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Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026

With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM? > We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions. 1/n

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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 25/07/2026

¿Sabías que, da igual si estás en el Caribe, en el Océano Índico o en el Mar Rojo, todos los arrecifes del planeta siguen la mismísima regla matemática universal?

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Los arrecifes de coral parecen distintos alrededor del mundo pero siguen las mismas reglas matemáticas

Los arrecifes parecen caóticos cuando los observamos uno a uno. Pero al medirlos todos juntos, muestran un orden inesperado.

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Àlex Giménez Romero @agimenezromero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Nice work from our PhD student, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Cabanillas! @mamatias26.bsky.social Here we develop an epidemic model that links thermal-dependent within-host pathogen dynamics to host infectiousness (age of infection). And some counterintuitive results appear... Check it out!

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Universitat de les Illes Balears - UIB @uib.cat · 03/07/2026

#RecercaUIB | 🌊🌡️ L'estrès tèrmic crònic i acumulat pot deteriorar i fragmentar les praderies de #Posidonia oceanica, fins i tot quan els termòmetres es mantenen per sota dels límits crítics de supervivència. @csic.es @ifisc.uib-csic.es @ceabcsic.bsky.social 🔗 diari.uib.cat/w/l-estres-t...

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CSIC @csic.es · 02/07/2026

🌊Las praderas #posidonia son clave en los ecosistemas costeros del #Mediterráneo 🌏Sin embargo, un estrés 'invisible' las está deteriorando 🔬Un estudio del @ifisc.uib-csic.es y @ceabcsic.bsky.social muestra el impacto del estrés térmico crónico y acumulado 👉 tiny.cc/t106101

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Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) @ceabcsic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

⚡MSCA-PF 2026 hosting offer at #CEAB! Integrative ecology, population dynamics & conservation modelling with Prof. Daniel Oro. 📍 Blanes ⏳ EOI: 30/07/2026 More details 👇

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MSCA-PF Supervision Opportunity: Integrative Ecology, Population Dynamics and Conservation Modelling

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BSC-CNS @bsc-cns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🦠 Un estudi del BSC i l'IRB qüestiona la idea que la complexitat cel·lular sorgís a partir d'una única trobada evolutiva i apunta a un procés gradual d'interaccions entre diferents microorganismes que va durar milions d'anys. 🔘 Publicat a Nature. ➡ www.bsc.es/4ig (🎨Il·lustracions: Laura Fraile)

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A demographic framework for assessing population vulnerability to contrasting perturbation regimes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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IFISC @ifisc.uib-csic.es · 12/01/2026

🌊 La IA también puede proteger el Mediterráneo. Investigadores del IFISC y el @ceabcsic.bsky.social desarrollan un modelo con imágenes satelitales para mapear y conservar la posidonia, uno de los grandes sumideros de carbono. ✍Ángeles Durán para @eldiario.es 🔗 www.eldiario.es/illes-balear...

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El desafío de mapear un mundo oculto: IA y científicos se alían para salvar la posidonia

Investigadores desarrollan un modelo para registrar las praderas a gran escala, un avance clave para proteger uno de los mayores sumideros de carbono y refugios de biodiversidad

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Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) @ceabcsic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Differences between adults and juveniles matter for #ecosystem stability. Study by researchers from @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es & CEAB-CSIC offers a model with this often-ignored aspect 👇 www.ceab.csic.es/en/les-diferencies…

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Àlex Giménez Romero @agimenezromero.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨 New paper out! We show that the resolution of climate data matters for predicting disease risk. High-resolution maps reveal local risks — especially in river valleys — that coarser data miss. This has a significant impact on a global scale. 🔗 rdcu.be/eH67i @ifisc.uib-csic.es @csic.es @uib.cat

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High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide

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IFISC @ifisc.uib-csic.es · 28/08/2025

📢 New publication: High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce's Disease for grapevines worldwide by @agimenezromero.bsky.social, Eduardo Moralejo and @mamatias26.bsky.social, in Scientific Reports. 🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/publicati...

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High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people. I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going. I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement. go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj

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Violeta Calleja Solanas @violetacalleja.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Surviving #SIBECOLAEET2025 until Thursday at 15:45? Come hear my talk! ( 🐝 photo by @curromolina.bsky.social )

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Mosquito Alert @mosquitoalert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🎓¿Buscas TFG o TFM? 🦟¿Te interesa la ecología, el comportamiento animal y los mosquitos? 🌿Únete en verano 2025 a un proyecto experimental en el @ceabcsic.bsky.social y el Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (Blanes). 🔝 Oviposición, depredadores y kairomonas 📩 +info 👇

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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Disponible #LaVacaEsférica S01E12 Episodio ninja: El Efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3NYf... Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_R... Y en breve en todas las apps y plataformas: Apple Podcasts, iVoox, Pocket casts, RSS feed, etc. +👇

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S01E12 Episodio ninja: El efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas

La vaca esférica · Episode

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IFISC @ifisc.uib-csic.es · 03/03/2025

🪸 @quantamagazine.bsky.social has published an article highlighting the innovative work of Dr. Eva Llabrés, postdoctoral researcher at IFISC. The article details her development of a "universal" model of coral growth. 🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/dr-e...

