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David García Callejas

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Community ecologist working at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!
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PULSE — Virginia Domínguez-García
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📣We will soon be back for a new run of open online theoretical ecology seminars! We have six exciting speakers covering topics from all corners of the field to add to your calendars: In the meantime, there are 80+ previous talks on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great collection of Shiny apps (and R package) for #teaching #ecology. Apps come in different languages (including Spanish) ecoevoapps.gitlab.io
Partial list of Shiny apps designed for teaching ecology, hosted at https://ecoevoapps.gitlab.io/
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📖 Published📖 Forecasting ecological trajectories from ecological dynamic regimes to improve resilience analysis🌲 🌥️ 📈 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Forecasting ecological trajectories from ecological dynamic regimes to improve resilience analysis
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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our paper has just been published in the latest issue of @nature.com! We analysed 318 food webs spanning marine, freshwater & soil ecosystems worldwide & found that ecosystem functioning increases consistently with biodiversity across multiple trophic levels. 🌐🧪🕷️🦠🍄🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning - Nature
Analyses of the relationship between taxon richness and multi-trophic ecosystem functioning across marine, lake, stream and soil ecosystems show that food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects...
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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FJI-PRECARIAS @fjiprecarios.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 Estamos desconcertados ante la falta de información sobre #RamónyCajal2026 Aunque existe una previsión de apertura, todavía no sabemos cuándo se publicará la convocatoria completa ni cómo será el nuevo proceso de evaluación @ageinves.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social 🧵👇🏻
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The log of the Dutch ship 'Gelderland' (1601-1603) had absolutely increadible sketches of the soon extinct bird fauna of Mauritius, included its flightless parrot, ibis and dodo Atributted to Joris Joostensz Laerle Check more drawings here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)
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Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD student to join our DEMOCAST team (globalchangeeco.com/jobs). The general project is about ecological forecasting, but there is lots of flexibility to develop the thesis. We are at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social this week if anyone is interested and wants to chat.
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social
Geographic distribution of the 318 food webs across four ecosystem types that were analysed to test how food web architecture modulates BEF relationships
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌍 How does biodiversity keep ecosystems functioning? A new study, published today in Nature, shows that healthy ecosystems depend on more than simply having many species. What really matters is the complex web of interactions between plants, herbivores and predators.
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Nature @nature.com · 18/06/2026
Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
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Journal of Statistical Ecology Journal of Statistical Ecology
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
¿Qué podemos hacer para frenar la extinción de las abejas? www.eldiario.es/andalucia/la... @ebdonana.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social
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¿Qué podemos hacer para frenar la extinción de las abejas?
El 20% de las abejas europeas están amenazadas. Con motivo del reciente Día Mundial de las Abejas —y de la publicación de La Lista Roja Europea— repasamos la situación actual de este polinizador y alg...
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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Segundas Jornadas de Ecoinformática @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social 1-3 de Octubre 2026 Sevilla Toda la info: ecoinfaeet.github.io/II_jornadas_...
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 04/05/2026
📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!
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spatialData: Cool Spatial Datasets
Provides spatial datasets ready to use for ecological modelling and raster companion data for prediction: Neanderthal presence during the Last Interglacial (Benito et al. 2017 <doi:10.1111/jbi.12845>)...
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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How general are aquatic food-web responses to climate change? You can't answer that from one site. New paper proposes PondNet, scaling up the IberianPond Network to a global experiment. @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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PondNet – towards a global network of experiments on the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems
Global change is reshaping the distribution of biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. Predicting the long-term consequences of such changes remains a challenge due to a need for a clear unde...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 22/04/2026
Absolutely. A single confabulated reference is enough for me to reject a paper as a reviewer or editor. This is only a problem if we let it be a problem.
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting: ⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐ Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!
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Kevin Watts @watts-km.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time” - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time
Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
'The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding' What a nice post on AI, education, learning, research and academia
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Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió @guimaguade.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Excited to announce Eco-Onco Exchange — a virtual seminar series bridging mathematical ecology and oncology. Each session pairs two speakers from each field around a shared theme, followed by joint discussion. First three sessions coming soon! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Don't miss today's Dynamic Ecology interview with @clsong.com. Jeremy wasn't lying when he wrote "Reading this is going to be way more entertaining and thought-provoking than whatever you were planning to spend the next 15 minutes doing." dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/i...
