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Guille Peguero
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Lecturer at University of Barcelona | Plants, Arthropods, Soils, Global Change, from communities to ecosystem functioning.
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Guille Peguero @guillepeguero.bsky.social · Oct 27
🌱 Els sòls només si són vius sostenen la vida. La setmana passada 128 científiques i científics vam signar una carta oberta publicada a la revista Plants, People, Planet demanant accions globals coordinades per protegir la biodiversitat del sòl.🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/4)
Primer pla de les mans d'una persona sostenint un grapat de terra ple d'arrels en mig d'un camp de cultiu.
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mschleuning.bsky.social
Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99
A recovering patch of rainforest in Ecuadorian Chocó, picture by Eike Lena Neuschulz
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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bmwildermuth.bsky.social
New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲

In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines.

It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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universidadgranada.bsky.social
🔎 El futuro del Observatorio de Cambio Global de Sierra Nevada está en peligro: Un pilar clave en la investigación sobre el cambio climático global🌍

💭 Lee este artículo en @es.theconversation.com

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SOS por el Observatorio de Cambio Global de Sierra Nevada, herramienta clave para estudiar ecosistemas de montaña - Canal UGR
The Conversation | Autores de la UGR: Regino Jesús Zamora Rodríguez Catedrático de Ecología, Universidad de Granada Domingo Alcaraz Segura Catedrático de Botánica, Universidad de Granada Javier Martínez-López Assistant researcher, Universidad de Granada Manuel Villar-Argaiz Catedrático de Ecología, Universidad de Granada Penélope Serrano Ortiz Profesora Titular en el departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Granada Los… Seguir Leyendo SOS por el Observatorio de Cambio Global de Sierra Nevada, herramienta clave para estudiar ecosistemas de montaña
canal.ugr.es
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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paulineprovini.bsky.social
DAFNEE, a useful database of academic-friendly journals in #Ecology and Evolutionary #Biology

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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chikichanka.bsky.social
El restaurante Kresala, de Barcelona ("Un tribut als pobles pesquers d'Euskadi") ha organizado un banquete en el que se han servido 15 kg de angula. Unos 30000 individuos de una especie En Peligro Crítico de Extinción
José Carlos Capel lo cuenta en IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRuw4bVCOc...
Va hilo
Jose Carlos Capel on Instagram: "Había aceptado la invitación para comer angulas en @kresala.restaurant con no pocos recelos. Me incomodaba asistir a un banquete en torno a un alevín sobre el que pe...
730 likes, 16 comments - jccapel on December 1, 2025: "Había aceptado la invitación para comer angulas en @kresala.restaurant con no pocos recelos. Me incomodaba asistir a un banquete en torno a un ...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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smatesanz.bsky.social
🌍 Applications are now open!
Join the 2nd edition of the Erasmus Mundus Master GLOBE – Global Change Ecology & Biodiversity Management.

💫 Excellent scholarships available for brilliant students from all nationalities.
📚 All details here: globe-master.eu

