I was considering submitting a paper to Nature Ecology and Evolution, then I saw that the open access fee was 12 THOUSAND dollars! What the actual crap!? I can do a lot of research for 12k. Charging authors 12 grand to publish THEIR OWN work is the craziest nonsense imaginable

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

24/ The evidence is sufficient for me to believe that what Israel is currently doing to the Palestinian population in Gaza is a crime against humanity that is consistent with the definition of genocide as I understand it. In an appendix, I explain my reasoning for using this term

It's so sad news today. Farewell to Daniel Dennett, one of our most influential colleagues at Santa Fe Institute. He was an extraordinary thinker, a phenomenal intellectual, and a brilliant writer. We will miss him enormously. Daniel Dennett Juli Pereto 🍊 Sergi Valverde🌍

Are tumours like ecosystems? Cancer displays complex, heterogeneous populations that can be mathematically described as interacting species. Check our new paper with Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió and Sandy Anderson on generalized Lotka-Volterra models for cancer biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Barcelona Collaboratorium

Tumors are complex and adaptive ecosystems. How can we model them, and what are the implications? It's been an amazing opportunity to learn from the great Sandy Anderson and Ricard Solé. So many open questions lay ahead for mathematical oncology! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What about the pressure put on early career scientists? Should the change come from researchers who have some job security? Another frustrating part: scientists often call for behavioral changes to combat crises, yet we fail to change our own behavior to combat our own crisis.

Haematopoietic stem cells are key to treat leukemias and many blood disorders. Yet, we don't know how to grow them in culture, and we depend on hard-to-find donors. A newly found pathway could be key in understanding HSC regeneration! Biomedicina BCN Barcelona Collaboratorium IRB Barcelona

Multistability is often attributed to nonlinear species dynamics. Yet, in species-rich communities, alternative stable states can emerge even under linear interactions! How do these states emerge, and what are their properties? New work with Sonia Kefi doi.org/10.1088/2632-0…

Beta-testing a school: physicists from around the Mediterranean (+Sweden) came to INTP - Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus to teach each other and co-create an intro to ecology ! Amazing people in a beautiful place 🌄🌳 Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió 📷Daniel R. Amor, Azenor Bideault

Great days visiting Daniel R. Amor in Paris Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS ! Many new ideas and a great seminar by Hyunseok Lee . So much to come, thank you Dani and your team!

If we re-started the tape of evolution on Earth... what would we see? About 40 pages and 400 references, a massive endeavor bringing together so many fields and ideas, once again. Congratulations Ricard Solé and colleagues for this great piece! Santa Fe Institute

A nice piece by Claude Shannon against scientific hype and overselling (of Information Theory, but could be many other things). Why does science move in such strong "this-solves-everything" trends?

Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What if we could model a tumor not as a population of cancer cells, but rather as a complex ecosystem of many interacting species? An honor to work with Ricard Solé and Sandy Anderson, while bringing in what I've learned from ecology from Sonia Kefi and many others!

Interesting! Could topological properties, instead of geometrical, provide a better characterization of the roles of species in ecological networks Luíño 🏉🤖🏳️‍🌈 Ricard Solé ?