🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training 🔬🪴⛏️
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#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional
Promotional graphic for an upcoming Humboldt Discovery event. The headline reads “Humboldt Discovery,” followed by “Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship.” At the bottom, the text states: “16 April 2026, 14:00–15:00 CET, Online event.” At the top center, there is a circular illustration of three characters looking for something–one is looking through binoculars.
Researchers from Germany: planning a research stay abroad?
Join the Humboldt Discovery Info Session on the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship – learn about the programme, application process & more! Researchers abroad planning to host fellows are also welcome! More information 👉 bit.ly/4mrHi31
TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
In our next WSL Biodiversity Seminar (8 April), Lalasia Bialic-Murphy @wslresearch.bsky.social will discuss the demographic functional diversity of forests across biogeographic gradients.
The seminar is hybrid, and everyone is welcome!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
The cover of Australian Journal of Botany against a background photo of a yellow wattle tree in bloom, with the caption: "Peer-reviewed research in Southern Hemisphere botanical ecosystems. ConnectSci.au/bt".
New #AusJBotany #EditorChoice article 📢
'A handbook for standardised measurements of plant reproductive traits: from pollen grain to seedling' by Peter Poschlod, et al.
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1071/BT25...
Curs d’ecologia, diversitat i conservació de la flora i la vegetació dels Pirineus orientals
25-26 d’abril i 11-12 de juliol de 2026
S'interpretarà el paisatge dels Pirineus orientals, des del nivell del mar fins a l'alta muntanya, en clau ecològica i dinàmica, fent èmfasi en la conservació.
Ja la tenim aquí!! La nova edició del curs de flora i vegetació dels Pirineus del @geovegub.bsky.social !! Límit d'inscripció el 10 d'abril 🌱🌲🪻🌼⛰️
A Global Conservation Blind Spot: Neglect of Bryophytes Undermines Biodiversity Targets
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
New publication! Do leaf traits vary in time? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social 🌱 @oikosjournal.bsky.social 🌱 doi.org/10.1002/oik.11849
Jornada Anual IRBio: Ciència i Gestió
Promourer un debat constrictiu entre el coneixement científic i la gestió del territori, per una millor una estratègia de conservació de la biodiversitat.
📅 18 març 2026
🕔 9:00-14h
📍 Aula Magna. @biologiaub.bsky.social
@ub.edu
We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences.
More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.
Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.
📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social
Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this?
www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...
🌳 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 🙏💚
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
I've published my book Britain's Dandelions, A Photographic Guide. It's currently available on Blurb blurb.co.uk/b/12805510-bri…
Next week I will be adding additional outlets. #Taraxacum #Botany #Dandelions #BritainsDandelions
Ara és bon moment per observar Narcissus assoanus i Narcissus dubius (almesquí i nadala). Són #geòfits vernals (plantes bulboses que floreixen a finals d'hivern), que es desenvolupen ràpidament pel fet de tenir les estructures florals preformades dins del bulb.
A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.
Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa
Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.
For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics
#SeminarIRBio
“PLANTsynergy: Impacte ambiental, socioeconòmic i polític dels projectes d'ecofisiologia vegetal”
Com l'ecofisiologia vegetal ajuda a afrontar els reptes ambientals i proporciona noves estratègies de conservació
11 Febrer
13h
Aula de Graus @biologiaub.bsky.social
@plantsynergy.ub
Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis at @univie.ac.at. Thanks @vvandvik.bsky.social and Bente Graae for reviewing it and Stefan Dullinger for supervising.
I tasted quite a bit of science during my Master's by leading 5 papers and doing lots of field research. But this was different. Extraordinary.
Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?"
Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)"
Pls register & share:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social
💚 WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💚 2 February 2026
This year’s theme is "Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage." Be part of the global celebration!
worldwetlandsday.org
#WorldWetlandsDay #CelebratingWetlands #WorldWetlandsDay2026
In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Want to know more about it? 🧵
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
¡Atención!
¡Buscamos nuevos Editores Asociados! 🔎
Abrimos la convocatoria para incorporar nuevos editores asociados a nuestra plantilla, principalmente para aquellas áreas aún poco representadas. ¿Estás interesado/a? Te contamos más en los siguientes tweets.
The 16 articles included in this collection @arcticsciencej.bsky.social provide an excellent overview of the diverse scientific disciplines studied in #Svalbard and celebrate the 30-yr anniversary of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) established in #Longyearbyen in 1993!
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.
A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
IAVS Symposium 2026, Thematic 'Understanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation'.
📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain
Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!
📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
