This course aims at exploring how scientists can use social media as tools to enhance the communication of their research and the dialogue with society, and discussing the differences that exist in the work of scientists and journalists in terms of the methods and deadlines they meet and exploring how scientists and journalists can better articulate.
This course aims to explore ways of communicating science to non-specialized audiences, such as policy makers, industry, general public (including students and teachers), and media professionals, through their engagement and participation in citizen science activities.
Speaker: Adriel Rodrigues (External collaborator PSE).
The goal of this course is to provide to the participants with current and practical knowledge on urban ecology, including ecological and social aspects.
This course promotes a multidisciplinary approach presenting the most recent findings on the topic and challenging the traditional way of considering symbiotic associations as exceptions and not as the rule.
This course is conceived to give an integrated view of the living component of soils, and its key role on ecosystem functions and processes.
The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the details of communication and writing scientific publications. The main emphasis is on the most common form, the “primary scientific paper”, but other forms will be covered.
Objectives: Under the general framework of Global Change Ecology, the goal of this course is to provide the participants with the most recent and practical knowledge on the use of Functional Diversity. This includes the selection of functional traits and calculation of Functional Diversity Indexes. Examples of the application of this knowledge will be given regarding Ecological Indicators and Ecosystem Services.
The specific objectives are:
Objectives: Provide students with basic workflows, platforms and tools to increase reproducibility at all scientific levels.
Topics: Why reproducibility in science is important; Working with Github; Data processing workflows to maximize reproducibility; Notebooks (R and Jupyter); Manuscript and data repositories.
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Objectives: Natural history museums are privileged spaces for seminal research on different subjects of biological sciences such as biodiversity, evolution, ecology, biogeography and taxonomy. This crucial role is due to the fact that they represent biological diversity repositories becoming huge libraries of information on Earth living organisms. The long-term sampling through various decades renders tonatural history collections an historic perspective that allows reconstructing a “memory”, sometimes secular, of natural patterns and processes.
