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Esteban Botero-Delgadillo

@eboterod

Behavioral & spatial ecologist. Founding member & Director of Conservation Science at @selvaorgco.bsky.social. Research Associate at Smithsonian Bird Friendly Program. Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.

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Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4bkrafP

07.03.2026 19:47 👍 79 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 1

9/9 La ciencia sigue produciendo conocimiento, pero la verdad requiere tiempo, replicación y consolidación. Si la aceleración se vuelve norma, la circulación puede confundirse con solidez. El riesgo no es la desaparición de la verdad, sino el adelgazamiento de sus bases.

03.03.2026 13:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

8/9 La situación es ambigua. La ciencia necesita disrupción, porque sin novedad hay estancamiento. Sin embargo, como advierte Lipovetsky, la hipermodernidad convierte la renovación en mandato. Cuando renovarse es obligatorio, la profundidad compite con la visibilidad.

03.03.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

7/9 Cuando la novedad es recompensada, los conceptos proliferan. Surgen nuevos nombres para variaciones menores; los marcos se multiplican más rápido de lo que se integran. Bourdieu lo llamaría posicionamiento dentro del campo. La diferenciación puede desplazar a la integración.

03.03.2026 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

6/9 Escribo como científico formado para cuestionar. Esa formación hoy se extiende a la propia literatura científica. No por rechazo, sino por reconocer que la ciencia opera dentro de una estructura hipermoderna. Leer críticamente es también percibir el ritmo que nos gobierna.

03.03.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

5/9 La aceleración acorta los ciclos de relevancia. Los marcos teóricos apenas se estabilizan antes de la siguiente ola. La innovación impulsa el descubrimiento, pero al volverse mandato, la obsolescencia se acelera. El riesgo no es la falsedad, sino la fragilidad epistemológica.

03.03.2026 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

4/9 Lipovetsky sostiene que la seducción organiza la modernidad tardía (reciente). En ciencia, lo disruptivo o de frontera no solo describe hallazgos; también posiciona. El artículo circula como conocimiento y signo. La estética del “breakthrough” se cruza con los resultados.

03.03.2026 13:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3/9 Bourdieu señala en “Homo Academicus” que la academia es un campo de capital simbólico. Reconocimiento y citación no son efectos 2rios, sino estructura. Si la novedad deviene capital central, los investigadores se alinean con ese sistema. La tendencia puede ser estructura.

03.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2/9 En “El imperio de lo efímero”, Lipovetsky afirma que la modernidad consagra la obsolescencia y el culto a lo nuevo. La moda es una lógica de reemplazo continuo. Hoy, la novedad en la publicación científica opera bajo un imperativo similar. Pero lo nuevo no siempre profundiza.

03.03.2026 13:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

1/9 La innovación en ciencia es indispensable. Pero en la condición hipermoderna, la novedad puede volverse requisito de legitimidad. En “Los tiempos hipermodernos”, Gilles Lipovetsky describe una cultura de aceleración. ¿Qué ocurre cuando la ciencia adopta ese ritmo?

03.03.2026 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

La semana pasada escribí en inglés una reflexión sobre hipermodernidad y publicación científica. Vuelvo ahora a ella en español, no buscando repetirla, sino con la intención de pensarla nuevamente.

03.03.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Nonnative forestry plantations: invasion epicenters?
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

02.03.2026 15:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Cryptic species are widespread across vertebrates 🦈🐸🐢🐍🦎🐦‍⬛🦭🦧
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

26.02.2026 13:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Conservation targets and how to achieve them
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

26.02.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Science will not collapse, for sure. It still generates truths. But truth requires time, replication, and consolidation. If acceleration becomes the norm, circulation may be mistaken for solidity. The risk is subtle: not truth’s disappearance, but thinner foundations.

25.02.2026 13:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The tragedy is ambiguous. Science requires disruption, and without novelty, it would stagnate. Yet, as Lipovetsky argues, hypermodernity transforms renewal into a permanent injunction. When renewal becomes compulsory, depth must compete with visibility.

25.02.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Under conditions where novelty is rewarded, concepts proliferate. New terms emerge for incremental variations; frameworks multiply faster than they consolidate. Bourdieu would describe this as positioning within the field. Differentiation can outpace integration.

25.02.2026 13:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I write this as a scientist trained to doubt and question appearances. That training now extends to the literature itself. Not from hostility, but from recognizing that science operates within a hypermodern structure. Critical reading becomes awareness of tempo.

25.02.2026 13:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Acceleration shortens cycles of relevance. Theoretical frameworks barely stabilize before the next conceptual wave. Innovation propels discovery. Yet when it becomes mandatory, obsolescence accelerates. The danger is not falsity, but epistemic fragility.

25.02.2026 13:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lipovetsky suggests seduction becomes central to late modernity. In science, the rhetoric of the “cutting-edge” or “disruptive” signals frontier status. A scientific paper circulates not only as knowledge, but as sign. Breakthrough becomes aesthetic as well as argument.

25.02.2026 13:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In Homo Academicus, Pierre Bourdieu describes academia as a field structured by struggles for symbolic capital. Recognition and citation are structural, not incidental. When novelty becomes capital, researchers adapt accordingly. What looks like trend may simply be alignment.

25.02.2026 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In The Empire of Fashion, Lipovetsky links modernity to obsolescence and the cult of the new. Fashion becomes a logic of replacement. And in scientific publishing, to be publishable is to be new. But, does the new deepen understanding?

25.02.2026 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Scientific innovation is essential to knowledge. In the hypermodern condition, novelty risks becoming a prerequisite for legitimacy rather than the outcome of inquiry. In Hypermodern Times, Gilles Lipovetsky describes a culture of acceleration. What if science adopts that tempo?

25.02.2026 13:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It has aged well 🦜

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03.02.2026 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As time goes by, our proposal of independent conservation units for cis- and trans-Andean Pyrrhura parakeets from 2012 receives more support: first Arndt & Wink (2017), then Smith et al. (2024), and now this study by Morin-Lagos et al. (2026)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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03.02.2026 13:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Egg Characteristics of Female Common Terns Are Repeatable, and Vary With Maternal Age and Laying Order | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

01.12.2025 17:59 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type Why do birds build nests at different speeds? Nest building is crucial for reproductive success, but the drivers of its varying duration across species wer

Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type 🐦‍⬛
doi.org/10.1093/behe...

02.12.2025 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

03.09.2025 13:01 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

01.09.2025 13:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

29.08.2025 13:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0