Arnau participated in the II Spanish Botany Congress. He co-organized the symposium “Invasive flora: from cataloging to management, through ecology & evolutionary biology”. He also presented his PhD plan on identifying plant invasion syndromes in mountains globally (part of the MIREN project) 🌍⛰️.

We took part of the MIREN workshop!✨
Arnau and Paula participated in the MIREN — Mountain Invasion Research Network 🌄 workshop, held earlier this month in Innsbruck, Austria. They joined through the project PRISMA: “Syndromes of recurrent plant invasions in mountain areas.”

IRIS goes to Iceland 🧊

At the beggining of July, Theresa ( @theresahenke.bsky.social )set off for colder climates returning to the University of Iceland Research Centre of the Westfjords (& @fishiceland.bsky.social)‬ for a 6 weeks stay.

Stay tuned for updates on old & new projects :)

On April 3rd Ana, Arnau, Paula, and Theresa headed to Cordoba for the PRISMA kick-off meeting. Together with a team of researchers lead by Pablo González Moreno, we will investigate invasion syndromes in plant invasion in mountains over the next four years.

Stay tuned for exciting PRISMA updates!

IRIS’s first PHD student!!!

Arnau Bosh Guiu has officially started working at the EEZA as part of the IRIS team. Over the next 4 years he will be researching plant invasions in mountain ecosystems worldwide as part of the PRISMA project.

Welcome to the team, Arnau!! 🙂

At the end of February, Pavel Pipek (@pavelpipek.bsky.social) (Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Science) came for a visit. In-between catching up, bird-watching, and exciting discussions on culturomics & iEcology, the IRIS team got an introduction into html and data mining.

In January, @ananovoaperez.bsky.social attended the kick off of the Horizon project OneSTOP coordinated by Quentin Groom (Belgium) & Helen Roy (UK). OneSTOP aims to reduce the risks of introducing & spreading invasive species across Europe. Read more about OneSTOP: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/13/p...

IRIS is growing 🎉 Lucas from Brazil joined us for a short stay until the end of April & Lida from Greece arrived for ger 4-month internship. Both will support Paula in her project on the management of naturalized alien plant species in mountain areas. 

(IRIS selfie for Theresa's birthday :) )

IRIS went to Prague!!

From 10. - 14.02 our team co-organised two exciting workshops on invasion culturomics ( and SoNAF (Social dimensions of Naturalized Alien Flora) that took place in the castle of Průhonice @ibotcz.bsky.social
@invaculture.net
We are excited to work on the future developments!

Great discussions, amazing people, and exciting new perspectives at the Invasion Culturomics Workshop! 🌍 Happy to be part of this event in Průhonice, Czech Republic! #InvasionScience #Culturomics #ScienceMeetsCulture

When one team member has relocated to Spain from Argentina and one from Iceland...

Can you tell?🥶🥵

IRIS is starting the new week with coffee & work from the beach :)

@zarahpattison.bsky.social, want to join us for a Maricastaña monday? :)

Today, we had our first (of hopefully many) weekly IRIS team meetings to get to know each other & catch up on our projects, progresses and potential mishaps 🙂

We can’t wait to see where all our projects will lead to & what new ideas will come up in these meetings. Stay tuned!

2 new team members decided to join us in Almeria all the way from South America 🌞

Paula Gervazoni from Argentina is the newest researcher at IRIS & Jonathan Almeida is a visiting PhD student from Brazil 🌱

⬇️ In our preferred habitat: the IRIS team in front of invasive Pennisetum setaceum

In September @theresahenke.bsky.social officially joined the IRIS team

After living in Iceland for the past 8 years & studying alien 🐟, she has decided to switch it up and trade the Nordic cold for the Mediterranean sunshine 🌞

Stay tuned for more news: iriseeza.com/news/

Welcome to IRIS 🌸

IRIS is dedicated to exploring the interplay between environmental and human dimensions of alien plant invasions

Check out our new website:
iriseeza.com