With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. go.nature.com/49fOOrP

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Very glad to contribute to this review on #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐 #Non-native species

During & 2 years after the restoration of a scrubbed over farm #pond. A massive increase in biodiversity observed. Return of Great Crested Newt & appearance of the mega rare Tassel Stonewort. We can report on 100s of stories like this from Norfolk. Ponds should be a higher conservation priority

Many thanks to Anaïs Calabuig for her nice illustrations!!!!

New funMETANET educational output 🎉 📘 El gran viatge de la Tuga i la Closca: de bassa en bassa fent xarxa Supported by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (REF PID2020-114440GB-100), Diputació de Girona, and UdG Social Council. 🔜 Freely downloadable SOON!!!. 📡 Stay connected for updates!

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions out in EcoLett Nov issue Communities can disproportionately insure (functional sources) or depend on (functional sinks) neighbour communities, a dual relationship not captured by metrics of functional beta diversity doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🌐🌍🦤🧪

🚨New paper🚨From a survey of 560 garden-pond owners, nearly half keep invasive macrophytes, often bought through online communities that are blind spots for researchers and authorities. #waterhyacinth #waterlettuce #invasiveplants #citizenscience 🌿🌱🌺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Avui amb en @jordi-bou.bsky.social hem realitzat un Seminari del Projecte GiroNat: La gestió de la infraestructura verda i blava en el municipi de Girona, al Màster en Canvi Ambiental i Transició Socioecològica. @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

📢 First step of the PhD! 📄 Waterscape dataset of the municipality of Girona 🔍 With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, #LMartín, #DBoix and @jordi-bou.bsky.social 💧 A work of @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

Hoy #25N, la Comisión de Igualdad de la AEET recuerda en el #BlogAEET a las mujeres que dejaron la vida por la ciencia. blogaeet.org/2025/11/25/2...

Del 17 al 28 de novembre, es pot visitar al Hall de la @udgeducaciopsic.bsky.social l'exposició "Gir cap a la renaturalització" que organitzen les biblioteques dels campus Barri Vell i Montilivi de la @univgirona.bsky.social. 🔗 www.udg.edu/ca/fep/facul...

Why does a gender gap in scientific “productivity” persist? 📅 Oct 8, @aaronclauset.bsky.social in Umeå: biased networks, not ability, explain the difference. Join us! 🔗 www.umu.se/en/events/ic... @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

And other publication by GenderAIL group: a 10-step guide to close the gender gap in scientific societies and help them to become powerful agents for gender equality. #WomenInScience #DiversityInSTEM doi.org/10.1038/s441...

New publication by the GenderAIL group 🙌🙌: The "triple presence" burden for women in academia: not just scholars and mothers, but also primary caregivers for older relatives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉 We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds. Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻 📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107... @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

📢 Us convidem a la lectura de la tesi doctoral Integrating Ecological Complexity and Physiological Traits into Environmental Risk Assessments Per Amina Khalid 🗓️ 5 de setembre de 2025 · 11.00 h 📍 Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències 👉 També on-line: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

📢Amazing August news 📢 Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social 📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔵 | Hem presentat al·legacions contra el parc solar Julia: 75.000 plaques, 93 ha i 15 km de línia d’alta tensió que travessa el riu Ter i espais protegits. ➡️ Llegeix la notícia: https://tuit.cat/q7cmi

July's meeting of the EcoAqua research group. Lots of interesting talks, amazing research and fun interactions. I've talked a bit about Open Science and we all made some drawings (sooo glad that we all focused on an academic and not an artistic life..haha). Looking forward to the next meetings!

Acaba de sortir del forn! En aquest article, resultant dels projectes AquiPondSys i TREASURE, expliquem l’origen geològic únic en el món de les basses de l’Albera👇🏼👇🏼 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Insightful talk today by @oldenfish.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social at @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social on bounty programs as a management strategy for native and non-native species

Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄 A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Si esteu prop de #Girona i us interessa l’ecologia, les espècies invasores o els peixos continentals, no us es perdeu aquest seminari d’en Julian Olden (“highly cited researcher”) aquest dijous 26 de juny

Carlos Durán Ruiz, presentant: USING A STEREO-VIDEO SYSTEM TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI AND APHANIUS IBERUS.

Anna Equisuany Ruiz, presentant: THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVITY IN SHAPING METACOMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY

Anna Doménech-Pascual, presentant: SOIL MICROBIAL FUNCTIONS AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE RESPOND DIFFERENTLY TO CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS

Yesterday the @iea-udg.bsky.social PhD students where at @jodocudg.bsky.social

El #biodiverso @ignasiarranz.bsky.social ha estado en Copenhage y he dado una charla explicando los diversos proyectos (MacroSize y SexSixe) en los que está trabajando. La charla ha sido en la real academia de ciencias y letras de Copenhage, un lugar espectacular.

Dani Boix is showing the role of spatial modularity and environmental factors determining metacommunity richness #funMETANET

@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat

Looking forward to this seminar by the great @oldenfish.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social at @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social 26 June 12:30 iea.udg.edu/seminari-iea... @greco-udg.bsky.social

💧 TSE-11. Blue Urban Ecology: Aquatic ecosystems for Healthy and Sustainable Cities 🗓️ Thursday, 5 June (afternoon) 📍 Room: Seminario 6 Kick off the afternoon with @jordi-bou.bsky.social discussing future scenarios in cities 🌊🏙️ A deep dive into water, and urban futures — don’t miss it!

@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social @marsobral.bsky.social & @ibartomeus.bsky.social on the (huge, urgent) need to change publishing pathways While public administrations (regional, national, European) decide to stop paying subscriptions and create their own portals, check journal options below

@anna-equisuany.bsky.social is expaining its PhD mesocosm experiment to study fragmenation effects over metacommunities #funMETANET

Fiona Corominas is showing the first results of its PhD about the urban effect on vegetation #GiroNat

Luis Martin is presenting the urban effect on freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat

This week the @greco-udg.bsky.social team is at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social showing our reserch

The making of.

it was great to meet all the pond friends!! @carlaulmusminor.bsky.social @stephi-gascon.bsky.social @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social, Marga Florencio and many more!

Thrilled to have joined the workshop “CONSERVING AND RESTORING TEMPORARY POND LANDSCAPES IN EUROPE.” Huge thanks to Poli and Marga for the invite! It was the best workshop I’ve attended in years—fantastic to exchange ideas and reconnect with colleagues and friends I hadn’t seen in so long!!!

🎉 The video game inspired on our research #funMETANET is finally out! Huge thanks to #CientífiksenJoc and the talented students from #St.George.School who designed it. To play it in English—switch the language setting before starting. Available to play on computer! 🕹️ gencat.cat/recercaiuniv...

Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally. Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!! #funMETANET

Indistinguible.

On #BiologicalDiversityDay it’s important to remember that humanity has caused dramatic changes to the biosphere - only 6% of the combined weight of all mammals on Earth 🌏 is wild! 😳 From the fantastic research by: @liorgreenspoon.bsky.social Ron Milo and colleagues. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So happy to see Dr. Eugènia Martí, great scientist and colleague from Catalonia, be inducted as SFS Fellow. So well deserved - an inspiration for us all! #SFS2025