On January 1st, I always like to go to a mountain and look at the horizon. It is like taking some perspective before facing the new year. Today, it was cloudy & cold, but we still enjoyed the walk & picknick. Serra de Castalla, Alacant. Foreground: Juniperus phoenicea. Backgroung: Pinus halepensis

ÚLTIMA HORA | Israel prohibirá a Médicos Sin Fronteras y a una veintena más de ONG seguir operando en Gaza en 2026 www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Celebro ver cada vez más libros de ecología en la colección ¿Qué sabemos de? @cataratalibros.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csic.es ¡Regala ecología! 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🪰🕷🌼💙📚 @annatraveset.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

My blog is back after a few months of technical issues. It now updates correctly, so you can see my recent posts on: the 2025 Spain & Portugal fires, Hutto's book on severe fires, the passing of W. Bond, afforestation & fire severity, sequoia(dendron), and more jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire

📢Nuevo artículo #cideinvestiga 👇👇

'Incendios forestales. Una introducción a la ecología del fuego', de Juli G. Pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social. Colección #QuéSabemosDe coeditada con @CSIC.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social buff.ly/QTYhkzx

"Algunos textos medievales dicen que se sabía cuáles eran las carrascas de mejor bellota fijándose en las ramas rotas, pues significaba que los osos se habían alimentado de ellas" José Fajardo (2023) 🍜 🍽️ #traditional #food #acorns #oaks #bellotas #lentejas

Interesante artículo en @jappliedecology.bsky.social de expertos #incendios y eco. terrestres en el que se resalta papel plantaciones forestales pinos en: (1) exacerbación severidad incendios y mayor facilidad extensión a masas contiguas... (1/9) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💻¿Sabes que tu ordenador puede funcionar sin darle un euro a Sillicon Valley? 🎬Un vídeo de @econocabreado.bsky.social y @alexmeaude.bsky.social. 👀Mira la lista completa de Alternativas aquí: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Regalos justos y necesarios. Regala a personas refugiadas por culpa de guerras inhumanas y genocidios absurdos. Hay de todos los precios, no hay excusa para no contribuir ... elregalojusto.com elregalojusto.com/tienda/ @unrwaes.bsky.social

Technological progress comes with social costs. A new paper by Stefan Thurner et al. shows that "polarization started to increase exactly with the advent of smartphones and social media." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I don’t see the papers but occasionally see articles on this, e.g. this from Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/chrisw... And this one which has a list of references www.ie.edu/center-for-h... I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for tutors/supervisors to come up with a credible list of papers to share.

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

See "Science behind the News" by fire researchers, on the fires last summer

*In Defense of Severe Fires* academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... My review of Hutto's book, BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Severely burned forests are “magical places that seem to harbor plant & animal species & visual experiences found under no other forest conditions" PDF: DM 🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌱 wildfire

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI. Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

Record-Breaking 2025 European Wildfires Concentrated in Northwest Iberia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ~541000ha burnt under extreme monthly FWI Shrublands were +vely selected by fire & to a lesser extent pines. Oaks & crops were -vely selected @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳 wildfire

*The role of fire on Earth* The final version of this paper is now available #OA in BioScience 75 (12) @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire #ecoevo @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social

#EspaiCiència @octubreccc.bsky.social @iec.cat @acpv.cat @ucciuv.bsky.social s'ajorna el Bar de Ciències del dimecres 10 de desembre sobre incendis forestals amb Juli Pausas i @socreisjuan.bsky.social @revistametode.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es Disculpeu les molèsties.

