When science draws on a wider range of perspectives, it produces better questions, more creative thinking, and outcomes that matter to more people. This is often when breakthroughs occur. #PrideMonth

Publication decisions are complicated by various types of power asymmetries, so being an author in any particular journal isn’t necessarily a reflection of a person’s values. But we all can try to break free from publishers with 30% profit margins.

Just published! 📄 We found that seed predation of a non-native conifer increased along a Patagonian precipitation gradient. Predation was higher in open microhabitats at low precipitation and in closed microhabitats at high precipitation, although the pattern depended on temporal context.

We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱

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

The only "positive" effect that the current Hantavirus visibility may have is that may lead funding and attention for this high-fatality virus, which has recurrent outbreaks in Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere. Here doing fieldwork in Patagonia with @nahpo.bsky.social during a Hantavirus outbreak.

Me había pedido esta noticia, una belleza la historia y qué tan necesario es el escuchar a las comunidades para aprender ❤️

Beautiful story highlighting science and community engagement 🦕🤝🇦🇷 In Argentina, the discovery of Bicharraco dionidei is revealing information for understanding the evolution of sauropods, especially important because, so far, has relied heavily on the fossil record from the Northern Hemisphere 🌎

Very excited that our short documentary about the conservation project in Refugio Frey, Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina, has been accepted into a film festival 🎥✨ First time as producer 💅🏾😌

The best science happens when fields collide. Insiders all search under the same lamp post. Outsiders shine a light somewhere new-and find the keys nobody was looking for. Younger scientists: major pushback isn't a stop sign. It's often the signal you're onto a paradigm shift. Keep pushing hard!!

Three people have died and one was evacuated from a cruise ship infected with a variant of hantavirus. Here are the questions researchers are asking. go.nature.com/4tdnja4

In a world that often feels elitist, sharing knowledge and experience about scientific writing is a way to foster inclusion: not everyone has access to the same opportunities or mentorship. That says a lot about Martin’s generosity, but those of us who’ve worked with him already knew that!

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Irritator challengeri, the best preserved Spinosaurus skull ever discovered, is finally heading home to Brazil! The announcement comes years after tireless attempts from Brazilian scholars to see the fossil repatriated from a German museum. #Paleontology #Spinosaurus 🧪🧪 New at @science.org

Have you checked our new paper in @biolinvasions.bsky.social? We tested #InvasionalMeltdown between invasive #Fungi and #InvasivePlants using #Suillus and #Pine species across an invasiveness gradient—and found that invasive Suillus only boost invasive pines. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

La version en español es un éxito también y esta ahora en ebook también! Ebook está bueno para gente en Latinoamérica así no pagan el shipping del libro en Amazon. 🧪🗺️

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles go.nature.com/3Oehv1V

🎉 Congratulations to ESA’s 8 new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows! These honorees are advancing ecological science through research, leadership, and service. Learn more about these individuals in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/Ao1V50YK00I

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

So necessary! Knowledge is also built on what we test and find not to be important or simply doesn’t work.

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A nice bonus of science, meeting new people and reconnecting with friends and colleagues 🫶🏾 @martin-nunez.bsky.social @agostinatorres.bsky.social

Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Even having this great representation numbers in science, we still see the "scissors" like graphs in our numbers with fewer women occupying the highest position "Investigador superior." It is not great, but this % is higher in Universities (50.9%) and still is higher than the average worldwide.

‪ 🌳 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=...

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

🚨 New perspective piece - How to face Environmental crises? By aligning actions across roles, ecologists & environmental scientists can do more for a sustainable future, and professional societies can help them! 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3d1GZZL

🧵 New Perspective in People and Nature “Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies” Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Henriette Herz Scouting Programme – Info Session Are you a professor and research group leader in Germany? Do you already have an international network and would like to expand your team and recruit excellent postdocs? Join us on February 24th to find out more about the programme: bit.ly/49UhQNR

Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology. See the numbers in our brand new article in Oikos, led by Pablo Huais and Javier Nori. Link 👇 tinyurl.com/yjuyy6rd @imbivconicetunc.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @idea-conicet.bsky.social

How chasing a high-impact publication nearly broke me | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The system is unsustainable in so many ways! The number of publications is overwhelming, reviewers and editors are hard to find, and the pressure to keep up with everything translates into chronic overwork...We are doing more science, but are we doing better science?

New paper, Great news: We have been saying for years that making the editorial board more diverse was needed We now show that diverse team of editors makes for more diverse reviewers More Inclusive=Better Science Things are getting better on this❤️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Our Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is still open! #ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on #mountain monitoring, #data, & info. Projects that consolidate the state of knowledge or advance #TransformativeResearch are particularly encouraged. 🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 🔗 Apply: buff.ly/yQDG01i

Our paper "Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists, and their societies" has been accepted in People and Nature! More to come on this soon!

Thrilled to see the first #PhD chapter by @annaroennfeldt.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com. This multi-region comparison shows that lack of #niche conservatism in #non-native #plants might be transient and potentially linked to dispersal limitations. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

In this article, just out, I argue that scientists have a crucial role in the science-policy interface: keep making questions, especially those whose answers decision-makers don't know they want to know, or know they do not want to know. Here's the link: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...

Congrats Martin!✨ 🎊

⏩️ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species ⏪️ -> rewriting classical Floristik biogeography #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social In case you missed the talk by Lirong Cai (now new postdoc in Copenhagen w Carsten Rahbek) here is the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Got your copy of a pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing?? 😁

🌱 Fieldwork update from Isla Victoria (Argentina): We returned to resample vegetation in long-term exclosure plots originally established by @agostinatorres.bsky.social after the removal of pine plantations. These plots allow us to track secondary invasions dynamics and potential community.

En el Wallmapu, una machi mapuche, una científica del #IEB #UdeC y una comunicadora, tejen un vínculo entre saberes ancestrales y ciencia para sanar la relación con la Tierra. Escuchar profundamente es conservar. #PRENSA #LaderaSur laderasur.com/articulo/esc...

The reviewer crisis: data from the journal Biological Invasions: "Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful! From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry gulfnews.com/world/americ...

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America 📖 buff.ly/ZgIX5IC #TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social @uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

How did North American and European fungi end up in Argentine forests? New research in @newphyt.bsky.social from UE @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social looks underground at how non-native tree species and their fungal partners have spread. Read here: buff.ly/919OOs0

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Great opportunity!!!!!