siputairtawar.bsky.social
Senior lecturer @ Uni Malaysia Sabah 🇲🇾
Biodiversity, ecology, freshwater molluscs & other inverts, invasive species, natural history collections, Southeast Asia
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-0039
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Grateful for the unnamed heroes across the centuries, who have maintained the specimens and associated data, and have worked to make them more widely available. #NaturalHistoryCollections
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I think it's a combination of many factors...everyone everywhere being expected to publish more, too many journals stretching the limited reviewer pool, bias on many levels, etc... 🥲
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This thread was prompted by an otherwise excellent article which treats the two as equivalent. Helicopter and parachute research need to be named, recognised and addressed separately. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 5/5
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Oops here it is: doi.org/10.1093/zool...
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Really hard to find reviewers, especially for smaller journals...
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Authors include @jkfoon.bsky.social @krakenscholar.bsky.social. Congrats on a great paper!
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Hi I study the biodiversity and ecology of freshwater molluscs and other invertebrates and am based in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
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The sad truth: "We were unable to include freshwater #molluscs in our analysis because only half of the known species globally are currently assessed for the
IUCN Red List, with notable geographical biases..."
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The Bangkok Art Biennale #BAB2024 was one reason I had gone to the museum, where a few artworks were on display. I also managed to visit another Biennale venue at the BACC, where among many other things, were more shells in artworks by Aki Inomata. #MolluscMonday
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Therefore, this #SpecialIssue seeks to promote & encourage the publication of research from NHCs in the Global South, highlighting their crucial role in advancing biodiversity science. 🧪🌎
Submit your paper👇
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Deadline 31 March 2025
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The One Trick That Angry Referees Don't Want You To Know: Write your reports about the paper, not the author: ‘this paper argues X’ or ‘this paper hasn’t engaged with the literature around X’. Much harder to be (accidentally or otherwise) rude, dismissive, condescending, presumptuous, Ref 2-ish.
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Do contact me if you're interested to work on #invert #biodiversity, especially #FreshwaterMollusca, #Myriapoda, #Annelida or #Platyhelminthes, #InvasiveSpecies and any other related topics, particularly in 🇲🇾 #Borneo.
I am seeking students and am open to building meaningful collaborations. 🌏🧪
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A preliminary checklist from an expedition to one section of #Kinabalu Park, home to the highest peak in 🇲🇾. It includes some understudied invertebrate taxa, which I'm starting to establish research on with various collaborators.
🔓 naturejournal.sabahparks.org.my/index.php/sp...
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Honoured to join a group of experts working throughout #Sundaland to publish on "Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater #conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot", led by Alexandra Zieritz.
🔓 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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By way of introducing myself here, a few recent publications cover the breadth of my current research interests:
I worked with Tan Siong Kiat to document the Bithyniidae #FreshwaterSnails of Peninsular #Malaysia 🇲🇾 and #Singapore 🇸🇬
🔓 li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tn...
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