Benjamin Barca

Ve l'avevo promesso ed eccolo qui: il primo di una serie di thread su come è stata inventata a tavolino la "mafia nigeriana". Sono 45 tweet, lo so, è lungo. Ma è una storia che mi è costata anni di lavoro. Vi assicuro che la fatica di chi lo leggerà fino in fondo sarà premiata.

Honestly - doing science in Mozambique is not easy. There are some stories to tell that do not fit in a tweet. But super happy that this one on possible future marine biodiversity monitoring in SSA is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

We're already having an awesome time at #ICCB2023! Stop by our booth (#9) to meet @MarconiCamposC1 & @Carly_Batist AND get a chance to win an Audiomoth in our #MarchMammalMadness-inspired tournament of animal calls!🔊 Instructions below👇 Not at ICCB? You can still participate! Listen to the unique sounds of the animal kingdom & vote for your favorite sonic species! 🐨🐒🐸🐦🦌🐬🐘🦜🦇 You can vote at our booth or through our online form here: forms.gle/uyw58Qm7oq4BYf…. Audio clips come from our @ARBlMON public template library, a community-sourced repository of 2800+ species' calls. Each day of ICCB is a new round, so stay tuned each morning to find out the results from each day and vote again - voting in each round enters you in a raffle to win an #Audiomoth! May the best sound win🔊🏆 @MMMletsgo @OpenAcoustics @ICCB2023 #tech4wildlife #conservation

@SS_Henriques @ICCB2023 Little guy in the garden here in Kigali..

I'll follow any twitter or Mastodon account that shares #InvertPics taken during #ICCB2023 Any at all🕷️🦂🔥🪰🦋🐌🐜🐚🐙🦑🦗🪲🦟🪳🐝🐞🐛🪱🕷️ & do share if you're presenting invertebrate conservation work @ICCB2023 🙏

@NaomiAKlein A must watch #doppelganger movie from the tail end of the Italian golden era is "Marchese del Grillo" starring the magnificent Alberto Sordi in a classic rich vs. poor tragicomedy! m.imdb.com/title/tt008271…

In writing my new book, I watched countless films that used doubles, twins and doppelgangers to represent the precarity at the core of identity. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had doing “research.” Here’s a by-no-means-exhaustive list of Doppelganger films. Add your own!🧵👬🏻🎞️

Last but not least! To wrap up your time at #ICCB2023 in Kigali join us on Thursday afternoon at 5pm (Room AD11) for a symposium about #eDNA for #conservation in practice with a wonderful lineup of speakers and what we hope will be some interesting discussions!

@FrankHawkins1 @ICCB2023 @IUCNscience @IUCN @IUCNRedList See you there! Our symposium will be Thursday afternoon, would be good to plan a catch up.

Really looking forward to being in this great session in Kigali at @ICCB2023 @IUCNscience @IUCN @IUCNRedList

@xprize @OrisSanjur @stri_panama @peter_houlihan A hint for the #RainforestX finals location @xprize? 😉

Big thank you to XPRIZE Advisory Board member @OrisSanjur of @stri_panama for joining us at the #XPRIZERainforest semifinals testing opening ceremony in Singapore! Read more about the event in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's newsletter here. stri.si.edu/story/special-…

@RewildApennines Bellissima iniziativa, è da tempo che seguo le attività di #Openrivers e #Damremoval ed altri per riprostinare il corso naturale dei fiumi. Se ci son modi di essere più coinvolti sarei interessato.

Today we launch the GC Wealth Project! 📢📈📉stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/the-gc-wealth-… The study of wealth — and of wealth inequality and its taxation — is now understood as central to our understanding of household well-being and to the functioning of our macroeconomy.

Two weeks in the field, more than 400 samples of air filtered for #eDNA. A great many DNA extractions and PCRs await us in our work with @NatureMetrics to validate and refine this new technique. Samplers we’re running day and night and worked beautifully.

Thanks to everyone that replied and for the interest! I will be going through contributions this week and getting in touch early next week!

@KatBruce2 @NatureMetrics @Kat_A_Stewart @eDNAcollab @eDNAScience @kirstenjharper @judithbakker2 @lynseyrharper @stefanako71 @ShrewGod

Reaching out to the #eDNA research and practitioner community! We have an opportunity to join our symposium on "eDNA in practice for conservation" as a speaker at #ICCB in #Rwanda this July! Please share/tag widely and drop me a DM if interested! 🧬🐟🦦🐆🐒

@vonderHeydenlab @OuattaraKoffiN1 @NestorNgoua

Please RT: Are you an #African #researcher working on #eDNA and want to share your knowledge? I would love to start an African #eDNAnetwork promoting capacity building and technology development to increase #eDNA studies on our beautiful continent. DM me! bitly.ws/BVjK

@vonderHeydenlab Great initiative, I can share within our network. For those without twitter can they use email to contact you?

@AbySene9 @HelioEngineer @dengzheyuan Fresh bush pepper! Gotta love it but different to capsicum (it is a jungle vine)...also dragon pepper and spice so they had the palate ready for when chillies arrived!

I have been curious about how people from many regions, particularly West Africa, came to accept and love pepper which was usually brought by Europeans from America.

I am gutted that Indigenous leader Eduardo Mendúa of the Cofán – an Amazon nation leading the fight against @Chevron – was just murdered in his village. He was leading a campaign to block new oil wells on his ancestral lands. I fear this was a political assassination. RIP.💔👊

@JeremyLindsell @WILDLABSNET Maps.me worked well for me :)

Hey @WILDLABSNET folks, what's your simple free Android app to collect waypoints using phone GPS to export in some usable format like csv or kml. Thought I could do this on Google Maps but it only saves points to a list which I can't see how to use. Thanks!