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Posts by Àlex Giménez Romero

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The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs | Quanta Magazine Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes.

Why do some corals grow into tall and narrow columns, and others into massive domes? The answer is buried deep in each coral polyp’s biological programming.

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🌳 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 🙏💚

🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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El desafío de mapear un mundo oculto: IA y científicos se alían para salvar la posidonia Investigadores desarrollan un modelo para registrar las praderas a gran escala, un avance clave para proteger uno de los mayores sumideros de carbono y refugios de biodiversidad

🌊 La IA también puede proteger el Mediterráneo. Investigadores del IFISC y el @ceabcsic.bsky.social desarrollan un modelo con imágenes satelitales para mapear y conservar la posidonia, uno de los grandes sumideros de carbono.

✍Ángeles Durán para @eldiario.es

🔗 www.eldiario.es/illes-balear...

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Differences between adults and juveniles matter for #ecosystem stability. Study by researchers from @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es & CEAB-CSIC offers a model with this often-ignored aspect 👇
www.ceab.csic.es/en/les-diferencies-entre...

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Our results suggest that population structure may be an overlooked dimension in the complexity–stability debate. Biodiversity may persist not only because of who interacts with whom, but also which life stages interact.

Thanks to all coauthors! @fishychrissy.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social

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Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability Population structure is a widespread yet underappreciated feature of ecological communities. Here, we develop a general theoretical framework integrating life-stage structure into community matrix mo...

New article out in Ecology Letters!

Developing a general math model, we show how cross-stage interactions modify the stability predicted by classic unstructured models.

📄 Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability. @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es @ceabcsic.bsky.social @csic.es

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EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Unos pocos grados de diferencia pueden marcar la frontera entre la vida y la muerte de la vid Unos pocos grados pueden decidirlo todo: la enfermedad de Pierce amenaza la viticultura europea, y los microclimas locales marcan la frontera del riesgo.

Artículo en formato divulgativo sobre nuestro último estudio en @es.theconversation.com 👇

Unos pocos grados de diferencia pueden marcar la frontera entre la vida y la muerte de la vid

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Thank you Saúl! 😊

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Galicia provides a nice small-scale example of our results:

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High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide

🚨 New paper out!

We show that the resolution of climate data matters for predicting disease risk.
High-resolution maps reveal local risks — especially in river valleys — that coarser data miss. This has a significant impact on a global scale.
🔗 rdcu.be/eH67i
@ifisc.uib-csic.es @csic.es @uib.cat

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High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide

📢 New publication: High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce's Disease for grapevines worldwide by @agimenezromero.bsky.social, Eduardo Moralejo and @mamatias26.bsky.social, in Scientific Reports.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/publicati...

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Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática Investigadores del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos perfeccionan sistemas matemáticos que permiten entender el desarrollo y la morfología de uno de los ecosistemas más ricos d...

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática

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Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática Investigadores del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos perfeccionan sistemas matemáticos que permiten entender el desarrollo y la morfología de uno de los ecosistemas más ricos d...

Que @eldiario.es habla de nuestras cosas! 😁🪸 @ifisc.uib-csic.es @uib.cat @csic.es

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática www.eldiario.es/1_bf5a24?utm...

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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

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Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people.

I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.

I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.

go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj

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Surviving #SIBECOLAEET2025 until Thursday at 15:45? Come hear my talk!

( 🐝 photo by @curromolina.bsky.social )

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🎓¿Buscas TFG o TFM?

🦟¿Te interesa la ecología, el comportamiento animal y los mosquitos?

🌿Únete en verano 2025 a un proyecto experimental en el
@ceabcsic.bsky.social y el Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (Blanes).

🔝 Oviposición, depredadores y kairomonas

📩 +info 👇

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S01E12 Episodio ninja: El efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas La vaca esférica · Episode

Disponible #LaVacaEsférica S01E12 Episodio ninja: El Efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas

Spotify
open.spotify.com/episode/3NYf...

Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_R...

Y en breve en todas las apps y plataformas: Apple Podcasts, iVoox, Pocket casts, RSS feed, etc.
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🪸 @quantamagazine.bsky.social has published an article highlighting the innovative work of Dr. Eva Llabrés, postdoctoral researcher at IFISC. The article details her development of a "universal" model of coral growth.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/dr-e...

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Btw, my PhD thesis is now on Zenodo! It’s a mix of theoretical and data-driven models tackling ecological problems—disease spread, climate change, and ecosystem monitoring. If that sounds interesting, take a look: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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🦠Un estudio sugiere que el #cambioclimático abre la puerta a una enfermedad de la vid que Europa esquivó hace 150 años

🌳El @ifisc.uib-csic.es y Tragsa analizan la expansión de la enfermedad de Pierce, que hace 10 años que se extiende por el Mediterráneo

👉 tiny.cc/va69001

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¿Cómo esquivó Europa la enfermedad de Pierce hace 150 años? 🧐🍇

Un estudio del IFISC publicado en Proc. R. Soc. B revela que el clima más frío impidió la propagación de Xylella fastidiosa. Sin embargo, el #CambioClimático podría cambiar el panorama. 🌍

www.csic.es/es/actualida...

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Xylella fastidiosa: la bacteria que deseca Alicante y Baleares y que ahora amenaza a Extremadura | lamarea.com En las diferentes regiones afectadas por la enfermedad provocada por la Xylella fastidiosa, la opinión de los agricultores es dispar

En Italia, algunos científicos no creen que la solución sea destruir los ejemplares infectados por la bacteria Xylell y apuestan por soluciones alternativas, algo que investigadores españoles consideran que no es viable

Con el apoyo de Journalismfund Europe

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Com les matemàtiques ens poden ajudar a conservar els esculls de coral? 🪸 L'investigador de l'IFISC @agimenezromero.bsky.social va participar en el programa Arran de Mar de Tarragona Ràdio comentant els resultats del seu darrer article.

📻 alacarta.tarragonaradio.cat/programs/arr...

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I'd love to be added too!😊

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"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."

This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

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How Life Really Works Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.

For those of us who are not professional biologists, it can be daunting to hear about transcription factors, signaling pathways and non-coding RNA. But this poignant piece from @philipcball.bsky.social opened my eyes to how deep and essential these ideas truly are. nautil.us/how-life-rea...

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