Biologist, PhD student, editor of @ciano_slo, social media editor for @FEMSMicrobes, environmentalist, microbe enthusiast. All things science.

Ljubljana
Joined February 2019
Our #CitizenScience platform @ciano_slo received an #environmental award! Science should be done for and by the people, not kept in a closed circle of academics. We tried to reach out to non-scientists, and seeing this recognized outside the scientific community makes me so happy
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Danes je bil v @Alternator_Sci objavljen naš članek o cianobakterijah. Se jih moramo bati ali se jim zahvaliti, da živimo? Vabljeni k branju! alternator.science/sl/krajse…
The European Research Council Annual Event “Citizen science and frontier research”is about to start. More info here: europa.eu/!Fxgc9T The streaming here: webcast.ec.europa.eu/erc-ann… #CitizenScience
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Scrolling through @the_zooniverse website, I am completely MINDBLOWN by all the amazing #citizenscience projects out there. If this is not the future of science and science education, then I don't know what is. 😍 #phdchat #AcademicChatter
I’m finally ready to talk about the experience of appalling mistreatment we had with peer review of one of our papers. This was by no means the only time I’ve had to contend with bias in academic publishing, but it definitely is the worst thus far. A 🧵 (1/n)
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A brilliant example of taking #citizenscience data and making sense out of them. (Full text link at the end of the thread)
I am excited to share our new @NatureEcoEvo paper that uses @inaturalist citizen science observations to map plant functional traits on a global scale! 🔗nature.com/articles/s41559-0… #iNatTraitMaps #CitizenScience #firstpaper @Rsc4Earth @UniLeipzig @NFDI4BioDiv @idiv 🧵1/8
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Follow us for your weekly dose of #microbiology. #FEMSmicrobes
Welcome to the #FEMSMicrobes Twitter account! From here you can keep up to speed with all our latest #OpenAccess research. Open science toward a sustainable world. academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…
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We've now launched a dedicated Twitter account for our #OpenAccess journal @FEMSMicrobes! We're glad to do this for #OAWeek as the theme: Open for Climate Justice; aligns strongly with the scope of FEMS Microbes: Open science toward a sustainable world. xitter.cf/FEMSMicrobes
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#CitizenScience can be a simple solution to address the different dimensions of the complex problem of #ClimateChange. Follow the 🧵 to learn more👇 @UNDPAccLabs @PNUDLAC @undp
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Can PhD students peer review papers? How do editors find reviewers to invite? I would be happy to accept if I knew they consciously chose a PhD student, but being addressed as "dr." makes it feel like a somehow random process. @PhDVoice #phdchat #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter
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10 accounts every academic should be following. Seriously, these are THE accounts that make #AcademicTwitter. Advice, support, tips & more. A 🧵
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Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread... This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16
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@igor_spp et al. studied tundra soils in Norway using #metagenomics. They propose a new Candidatus genus of ammonia-oxidizing #archaea found in #polar and #alpine regions, carrying multiple copies of genes related to cold tolerance. #FEMSMicrobes academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…
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Air quality is important – not only for people, but also for farm animals. Haas et al. assessed how #microbial load in chicken barn air changes over fattening periods. #FEMSMicrobes #Staphylococcus #Enterococcus #agriculture academic.oup.com/femsmicrobe…
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What's your experience with publishing an erratum? Our paper was up in 24 days, but erratum is still not accepted after 5 months. It seems a bit odd: if quality, transparency and credibility were priorities, why would it take so long? @AcademicChatter @PhDVoice #AcademicTwitter
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Maša Zupančič retweeted
It is okay if you don't know something. You are not expected to know everything 💯 Ask for support if you need support 🤝 Credits: Part of an amazing thread by @masazup on Twitter #academicchatter #dissertationlife #phdchat
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So many resources in one thread! #phd #phdlife #phdvoice #scicomm
Some of my recent research resource thread(s). Clubbing them together. A 🧵 #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #scicomm
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