Leandro R. Monteiro
@carolliafreak.bsky.social
Professor at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF). Evolutionary Biology, Statistics, Bats.
Pinned
Mammal Ecology and Evolution - Bats LTR
Adaptation in face of environmental change
Enquiries can be directed to Prof. Leandro R. Monteiro: lrmont(at)uenf.br
10-Year milestone reached!! Read our recap of the project during this period.
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Ever considered applying for graduate school in #brazil? We have positions for graduate students (#masters and #phd to work in a long term mark-recapture study of #bats . Check our projects at:
sites.google.com/uenf.br/mamm...
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New article from our research group 🦇.
doi.org/10.25225/jvb...
Wing morphology correlates and functional consequences of alternative reproductive tactics in Seba’s short-tailed bats, Carollia perspicillata
doi.org/10.25225/jvb...
Wing morphology correlates and functional consequences of alternative reproductive tactics in Seba’s short-tailed bats, Carollia perspicillata
July 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
New article from our research group 🦇.
doi.org/10.25225/jvb...
Wing morphology correlates and functional consequences of alternative reproductive tactics in Seba’s short-tailed bats, Carollia perspicillata
doi.org/10.25225/jvb...
Wing morphology correlates and functional consequences of alternative reproductive tactics in Seba’s short-tailed bats, Carollia perspicillata
🦇 Postdoc fellowship opportunity for Mammal Collection Curator at UENF, Brazil (instructions in Portuguese). Join an active research group in a vibrant Institution in Brazil:
sites.google.com/uenf.br/ecol...
sites.google.com/uenf.br/ecol...
Ecologia e Evolução de Mamíferos
O Grupo de Pesquisa Ecologia e Evolução de Mamíferos é coordenado pelo Professor Dr. Leandro Rabello Monteiro, do Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy ...
sites.google.com
June 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
🦇 Postdoc fellowship opportunity for Mammal Collection Curator at UENF, Brazil (instructions in Portuguese). Join an active research group in a vibrant Institution in Brazil:
sites.google.com/uenf.br/ecol...
sites.google.com/uenf.br/ecol...
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New paper sharing our findings on the mandible morphology of South American coatis. Available at the Journal of Mammalogy:
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
@lcarneiro.bsky.social
@carolliafreak.bsky.social
@mammalogists.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
@lcarneiro.bsky.social
@carolliafreak.bsky.social
@mammalogists.bsky.social
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May 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
New paper sharing our findings on the mandible morphology of South American coatis. Available at the Journal of Mammalogy:
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
@lcarneiro.bsky.social
@carolliafreak.bsky.social
@mammalogists.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
@lcarneiro.bsky.social
@carolliafreak.bsky.social
@mammalogists.bsky.social
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🦇🌿 Why are most species in nature rare?🌐
Our new study on Neotropical bats 🌎reveals a key insight:
Rare species are not less successful, they are more functionally different.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@funecology.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
#Bats #Ecology
Our new study on Neotropical bats 🌎reveals a key insight:
Rare species are not less successful, they are more functionally different.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@funecology.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
#Bats #Ecology
April 27, 2026 at 1:48 PM
🦇🌿 Why are most species in nature rare?🌐
Our new study on Neotropical bats 🌎reveals a key insight:
Rare species are not less successful, they are more functionally different.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@funecology.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
#Bats #Ecology
Our new study on Neotropical bats 🌎reveals a key insight:
Rare species are not less successful, they are more functionally different.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@funecology.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
#Bats #Ecology
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Just wrote a post about something that many method developers have been grappling with for a while now:
"Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()"
nso-journals.org/all-news/vie...
"Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()"
nso-journals.org/all-news/vie...
View from the editor's desk: From code to credit — NSO Journals
Citing software packages is essential, but treating them as the origin rather than the implementation of ideas risks obscuring the intellectual history of methods. Read more from Oikos Editor-in-Chief...
nso-journals.org
March 24, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Just wrote a post about something that many method developers have been grappling with for a while now:
"Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()"
nso-journals.org/all-news/vie...
"Citing software and crediting original methods in the age of install.packages()"
nso-journals.org/all-news/vie...
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Fluctuating asymmetry(FA) is a common estimator of developmental stability. A genome-wide screen of deficiency lines that induce developmental instability in #Drosophila identifies new deficiencies that either enhance or reduce FA.
@vincentdebat.bsky.social
More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr
(5/7)
@vincentdebat.bsky.social
More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr
(5/7)
March 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Fluctuating asymmetry(FA) is a common estimator of developmental stability. A genome-wide screen of deficiency lines that induce developmental instability in #Drosophila identifies new deficiencies that either enhance or reduce FA.
