Leonardo A. Saravia

Leonardo A. Saravia

I am a professor/researcher of biology/ecology at UNGS

First post

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I don’t know exactly why I chose this name for this blog, it was the first thing that came to my mind when I thought about my own science blog. I had blogs about poetry and short stories (in Spanish) but this is a new challenge it was slowly forged inside me from some time ago, this last step was inspired by a note about open science by Carly Strasser and by the Oikos blog, that was the first blog about ecology I met. So I am a ecologist interested in biodiversity usually working with models and data, I will try post the things that go through my head in the process of making and learning open science. Posting will be in English but sometimes I will post in Spanish so in any case we have big brother’s help of google translation. One more thing, I googled the name of the blog and this note about blue water thinking appeared, I will reproduce the first phrase. Here we go:

[The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. –Albert Einstein]{style="font-style: italic;"}\

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  1. Hubbell SP (2005) Neutral theory in community ecology and the hypothesis of functional equivalence. Funct Ecol 19: 166–172. doi:10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00965.x. ↩
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