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Antonio Girona-García

@agirona.bsky.social

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

FUEGORED @fuegored.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 🔥 Los incendios de 2026 confirman la urgencia del mensaje que FUEGORED lanzó en 2025: prevenir, gestionar y adaptar nuestros territorios es la mejor herramienta frente a los grandes incendios. fuegored.weebly.com

FUEGORED@fuegored.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are pleased to share the Statement of #FUEGORED, drafted as a #scientific and multidisciplinary response to the devastating #wildfires that affected the #Iberian #Peninsula during the summer of #2025. The full statement can be found in #Spanish, #Portuguese, and #English in fuegored.weebly.com

Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some epic shots of Pyrocumulus clouds indicative of extreme fire behaviour associated with the wildfires near Boston Bar including a new start that’s threatening the main townsite. Seen from 125km away in Coquitlam BC! H/T 📸: @brad604.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCWX

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌱✨ La SECS estrena nueva web: 🔗 secs.com.es Un espacio renovado para consultar actividades, publicaciones, NEWS-SECS, recursos, congresos, premios, tesis doctorales, proyectos y el Diccionario Multilingüe de la Ciencia del Suelo. #SECS #CienciaDelSuelo #SoilScience #Edafología

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · last mo.

Last Sunday we presented results from the #EROSINK project at the XV Field Days (SECS Galicia), discussing how we study post-fire carbon redistribution in soils. Great field exchange! 🌱🔥 #SoilScience #erosion #wildfires #carbon @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social @imibasturias.bsky.social

Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Read "A post-fire management strategy for the EU" by Diana Vieira, Antonio Girona-García, Aristeidis Kastridis, and Martinho Martins in the #FireEcology Journal #SNFECO 🔥 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00481-9

Diana Vieira @dicasivi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good morning colleagues! 🔥 🙌 As promised here is the new blogpost about our recent paper 👇 go.nature.com/4uIkGPd Hope you enjoy it and let us know, what do you think! 💬 @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @agirona.bsky.social @fuegored.bsky.social @fireurisk.eu

Why post-fire management matters for resilient European landscapes

In Europe, where increasingly severe wildfires are reshaping landscapes, post-fire management remains one of the least developed yet most consequential dimensions of wildfire policy.

go.nature.com

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥Great to see this work finally published! 👏 "A post-fire management strategy for the EU" Papers like this are essential for translating solid science into practical, coordinated, and evidence-based post-fire strategies that policymakers can actually use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📸🏆 Resultados Concurso Fotográfico SECS 2026 🥇 Jorge Mataix Solera 📷 Suelo tropical en Bonao (Rep. Dominicana) 🏅 Accésits: Daniela Álvarez Morales David Badía Villas María Belén Turrión Nieves 👏 ¡Enhorabuena a todos los participantes! #SECS #CienciaDelSuelo #SoilScience

Diana Vieira @dicasivi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#Wildfires are becoming a systemic risk in #Europe. Our latest brief shows: • ~1M ha burned in 2025 • rising impacts on ecosystems, water, and carbon • risk expanding beyond the Mediterranean We need a shift: from reaction to prevention and resilience. publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC145919

EGU Soil System Sciences Division @egu-sss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🌍✨ CAMPFIRE SSS – 25 March, 10:00 CET! Excited to host a deep dive into soil science with incredible topics: post-fire soil dynamics, microbial life in drought, and how farming intensity impacts soil microbes. Join us for a lively discussion! 🔥 Link to register👇 #SoilScience #EGU #CampfireSSS

CSIC @csic.es · 6mo ago

🔬El #CSIC ha presentado hoy un informe que documenta los daños ambientales y geológicos tras el incendio de #LasMédulas 📒El documento, que reúne el trabajo de más de 70 especialistas, es clave para la recuperación postincendio ➡️ tiny.cc/mp6y001

Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Global Carbon Budget 2025

Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...

essd.copernicus.org

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔥This is no news, but #soil #erosion after #wildfires matters and #mitigation works. 🌾 Straw mulch vs. no treatment after several storms in 1 month: ✅ Mulched (left): 4.65 kg sediment ❌ Untreated (right): 40 kg (≈10× more!) Soil erosion mitigation must be among the priorities in post-fire management

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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.

