María J. Cabrera-Álvarez

La Comisión avanza en la legislación europea sobre bienestar animal de los peces ow.ly/8vyZ50QA4hr Para ello está trabajando junto a sector, científicos y sociedad civil, es el caso del Consejo Consultivo de Acuicultura (@aac_europe) o el grupo Fish Etho Group (@group_fish)

Super orgullosa del trabajo que hacemos!!!

"Mother of Lemurs" Dr. Alison Bishop Jolly (1937-2014) was born to an artist mother and writer father. She wrote of this: “I went into biology in part to find something to talk about that they did not already know”* 1/5 #WomenInScience 📷D. Bayes/LIFE via S. Hrdy

Dr. Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts (1889-1963) was a comparative psychologist who founded the Zoopsychology dept of the Darwin Museum in Moscow in 1911. Several of her research methods became foundational in the study of animal behaviour 1/6 #WomenInScience 📷darwinmuseum.ru

Our latest work is out! If you want to know about the welfare of rainbow trout at slaughter, check this link! doi.org/10.1016/j.aqua… @Joao_L_Saraiva @group_fish #welfare #aquaculture

I'm excited to see increasing research on the minds of farm animals, which can help us address questions about nonverbal thought, welfare, domestication, the phylogenetic origins of cognition & expand research opportunities It was a pleasure to be interviewed for this piece

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs. And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM. A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates. It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors! ▫️ Main outcomes: 1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously. 2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers. 3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely! MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days. 4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing. 5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates. 6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers. Conclusions and my opinion: - Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average). - The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised. - Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today). - There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics. - Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards. ▫️ Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle. However, research quality is controlled by the community. This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

If you're still unsure about joining us at Ecology and Behavior 2024, you might change your mind! 👩‍🎓This conference is organized by the students for the students and young researchers 👨‍🎓 💸The registration is free💸 🌮The accommodation & the meals are provided🏡 #ecobhvr2024

@MartaAlboP Madre mia 🙈 ánimo con la lucha 💪💪💪

Asustada 🫣 del #Rècord històric a les #Balears aquest agost en un mateix dia 2.106.209 persones!!!! I som 1.209.722 residents. Què suposa això en consum d'aigua, energia, terreny, residus, infrastructures, serveis públics...?

Presenting next on @AWGN14 is @b_kriengwatana on 'Do animals like music? Understanding the use of music for animal welfare’ Date: November 15, 2023. Time: 1-2 p.m. Nigerian time. To be part of this webinar, kindly register using the link: #responses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/forms/d/14GcZW… @UFAW_1926

Asociación Empresarial de Acuicultura de España (APROMAR) quiere conocer la evolución del mercado del pescado en España a través del comportamiento de los consumidores ow.ly/Mlcx50Q3il7 Para ello ha lanzado un concurso para la realización de dicho estudio

Our Sentience Mini-Series continues! Join us on November 8th 2023 @ 5pm EST to hear Dr Culum Brown present "The case for sentience in fish" Zoom: zoom.us/j/94708826025 Sponsored by @UFAW_1926

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The @EU_MARE aquaculture event is starting! Member States, @FAOfish, stakeholders & @aac_europe experts are gathered to discuss the Commission’s draft Guidance Documents for the implementation of the #Aquaculture #StrategicGuidelines:

Looking forward to this event! Thank you for the invitation @aquaticlifeins

Exciting news, #UFAW2024 in Portugal!

The ISAE South African workshop on farm animal behaviour and welfare is fast approaching. At this workshop, I will be giving a presentation on ‘Animal welfare within the African context'. The workshop is free and hybrid RT & Register ⁦@appliedethology⁩ ⁦@isaeawa⁩

Join our Student Course in Behavioral Biology, online or in person. 5 plenaries on exciting topics in Animal Behavior, round table on ethics, poster presentations. Free of charge, limited N participants in person. See details: leec.univ-paris13.fr/pages/IFE.2023…

#AcademicTwitter This always makes me laugh! 😂😂@phdvoice #phdlife