"Basic research is easily mocked because it can seem impractical, but, in fact, it is a major driver of economic growth. “The return on investment in basic research — the return to society — is very high, typically multiple dollars back per dollar invested,” says Holdren."

Starting new teaching and that means: #BackToTheRoots📚 What is your favorite, reference book for #Ecology?

👩‍🔬 Caring for the elderly worsens the #GenderGap in scientific careers. A study by the Gender & Science group of @aillimnologia.bsky.social explores the issue 🔽 https://www.ceab.csic.es/la-cura-de-persones-grans-accentua-la-bretxa-de-genere-en-la-carrera-academica/

A new, different ⭐ was born!🤩 Today we started #STARDRY, an interdisciplinary project to study how #drying controls #functioning #stability in river networks through spatio-temporal changes of #communities🪲🦠 Thanks to my #EcologistDreamTeam for an amazing kickoff meeting🔝 Stay tuned!

Here's a helpful how to guide on how to break the spiral of silence... talkclimatechange.org/howTo

A new, different ⭐ was born!🤩 Today we started #STARDRY, an interdisciplinary project to study how #drying controls #functioning #stability in river networks through spatio-temporal changes of #communities🪲🦠 Thanks to my #EcologistDreamTeam for an amazing kickoff meeting🔝 Stay tuned!

It's tomorrow at 16:30! @manudelbaq.bsky.social ( @irnase.bsky.social ) will inaugurate the Iberian Group of Urban Ecology's (AEET) online seminar series here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

When my #ecologist & #runner sides meet: - The runner: yey, feels like progress!💪🏽 - The ecologist: mmm... What could be the R2 of that relationship?🤔 😂

Calling fans of temporary waters! We invite you to submit an abstract to our ASLO-SIL special session "SS015 Drying waters: the science and management of temporary aquatic ecosystems". More details at www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/ Deadline 251125 @ryanmburrows.bsky.social @kuglerovastripe.bsky.social

New paper out in Ecology Letters! “The Imbalance of Nature: The Role of Species Environmental Responses for Community Stability” 📖 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We tried to answer the question: What drives community stability in fluctuating environments?

🧘‍♀️ How can nature + contemplation help with eco-distress? Interviews and co-design with practitioners reveal four pathways: building presence, facing difficult feelings, expanding self/connection, and strengthening shared values and commitments to action➡️https://buff.ly/lVgdgFx

🌊💨 Calling all freshwater gas enthusiasts! 💨🌊 Join us for SS002: Gassy Waters at the upcoming ASLO-SIL 2026 meeting! 🌍 Dive into the latest advances in understanding and measuring gas fluxes across the aquatic continuum. 📍 Registration is now open: www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

Yesterday I had a great time with colleagues from the Dep. of Ecology from @ua.es talking about #Biodiversity-Functioning relationships in #DryingRivers🤩. Great discussions about how these systems resemble #soils & how much we can learn from them. Big thanks to Santi Soliveres for the invitation!

#ProyectosAEET Ya se ha resuelto la convocatoria 2025 de las ayudas a proyectos de investigación en Ecología @eco-aeet.bsky.social + @sibecol.bsky.social + Asociación Ibérica de Limnología www.aeet.org/es/convocato...

New paper out led by @josemaferca.bsky.social ! Using stable isotope enrichment, we tracked aerial dispersal in a temporary river. As drying intensifies, conserving pools as refuges will be essential to prevent biodiversity loss. Access OA paper here: doi.org/10.1111/fwb.... @biologiaub.bsky.social

Next up…from our fieldwork in 2018🤣 we ask how does biodiversity control decomposition in river networks? Macroinverts drive decomposition, while functional diversity reduces decomposition variability! Network-scale #BEF Great to have this out @rubendelcampo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 5/8

👋 I’m back with some project updates: ecosystem function, Europe-wide experiments, policy papers, a global biodiversity synthesis… and most exciting of all — a new baby💥 Big year and its not even🎄yet😉 Huge thanks to amazing collaborators for keeping projects moving and published! 1/8

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Drying halves decomposition rates in river networks by disrupting structure-function linkages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680619v1

It took a long way, but FINALLY! Happy to share our efforts to investigate how #drying alters the #biodiversity control of 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks. We found that JUST 6 days of drying⚠️ halves decomposition rates due to structural community shifts🪲➡️🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Our editors @ibartomeus.bsky.social and @marsobral.bsky.social have published an article rethinking the scientific publishing in PEEER. We can help reshape scientific publishing into a system that prioritizes integrity, inclusion, and sustainability. peeer.net/2025/08/18/r...

