Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over the past decade. go.nature.com/4uh0Rxw

New paper out exploring the relationship between size spectra and PPMR in lake fish communities!

A simple demonstration for school kids showing how #fish can trigger #algal blooms in small ponds 🐟 #Tadpoles also do much better in fishless #ponds, which is great news for #frogs! 🐸 If you need the recipe to prepare this, leave your comments!

Precisely the question that we discussed with @tdatry.bsky.social, @messamat.bsky.social and the team in Lyon, where I presented this work, where we went beyond by exploring "When?" we should start to use new indicators. Thanks for the energy and exchanges! Excited to keep building together!

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

Already in Montreal for #ASLOSIL26 to talk about zooplankton in garden and urban ponds as part of the ‘MyPond’ citizen science project! Together with two colleagues, we have 3 oral presentations in session SS078A, Friday May 15th, 14:30-16:00, Room 518A. Come to join us!

Great to present #funMETANET at #ASLOSIL26! 👏 Some results from @anna-equisuany.bsky.social’s PhD (co-supervised by @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social & Dani Boix). Huge thanks to all co-authors! 🙌

Keep tuned for more cool and interesting results of @anna-equisuany.bsky.social PhD🔥🚀!!!

#RecercaUB | 💧 Un nou estudi demostra que els índexs actuals per mesurar la qualitat biològica dels rius poden fallar quan s’apliquen als rius temporals. 🔬 Lideren el treball Zeynep Ersoy i Núria Bonada, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social.

Next week at #ASLO-SIL2026 in Montreal, I’ll present the ecological insights we’ve gained using this new method, based on empirical data from Mediterranean temporary pond communities. 📅 Wednesday 13th, 16:45 — Session SS088B Don’t miss it — see you there!

So happy to share that #funMETANET has a new publication🎉 doi.org/10.1111/2041... Thanks to an amazing co-author team! A. Borthagaray, D. Boix, J. Sala & @matias-arim.bsky.social

Congratulations to the PhD Veronica Pinelli! Chance, necessity, and ecosystem functioning.

Metacommunity mechanisms in restoration ecology. Large restorations with homogeneous habitat can magnify competitive differences at the landscape level; degrading coexistence conditions. Understanding the final effects of local interventions require a landscape perspective. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Connectivity can propagate local impacts of pollutants to the metacommunity level by promoting pollutant-tolerant species or attenuate impacts by a rescue effect from less impacted communities when pollutant produce a general reduction in community abundance. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The spatial paths in an early invasion of bullfrogs is determined by well-connected but intermediate abundance populations. Lessons from a long-term monitoring of a pondscape invasion. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Advancing the role of trait matching and species abundances on the modular organization of food webs and occurrence networks doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New chapter 📢 How does #salinization affect aquatic #foodwebs? With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, @mphebert.bsky.social, @zadereev.bsky.social, BKefford and MCañedo-Argüelles, we summarize effects across trophic levels and how they can propagate through the food web Read here: shorturl.at/0YfLL

Ahir a Rupià, projecció de la pel·lícula PANTERAS d’Andoni Canela… preciosa! Més de 90 persones, tot un èxit. Gràcies #festadelanaturaderupià Avui seguim amb una passejada per conèixer les papallones de Rupià 🦋🌿

Nova lectura de tesi doctoral de l’IEA. Segur que serà molt interessant!

New paper out 🚀 masterfully led by Tao Xiang What drives fish invasions globally? We show that being different pays off: non-native species are more likely to establish when they are functionally or phylogenetically distinct from native ones. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Si sou a prop de Rupià, aprofiteu l'ocasió per visitar-nos!!! Super iniciativa del nostre regidor Iñaki Relanzón.

Amazing video from Respond project people!!! youtu.be/Ck95FHxhYeY?...

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Thrilled to co-author this work as part of Camila’s PhD in the MEINNET UY project 🌍✨ (PI: @carlaulmusminor.bsky.social) Science, teamwork, and big ideas 🙌 Congrats, Cami! 🎉💡 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s107... @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología. ¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica? ¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados? ¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras? Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇 aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

New paper from my group out in Ecology Letters, led by PhD student Daniel Hernández-Carrasco revealing a new method to account for the influence of community turnover along environmental gradients on compositional uniqueness.

www.diaridegirona.cat/girona/2026/... doi.org/10.1038/s414... @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @reservoirwebs.bsky.social @timaukel.bsky.social

Aquí podéis consultar el programa completo: news.pcuv.es/home-pcuv-el...

Lamentable: hay info suficiente lo que falta es voluntad para afrontar problemas difíciles pero importantes. Por desgracia, los intereses económicos de unos pocos siempre pasan por los problemas ambientales de tod@s 🥲 www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/...

We’ve loved having Dr. Matias Arim with us this week! 🙌 Super inspiring visit, great chats about what we’ve done so far #funMETANET and what’s coming next🚀... and thanks for jumping in to help with the field sampling too 😉🌿 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

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...