Matt Keevil

Stealthy correction by Elsevier. I can't find a published correction/corrigendum for the change shown in the image. I and Thomas Kesteman flagged this paper last year, pointing out issues in Fig 1 and Fig 2 pubpeer.com/publications/D…. The journal never communicated with us. To my surprise, earlier this week I saw that both figures are "new" in the current version doi.org/10.1016/j.diam…. It is BAD not just because of the lack of a published correction note. Hear me out: When a correction is published, it stays as a appendix to the original, and the whatever was corrected stay as they are. People can read the justification for correction, and compare the original to the corrected. In this case, the new images were simply swapped in, and the original images are nowhere to be found, except in the screenshots that we conserved. This is _____ laundering

I think there may be some real drawbacks to turning “the media” into “whoever among you can get the most attention at any given time.”

@stephenfgordon People already pointed out squirrels, so I will just add that it’s called a drey.

Any informed guesses as to what sort of bird might have made this nest? It looks to be around 18" high, maybe more.

@EmmaMci Our species at risk legislation has been undermined and watered down to conservation theatre that with no accountability for actual outcomes. A lot of money is spent on measures that have no chance of success.

I've seen so much chatter lately about how the new federal strategy to protect redside dace could affect plans for Highway 413. This story injects a necessary dose of facts, and some cold water: the new strategy alone won't save this little minnow.

Redside dace have become a poster child for the fight against Doug Ford’s Highway 413 project. A new federal strategy for the endangered minnow's recovery isn’t likely to tip the scales in the fish’s favour, according to biologist @kpeiman1 thenarwhal.ca/federal-strate…

@CMacQuar Not that we should be taking French pronunciation cues from the British…

@CMacQuar I don’t normally comment but to me it’s like jalapeño vs. gelapino: one way is just wrong. “Nitch” never occurred to me until I started hearing Americans say it at conferences when I was in grad school.

@sportswithjohn I loved The Universe podcast you did with @AstroKatie, even (especially?) the @Policygenius ads.

I am considering doing my first-ever proper long-term brand deal and it is the most fun I have ever had in my career. This particular brand is just like, "Oh you want to do that weird shit that will only appeal to one tenth of your audience? PERFECT WE LOVE IT."

Political hacks are trained to think that an unpopular idea is a bad one, because they are only interested in obtaining power, not governing. The rest of us are allowed - obliged! - to evaluate ideas on their own merits.

Our latest Photo of the Month captures the surreal beauty of an Inyo Mountains Salamander in its unique habitat, high above the desert floor. A breathtaking moment from the field by Nick Van Gilder. See the full image and connect with Nick here: oriannesociety.org/photo-of-the-m…

Our Grime review "Incorporating effects of habitat patches into species distribution models" is out in @JEcology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. w/ Antoine Guisan @ecospat_ch Lenore Fahrig @GLELCarleton @R_you_cereal @AleMoranOrdonez @CarmenGaln63377 et al. 1/n

I respectfully disagree. I think what is currently "democratizing" science much more than "high impact" journals is @PubPeer. So let's take a tour of the @PubPeer comments for some of this author's papers in "high impact" journals: 1/

@aufgehenderRest @karst_justine scholar.google.ca/scholar?cluste… doi.org/10.1038/s41559…

@karst_justine youtu.be/9HiADisBfQ0?si…

Could some tell me what kind of bug this is? I capture them in photos at night sometimes and they move so fast that you wouldn’t even notice them if you didn’t know to slow down the live shot and look closer. They’re very strange looking and they leave a little streak in the air.

Collecting #biodiversity data is a cornerstone of #conservation research, but how do we know when we have enough to act? Check out our new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol

WTF did I just witness. The EIC of the @ElsevierConnect journal 'the journal of cleaner production' just removed her name as handling editor from a paper to avoid a serious conflict of interest. No correction issued. This is borderline #fraud. Journal known for #papermill crap

Alright scientists your time has come. What's the coolest shit a 7 year old can look at under a dissection scope? My godson asked for "cool stuff for his microsope", and my man likes bugs. Gonna put together an observation kit. WHAT should go in that kit?

Who? Them 🇨🇦

Oh my

@Helenreflects I think that is part of it for cancers in general but not specific to reproductive organs because I think cells in those experience the same organism level fitness as other tissues.