PEEER

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19 October 2026 11:53

Pay-to-publish journals exclude scientists who cannot afford publication fees, introducing biases related to geography and career stage. During #OAWeek, we spread the word about this inequality and the need for fairer publishing models. Read more: peeer.net/2026/10/19/s... #BetterPublishing

Joanna Bagniewska

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17 October 2026 16:38

Amazing footage - and what beautiful framing!

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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16 October 2026 08:21

Same weight, different energy bill. An Andean condor uses 79% less energy per kilometer than a trumpeter swan, even though both weigh roughly the same. Why? Find out in a new study in Science, which rewrites the costs of flight for wild birds and bats: doi.org/10.1126/scie... 1/3

Brian J. Enquist

bjenquist.bsky.social

14 October 2026 05:05

Please pass along... 🌿 Explore 25.9 MILLION plant trait measurements across 54 traits in BIEN 4.2! Search, visualize & download trait data across species, genera & families. No coding needed! (But code examples given so that you can learn). Try it ... benquist.shinyapps.io/bien-traits-...

John Alroy

johnalroy.bsky.social

13 October 2026 10:08

There are better ways to quantify biodiversity than coverage-based rarefaction – in particular, by fitting the geometric Weibull distribution and extrapolating. GW outperforms CBR according to four different empirical tests. New paper in Oikos. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...