please share or RT! 🌿✨
Home - Globe
globe-master.eu
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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brioli-ichn.bsky.social
Activitat de ciència ciutadana!
miqueljover.bsky.social Miquel Jover @miqueljover.bsky.social · 19d
El proper dissabte estarem pel Bosc de la Marquesa, explicant coses interessants de briòfits i líquens als qui us animeu a venir. @brioli-ichn.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mikekaspari.bsky.social
To get the word out Welti and I wrote a synthesis out in TREE this year (DM me for a copy). Turns out, Nutrient Dilution is found from the tropics to kelp forests. Like microplastics and emerging viruses, ND is a silent and ubiquitous threat to Earth's ecosystems.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Nutrient dilution and the future of herbivore populations
Nutrient dilution (ND) – the decrease in the concentration of nutritional elements in plant tissue – arises from an increase in the mass of carbohydrates and/or a decrease in the 20+ essential element...
www.cell.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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chikichanka.bsky.social
#aquilatierra de @jacobpetrus.bsky.social, en @rtvecom.bsky.social
La anguila europea es una especie en peligro de extinción.
Promocionar su consumo (como hicisteis ayer), en España, Portugal o donde sea, es fomentar su extinción
www.rtve.es/play/videos/...
Dejo info abajo
Preguntad
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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chikichanka.bsky.social
Comienza la nueva temporada del disparate de la pesca de la angula
Hace muchos años que debería haber parado. Ojalá éste sea el último
@ec.europa.eu , @miteco.gob.es y las CCAA tienen la capacidad de acabar con esta aberración, y deben actuar ya
coperibadesella.com/14/11/2025/e...
El grupo El Campanu paga 5.125 euros por las primeras angulas subastadas en Ribadesella | Cope Ribadesella
La primera angula de la temporada, subastada esta mañana en la rula de Ribadesella, se ha pagado a 5.125 euros el kilo. Ese fue el precio abonado por los restaurantes del Grupo El Campanu, precio corr...
coperibadesella.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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irbio-ub.bsky.social
#NoticiaIRBio
Els boscos de ribera i els humits guarden 4 cops més #carboni que els boscos secs. Col·labora en aquest estudi
@guillepeguero.bsky.social revelant la importància de reconèixer la diversitat dels boscos tropicals per millorar la seva conservació @creaf.cat
🔗 shorturl.at/tzgaK
📷Lanuza
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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oriollapiedra.bsky.social
Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?

Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇

For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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burriach.bsky.social
🌿 Juan de la Cierva fellowships🌿 | Apply with us and join our ERC-funded lab at CREAF Barcelona!
Research: elemental ecology, biogeochemical cycles, functional traits, bryophytes...
PhD 2024-2025 | Deadline: 10 Dec
Contact for details!
www.aei.gob.es/ca/convocato...
#postdoc #ecology #JuanDeLaCierva
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Microbes boost pest mortality and parasitoid recruitment through complementary mechanisms

Rivero et al. @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @eezcsic.bsky.social @axeltouw.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @nmvandam.bsky.social @igzleibniz.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MIR involves priming of direct or indirect defenses depending on the timing of herbivory
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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jappliedecology.bsky.social
🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪

🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...
To help usher in Halloween, let’s take a look at some recent articles from Journal of Applied Ecology that explore different spooky animals and their environments! Bats are probably the first creat…
appliedecologistsblog.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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dallingjim.bsky.social
We are coming up on the closing date for an Assistant Professor of Mycology/Plant-fungal Interactions in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois - apply before November 1st!
See the link below for more details:
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
guillepeguero.bsky.social
Otra muerte debido a picadura de #avispaasiática otro triste ejemplo de que con las #especiesinvasoras la prevención previa a la introducción es siempre la mejor estrategia de gestión 🔗 elpais.com/espana/galic...
Fallece un cazador en Lugo por el ataque de avispas velutinas
El hombre de 55 años, que al parecer era alérgico a la picadura de ese insecto, se encontraba cazando perdices cuando pisó un nido
elpais.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
guillepeguero.bsky.social
By the way, thanks to @cmarin.bsky.social for brilliantly lead this much needed initiative. Now it’s time for national governments to take action
guillepeguero.bsky.social Guille Peguero @guillepeguero.bsky.social · Oct 27
🌱 Els sòls només si són vius sostenen la vida. La setmana passada 128 científiques i científics vam signar una carta oberta publicada a la revista Plants, People, Planet demanant accions globals coordinades per protegir la biodiversitat del sòl.🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/4)
Primer pla de les mans d'una persona sostenint un grapat de terra ple d'arrels en mig d'un camp de cultiu.
October 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
guillepeguero.bsky.social
🌱 Els sòls només si són vius sostenen la vida. La setmana passada 128 científiques i científics vam signar una carta oberta publicada a la revista Plants, People, Planet demanant accions globals coordinades per protegir la biodiversitat del sòl.🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/4)
Primer pla de les mans d'una persona sostenint un grapat de terra ple d'arrels en mig d'un camp de cultiu.
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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melucasborja.bsky.social
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join a dynamic and interdisciplinary research team in the framework of the project:

“Alteration of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems by Fire: Management Practices for a Sustainable Future of Pine–Shrubland Transition Ecosystems (FLAME Project)”
October 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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