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Gracielle Teixeira Higino
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science enthusiast.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Ecology and Evolution
Brazil / Canada
Universidade Federal de Goiás / Université de Montréal
2020 - 2017
- Macroecology of ecological interactions
- CAPES and NSERC CREATE BIOS2 fellow
MSc. Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation
Maceió, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
2016 - 2014
- Macroecological and scientometric analyses of biodiversity gradients
- CAPES fellow
BSc. Biological Sciences
Maceió, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
2012 - 2008
- Androchromatism evolution in odonate genera Ischnura
Research Experience
Biologist
Maceió, Brazil
Instituto do Meio Ambiente Herbarium
2016
- Curatorship and administrative assistant
Teaching Experience
IGNITE instructor
Brazil / Canada
IGNITE
current - 2018
- Co-leader and instructor of the IGNITE SciComm trainings
- Basics of SciComm, written communication, open air activities, project management, inclusion and accessibility
BIOS2/IGNITE SciComm training
online
BIOS2/IGNITE
2020
- Basics of SciComm, blog posts and Twitter
Data Driven Ecological Synthesis Summer School
online
Université de Montréal
2020
- Teacher Assistant
- Project management, storytelling with data, mentoring
Data Trek
Montréal, Canada
IVADO/AÉBINUM/PoisotLab
2020 - 2019
- Project management, programming logic with Julia, data wrangling with Julia, git and version control
Population Ecology
Goiânia, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Goiás
2019
- Teacher Assistant
- Population dynamics models
Julia CluBR
Goiânia and Maceió, Brazil
N/A
2019
- Julia syntax, data wrangling and visualization
Biological Evolution Study Group
Maceió, Brazil
N/A
2016 - 2014
- Microevolution (4h course), basic concepts in Evolution (8h course)
Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution
Maceió, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
2015
- Teacher Assistant
- Niche, competition
Mathematical Biology
Maceió, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
2015
- Teacher Assistant
- Science communication with data
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Mapping and understanding the digital biodiversity knowledge about vertebrates in the Atlantic Rainforest
N/A
N/A
2020
- Assessment of the inventory incompleteness for the Atlantic Rainforest biodiversity data, concerning amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles.
- https://ecoevorxiv.org/c63vj/
- In review
Data bias in the Atlantic Rainforest: uncovering the elephant in the room
Montréal, Canada
Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science
2020
Islands of biodiversity digital knowledge on the Atlantic Rainforest and the environmental variables behind them
Belfast, UK
British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
2019
Science Communication, empathy and everyday resistance
São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei
2018
- The importance of empathy in Science Communication in difficult political contexts
Women in Science: a Jurassic challenge
Goiânia, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Goiás
2018
- Challenges women face in the science career
Como nossos pais
Goiânia, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Goiás
2018
- Old and new strategies in Science Communication
Ecology and Evolution: a love story better than Twilight
Maceió, Brazil
II Encontro Alagoano de Evolução
2018
- History of Quantitative Ecology and its relation with Evolution
How “open” is your science?
Viçosa, Brazil
XIII Congresso de Ecologia do Brasil / III International Symposium of Ecology and Evolution
2017
- The role of science communication in the open science movement