My latest paper is now out in Limnology and Ocenography Letters @aslo.org, titled "Emerging patterns of CO2 : O2 dynamics in rivers and their link to ecosystem carbon processing". It is open access, so go read! I am mostly proud of this figure, which I spent a lot of hours figuring out how to do it

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How much #CO2 do #UrbanFreshwaters emit?🌆 In this paper in @aslo.org led by Clara Romero we measured fluxes across lentic & lotic waters of Berlin, showing: -Strong differences among ecosystems -Drivers linked to DOM & land cover ~8.8 Gg C-CO₂ emitted annually🤯 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/lno.... check it out

We are so excited our newest paper led by @ecfreewoman.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social is now out @pnas.org 🤩 Read it here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🌲 We followed a forest as it was logged to understand what happens to soil carbon at a molecular-scale. Here's what we learned. 1/n

📢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....

❌ Los obstáculos en nuestros ríos 👉 No Son Río Son una de las principales amenazas para nuestros ecosistemas fluviales: 🐟 Impiden el movimiento de organismos acuáticos 🏞️ Afectan a la dinámica de sedimentos 🚫 Fragmentan hábitats fluviales

Smarter planning to bring rivers back to life 💭🧪 In this blog post, Virgilio Hermoso explains how to plan the recovery of longitudinal and lateral connectivity to restore free-flowing rivers 🌊🌏 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/08/07/p...

Really excited to say that my #FirstPI project got funded!🤩 My PI-adventure starts with #STARDRY, an #interdisciplinary project w/ an amazing team where we will test how spatiotemporal #variability of the environment🍂 & communities🪲 affect #FunctionalStability in #drying river networks. Stay tuned!

Really excited to say that my #FirstPI project got funded!🤩 My PI-adventure starts with #STARDRY, an #interdisciplinary project w/ an amazing team where we will test how spatiotemporal #variability of the environment🍂 & communities🪲 affect #FunctionalStability in #drying river networks. Stay tuned!

🍂Leaves don’t just fall into rivers—they go on a journey! The #drying of rivers & shifts in #land-use alter in which conditions leaves can enter streams & thus affect their decomposition. Amazing study led by Margot Jans. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Europa dice adiós al exitoso programa LIFE, desmantelando un pilar básico para la financiación de proyectos de conservación de la naturaleza. La decisión afecta especialmente a las ONG, limitando sus posibilidades de participación en los programas de conservación. climatica.coop/bruselas-bor...

🍂Leaves don’t just fall into rivers—they go on a journey! The #drying of rivers & shifts in #land-use alter in which conditions leaves can enter streams & thus affect their decomposition. Amazing study led by Margot Jans. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Streams have become drier in a warming climate. 7/17, #WARR talks on intermittent streams + collaborative science teams, Dr. Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social Dr. Amy Burgin @burginam.bsky.social Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Desarrollan la mayor base de datos de la distribución de artrópodos de la península ibérica y Baleares. IberArthro, puede consultarse en abierto a través de la plataforma @gbif.org www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

¿Es necesario conectar la ecología a la política? Desde la Comisión de Ecología y Política de la @eco-aeet.bsky.social lo tienen claro: sí. En este post se explica el por qué. Quienes tienen el privilegio de saber, tienen el deber de actuar. blogaeet.org/2025/07/07/e...

Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position) ➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/... Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social

📢🌍 From @ebdonana, we urge world leaders to take urgent action on biodiversity loss and climate change at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. Press release: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/... Statement: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...

Convocatoria de retorno de [email protected] abierta hasta 01/09 Hay que tener nacionalidad española y haber sido IP de proyecto previo. 5 años de proyecto y 1.250.000 euros www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...

If you missed @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social surprise talk at the last @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social meeting "Another open and fairer publishing system is possible (and necessary)" you can find the blogpost here: blogaeet.org/2025/06/19/a...

Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Systemic sexism in academia: an early-career viewpoint academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Fill and share widely the Better Together Survey 👇🏻 Help us implementing conservation and monitoring of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄

📢 Expertise needed! Contribute to the @ipbes.net‬ Monitoring Assessment: Fill out a short survey for Chapter 3 (data availability and gaps) to help map and strengthen biodiversity monitoring across scales. 📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🗓️ Deadline: 23 June

🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!