FUEGORED @fuegored.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Diana Vieira @dicasivi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔥 Excited to convene our #EGU26 session “Managing Wildfires in a Changing World” with Carmen Sánchez García, @agirona.bsky.social & Martinho Martins Early career fee waiver deadline: Dec 2–11. Info 👉 lnkd.in/dzUEyHpg DM me if in doubt! #Wildfires #Climate #Soil @egu-sss.bsky.social @egu.eu

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚀 The #EROSINK project is in full throttle! This week, we (@imibasturias.bsky.social - @csic.es) have been out in the field installing the last set of plots to study post-fire #soil organic #carbon #erosion, working closely with our amazing colleagues at @mbgcsic.bsky.social Stay tuned for results!🔥

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 11mo ago

La semana pasada, investigadores del @imibasturias.bsky.social, como parte del Grupo de Asesoramiento en Emergencias (GADE) del @csic.es , estuvimos evaluando el #riesgo de #erosión post-incendio en la zona afectada por el #incendio de #Yeres (León), que alcanzó parte del entorno de Las Médulas.

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌍 #EUROSOIL 2025 starts tomorrow! On Monday I’ll have two presentations focused on post-fire #soil #erosion🔥: 🎤 Oral: #271 The role of post-fire soil erosion in the #carbon cycle 🖼️ Poster: #273 What do we know about post-fire soil erosion #mitigation 📍Let's connect!

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌍 What a week! I helped organize the 1st European Soil Judging Contest (#ESJC) in Alcoi, an amazing experience with students and soil scientists from Europe and the USA. Now shifting gears for #EUROSOIL2025! #Soil #SoilScience #EnvironmentalScience #suelo #cienciadelsuelo

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌍 ¡Empieza el European Soil Judging Contest 2025 en Alcoi! Una semana para compartir ciencia, pasión y mucho suelo con equipos de toda Europa. ¡Gracias a quienes lo hacen posible! #ESJC2025 #CienciaDelSuelo #SoilJudging #soil #soilscience #suelo

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔥No summer rest for field #wildfire research! Kickstarting a collaboration between @imibasturias.bsky.social & @uaveiro.bsky.social under the #EROSINK Project. ⚒️ Setting up plots to study post-fire #soil #carbon #erosion. 🙌 Kudos to Martinho, Ana Isabel, Elena & Chakib! 👩‍🎓 First site for Elena’s PhD!

World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌲🧯Forest fires are increasing. Does climate change play a role? The short answer? Yes, it does. The hotter, drier conditions create the vicious "climate-fire feedback loop," leading to more devastating and frequent fires. Get the long answer👉 go.wri.org/climate-fire-loop-bs

5 Graphics Explain the Climate-Fire Feedback Loop

Climate change is making forest fires worse, and vice-versa — creating a vicious "climate-fire feedback loop" that has helped fuel record burns in recent years.

go.wri.org

Antonio Girona-García @agirona.bsky.social · last yr.

Kayaked down the Nalón River with the FIREPROS team (www.fireprosrt.com) and friends last weekend! 🚣‍♂️🌿🔥 Great vibes, stunning views, and awesome teamwork. More adventures to come!

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 ¡Nuevo NEWS-SECS disponible! Ya puedes leer el nº 31 (julio 2025) con noticias sobre proyectos, congresos, actividades territoriales y reconocimientos a socios. 📥 www.secs.com.es/news-secs/ #SECS #CienciaDelSuelo #NEWSSECS #SueloEsVida #SoilScience

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 ¿Te interesa el suelo? ¡Hazte socio/a de la SECS! 🌱 Únete a esta comunidad científica y descubre sus beneficios! 📬 Más info: www.secs.com.es #HazteSocioSECS #CienciaDelSuelo #SECS #SuelosDeEspaña #DivulgaciónCientífica #MedioAmbiente #suelo #suelos #haztesocio

EGU Soil System Sciences Division @egu-sss.bsky.social · last yr.

🌱 Meet the SSS ECS Team! 🌍 We’re excited to introduce the ECS Team of the EGU SSS Division! They’re shaping the future of soil science through research, community building & outreach. 👉 Learn more in our first blog post! 🔗 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sss/ #SoilScience #EGU_SSS #ECS #ScienceCommunity

Soil System Sciences

A blog hosted by the European Geosciences Union

blogs.egu.eu

Sociedad Española de la Ciencia del Suelo (SECS)@secs-spain.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ La #SECS emprende esta nueva etapa con gran ilusión y compromiso por el estudio y la divulgación de la #CienciaDelSuelo. ¿Quieres saber más sobre nuestra sociedad y conocer a la nueva Junta Directiva? 🌱 ¡Síguenos en secs.com.es y forma parte de esta comunidad apasionada por los suelos!