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Alba Anadon-Rosell
@albaanadon.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at @ub.edu, member of @geovegub.bsky.social,
@irbio-ub.bsky.social, and @humboldt-foundation.de
Plant ecology in alpine and Arctic ecosystems. #Shrubs and more
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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social
¡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.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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icbarrio.bsky.social
The 16 articles included in this collection @arcticsciencej.bsky.social provide an excellent overview of the diverse scientific disciplines studied in #Svalbard and celebrate the 30-yr anniversary of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) established in #Longyearbyen in 1993!
arcticsciencej.bsky.social Arctic Science Journal @arcticsciencej.bsky.social · 9d
How are Arctic ecosystems responding to rapid warming? This collection explores changes in vegetation, reindeer populations, and marine communities after 30 years of observation in Svalbard.

Read the science ▶️ https://ow.ly/i3OV50XpG7f
Night view of a snowy Arctic research station under a clear blue sky in Svalbard, highlighting 30 years of Earth System Science studies.
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
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.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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iavs5.bsky.social
📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain

Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!

📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026
IAVS Symposium 2026, Thematic 'Understanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation'.
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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kateplantphys.bsky.social
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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ymalhi.bsky.social
For anyone interested near Barcelona next week, I’ll be giving a seminar (followed by other contributions) on ““Energy flow as a way of understanding ecosystem change and nature recovery”, as part of receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize 😊
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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cathepreece.bsky.social
Congratulations Marcos! @burriach.bsky.social www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...
Marcos Fernández-Martínez receives the 'Ángeles Alvariño' national research award for his contribution in the field of ecology
Marcos Fernández Martínez, ERC researcher at CREAF, who has received the “Ángeles Alvariño” national research award in the category of Natural Resources Sciences and Technologies.
www.creaf.cat
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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geovegub.bsky.social
Des dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya s'ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral que afecta greument la gestió dels espais naturals. Aquesta situació compromet greument els objectius de conservació del patrimoni natural de Catalunya

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Denunciem la situació crítica dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i exigim solucions urgents
El personal dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i de la Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral ...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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miqueljover.bsky.social
Detail of the air pores of CONOCEPHALUM CONICUM, growing on a spring near the town of Anglès. Stacking of 56 photos at 6X. #bryophytes #liverworts
June 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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saocousins.bsky.social
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
su.varbi.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
albaanadon.bsky.social
One of the main research topics at #Geoveg are high mountain #mires. Have a look at the most recent publications focusing on #carbon stocks, mire #restoration, #drivers of alpine mire vegetation, and a new finding for the Iberian Flora: #Sphagnum #lindbergii spotted in the Pyrenees!
geovegub.bsky.social GeoVeg UB @geovegub.bsky.social · Oct 17
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Noves publicacions sobre molleres pirinenques

Nuevas publicaciones sobre turberas pirenaicas

Four new scientific publications focused on Pyrenean mires

shorturl.at/0J7tI

@irbio-ub.bsky.social
@craiubbiologia.bsky.social
@sibecol.bsky.social y.social
@eco-aeet.bsky.social
@sebot.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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ipe-csic.bsky.social
🔊Oportunidad de Doctorado: Proyecto GYPSME, Metabolismo del Azufre en Plantas de #suelos yesíferos.

Buscamos candidatos para #beca predoctoral de investigación (FPI) vinculada al proyecto.
📅Inicio 2026. Duración: 4 años

Más info en nuestro Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/posts/pyrene...
October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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milanchytry.bsky.social
Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...
October 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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annekempel.bsky.social
So happy to see the first BugNet paper published 🥳!
Thanks to all our collaborators, without you this would not have been possible! 👇
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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irbio-ub.bsky.social
#ArticleIRBio
🌍Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation
and Latitude Gradients
✍️ A.Anadon-Rosell, E.Illa, J.Ninot, A.Pérez-Haase (IRBioUB) et al
📄GlobalEcologyandBiogeography
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
@geovegub.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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ecologybasel.bsky.social
Still time to apply for the open #postdoc position in our team!
Note that the link has been updated: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
October 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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geovegub.bsky.social
Nova publicació del GEOVEG sobre variabilitat intraindividual (dins un mateix individu) en trets funcionals! Aquí en teniu un resum 👇
October 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
albaanadon.bsky.social
Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
albaanadon.bsky.social
Already home after a wonderful #ITEX meeting with lots of inspiring talks and conversations.
Thanks a lot to the Gothenburg organising crew, and to all the people that made it possible!
Picture taken in Ramsvik during the conference excursion
October 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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nanitundra.bsky.social
🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).
September 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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robertgbjork.bsky.social
Excited to welcome a passionate group of Arctic scientists to the 22nd International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) meeting at Nordens Ark, on Sweden’s stunning west coast!
September 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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cmhmaliani.bsky.social
This study documents extensive intraindividual trait variability (variability among repeated units within an individual) within clonal plants for both size-architectural and leaf traits (up to 100% of total). Congrats to @albaanadon.bsky.social and co-authors !

doi.org/10.1111/geb....
[Open access]
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco...
doi.org
September 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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ub.edu
#UniBarcelona | ☮️ La comunitat universitària se suma a la crida internacional de la societat civil en protesta per la situació inhumana que es viu a la Franja de Gaza

Estudiants i personal de tots els campus ens hem concentrat per condemnar el patiment del poble palestí i exigir la fi del genocidi
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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vvandvik.bsky.social
Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ipe-csic.bsky.social
⛰️ El último informe del IPE destaca la tendencia al aumento de las temperaturas de los #ibones del #Pirineo en los meses estivales, por encima de 20 grados, y la disminución del hielo en invierno.

ℹ️ www.heraldo.es/noticias/ara...
Los científicos alertan del calentamiento de los ibones del Pirineo en un verano de mucha presión turística
El último informe del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología destaca la tendencia al aumento de las temperaturas en los meses estivales, por encima de 20 grados, y la disminución del hielo en invierno. ...
www.heraldo.es
August 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM