Àlex Giménez Romero

Unos pocos grados de diferencia pueden marcar la frontera entre la vida y la muerte de la vid Unos pocos grados pueden decidirlo todo: la enfermedad de Pierce amenaza la viticultura europea, y los microclimas locales marcan la frontera del riesgo.

Artículo en formato divulgativo sobre nuestro último estudio en @es.theconversation.com 👇

Unos pocos grados de diferencia pueden marcar la frontera entre la vida y la muerte de la vid

Thank you Saúl! 😊

Galicia provides a nice small-scale example of our results:

🚨 New paper out!

We show that the resolution of climate data matters for predicting disease risk.
High-resolution maps reveal local risks — especially in river valleys — that coarser data miss. This has a significant impact on a global scale.
🔗 rdcu.be/eH67i
@ifisc.uib-csic.es @csic.es @uib.cat

High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce’s disease for grapevines worldwide

📢 New publication: High-resolution climate data reveals increased risk of Pierce's Disease for grapevines worldwide by @agimenezromero.bsky.social, Eduardo Moralejo and @mamatias26.bsky.social, in Scientific Reports.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/publicati...

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática Investigadores del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos perfeccionan sistemas matemáticos que permiten entender el desarrollo y la morfología de uno de los ecosistemas más ricos d...

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática Investigadores del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos perfeccionan sistemas matemáticos que permiten entender el desarrollo y la morfología de uno de los ecosistemas más ricos d...

Que @eldiario.es habla de nuestras cosas! 😁🪸 @ifisc.uib-csic.es @uib.cat @csic.es

Un latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática www.eldiario.es/1_bf5a24?utm...

'The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid graduate and postdoctoral positions, the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound.'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking

Hello hello #complexity and #emergence people.

I'm getting a complexity+emergence (broadly defined) starter pack going.

I've focused on active accounts that often make original posts (not just reposts) and have at least a few thousand followers. Inclusion is not endorsement.

go.bsky.app/BLuVyWj

Surviving #SIBECOLAEET2025 until Thursday at 15:45? Come hear my talk!

( 🐝 photo by @curromolina.bsky.social )

🎓¿Buscas TFG o TFM?

🦟¿Te interesa la ecología, el comportamiento animal y los mosquitos?

🌿Únete en verano 2025 a un proyecto experimental en el
@ceabcsic.bsky.social y el Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (Blanes).

🔝 Oviposición, depredadores y kairomonas

📩 +info 👇

S01E12 Episodio ninja: El efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas La vaca esférica · Episode

Disponible #LaVacaEsférica S01E12 Episodio ninja: El Efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas

Spotify
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Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_R...

Y en breve en todas las apps y plataformas: Apple Podcasts, iVoox, Pocket casts, RSS feed, etc.
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🪸 @quantamagazine.bsky.social has published an article highlighting the innovative work of Dr. Eva Llabrés, postdoctoral researcher at IFISC. The article details her development of a "universal" model of coral growth.

🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/dr-e...

Btw, my PhD thesis is now on Zenodo! It’s a mix of theoretical and data-driven models tackling ecological problems—disease spread, climate change, and ecosystem monitoring. If that sounds interesting, take a look: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🦠Un estudio sugiere que el #cambioclimático abre la puerta a una enfermedad de la vid que Europa esquivó hace 150 años

🌳El @ifisc.uib-csic.es y Tragsa analizan la expansión de la enfermedad de Pierce, que hace 10 años que se extiende por el Mediterráneo

👉 tiny.cc/va69001

¿Cómo esquivó Europa la enfermedad de Pierce hace 150 años? 🧐🍇

Un estudio del IFISC publicado en Proc. R. Soc. B revela que el clima más frío impidió la propagación de Xylella fastidiosa. Sin embargo, el #CambioClimático podría cambiar el panorama. 🌍

www.csic.es/es/actualida...

