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CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11
Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024. https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 58m
Celebro ver cada vez más libros de ecología en la colección ¿Qué sabemos de? @cataratalibros.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csic.es
¡Regala ecología!

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🪰🕷🌼💙📚 @annatraveset.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social
Foto de 4 libros de ecología de la colección ¿Qué sabemos de? Ed Catarata y CSIC

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 3d
"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.
William Bond, defender of grasslands
In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...
www.butlernature.com

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 3d
My blog is back after a few months of technical issues. It now updates correctly, so you can see my recent posts on: the 2025 Spain & Portugal fires, Hutto's book on severe fires, the passing of W. Bond, afforestation & fire severity, sequoia(dendron), and more jgpausas.blogs.uv.es

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire
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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 3d
'Incendios forestales. Una introducción a la ecología del fuego', de Juli G. Pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social. Colección #QuéSabemosDe coeditada con @CSIC.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social buff.ly/QTYhkzx

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 4d
And here are a few more pics of William; these are much more recent. I met him much later than you. Note that in the first, you are also in the pic, @schwilk.org, taken by Jon Keeley, together with other fire ecologists. 🌎🔥

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j.g. pausas' blog » Homage to William Bond
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 6d
"Algunos textos medievales dicen que se sabía cuáles eran las carrascas de mejor bellota fijándose en las ramas rotas, pues significaba que los osos se habían alimentado de ellas"
José Fajardo (2023)

🍜 🍽️ #traditional #food #acorns #oaks #bellotas #lentejas
Foto de un plato de lentjas con bellotas, extraida del Libro "Cuando canta la garlocha" de José Fajardo (2023)

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 8d
Regalos justos y necesarios.
Regala a personas refugiadas por culpa de guerras inhumanas y genocidios absurdos. Hay de todos los precios, no hay excusa para no contribuir ...
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Home - El Regalo Justo
ESTAS NAVIDADES, MANDA UN REGALO REALMENTE NECESARIO VER TODOS LOS REGALOS El regalo justo es el regalo que más lejos llega. Surge de la necesidad límite de ayudar a la población refugiada de Palestin...
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 11d
Technological progress comes with social costs. A new paper by Stefan Thurner et al. shows that "polarization started to increase exactly with the advent of smartphones and social media."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies | PNAS
Over the past two decades, the number of close social connections increased substantially, at least by a factor of two. At the same time, societal ...
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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 11d
I don’t see the papers but occasionally see articles on this, e.g. this from Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/chrisw...

And this one which has a list of references
www.ie.edu/center-for-h...

I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for tutors/supervisors to come up with a credible list of papers to share.

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 11d
It would be helpful to have a list of key papers dealing with the cognitive effects of AI to distribute among students.

Reposted by Juli G. Pausas, Tuomas Mattila, Christina Dollinger

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 11d
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 12d
This website may be of interest to you; it includes books and papers (free download) on #fireecology 🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌿

www.uv.es/jgpausas/fir...

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 13d
¡Porque lo importante y placentero es el acto de tomar la fotografía!

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 13d
“Some places are in and of themselves too special to be altered by logging operations, an old-growth forest is one and a severely burned forest is another.” R. Hutto
doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 13d
*In Defense of Severe Fires*
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
My review of Hutto's book, BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social

Severely burned forests are “magical places that seem to harbor plant & animal species & visual experiences found under no other forest conditions"

PDF: DM

🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌱 wildfire
Book: A Beautifully Burned Forest: Learning to Celebrate Severe Forest Fire, by Richard L. Hutto. Springer, 2025.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 14d
It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI.

Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 15d
Record-Breaking 2025 European Wildfires Concentrated in Northwest Iberia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

~541000ha burnt under extreme monthly FWI
Shrublands were +vely selected by fire & to a lesser extent pines. Oaks & crops were -vely selected
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Map of the Burned area in August 2025 across the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (NW-IP; orange), highlighting megafires (> 10,000 ha; red). Scatterplot of monthly Buned Aarea versus Fire Weather Iindex in the NW Iberian Peninsula for 1985–2025. Plot of the burn selectivity in August 2025 for the NW-IP: black dots show the fraction of BA for each vegetation class. “Pinus” and “Quercus” include natural, semi-natural, naturalized and plantations of native species. The red triangles indicate the presence of each class in the study area (i.e., what fraction of that vegetation class would have burned if fires were equally affecting all vegetation classes). Black error bars are 95% confidence intervals estimated through a conservative leave-one-fire-out jackknife.

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 17d
*The role of fire on Earth*

The final version of this paper is now available #OA in BioScience 75 (12) @aibsbiology.bsky.social
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🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire #ecoevo @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Aug 25
New paper: The role of fire on Earth
doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social
Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet.

🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 17d
Ostras, me los he perdido! Volveré por allí.
Vi lo que parecían pisadas de un vertebrado grande, pero no tomé foto, grgr ...

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Juli Peretó @julipereto.bsky.social · 17d
#EspaiCiència @octubreccc.bsky.social @iec.cat @acpv.cat @ucciuv.bsky.social s'ajorna el Bar de Ciències del dimecres 10 de desembre sobre incendis forestals amb Juli Pausas i @socreisjuan.bsky.social @revistametode.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es Disculpeu les molèsties.

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 18d
When you go for a walk with a geologist, you see some things you wouldn't otherwise see ... Here is a fossil coastal dune with lots of holes from ancient roots!!

Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain
🧪 🌿🌱🌾🪴🦖 Geology geoscience #fossil
Walking on a fossil dune Ancient root holes in a fossil dune Ancient root in a fossil dune Ancient root holes in a fossil dune

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 18d
He died on December 4th (the funeral will be on the 12th)

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 18d
Evidence of climate change cycles (Milankovitch cycles) preserved in the rock record!
Hard limestones: warmer periods
Soft marls: colder periods

Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain
🧪 Geology geoscience
Rocky area showing alternate hard (limestone) and soft (marls) layers, indicative of warmer and colder periods, respectively (geological scale)

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 19d
To remember William Bond, you could listen to his powerful talk on behalf of grasses! It is a seminal lesson in savanna ecology. Personally, I also find it nice to hear his voice.

jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2021/02/21/a...

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience #savanna
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 21d
I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience
Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 21d
I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience
Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23d
"La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ha convocado una Playa de Ayudante Doctor para el área de incendios forestales y aprovechamientos. Plaza Nº 0039 del ANEXO I" www.upm.es/Personal/PDI...
🌳🔥🍁🔥

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23d
ok, I'm calling here @carbonbrief.org in case they want to correct their mistake

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23d
I guess they mean 800 million hectares, which is probably a bit closer to the size of Australia ...

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Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social · 23d
Hoy ve la luz esta nueva plataforma de datos: Flora Uruguaya Online 🌼🇺🇾. Gran trabajo liderado por Mauricio Bonifacino, Ary Mailhos, y colegas florauruguaya.org. La publicación que acompaña el lanzamiento está disponible acá doi.org/10.1002/tax.... 🧪🌎
Flora Uruguaya Online – Catálogo de la flora vascular del Uruguay
Catálogo taxonómico y base de datos científica dedicada a la flora vascular del Uruguay. Presenta información actualizada sobre nomenclatura, orígenes, hábitos, ambientes, distribución, imágenes y col...
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