Alba Anadon-Rosell

Alba Anadon-Rosell

@albaanadon.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at @ub.edu, member of @geovegub.bsky.social, @irbio-ub.bsky.social, and @humboldt-foundation.de Plant ecology in alpine and Arctic ecosystems. #Shrubs and more

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A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social

Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this?

www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

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🌳 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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I've published my book Britain's Dandelions, A Photographic Guide. It's currently available on Blurb blurb.co.uk/b/12805510-bri…
Next week I will be adding additional outlets. #Taraxacum #Botany #Dandelions #BritainsDandelions

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Ara és bon moment per observar Narcissus assoanus i Narcissus dubius (almesquí i nadala). Són #geòfits vernals (plantes bulboses que floreixen a finals d'hivern), que es desenvolupen ràpidament pel fet de tenir les estructures florals preformades dins del bulb.

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A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution. Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.

For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

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#SeminarIRBio
“PLANTsynergy: Impacte ambiental, socioeconòmic i polític dels projectes d'ecofisiologia vegetal”
Com l'ecofisiologia vegetal ajuda a afrontar els reptes ambientals i proporciona noves estratègies de conservació
11 Febrer
13h
Aula de Graus @biologiaub.bsky.social
@plantsynergy.ub

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Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis at @univie.ac.at. Thanks @vvandvik.bsky.social and Bente Graae for reviewing it and Stefan Dullinger for supervising.

I tasted quite a bit of science during my Master's by leading 5 papers and doing lots of field research. But this was different. Extraordinary.

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Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?"

Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)"

Pls register & share:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social

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💚 WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💚 2 February 2026

This year’s theme is "Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage." Be part of the global celebration!

worldwetlandsday.org

#WorldWetlandsDay #CelebratingWetlands #WorldWetlandsDay2026

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3 months ago
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Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵

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Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

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3 months ago

¡Atención!

¡Buscamos nuevos Editores Asociados! 🔎

Abrimos la convocatoria para incorporar nuevos editores asociados a nuestra plantilla, principalmente para aquellas áreas aún poco representadas. ¿Estás interesado/a? Te contamos más en los siguientes tweets.

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3 months ago

The 16 articles included in this collection @arcticsciencej.bsky.social provide an excellent overview of the diverse scientific disciplines studied in #Svalbard and celebrate the 30-yr anniversary of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) established in #Longyearbyen in 1993!

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4 months ago
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.

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:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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4 months ago
IAVS Symposium 2026, Thematic 'Understanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation'.

📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain

Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!

📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026

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Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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For anyone interested near Barcelona next week, I’ll be giving a seminar (followed by other contributions) on ““Energy flow as a way of understanding ecosystem change and nature recovery”, as part of receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize 😊

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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/...

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Denunciem la situació crítica dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i exigim solucions urgents El personal dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i de la Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral ...

Des dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya s'ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral que afecta greument la gestió dels espais naturals. Aquesta situació compromet greument els objectius de conservació del patrimoni natural de Catalunya

shorturl.at/rG83q

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Detail of the air pores of CONOCEPHALUM CONICUM, growing on a spring near the town of Anglès. Stacking of 56 photos at 6X. #bryophytes #liverworts

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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One of the main research topics at #Geoveg are high mountain #mires. Have a look at the most recent publications focusing on #carbon stocks, mire #restoration, #drivers of alpine mire vegetation, and a new finding for the Iberian Flora: #Sphagnum #lindbergii spotted in the Pyrenees!

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🔊Oportunidad de Doctorado: Proyecto GYPSME, Metabolismo del Azufre en Plantas de #suelos yesíferos.

Buscamos candidatos para #beca predoctoral de investigación (FPI) vinculada al proyecto.
📅Inicio 2026. Duración: 4 años

Más info en nuestro Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/posts/pyrene...

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Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

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So happy to see the first BugNet paper published 🥳!
Thanks to all our collaborators, without you this would not have been possible! 👇

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#ArticleIRBio
🌍Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation
and Latitude Gradients
✍️ A.Anadon-Rosell, E.Illa, J.Ninot, A.Pérez-Haase (IRBioUB) et al
📄GlobalEcologyandBiogeography
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
@geovegub.bsky.social

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Still time to apply for the open #postdoc position in our team!
Note that the link has been updated: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

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Nova publicació del GEOVEG sobre variabilitat intraindividual (dins un mateix individu) en trets funcionals! Aquí en teniu un resum 👇

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#plant #functional #traits #clonal #shrubs #tundra #alpine #Pyrenees #Abisko #Finse #rhizome #ramet

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