Xylella fastidiosa: la bacteria que deseca Alicante y Baleares y que ahora amenaza a Extremadura | lamarea.com En las diferentes regiones afectadas por la enfermedad provocada por la Xylella fastidiosa, la opinión de los agricultores es dispar

En Italia, algunos científicos no creen que la solución sea destruir los ejemplares infectados por la bacteria Xylell y apuestan por soluciones alternativas, algo que investigadores españoles consideran que no es viable

Con el apoyo de Journalismfund Europe

Com les matemàtiques ens poden ajudar a conservar els esculls de coral? 🪸 L'investigador de l'IFISC @agimenezromero.bsky.social va participar en el programa Arran de Mar de Tarragona Ràdio comentant els resultats del seu darrer article.

📻 alacarta.tarragonaradio.cat/programs/arr...

I'd love to be added too!😊

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."

This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

How Life Really Works Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.

For those of us who are not professional biologists, it can be daunting to hear about transcription factors, signaling pathways and non-coding RNA. But this poignant piece from @philipcball.bsky.social opened my eyes to how deep and essential these ideas truly are. nautil.us/how-life-rea...

BES conference schedule. Day 1, Wednesday 11th December. 10:45, Man Qi, Auditorium 1C. 11:15, Chris Terry, Room 4A. 12:15, Aryaman Gupta, Room 4A. 16:30, Sean E. H. Pang, Room 3B. 18:00, Young Jun Lee, Poster Hall. 18:00, Sarah Bull, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 2, Thursday 12th December. 12:00, Thomas Stone, Room 11B. 12:15, Oliver Spacey, Room 4A. 16:30, Sarah Sophie-Weil, Room 4A. 17:00, Alice Rosen, Poster Hall. 17:00, Jessie McLean, Poster Hall. 17:00, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 3, Friday 13th December. 10:00, Christina Hernandez, Auditorium 1C. 10:15, Rachael Thornley, Room 11A. 10:45, Rob Salguero-Gomez, Room 11A. 11:45, James Cant, Auditorium 1C. 13:00, Alex Gimenez-Romero, Auditorium 1C.

Looking forward to #BES2024 this week! Look out for talks and posters by members of the SalGoTeam - hope to see you there! 🎄🧪

An illustration depicting the key idea of the research project. The text in the top left reads "PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE?" in all caps. Below are two characters representing large reproductive individuals of different species of Asteraceae, and two characters representing small individuals of these species. The large individuals are drawn engaging in a fight in an argument, as well as the small individuals. However, the fight is only happening between individuals of the same life stage.

Very excited to be presenting preliminary results of my master's research with @salgoteam.bsky.social at #BES2024! Find me at the poster session on Weds (A17.10) to chat about life stage-dependent plant competition and quantitative modelling of its impact on community dynamics and coexistence 🌿📈

1/ We’re excited to share our new paper: "Optimal COVID-19 vaccine prioritization by age depends critically on inter-group contacts and vaccination rates" published in Royal Society Open Science.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

The most intriguing finding is that these patterns are consistent across all mapped coral reef provinces - from the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef and the Brazilian coast.

The next step? Understanding why and how these universal patterns emerge.

In addition, we found that reefs tend to evolve in shape as they grow—from compact and circular to elongated or perforated, forming intricate structures. These transformations likely arise from interactions between biological growth and environmental pressures over geological timescales.

These scaling laws show:

📊Small reefs dominate the landscape, but there are a few massive ones out there

📏Reefs are typically clustered, with most separated by just 10–100m, but a few are isolated by >1km

🎚️Reefs display universal fractal geometries—their shapes are self-similar across scales

Using data from the Allen Coral Atlas, we compiled a global inventory of 1.58M reefs spanning 52,423 km². These reefs exhibit universal patterns in size, spacing, and geometry that transcend their geographic locations, revealing fundamental processes conserved across all coral reef provinces.

Unravelling the Universal Spatial Properties of Coral Reefs Aim To characterise the size and geometry of coral reefs on a global scale. Location Global. Time Period Present. Major Taxa Studied Coral reefs. Methods We process the Allen Coral Atlas dat.....

Excited to share our latest research in Global Ecology and Biogeography: "Unravelling the Universal Spatial Properties of Coral Reefs"! 🪸🌏
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @mamatias26.bsky.social @carlosduartephd.bsky.social @ifisc.uib-csic.es @uib.cat @csic.es