In our rapid selection experiment we're using hoverflies to pollinate the Brassica rapa flowers. Here's a photo from the first test run 🪰

Old crops in new places - Nature Plants All over the world, farmers are finding new ways to adapt to climate change. But these innovations risk severing connections to the land that have been shaped over millennia.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marcos Fernández-Martínez receives the 'Ángeles Alvariño' national research award for his contribution in the field of ecology Marcos Fernández Martínez, ERC researcher at CREAF, who has received the “Ángeles Alvariño” national research award in the category of Natural Resources Sciences and Technologies.

Congratulations Marcos! @burriach.bsky.social www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...

Researcher in Soil Science for the Sustainable Field Crops Program - IRTA We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.

Great opportunity to join IRTA (Catalunya) with a permanent research position in soil science. Apply here talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6477...

Had a great time talking about root exudates at the workshop about soil health at IRTA Cabrils today. And lots of other great talks!

Desde la @academiajoven.bsky.social queremos felicitar a las personas galardonadas con los #PNI y #PNIJ en especial a los miembros de nuestra Academia:

Jesús Campos @camposgroup.bsky.social
Marcos Fernández @burriach.bsky.social
Marta Sánchez de la Torre @MSanchezdlTorre

¡Enhorabuena!👏

PhD Candidate for a project about drought resistance of crop roots - IRTA We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.

Last days to apply for a PhD position with us at IRTA Cabrils (Catalonia, Spain) to work on drought resistance of crops, root exudates, rhizosphere microbes, crop wild relatievs and more! talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants Newly appointed expedition botanist Matthew Jeffery feels ‘daunted’ but inspired by his unique globetrotting role collecting wild species

‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.

Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...

‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find Hybridisation event took place about 9 million years ago, helping to ‘spark the emergence of a new organ’

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

For more info feel free to contact me!

PhD Candidate for a project about drought resistance of crop roots - IRTA We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.

#PhD position now open to work with us in Catalunya at IRTA (Cabrils) investigating domestication effects on crop roots and drought tolerance. Apply here: talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...

Water sources shape drought effects on mammal activity in mediterranean woodlands - Mammalian Biology Drought frequency and severity have notably increased in the Mediterranean basin throughout the 20th century, thereby impacting freshwater sources and forest regrowth, which are crucial for woodland m...

New paper alert!

Water sources shape drought effects on mammal activity in mediterranean woodlands

Congratulations Eleni! This is the result of 6 years of continuous monitoring of animal activity in Montnegre within the Gat Fer project (DSLC-ICHN)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.

v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

The maize in the experiment is getting BIG. We've already had some interesting early findings with the VOC measurements, and I'm looking forward to analysing the exudates! #WILD-ROOTS

Wow, looks amazing! Exudate collection on an impressive scale!

Last week we had a great kick-off meeting with colleagues and collaborators!

IRTA Torre Marimon was looking beautiful in the sunshine today.

🧪Open Postdoc position (up to 2 yrs) on Integrating Flux Data and Remote Sensing to Quantify Environmental Footprints of Agroecosystems in my lab at ETH Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Some of the beautiful flowers in the WILD-ROOTS greenhouse today.

@mpallandt.bsky.social and I were awarded financial support through the new EGU EDI Participation Support Scheme, to bring our child to #EGU25. This enables EC scientists to attend without monetary punishment for having children and no local support system. I hope more such initiatives will follow!

📢New paper! One fifth of global farmland contaminated by toxic metals @science.org
Data from 800,000 soil samples identified a high-risk zone stretching across southern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fifth-g...

Nice to still get to help out with the greenhouse work from time to time on the #WILD-ROOTS project

Looking good! Looking forward to seeing the results

Modern radish variety growing in plant pot with a visible pink root.

Traditional 'landrace' radish growing in a pot, and looking much weedier.

My first time growing radish in an experiment-excited to include some root crops in the #WILD-ROOTS project. The modern and traditional varieties do look quite different! @wild-roots.bsky.social

toxicitat en organismes i ecosistemes Cultura Mataró. Agenda cultural

Causes i efectes de la toxicitat en organismes i ecosistemes

Cicle de conferències de l'Atzavara (Mataró), del 2 d'abril al 3 de maig

No us els perdeu!

www.culturamataro.cat/toxicitat-en...

@ichn.iec.cat @arebroc.bsky.social

Soil VOC emission measurements underway (with SPMEs) thanks to our Masters student Jordi. Will wild relatives have different emissions compared to modern crops?

Environmental and Ecological Statistics Conference Co-organised by Glasgow University and Lancaster University

Interested in ecological/environmental #stats? Join us at the EnvEcoStats conference at Lancaster Uni 1-3 July 2025 envecostats.wordpress.com 14 days left to submit an abstract - come on ecologists! @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #RStats

Great to spend the day at another IRTA centre today - Mas Badia - for a meeting of the Catalan working group on #soil carbon and seeing the current experiments on regenerative agriculture.