That was one of the hardest tasks I've done for any POLLEN meeting. #POLLEN26 had 227 panels submitted. Normally there is space for about 120 *including* double panels. Whereas our 227 were all single ideas that could become doubles. And all were amazing. What do you do?

This looks like and interesting endeavour - please give it a try.

A #POLLEN26 Update: We have 227 panels submitted. 227!! That is an incredible response. We will not have space for them all. But we will try our best. Now the 17 members of the scientific committee will set about selecting and sorting. A huge thanks to all who sent proposals in.

The 'Bioengineered' story was mentioned in @theguardian.com today! Read here www.theguardian.com/science/2025... More background on Bioengineered here: www.science.org/content/arti... CC: @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social

The news that Irish authorities are now exhuming nearly 800 children and babies buried in an unmarked grave is grim. It is not an isolated problem but one of the more salient instances of systematic abuse. Mark Waddington (@hopeandhomes.bsky.social‬) explains it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/exhuma...

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

When you work with a comms team as brilliant as Ana and Isabel you just have to do good things so that they can tell the world all about it. www.instagram.com/reel/DL2Kpe9... @icta-uab.bsky.social

I am really proud to be involved with this. It is a tremendous honour just to receive one MdM award. Kudos to @icta-uab.bsky.social

🏆ICTA-UAB Secures Third María De Maeztu Excellence This distinction is the highest awarded at the national level to research centres in Spain, and is awarded in recognition for their scientific leadership, research quality, and international impact. www.miragenews.com/icta-uab-sec...

Meet the new 'POLLENators' on the new Featured Pollenator section. Find out more about Eleonora and Laila here: pollenpoliticalecology.network/updates/feat... And get in touch to add yourself to this collection of wonderful people #POLLEN #PoliticalEcology @pollenetwork.bsky.social

This is a fascinating exuberant overview of one of the most exciting fields I've worked in in years. Kudos to the authors for putting it together. @paolocrosetto.bsky.social @MarkHanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @pagomba.bsky.social

Excited to see the Metascience Alliance going live at #Metascience2025. Tim Errington from @cos.io sets out its vision & the founding group of members (including @rorinstitute.bsky.social!)

Brilliant to see Wellcome signing @barcelonadori.bsky.social as one of a series of impressive announcements in @jarottingen.bsky.social’s superb keynote at #Metascience2025 @wellcometrust.bsky.social

The past, present & future of UK metascience: new paper by me, @ludowaltman.bsky.social @andre-brasil.bsky.social & Ben Steyn Published yesterday by DSIT as part of the govt’s ‘A Year in Metascience’ report assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685bcd...

📆 #POLLEN26 call for submissions is open - all the info you need is right here. Deadline for panels is 31 July. This is a fantastic conference, that never disappoints in terms of papers or fun to be had ⬇️

This is going to be great. Please spread the word.

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

Still just over a week to apply for this role.

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it. Copy it. APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do? They copy MDPI. the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it. Copy it. APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do? They copy MDPI. the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

This is for me one of the most beautiful places in Europe.

Having Marie Pratzer at ICTA-UAB and with CONDJUST has been such a privilege - she is fantastic! @Marie please come again.

Here's a useful thread on wealth and the environment. Thanks for putting it together.

This also comes forward in this study done in the USA. It shows that the prioritisation of environmental protection over economic growth is more pronounced in lower income groups than higher income groups, pointing to the possibility of a ‘degrowth from below’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In our new study with colleagues @danbrockington.bsky.social & @forrestf.bsky.social, we show: People are more likely to prefer environmental protection after GDP and environmental pressures rise. But the poor—who pollute least—are most likely to support protection. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

MetaROR is experimenting with peer review of blog posts! Thanks to @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy for submitting his post, to the reviewers @catmacos.bsky.social, @danbrockington.bsky.social and @jacoates.bsky.social, and to #Upstream editor @mfenner.bsky.social for setting this in motion!

Great news from the amazing @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social and colleagues and watch out for brilliant positions on her project to come.