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Àlex Giménez Romero @agimenezromero.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Btw, my PhD thesis is now on Zenodo! It’s a mix of theoretical and data-driven models tackling ecological problems—disease spread, climate change, and ecosystem monitoring. If that sounds interesting, take a look: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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CSIC @csic.es · 07/02/2025

🦠Un estudio sugiere que el #cambioclimático abre la puerta a una enfermedad de la vid que Europa esquivó hace 150 años 🌳El @ifisc.uib-csic.es y Tragsa analizan la expansión de la enfermedad de Pierce, que hace 10 años que se extiende por el Mediterráneo 👉 tiny.cc/va69001

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IFISC @ifisc.uib-csic.es · 07/02/2025

¿Cómo esquivó Europa la enfermedad de Pierce hace 150 años? 🧐🍇 Un estudio del IFISC publicado en Proc. R. Soc. B revela que el clima más frío impidió la propagación de Xylella fastidiosa. Sin embargo, el #CambioClimático podría cambiar el panorama. 🌍 www.csic.es/es/actualida...

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La Marea @lamarea.com · 02/02/2025

En Italia, algunos científicos no creen que la solución sea destruir los ejemplares infectados por la bacteria Xylell y apuestan por soluciones alternativas, algo que investigadores españoles consideran que no es viable Con el apoyo de Journalismfund Europe

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Xylella fastidiosa: la bacteria que deseca Alicante y Baleares y que ahora amenaza a Extremadura | lamarea.com

En las diferentes regiones afectadas por la enfermedad provocada por la Xylella fastidiosa, la opinión de los agricultores es dispar

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IFISC @ifisc.uib-csic.es · 23/01/2025

Com les matemàtiques ens poden ajudar a conservar els esculls de coral? 🪸 L'investigador de l'IFISC @agimenezromero.bsky.social va participar en el programa Arran de Mar de Tarragona Ràdio comentant els resultats del seu darrer article. 📻 alacarta.tarragonaradio.cat/programs/arr...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 24/12/2024

For those of us who are not professional biologists, it can be daunting to hear about transcription factors, signaling pathways and non-coding RNA. But this poignant piece from @philipcball.bsky.social opened my eyes to how deep and essential these ideas truly are. nautil.us/how-life-rea...

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How Life Really Works

Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.

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SalGo Team @salgoteam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Looking forward to #BES2024 this week! Look out for talks and posters by members of the SalGoTeam - hope to see you there! 🎄🧪

BES conference schedule. Day 1, Wednesday 11th December.
10:45, Man Qi, Auditorium 1C.
11:15, Chris Terry, Room 4A.
12:15, Aryaman Gupta, Room 4A.
16:30, Sean E. H. Pang, Room 3B.
18:00, Young Jun Lee, Poster Hall.
18:00, Sarah Bull, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 2, Thursday 12th December.
12:00, Thomas Stone, Room 11B.
12:15, Oliver Spacey, Room 4A.
16:30, Sarah Sophie-Weil, Room 4A.
17:00, Alice Rosen, Poster Hall.
17:00, Jessie McLean, Poster Hall.
17:00, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 3, Friday 13th December.
10:00, Christina Hernandez, Auditorium 1C.
10:15, Rachael Thornley, Room 11A.
10:45, Rob Salguero-Gomez, Room 11A.
11:45, James Cant, Auditorium 1C.
13:00, Alex Gimenez-Romero, Auditorium 1C.

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Young Jun Lee @yjmosslee.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Very excited to be presenting preliminary results of my master's research with @salgoteam.bsky.social at #BES2024! Find me at the poster session on Weds (A17.10) to chat about life stage-dependent plant competition and quantitative modelling of its impact on community dynamics and coexistence 🌿📈

An illustration depicting the key idea of the research project. The text in the top left reads "PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE?" in all caps. Below are two characters representing large reproductive individuals of different species of Asteraceae, and two characters representing small individuals of these species. The large individuals are drawn engaging in a fight in an argument, as well as the small individuals. However, the fight is only happening between individuals of the same life stage.

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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

1/ We’re excited to share our new paper: "Optimal COVID-19 vaccine prioritization by age depends critically on inter-group contacts and vaccination rates" published in Royal Society Open Science. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Optimal COVID-19 vaccine prioritization by age depends critically on inter-group contacts and vaccination rates

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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My pick for In Other Journals in this week's Science. Moralejo et al look at the reasons why there was no epidemic of Pierce's disease in European grapes in the last 150 years but suggest it might happen in the future. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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In Other Journals

Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature

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Pierre @pcauchy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Are you excited about marine soundscapes? Interested in contributing to tackling the ocean noise challenge and mitigating its effects on marine life? 🌊🧪🎙️🐋 I have nice opportunities coming your way, MSc and postdoc projects building on a 4+ years dataset collected in the St. Lawrence. Stay tuned…

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