Bill Bateman

@acanthoplus.bsky.social
Not using Xitter anymore, but over on BSky

[Daniel Mlabwa @mlabwa]

Last year, my wife, friends and I had this 'brilliant' idea: drive our 30+ years Mercedes from Tanzania all the way to the southernmost tip of Africa.

36 days, 13,663 kilometers and 7 countries later;

Here is the story of our epic road trip:

[Bill Bateman @Acanthoplus]

3 x Master’s by Research projects: Artificial Habitat Optimisation for Fauna - here at Curtin University Perth WA. Closing date for applications 30 November 2025
https://t.co/5l8IPUntUA

[Rachel Rose Reid @rachelrosereid3]

New publication from my PhD research is out now! Partial night lighting has the potential to reduce the negative impacts of ALAN on songbird species 🐦‍⬛💡🌆a huge thank you to everyone involved in this study.

https://t.co/x4BdPQCEft

[Nicholas Wu @NicholasWuNZ]

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position @waikato. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats.

📍 Hamilton, NZ
Closes: 4th May 2025
🔗 https://t.co/UpGAwVwZD7

[Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa @KJMartu]

#KJMartuRangers love getting out on-Country to find, ground-truth, + care for waterholes - it's an important part of keeping #MartuCulture strong! They document GPS locations, photos, cultural sites, bushfoods + wildlife while sharing stories + planning #ConservationWork.

[WA Forest Alliance @waforests]

DBCA's Summer ignition of the Giants East forest block has destroyed many ancient Tingle trees and incinerated much of this oldgrowth forest. Read more: https://t.co/pXnrkA9w5K Tell Minister Whitby to protect vulnerable Tingles from prescribed burning now: https://t.co/meF0J746Zn

[Raphaël Arlettaz @RaphaelArlettaz]

Our institute of Ecology and Evolution, Uni Bern, Switzerland, is opening a competition for a post of professor (tenure-track) for Conservation Biology. Distribute as widely as you can. https://t.co/nztF4gajHc

[Dr Kit Prendergast @BeeBabette]

Great paper by ⁦@Acanthoplus⁩ ⁦@dfield007⁩ & co on #eDNA vs #video on #insects visiting #avocado https://t.co/kvGWp4qtvZ

[Jo Prendergast @jo_prendergast]

“Dingoes are called wild dogs, essentially (Australians are) being lied to.”

“I don’t care what they are, they’re a large canine predator.”

“It’s an emotional thing … a calf torn to shreds, mostly the animal will still be alive.”

✏️ w @a_film_maker

https://t.co/5Lj3TuJxEP

[Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas]

📌Just published: "Meta-analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signalling across terrestrial vertebrates"

More details 👇
https://t.co/k1bwbNVMgz

[Curtin MLS @CurtinEandA]

🌏🧬 Curtin’s eDNA research has been boosted by $7.8M from @bhp.

The "eDNA for Global Env Studies (eDGES)" program is providing new knowledge on biodiversity in threatened ecosystems.

👉https://t.co/2GogEKqUtj

#CurtinResearch #conservation  #eDNA #biodiversity #ecosystems

[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

A new species of skink has been discovered in the mountain ranges of the Central Australian desert.

“The folks in APY Lands really take good care of their Country, and it's likely that this species can receive more tailored monitoring and management now that it's recognised as a distinct species endemic to the region” @Biodivcouncil Early Career Researcher @FarquharJules @MonashUni

Read the full story: https://t.co/h0pL5g6Dss

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

New paper!

Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire https://t.co/f3kJtKRUbX

- @GLinley2 et al.

[Robin Sinclair @RobinSSci]

Incredibly proud to have been a small part of this 10+ year project.

[Emily Eade @erichens11]

An extraordinarily well-camouflaged Torotoroka Scops Owl in the Spiny Forest in southern Madagascar 🇲🇬

[Amy W Schwartz @lizardschwartz]

This Arabian Chameleon is digging a hole to lay her eggs in 🥹

[incidental naturalist @IncNaturalist]

Check out this office visitor today 🦖 I feel like there would be a genuine dilemma if the fire alarm sounded now

[Mark E. Hauber @cowbirdlab]

⁦⁦@CUNY⁩ @Hunter Assistant Professor job search - Animal Behavior and Conservation. Come and join our behavior community in NYC! https://t.co/QzpSUu2zGX

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

Who reviewed this paper?

A few days ago @gcabanac tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: https://t.co/FpSr5QLPfW. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny.

Since reading that tweet, we have not been able to get it out of our head, so we thught that we would document it in a little more detail. We are doing this for three reasons.

1️⃣ In our view, it descerves more detail to be made available.

2️⃣ We'd like these details to be be kept as a matter of public record, so we are posting similar posts on our X account and our LinkedIn account.

3️⃣ It should be of interest to this community, so we hope that this raises even further the ethical issues around this topic.

The first image shows the paper that we are looking at. What is interesting is the text that appears on at the end of the introduction (highlighted in red). This appears to show that the reviewer insisted that a set of 13 papers be cited, else they would not accept the paper. It would be interesting to see the review repport, so that we could be certain what had been said. If you want to see the paper, it is available here: https://t.co/mlv5UDdp5T

In the rest of this 🧵, we show the papers that have been asked to be cited (i.e. [35]-[47]). These have been taken from the paper mentioned above. You'll notice (as we have highlighted it) that every paper is "et al." meaning, of course, that there are quite a few authors on each paper.

Gicven that we cannot see all the authors, the other images on this 🧵 shows the full set of authors on each of these 13 papers.

We leave it an an exercise for the reader to hazard a guess as to the reviewr is?