Matthew A. Barnes

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Associate Professor at #TexasTech. President-elect of @TxAcSci. I teach and research in the fields of #Freshwater #Ecology, #Invasion #Science, and #EnvironmentalDNA (#eDNA). He/Him
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Wonderful start to an impressively international conference #icg2023
What can you find in passively collected airborne dust over the course of a year? A LOT. Our new paper on airborne eDNA is out with Mark Johnson, Matt Barnes @drbarnes and Nina Garrett. The first long term study of animal eDNA in the air - all with passive collections. Very exciting at the prospect of long term terrestrial eDNA monitoring in remote locations without access to power. #environmentalDNA #ecology #eDNA https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.388

Do you often wonder whether we are communicating science effectively? I do.

This paper is good:
Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research

Adresses 4 myths:
1 Facts change minds,
2 Scientific literacy leads to enhanced research uptake,
3 Individual attitude change will shift collective behaviors,
4 Broad dissemination is best.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320722004396?via%3Dihub

Uh-oh. Someone accidentally sent a mundane email to a listserv of over 500 faculty at my Uni, and I've received about 20 "please remove me from this list" reply-alls over the past 20 minutes...

...and more still on #ChatGPT - this time on its ability to write a scientific article abstract.

- See news article in Nature and link to article therein on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00056-7

#science

Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists

Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.

Back to trickling my publication catalog into the fediverse...

One focus of my dissertation was the spread of #aquatic #invasive #plants. Although they live in the water, macrophytes often spread over land attached to boats, trailers, and other equipment. Intuitively, this seems like a very hostile pathway, but the data demonstrating that remain limited. Coauthors and I spent a lot of time watching plants dry to provide those data. #desiccation

See Pub 15 at https://www.reabic.net/aquaticinvasions/2012/issue1.aspx

Journal Aquatic Invasions - Volume 7, Issue 1 (2012)

Making your #papers and #presentations as accessible as possible is vital for #inclusively #communicating your #science. This new paper (Guha et al. 2022) describes an #R #package – #scatterHatch – that assists in developing #accessible figures.

Title: "Generating #colorblind-friendly #scatter #plots for single-cell #data"

Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/82128

#scicom #science #communication #EDI #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion

Generating colorblind-friendly scatter plots for single-cell data

scatterHatch helps users generate colorblind-friendly scatter plot visualizations by using a combination of patterns and high-contrast colors to represent distinct point groups.

eLife
Invasive rats are changing fish behaviour on coral reefs – new study: https://theconversation.com/invasive-rats-are-changing-fish-behaviour-on-coral-reefs-new-study-197215
Invasive rats are changing fish behaviour on coral reefs – new study

Rats are disrupting the flow of nutrients towards the sea on many tropical islands – this has consequences for fish behaviour and the wider ecosystem.

The Conversation