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Jordi Garcia-Pausas
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CTFC (@ctforestal.bsky.social). Working on soil ecology, plant-soil interactions, C and nutrient cycling, forest management. Interested in natural sciences in general. Born at 331 ppm CO₂
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Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

"It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🏺 #ecoevo
Visual representation of the Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Sign it: sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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🎉Register now for December's GSBI Speaks🎉

Dr. Richard Bardgett will be chatting with Dr. Zoë Lindo about his upcoming book, "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems"!

Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
From left to right: A headshot of Dr. Zoe Lindo, the cover of the book, "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", and a headshot of Dr. Richard Bardgett. Beneath each headshot is the individual's name.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Tens un projecte d'investigació naturalista sobre els sistemes naturals dels Països Catalans?
Presenta'l al Premi Torras-Foulon!

Obert fins el 30 de novembre 2025
ichn.iec.cat/oberta-la-co...
Oberta la convocatòria del Premi Torras-Foulon 2026 | Institució Catalana d'Història Natural
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November 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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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🇪🇸 As Spain marks the 50th anniversary of Franco's death on November 20, exhumations of 3,300 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War gather pace as relatives and authorities seek to identify more than 140,000 missing persons. 
➡️ u.afp.com/SnSZ
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Un segle més tard, a Catalunya hi ha tornat a néixer un llop. És una "fita històrica" que ha anunciat el departament d'Interior, a través del cos d'Age...
Neixen tres cadells de llop a Catalunya per primer cop en 100 anys
La Generalitat remarca que és un "fet històric" que arriba després de dècades de seguiment de l'espècie
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November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Fitzroya cupressoides (Cupressaceae). The pictures are not very good quality (it was raining), but this species of tree is really impressive. I love it, and the Valdivian temperate forests.

📷 Los Alerces National Park (Argentina).
#trees #botany #Argentina #Patagonia
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Com sempre, al vagó de la cua... www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/us-...
Mapa d'Europa on es mostra el % de vendes de vehicles elèctrics purs en cada estat.
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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📣 Oberta la convocatòria del Premi Torras-Foulon 2026!

Des de la @ichn.iec.cat , i gràcies a la donació de la família Torras-Foulon, es convoca aquest premi de 4.000 € destinat a una investigació naturalista sobre els sistemes naturals dels Països Catalans.

Termini: 30 de novembre del 2025
Oberta la convocatòria del Premi Torras-Foulon 2026 | Institució Catalana d'Història Natural
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October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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⛰️Aún estas a tiempo de contactar para hacer tu #doctorado en cambio climático y suelos de montaña en el CREAF🌳! Anímate a solicitar ayudas FPU/FI en el proyecto DRYLAND (MICIU). Efectos sequía en las pérdidas de C y nutrientes en suelos de alta montaña. Solicita aquí!-> sl1nk.com/fnIEG
saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social Sara Marañón Jiménez @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social · Sep 30
🌱🏔️ ¿Quieres hacer tu #doctorado en cambio climático y suelos de montaña?
Buscamos candidato/a para solicitar ayudas FPI/FPU/FI vinculadas al proyecto DRYLAND (MICIU).
Tema: efectos de la sequía en las pérdidas de C y nutrientes en suelos de alta montaña.
📍 @creaf.cat (Barcelona)
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs
Editorial @nature.com this week
And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Today, wild mammals account for around 5% of total mammalian biomass (60Mt). This figure was around 50% (200Mt) in 1850.
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Maybe we can learn lessons from Paris to apply to our cities...
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Oct 28
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Forest soil #biodiversity is at the heart of nutrient cycling, carbon storage, and ecosystem resilience. Yet monitoring remains a challenge!

📣 Don't miss the next #HoliSoils webinar on forest soil #biodiversity monitoring (22 October 2025 | 14:00–15:00 CEST) ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Fungi can clearly distinguish between heartwood and sapwood... #wood #fungi
Log of Nothofagus dombeyi with fungi in the sapwood Log of Nothofagus dombeyi with fungi in the sapwood
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A landmark for #MediterraneanForests 🌿@inrae-france.bsky.social & @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social release the largest open-access database of #Mediterranean tree species: 496 species, 147 subspecies, and key data on diversity, extinction risk & genetics.

Read more👉 www.euforgen.org/about-us/new...
Largest database on Mediterranean trees now available through open access
An international team led by INRAE and EFI compiled the largest open-access database of Mediterranean tree species, providing vital data on diversity, extinction risk and genetics to support conservat...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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🌱 New framework in plant ecology! Researchers propose 6 Belowground Persistence Types (BPTs) — classifying plants by woodiness, clonality, and resprouting ability. This whole-plant view reveals how species persist after disturbance and could reshape how we study resilience.
🔗 buff.ly/LgaPglR
(MK)
Hypothesized distribution of the belowground persistence types along a gradient of disturbance return time with hump-shaped (first increasing and then decreasing) investment in resprouting (highlighted by intensity of shading). The disturbance return time ranges from less than a year to many decades. source: original paper
October 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
An upland landscape in Scotland with trees and open areas.
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Nice soil profile at Los Alerces NP, NW Patagonia (Argentina). I guess they are Andosols (?) (volcanic soils) #Patagonia #Argentina #soil
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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After some days visiting a few burnt areas in northern Argentinian Patagonia, here are some species that resprout from the base after a wildfire: Lomatia hirsuta (Proteaceae), Aristotelia chilensis (Elaeocarpaceae), Schinus patagonica (Anacardiaceae), Nothofagus antarctica (Nothofagaceae)
Sprouts of Lomatia hirsuta Aristotelia chilensis resprouting after fire Schinus patagonica resprouting after fire Nothofagus antarctica resprouting after fire
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I love seeing glaciers. Torrecillas glacier (Chubut province, Argentina), last week. #glacier #Patagonia #Argentina
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks @sadbumblebee.buzz for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.
sadbumblebee.buzz Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · Oct 14
In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL
How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
wapo.st
October 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM