When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.
I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.
And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.
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El viaje de las gomillas de plastico, desde el super al estómago de las aves ☹️ en esta egagropila de cigueña identifico toda la variedad de gomillas que observé ayer en la fruteria. No deberia ser tan dificil encontrar soluciones mas sostenibles…
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
💫💥 Desgranando Ciencia, una actividad que los granadinos y granadinas han disfrutado durante una década, evoluciona para convertirse en Desgranando FEST, un formato más ambicioso, abierto y territorial que se celebrará del 18 al 26 de abril por toda la provincia de Granada
🌳 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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Datacentres now account for 7% of US electricity demand.
What will the next ten years look like?
📢El #CSIC convoca 441 becas #JAE_Intro_ICU destinadas a estudiantes de grado y máster interesados en iniciarse en la investigación científica
🗓️El primer plazo está abierto hasta el 10 de marzo
➡️Más información: http://tiny.cc/n9qy001
➡️Convocatoria: https://sede.csic.gob.es/icu2026
Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. malagaldia.es/2026/02/06/g...
Incredible: ~2500mm (78 inches) in 20 days - 1.5X the normal yearly rainfall in Grazalema, Spain and it’s only February. How? A 5000 mile Tropical Atmospheric River lifted by terrain in Southern Spain. H/T Nahel Belgherze #europe #flood #spain #weather
OFERTA DE BECA DE INTRODUCCIÓN A LA INVESTIGACIÓN Convocatoria JAE Intro ICU 2026 Dirigido a: Estudiantes universitarios de grado o máster oficial Objetivo: Iniciación en la carrera científica, dando a conocer en el ámbito universitario las posibilidades profesionales que ofrecen los Institutos del CSIC en las diferentes áreas científicas. Referencia beca: EEZ-05 Título: Funcionamiento de los árboles en el contexto del cambio climático. Investigador responsable: Antoine Cabon Centro: Estación Experimental del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC), Granada. Duración: 6 meses (20 horas/semana), inicio previsto para mayo 2026 Importe beca: 3,600€ (600€/mes) Convocatoria: https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-B-2026-3597 (Extracto) https://www.infosubvenciones.es/bdnstrans/GE/es/convocatoria/884982/document/13 96206 (Texto completo) Plazo de solicitud: 1 mes desde 10/02/2026 Requisitos específicos para las personas solicitantes (además de los requisitos generales que se establecerán en la convocatoria): • Es requisito estar cursando o haber cursado un Grado en la rama de conocimiento de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales. Es necesario tener superados el 50% de los créditos. • Acreditar una nota media de grado igual o superior a 8 en una escala de 0-10. • Si se ha finalizado el Grado estar matriculado en un Máster Universitario en la Rama de conocimiento de la Biología, Ciencias Ambientales o Ecología durante los cursos 2025-2026 o 2026-2027. • No estar en posesión o disposición legal de obtener un título de Doctor. • Se valorará tener experiencia con programas de estadística (R). Para más información de la convocatoria y acceso al formulario de solicitud: https://sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/programa-jae/convocatoria-jae-intro-icu-2026 Interesados/as contactar con el investigador responsable
📣 Busco a un estudiante de grado o master interesado/a en el funcionamiento de los arboles para solicitar una beca de iniciación a la investigación que mi grupo en la EEZ-CSIC (Granada) tiene preconcedida. 📣
¡Gracias por difundir!
Aquí más info: sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...
Fig. 3 Resource (here C and water) uptake, transport, and consumption shape resource distribution along the leaf-to-root axis, influencing C partitioning and plant functional traits under changing environmental conditions.
#TansleyInsight | Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning
@acabon.bsky.social 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal
For the first time, independent monitoring data from #ICOSCities confirms that GHG emissions in Paris have decreased by 25% in the last decade, aligning almost perfectly with the 26% CO₂ reduction reported by Airparif (2015–2022).
👉 Read more in FLUXES: www.icos-cp.eu/fluxes/4/det...
🐟 La #anguila europea está al borde del colapso
👉 Urge actuar para protegerla:
→ Perseguir el tráfico ilegal
→ Incluir todas las especies en #CITES
→ Moratoria a su pesca
→ Eliminar obstáculos y restaurar la conectividad fluvial
💧 Cada río libre cuenta
[1/2] 📢 GLAMOS @scnat.ch press release out today: Swiss glaciers lost another 3% of their volume in 2025, the 4th-largest decline ever measured. In just 10 years, they’ve lost a quarter of their ice mass. Over 1k small glaciers have already vanished.
🔗 to press release: scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9d...
45 ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla are approaching Gaza ... "We need your eyes & your pressure on international institutions to keep everyone safe and to help us achieve our goal of breaking the siege and opening a humanitarian corridor." globalsumudflotilla.org @freedomflotilla.bsky.social
Impresionante! Estos datos están accesibles para investigación?
Gracias por tus repartos, muy utiles! Que aplicación usas para consultar los datos de observaciones?
La asociación @sciencequeers.bsky.social busca ponentes su evento #OrgullEnCiències, que se celebrará en noviembre en Mataró y en Barcelona. Aceptan propuestas hasta el 10 de octubre.
Climate change is reshaping forest growth 🌳🌡️💧
Water and temperature control growth timing.
Warmer winters make some species start growing earlier.
Hot, dry summers may shorten growing seasons.
New paper out @globalchangebio.bsky.social led by a former PhD student @csic.es shorturl.at/5Gn8a
Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fig. 3 Resource (here C and water) uptake, transport, and consumption shape resource distribution along the leaf-to-root axis, influencing C partitioning and plant functional traits under changing environmental conditions.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/5) Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
🌳 New Tansley Insight!
What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔
I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516
@newphyt.bsky.social
🌳 New Tansley Insight!
What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔
I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516
Our new article is out in @geoderma.bsky.social! Drylands, which cover 40% of Earth’s land, store ~30% of global soil organic carbon. But how do different carbon fractions support ecosystem services under rising aridity? 🏜️
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Almond orchard with Sierra Nevada in the background
Ready for a fresh start at @csic.es, in beautiful Granada, to study the impact of climate change on tree growth and the carbon cycle. Keep posted for PhD and postdoc position announcements!
🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough.
📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social
"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy
@irnase.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest publication: Trees use exogenous sugars for growth, but excess triggers negative feedback reducing photosynthetic carbon gain. Many thanks to my supervisors Mai-He Li and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and many collaborators
doi.org/10.1093/tree...
Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity):
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Postdoc:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who might be interested!
🧵Junio de 2025 ha pulverizado récords.
→ Temperatura media de 23.6 °C. Supera por 0.8 °C al anterior junio más cálido: el de 2017.
→ Su carácter ha sido extremadamente cálido. Supera en nada menos que 3.5 °C el promedio del período 1991-2020.
