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I'm now almost only on Bluesky. But the account is bridged to Mastodon. So if you want to see what I'm writing,...

I'm now almost only on Bluesky. But the account is bridged to Mastodon. So if you want to see what I'm writing, follow:
@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

And if you want to reply or interact, you can bridge your account by following:
@bsky.brid.gy

No longer any need to wonder which is better, Bluesky or Mastodon, you can be on both at the same time 🥳 Make Bluesky just another Mastodon instance!

Oh yes, and my Bluesky account now on Mastodon is @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

Oh yes, and my Bluesky account now on Mastodon is @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

Obviously some emojis, CW etc won't bridge properly, but in effect Bluesky is now a new Mastodon instance 🥳

Obviously some emojis, CW etc won't bridge properly, but in effect Bluesky is now a new Mastodon instance 🥳

Well this is impressive! Mastodon and Bluesky are now bridged. So my Bluesky account is now also on Mastodon, so you can read what I...

Well this is impressive! Mastodon and Bluesky are now bridged. So my Bluesky account is now also on Mastodon, so you can read what I post.

And if you reply to my Bluesky account in Mastodon, the reply should appear on Bluesky too I think. Or you may have to bridge your account too by following @bsky.brid.gy

Thread ends. Sorting thousands of wasps continues 🙂Anyone want to collect more while we spend a few lifetimes sorting? DRC, Brazil,...

Thread ends. Sorting thousands of wasps continues 🙂

Anyone want to collect more while we spend a few lifetimes sorting? DRC, Brazil, Malaysia would be nice. But almost anywhere on Earth really..

Look up the methods from our article so you get data which can be compared to other sites!

That's it, published! But we'll also be transferring it to Peer Community Journal.This is an interim thing. At the moment, not all...

That's it, published! But we'll also be transferring it to Peer Community Journal.

This is an interim thing. At the moment, not all search engines are good at finding articles published in this new way, so a copy gets put in a formal journal to help get them indexed.

https://peercommunityjournal.org/

How it basically works:- Uploaded manuscript to preprint server and sent in to review- When reviewed, it got "recommended" =...

How it basically works:
- Uploaded manuscript to preprint server and sent in to review
- When reviewed, it got "recommended" = accepted.
- Preprint server updates to show that it's been reviewed.

https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.zool.100249

And a note on that publication process with @PeerCommunityIn It's great!This article was free to publish and is free to read. It's...

And a note on that publication process with @PeerCommunityIn

It's great!

This article was free to publish and is free to read. It's also open, you can read:
- all versions of the manuscript
- reviewers comments
- our replies to reviewers

And it's nice and straightforward. Still took a while to review, but the manuscript was available as a preprint the whole time.

For more details, read the longer thread on Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social/post/3kndnrhyvbk2kOr even better,...

For more details, read the longer thread on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social/post/3kndnrhyvbk2k

Or even better, the actual article. It's not actually boring by scientific article standards, I promise:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.23.554460

But main conclusion: this works. If we can collect enough wasps at enough sites, we'd find out how species diversity is distributed on our planet.

Uganda wins the "more wasps caught" contest. Hands down: 444 versus 90 wasps.We reckon this is because there are two dry(ish)...

Uganda wins the "more wasps caught" contest. Hands down: 444 versus 90 wasps.

We reckon this is because there are two dry(ish) seasons in Uganda. The wasps fly more when it doesn't rain = caught more by traps.

Luck we had rain data for both sites, really.

Results:More species at Peru. We don't know how many more, because we still haven't found all the species at either site 🤯 But we...

Results:

More species at Peru. We don't know how many more, because we still haven't found all the species at either site 🤯

But we got more species for the same number of wasps caught in Peru. So Peru wins the "more species" contest.

So now we did a "global comparison lite". What I *want* is to collect lots of wasps all over the Earth, and find out where there...

So now we did a "global comparison lite".

What I *want* is to collect lots of wasps all over the Earth, and find out where there are the most species.

What we could do, was to try this for rhyssines at our two sites. To show it'll be possible the day we've got the (collected and processed) material.

It's on the rhyssine wasps. Why this small (though amazing) subfamily? Because we've collected well over 100 000 wasps in Uganda +...

It's on the rhyssine wasps. Why this small (though amazing) subfamily? Because we've collected well over 100 000 wasps in Uganda + Peru, and it'll be centuries before we process the whole lot.

This article has a chequered history. First an unpublished manuscript in my PhD thesis. Then rejected by a journal. Now reviewed and...

This article has a chequered history. First an unpublished manuscript in my PhD thesis. Then rejected by a journal. Now reviewed and recommended by PCI Zoology, and likely to also appear in Peer Community Journal (I'll get back to this).

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.23.554460

Long thread in Bluesky, but I'll try to summarise here too.We just got an article out. Tropical rhyssine wasps, are there more species...

Long thread in Bluesky, but I'll try to summarise here too.

We just got an article out. Tropical rhyssine wasps, are there more species at our site in Uganda or at our site in Peru?

TLDR: more species in Peru, more wasps caught in Uganda.

Also, really good publication process with @PeerCommunityIn !

https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social/post/3kndnrhyvbk2k

For anyone interested, Bluesky is now open for anyone to join (no invite codes etc needed). Try it out?Yes I know, advertising one social...

For anyone interested, Bluesky is now open for anyone to join (no invite codes etc needed). Try it out?

Yes I know, advertising one social media on another social media.. but then again, I've advertised both Mastodon and Bluesky on Twitterix.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

I originally tried to just toot a link to bluesky, like this:https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social/post/3kiikkcw4su2sBut I...

I originally tried to just toot a link to bluesky, like this:

https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social/post/3kiikkcw4su2s

But I think it didn't show up very well? (or may show the text after a while)

Emil's plus my and Alirezas article is now online 🥳Quick comparison of two different trap types. Both work, ramp traps caught more...

Emil's plus my and Alirezas article is now online 🥳

Quick comparison of two different trap types. Both work, ramp traps caught more #ants 🐜, #beetles 🪲 etc; and pitfalls more #myriapods.

Nothing world-shattering, but useful data for anyone choosing traps.

#biodiversity #insect

https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2023.2294795

Bluesky is now open to view without logging in. Recently, I've spent most of my online time there. But I'll try to stay here as well...

Bluesky is now open to view without logging in. Recently, I've spent most of my online time there. But I'll try to stay here as well for now.

https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

BTW, I posted at length on this in Bluesky. Starting to look as if I'll be much more active there than here. For those on Bluesky,...

BTW, I posted at length on this in Bluesky. Starting to look as if I'll be much more active there than here.

For those on Bluesky, it's:
https://bsky.app/profile/tapani-hopkins.bsky.social

Everyone else: apparently Bluesky will become publicly visible (without logging in) at the end of this month.