@vincentdebat.bsky.social
More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr
(5/7)
@vincentdebat.bsky.social
More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr
(5/7)
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📘 New book out soon !
I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners
#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners
#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
February 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM
📘 New book out soon !
I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners
#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press
Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners
#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
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One of the top struggles I hear from researchers is keeping your word count down while writing papers. 📉
Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/
#AcWri #phd #Postdoc
Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/
#AcWri #phd #Postdoc
How to Reduce Word Count
Your scientific paper draft exceeds your journal's word limit? Here is how to cut down the word count - without reducing the content! Must-read for every researcher.
annaclemens.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM
One of the top struggles I hear from researchers is keeping your word count down while writing papers. 📉
Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/
#AcWri #phd #Postdoc
Here's how to write short and concisely: https://annaclemens.com/blog/reduce-word-count-scientific-paper-grant-proposal/
#AcWri #phd #Postdoc
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Reposted by Leandro R. Monteiro
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
Reposted by Leandro R. Monteiro
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
We need to focus on academia-friendly journals! I will definitely use this as a guide to my next submissions.
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We need to focus on academia-friendly journals! I will definitely use this as a guide to my next submissions.
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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Everything you know about vampire bats is a lie! Okay, well they do drink blood, but who hasn’t? Let’s look at their good qualities.
🩸 cute
🩸 great friends
🩸 wonderful mothers
🩸 regurgitate blood for each other
🩸 cute
🩸 great friends
🩸 wonderful mothers
🩸 regurgitate blood for each other
October 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Everything you know about vampire bats is a lie! Okay, well they do drink blood, but who hasn’t? Let’s look at their good qualities.
🩸 cute
🩸 great friends
🩸 wonderful mothers
🩸 regurgitate blood for each other
🩸 cute
🩸 great friends
🩸 wonderful mothers
🩸 regurgitate blood for each other
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Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
Reposted by Leandro R. Monteiro
Agro AMEAÇA derrubar 50 vetos ao pacote da destruição.
Não é "bancada ruralista", temos q chamar de
BANCADA DO ATRASO
BANCADA DO AGROTÓXICO
BANCADA DA CORRUPÇÃO
BANCADA DA DESTRUIÇÃO.
A FPA é a síntese de tudo de ruim q existe no país, um tumor maligno.
www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...
Não é "bancada ruralista", temos q chamar de
BANCADA DO ATRASO
BANCADA DO AGROTÓXICO
BANCADA DA CORRUPÇÃO
BANCADA DA DESTRUIÇÃO.
A FPA é a síntese de tudo de ruim q existe no país, um tumor maligno.
www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...
Agro avalia derrubar até 50 vetos de Lula a lei do licenciamento ambiental
A bancada ruralista avalia derrubar até 50 vetos de Lula na lei que altera as regras para o licenciamento ambiental —foram 63 vetos do presidente no total.O que aconteceuHá dois temas considerados ine...
www.uol.com.br
August 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Agro AMEAÇA derrubar 50 vetos ao pacote da destruição.
Não é "bancada ruralista", temos q chamar de
BANCADA DO ATRASO
BANCADA DO AGROTÓXICO
BANCADA DA CORRUPÇÃO
BANCADA DA DESTRUIÇÃO.
A FPA é a síntese de tudo de ruim q existe no país, um tumor maligno.
www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...
Não é "bancada ruralista", temos q chamar de
BANCADA DO ATRASO
BANCADA DO AGROTÓXICO
BANCADA DA CORRUPÇÃO
BANCADA DA DESTRUIÇÃO.
A FPA é a síntese de tudo de ruim q existe no país, um tumor maligno.
www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...
Starting the II Latin American Evolution Congress in Tucuman.
July 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Starting the II Latin American Evolution Congress in Tucuman.
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A very interesting off-piste trek at the Reserva Biológica União in the Atlantic Rainforest, led by Prof. Leandro Monteiro, to set some camera traps. #UniversityOfHull #FieldStudies #Brazil #UENF
July 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A very interesting off-piste trek at the Reserva Biológica União in the Atlantic Rainforest, led by Prof. Leandro Monteiro, to set some camera traps. #UniversityOfHull #FieldStudies #Brazil #UENF
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Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World
Bats fatten to cope in environments with seasonal energy shortages, gaining more weight in seasonally cold climates and in tropical climates with highly seasonal rainfall. In cold climates, females l...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2)
dafnee.isem-evolution.fr
🧪 #science
dafnee.isem-evolution.fr
🧪 #science
DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution
dafnee.isem-evolution.fr
June 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2)
dafnee.isem-evolution.fr
🧪 #science
dafnee.isem-evolution.fr
🧪 #science
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"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
May 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.