When you go for a walk with a geologist, you see some things you wouldn't otherwise see ... Here is a fossil coastal dune with lots of holes from ancient roots!! Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain 🧪 🌿🌱🌾🪴🦖 Geology geoscience #fossil

Evidence of climate change cycles (Milankovitch cycles) preserved in the rock record! Hard limestones: warmer periods Soft marls: colder periods Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain 🧪 Geology geoscience

To remember William Bond, you could listen to his powerful talk on behalf of grasses! It is a seminal lesson in savanna ecology. Personally, I also find it nice to hear his voice. jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2021/02/21/a... 🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience #savanna

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢 🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

"La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ha convocado una Playa de Ayudante Doctor para el área de incendios forestales y aprovechamientos. Plaza Nº 0039 del ANEXO I" www.upm.es/Personal/PDI... 🌳🔥🍁🔥

Hoy ve la luz esta nueva plataforma de datos: Flora Uruguaya Online 🌼🇺🇾. Gran trabajo liderado por Mauricio Bonifacino, Ary Mailhos, y colegas florauruguaya.org. La publicación que acompaña el lanzamiento está disponible acá doi.org/10.1002/tax.... 🧪🌎

The new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐

"... on average, 800 hectares of land – an area roughly the size of Australia – has burned annually over the past two decades." @carbonbrief.org !!😵‍💫 The storks in the photo are not escaping the fire (see ALT); but happily waiting to feed on small creatures exposed or killed by it. 🧪🌍🔥🌳🦆🌐

Today at #CITESCoP20, governments voted to allow commercial international trade in saiga horn under newly established quotas from Kazakhstan. We strongly opposed this outcome. 🌏 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Y así debería de ser SIEMPRE. No olvidéis que el genocidio sigue, a pesar del alto el fuego, y que la gente sigue siendo masacrada a diario y muriéndose de hambre. Hay que posicionarse y ya no vale ponerse de lado ante tal atrocidad. Dicho esto, PUXA PALESTINA LLIBRE.

Hoy, 29 de noviembre, el Día Internacional de la Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino y 78 aniversario de la expulsión de 750.000 palestinos de sus tierras, tenemos una cita con el derecho a la existencia y los derechos humanos del pueblo palestino. Mapa convocatorias goo.gl/maps/U8SL1g7... #Nakba

¿Alguien ha visto alguna vez un insecto sobre flores de rusco?

Despite the general perception, global emissions from biomass burning have shown a decreasing trend over the last 23 years, a pattern that is reversed in North America. 🧪🌎🔥🌲🔥🌳🍁🌐 wildfire

Nuestra revista científica @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social busca nuevos editores asociados. Toda la info aquí 👇👇

Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis "It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🏺 #ecoevo

Global inequality in environmental conditions underpinning human rights iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Local environmental justice is not enough; it requires an international environmental justice. Global environmental burden transfers: Find the responsible countries for environ. degradation

Cuánto trabajo cuesta crear algo valioso, cuánto esfuerzo y sacrificio (me consta) de tanta gente para que ahora venga esta pandilla ignorante, rancia y ratera a destruirlo en un momento. Desesperante.

Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz#DeadTrees#wildfires #logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire

Si te perdiste esta publicación del grupo de Ecología del Fuego y Evolución del #CidEinvestiga, aquí te la dejamos de nuevo. 👇👇👇

Just out in the Journal of Environmental Management: "Salvage logging increases erosion and reduces plant diversity and soil organic carbon four years after a severe wildfire in semi-arid pine forests" Check it here if interested: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7cr14Z6t...

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming Pausas 2025 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #COP30

Climate visuals: Here are all the figures you need for showing the changes in climate in your presentations! by @edhawkins.org ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu... An additional one here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🌐 #ClimateChange

🔥 RESEARCH 🔥 Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility & fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces resprouting, & adult plants are more resilient under low water conditions - Zomer et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

This #GivingTuesday, help us reach $10K to keep our open Spatial Data Gateway free and continue to expand on-the-ground impact - workshops, local stakeholders, and solutions for resilient communities worldwide. 🌍🔥 DONATE TODAY donorbox.org/global-wildf...

Rewilding in Europe: A Systematic Characterization and Classification of 89 Rewilding Projects 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration Full declaration: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Sign it: sciii-it.org/stockholm-de... 🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social

Resprouting is more complex than you think 🙃 "Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @jxbotany.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany

🌿🔥 INSIGHT 🔥🌿 ✍️ "Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience" - Jacobsen & Pratt comment on recent research by Zomer et al. Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

'Incendios forestales. Una introducción a la ecología del fuego', de Juli G. Pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social. Colección #QuéSabemosDe coeditada con @CSIC.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social buff.ly/QTYhkzx