Colleagues, A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'. From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

Actually Bob, there are other ways to work towards solving global hunger: let's start w/paid labour. @lseblogs.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @danbrockington.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @theguardian.com @stefanoponte.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

Today @danbrockington.bsky.social opened the 2025 ICFO Colloquium series with a talk on “The strain on scientific publishing”. This critical look at scientific publishing raises important questions about the process and the quality of publishing today. Thank you Dan! 🙌

I've started a Research Integrity Feed populated by hashtags below & choice users. For the #SciPub / #AcademicPublishing sleuths 📊🔍👀 Plus it's got a cute furry mascot! 😘 bsky.app/profile/did:... #ResearchIntegrity #PredatoryPublisher #PredatoryPublishing #EditorialIndependence #SciRetraction

Great to see @brittlepaper.bsky.social features both THE DJINN’S APPLE from @neemtreepress.bsky.social & I’LL SEE YOU IN IJEBU from #BarefootBooks on its 100 Notable African Books of 2024 list! brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

This is an amazing, characteristically thoughtful and provocative thread on #ScientificPublishing from the awesome @paolocrosetto.bsky.social. Such a privilege to work with him, @pagomba.bsky.social and the one and only @MarkHanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on this incredible project.

Gugu's art is amazing. I love the covers he created of the first two Samti books. Can't wait for the third to come :)

If you're hungry for more, explore our Shinyapp and dive into the stats of your favorite journals or check how they compare between each other others! pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explo...

Check this thread from @hansonmark.bsky.social for a quality overview of our work: bsky.app/profile/hans...

Our recently peer-reviewed paper on the current Strain on Scientific Publishing is covered by The @economist.com today. I'm not surprised by Frontiers and MDPI continuing to champion the virtues of rapid publishing. 🧪 www.economist.com/science-and-... QSS paper here: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Tanzania's new electric train ferried 1 million passengers in four months. Full range of electrified tracks on completion - 1,496 km. www.newtimes.co.rw/article/2201...

Please SIGN: #Tanzania's REGROW project is not about protecting wildlife: It's an oppressive economic growth model designed to boost tourism revenues. Tell the #WorldBank to STOP THE EVICTION of 20,000 villagers under the pretext of #conservation! rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/12...

A memory I must keep from t'other place. Samti is out in the world. It's been a while since I smiled this much. Thanks so much to Nahida, Mabala, Abdul, Hermes, Anita & the whole APE Network team. It was an amazing event, as this thread shows. #meetsamti #APEBookLaunch instagram.com/apenetwork/

Una de les coses meravelloses de treballar amb persones extraordinàries com Marina Requena són les coses boniques que fan passar, com aquest paper. Malauradament el meu català encara no és prou bo per llegir la meva pròpia obra (!) Serà un dia. revistes.iec.cat/index.php/AH... #ICTA-UAB #degrowth

"Elite giving is a huge, often untapped, resource in times of crisis. This is especially the case due to the chronic underfunding of the international humanitarian sector. Therefore, the Gov. of Tanzania and the International Humanitarian Actors should engage with this group of first responders."

We made it to the Tanzanian national news! ITV, one of the country’s leading private broadcasters, covered our research dissemination event in Dar es Salaam, capturing key moments and insightful discussions. Watch the clip now on YouTube (start in minute 6). www.youtube.com/live/_mZoRQQ... #EHTZ

I’m here on the Tanzania morning news-just after the flood scene. Sounds like the setup for a joke about academia’s fixation on societal impact 🤣

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

*Gasp* Witness a rare hoard of mammoth rogue zucchinis emerging from their hatching patch in search of their Mediterranean homelands so far, far away. Go valiantly on your mission you noble beasts! Fear not the ratatouille, Nor the roasting pan, for you are destined for greatness! #gardening

Soon. #DeathoftheAuthor #RustedRobots Death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants and the next generations, machines, AI, gun-ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more.  And at its heart, it is about the power of humanity’s greatest creation: STORYTELLING.