species in northern NSW after 2019 #BlackSummer fires reveals valuable new info on ecology, pop size & distribution #fireecology #threatenedspecies 🌏🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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ARC Tracker
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🚨🚨🚨 IT’S DONE! ❗️The ARC Review Response Bill just passed parliament❗️ No more political interference in individual ARC grants! The ARC will get a Board, who will approve individual grants. It’s a wonderful day for Australian research!
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Glendon Mellow
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As I’ve said many times, exploitation is the upstream issue in gen AI; whether the result is “good” or “qualifies” as art/fine art/illustration is a downstream issue. I’m concerned about upstream. I don’t care if the hands look good or it “moves someone”. It’s poisoned at the root.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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2023 was the hottest year on record. Around the world, it was marked by record wildfires, hot-tub temperature ocean waters, torrential downpours, and non-stop heatwaves. The US had one billion+ dollar weather extreme every 1.8 weeks.
More info: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Keep reading ... 🧵
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Andrea Kirkwood
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This post really resonates as a mid-career prof. Not fitting in a box made it difficult early in my career to secure a TT job, yet being multi-field (if not multidisciplinary) has only helped me sustain a research career.
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Dr Manu Saunders
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New blog: how do you navigate a research career crossroads? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2024/03/16/s...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Definitely! Also very little known about metro vs regional urban ecology in southern hemisphere countries
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Ecology of most insects in urban areas is largely unexplored. Our editorial for this #urbanecology Insect Conservation and Diversity SI uses a structured literature search to frame the contents and highlight research priorities #insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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The Ecology & Conservation of Urban Insects SI, now published! A great set of papers covering a range of taxa and urban locations around the world! #urbanecology #insectconservation 🌏🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524598...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Dr Manu Saunders
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'Moar scientists should do scicomm' is so naive, it doesn't equal impact and engagement. So many scientists pitch and do LOTS of unpaid scicomm that is rejected, ignored. Some disciplines get more airtime than others (eg astro, paleo, vert zool) & women/non-white scientists more likely to be ignored
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Was this interview 10 years ago? A few valid points here, but so many of these arguments (scientists need to scicomm more! peer review is a waste of time! publish or perish = more fraud!) are easy to call from a place of privilege but miss a lot of nuance and reality. undark.org/2024/03/08/i...
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Julia Doubleday
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I wrote about @npr.org ‘s decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-p...
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Dr Manu Saunders
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"Without an analysis of power, it is hard to understand inequality or much else in modern capitalism.” www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/12/n...
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Dolly Jørgensen
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A reminder for those who still haven’t understood: ChatGPT and other LLMs are designed to write language that matches patterns found in existing texts so the generated text sounds plausible. It absolutely does not query for “facts” in the way that we have come to think of “googling” information.
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Dr Manu Saunders
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Fascinating when insect outbreaks make mainstream news...how does human population density influence observational data? We've also had more crickets than usual in our regional NSW town this summer, and I assume they are booming elsewhere with current conditions🌏 www.news.com.au/technology/s...
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