Pablo García-Palacios
@pablogarciapal.bsky.social
Researcher at ICA-CSIC on Ecosystem Ecology & Agroecology Associate at U Zurich & vanderHeijdenLab AE @funecology www.garcia-palacios.com
I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...
RESEARCH ARTICLE Soil Biodiversity Supports Agroecosystem Services Under Multiple Global Change Factors 🔗 buff.ly/DIzddZj
Prof Braj Singh@prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 2w agoNew paper from the lab- Bacterial motility in rhizosphere colonization: mechanisms, constraints, and implications for microbial inoculants- in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal Led by Led by Tong Wang and @hangweihu.bsky.social . academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Interesting text from the MIT on AI in universities: We need more oral exams and more face-to-face interaction among students and with professors. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.
Emily Cassidy@enviroem.bsky.social · last mo.People are always surprised to learn that packaging, processing, and transportation are almost always small contributors (<10%) of food-related GHG emissions. The TYPE of food we eat -- meat versus plants -- is a MUCH bigger factor.
Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits 🧪🌐🌾 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits
Climate change increases plant species richness in alpine ecosystems. However, to what extent this diversity enrichment masks extinction dynamics of resident species remains elusive. In this study, we...
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A soil science Ig Nobel award for a study on what happens when u bury 1k pairs of underwear for 2months to determine biological activity in soil. A 25 nation citizen science study by Bender & van der Heijden from U Zurich #SoilScience #Biogeochemistry #Decomposition www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.
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Excellent article about current climate change causing thawing of permafrost and implications for additional CO2 and methane emissions.
Peter Lipman@peterlipman.bsky.social · last mo.The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great Nature Career piece on the "lottery" aspect of grant decisions, its pros and cons. Still liked the VolkswagenStiftung approach! www.nature.com/artic... 🧪
When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding
Nature - If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
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A modeling study spanning 60 years of ocean iron fertilization across 10 ocean biomes reveals stark trade-offs in its use as a CO₂ removal technique. 🌊🧪
Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization - Nature
A process-rich global biogeochemical model is used to determine the trade-offs between carbon dioxide removal efficiency and ecosystem impacts in ten ocean ocean biomes following ocean iron ...
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World champs x2 🇪🇸🏆🏆 Spain is the first nation to simultaneously hold the men's and women's FIFA World Cup crowns!
Nuestro proyecto #ECOECLIPSE recibe atención en el @elpais.com. ¡Muy agradecida a @pflis.bsky.social por la entrevista y artículo! elpais.com/ciencia/2026... Toda la información del proyecto en: eclipseespana.com/ecoeclipse/ @unisevilla.us.es @mncn-csic.bsky.social @airamrodriguez.bsky.social
Así es el proyecto que ‘escuchará’ el eclipse de Sol: ¿qué se oye cuando se apaga el mundo?
Una docena de investigadores repartirá grabadoras por España para registrar cómo reaccionan aves y murciélagos al falso atardecer del 12 de agosto
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Our new SKR paper is out ⬇️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We show that trait distributions can be used as a predictive benchmark of restauration sucess and the long-term biodiversity recovery! #PredictiveEcology #Grasslands 🧪🌎🌐 @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social
Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands
Land-use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Invest...
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Great opportunity to work in a cutting edge lab!
Prof Braj Singh@prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 3mo ago2X Postdoctoral Research Associate (Agriculture & Plant Microbe) are available at the intersection of microbial ecology, soil health and crop disease management at UWA, Perth. Closing date: 19/07/2026. Pl repost Details on opportunity& eligibility below external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Shoebill Stork I love this bird!! It’s like a living muppet and a real dinosaur 🦕
🌱 Interested in crop microbiomes, plant pathogens, and climate-resilient agriculture? We are recruiting a PhD student at University of Western Australia to investigate how climate extremes influence crop microbiomes, pathogen invasion, and plant health. researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...
Screening titles and abstracts for your systematic literature review is a very time-consuming process. Researchers have to screen thousands of papers. You can use Claude Code to automate the screening process with accuracy: Here's how to do it:
The little artist of nature, who paints the world with golden dust. Every small effort creates something beautiful. ✨💛🐝
New paper published in #NatureFood with an stellar leadership by Shuo Jiao. We show that agricultural microbiomes are more resistant to warming than natural exosystems, based on a natural gradient and a set of mechanistic lab experiments www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Agricultural soil microbiomes are structurally and functionally more resistant to warming than adjacent natural ecosystems - Nature Food
Using warming microcosms across 100 paired sites, a global meta-analysis and microbiome manipulation experiments, this study shows that agricultural microbiomes confer higher compositional and multifu...
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Somehow cartoonists see things happening well in advance. Perhaps all their ideas are stolen by villains.
New paper in Global Change Biol.: soil organic carbon increases crop yields and reduces interannual variability, but largest gains occur under moderate water conditions, not drought. SOC needs water to work. w @muellern.bsky.social @kyoungchoi.bsky.social Jesse Burkhardt doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Beautiful footage from the SACC trial at ICA @csic.es where we study whether no till & cover crops can buffer warming effects on agroecosystem services
To address climate change, we need to stop and spend a few minutes understanding what causes it. If you think it's just “CO2 from burning fossil fuels”, you're missing a big part of the story. Like ~40% of climate change caused by other things. Learn more here. drawdown.org/insights/the...
The four most important charts for people who want to stop climate change
Four charts provide valuable insights into the spectrum of climate solutions.
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Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Hey soil carbon lovers, Check out our new paper from the global #biodesert survey in @natcomms.nature.com Happy to be part of the team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Persistence and turnover of soil organic carbon in global drylands - Nature Communications
Radiocarbon analyses show that dryland soils store organic carbon with a mean age of ~2100 years and release carbon averaging ~520 years old, suggesting that long-stored carbon in drylands is vulnerab...
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Se ha publicado una oferta de contrato de técnico/a de apoyo a la investigación para incorporarse a un proyecto que coordino en la @urjc.bsky.social 📅 Plazo de solicitud: hasta el 4 de mayo de 2026 Detalles en el hilo 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Our letter in @science.org on the scientific consensus behind our conclusion: "legislation should prioritize and scale up sustainable practices & alternatives to pesticides, [...] and provide sustained support to farmers committed to agroecological transition."
France must protect pollinators over pesticides
Pollinating insects, which are essential to biodiversity, plant reproduction, and crop production, are in decline (1, 2). In Europe, pollinator populations have declined markedly over recent decades (...
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Since last year, Ilona Riipinen and I @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social have been working with an amazing team of senior editors to re-launch the journal Tellus @tellusjournal.bsky.social. We are making it our dream journal to publish fundamental science on any of the 🌍 spheres.
Tellus@tellusjournal.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe first publication from the relaunched Tellus journal is now available! This editorial outlines the journal’s scope and direction as a platform for interdisciplinary Earth system science, with a focus on scientific quality, openness, and community-oriented publishing. ⬇️
