I've mapped the beautiful Spanish island of #Formentera on #OpenStreetMap. It was an exciting challenge to record street names, addresses, rural addresses, POIs, landcover and more. Formentera covers an area of approximately 83 km² (32 mi²).
Here's a #BeforeAndAfter impression:
Interested in #SocioBiology?
If this is your research area, there is currently a call for papers on "Socio-Ecological Frontiers of Herpetology".
It is focused on exploring the relationships between human societies and herpetofauna. Interdisciplinary contributions integrating ecological and social perspectives on conservation are especially welcome!
Submission deadline: 12 September 2026
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
Useful to cut-out the box for future reference
So Your Code Won't Run
1. There *is* an error in your code. It's probably just a typo. You can find it by looking for it in a calm, systematic way.
2. The error will make sense. It's not random. The computer does not "just hate you"
3. Read the error message. The error message *tries* to help you, but it's just a computer so YOUR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE may be needed to find the real source of error.
4. Every programmer makes errors. Great programmers can find and fix them.
1/
Stefan Bohacek
John Overholt
thefabi
David Revoy
PLOS Biology
Maaike
JA Westenberg
Ben
myrmepropagandist