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“If you keep your mind too open, your brain falls out”: interview with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song
Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent(ish) interesting paper. Today’s interview is with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song. I asked Chuliang about Song & Levine 202…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/03/2026
Even if rich people were no more prone to believe stupid shit than you or me, it would still be a problem. After all, I believe in my share of stupid shit (and if you think none of the shit you believe in is stupid, I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe). 1/
A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court.


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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología. ¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica? ¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados? ¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras? Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇 aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...
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Christine N Meynard @cnmeynard.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Si conocen a jóvenes investigadorxs que tienen potencial para producir una revisión con una perspectiva interesante, difundan este anuncio! Queremos más sumisiones del Sur, y hay waivers para los costos de publicación. La primera fase es un resumen con una propuesta, simple! 🌐🧪
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!
Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail"
Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more! Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
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Juan Carvajal-Quintero @juancarvq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟
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Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene
The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.
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Pau Colom @paucolom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍 Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments. Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ylndmc.bsky.social
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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
¡Atención! 🔊 Llamada abierta a contribuir al monográfico "La paleoecología como herramienta para comprender el cambio global desde escalas temporales largas". Hasta marzo puedes mandar tu propuesta de contribución a este monográfico. Toda la información aquí: revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📣We will be back soon with a new series of online theory seminars! As ever, free and open for all via Zoom. Follow us on here, or join our email list (iite.info/seminar-emai...) for details. In the meantime, all our past talks are on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!
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Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
☀️ 2026 Summer School in the Pyrenees - Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity Applications are now open! This school offers a state-of-the-art overview for interdisciplinary theoreticians. 🗓️ July 5-11 🎯 PhD students to senior researchers ℹ️ intp.science/en/summer26.... 📭 contact@intp.science 🌐🧪
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David García Callejas @callejas.eurosky.social · 23/01/2026
si trabajas con el medio natural y computación, únete a la comunidad de ecoinformátic@s!! 👇
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/01/2026
🧪 Figuring out the right way to represent interactions as a network is a really difficult task, makes a big difference on the interpretation. In a new preprint by @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social we attempt to provide a hierarchical framework for network ecology: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Scaling from Metawebs to Realised Webs: A Hierarchical Approach to Network Ecology
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Interaction rewiring is a response, not simply a consequence, of environmental change. Observed rewiring boosts species persistence opportunities. This is one of the nicest ideas we tested in the lab recently. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... lead by @domgarvir.bsky.social
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Plant‐Pollinator Interaction Rewiring Boosts Year‐to‐Year Community Persistence
Our study shows that year-to-year changes in plant–pollinator interactions are not random but structured to enhance pollinator persistence, buffering communities against environmental fluctuations. U...
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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟽 @complenet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
📢 Keynotes unlocked: 12/12. Thrilled to have Virginia Domínguez-García @domgarvir.bsky.social as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #ecology and #networks! 🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com 🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 08/01/2026
I suspect that one of the reasons behind the widespread adoption of generative AI by faculty is that it gives people the illusion that they can still do the things they knew how to do as a postdoc. Gen AI is used as a poor substitute to maintaining core skills.
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David García Callejas @callejas.eurosky.social · 11/12/2025
hasta siempre, Robe
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
7ª ed. del curso 'Optimizando #Rstats para el análisis de datos en Ecología' 4-8 mayo 2026, Jaca, Huesca www.aeet.org/events/2026/...
Contenidos del curso
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Nerea Montes @nermonper.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉 With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches? Find out here👇 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Generalized plant–pollinator phenological climate‐driven advances still lead to a decline in phenological overlap
Climate change is altering the phenology of interacting species, potentially leading to mismatches in the timing of their interactions. This may affect the delivery of key ecosystem services such as ...
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Laura Hernández Mateo @laurahmt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hay #alternativa a editoriales comerciales q buscan el beneficio€ x encima de calidad 👉🏽Revistas Científicas gestionadas x la comunidad científica xra la comunidad como @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social entre otras #publish&read4Free #ModeloDiamante #4RealOpen&FairScience ¿A q modelo quieres contribuir?
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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
¡Atención! ¡Buscamos nuevos Editores Asociados! 🔎 Abrimos la convocatoria para incorporar nuevos editores asociados a nuestra plantilla, principalmente para aquellas áreas aún poco representadas. ¿Estás interesado/a? Te contamos más en los siguientes tweets.
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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