Mariana Chiuffo
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Mariana Chiuffo
@mchiuffo.bsky.social

Plant community ecologist 🌱🏔️| Researcher at CONICET, Argentina
📍Humboldt Fellow, Ecology/Macroecology Group @zurelllab.bsky.social, University of Potsdam, Germany
📑Assoc Editor in Biological Invasions
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Environmental science 50%
Agriculture 22%

The system is unsustainable in so many ways! The number of publications is overwhelming, reviewers and editors are hard to find, and the pressure to keep up with everything translates into chronic overwork...We are doing more science, but are we doing better science?
New paper, Great news:
We have been saying for years that making the editorial board more diverse was needed
We now show that diverse team of editors makes for more diverse reviewers
More Inclusive=Better Science
Things are getting better on this❤️
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett

go.nature.com/4pRniHp
I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.
go.nature.com

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📢 Our Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is still open!

#ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on #mountain monitoring, #data, & info. Projects that consolidate the state of knowledge or advance #TransformativeResearch are particularly encouraged.

🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply: buff.ly/yQDG01i

Nice graphical abstract!

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Our paper "Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists, and their societies" has been accepted in People and Nature!

More to come on this soon!
a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing and says woot ! woot !
ALT: a little girl wearing sunglasses and a blue dress is dancing and says woot ! woot !
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Thrilled to see the first #PhD chapter by @annaroennfeldt.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com. This multi-region comparison shows that lack of #niche conservatism in #non-native #plants might be transient and potentially linked to dispersal limitations. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Client Challenge
doi.org

Congrats Martin!✨ 🎊
As a result, @martin-nunez.bsky.social has stepped up from his role as Senior Editor to be appointed as the latest Executive Editor 🌱

We're looking forward to seeing what the year ahead will bring! 💭

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⏩️ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species ⏪️
-> rewriting classical Floristik biogeography

#tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social In case you missed the talk by Lirong Cai (now new postdoc in Copenhagen w Carsten Rahbek) here is the preprint

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species
Biogeographical regions reflect differences in biotic composition resulting from long-term isolation and biogeographical processes, but how human-mediated introductions of non-native species have alte...
www.biorxiv.org
As a result, @martin-nunez.bsky.social has stepped up from his role as Senior Editor to be appointed as the latest Executive Editor 🌱

We're looking forward to seeing what the year ahead will bring! 💭

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Got your copy of a pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing?? 😁

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Los zarpazos invisibles de un presidente victorioso
Por Ernesto Tenembaum @ertenembaum

www.infobae.com/opinion/2025...
Los zarpazos invisibles de un presidente victorioso
El avance arrollador de Milei incluye una transformación radical de la sociedad argentina: sin ciencia, con menos industria, menos rutas, menos apoyo a discapacitados, menos financiamiento a la educac...
www.infobae.com

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🌱 Fieldwork update from Isla Victoria (Argentina):
We returned to resample vegetation in long-term exclosure plots originally established by @agostinatorres.bsky.social after the removal of pine plantations. These plots allow us to track secondary invasions dynamics and potential community.
In this article, just out, I argue that scientists have a crucial role in the science-policy interface: keep making questions, especially those whose answers decision-makers don't know they want to know, or know they do not want to know.
Here's the link:
journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
Three kinds of questions for scientists in intergovernmental policy
journals.plos.org

Despite having outstanding scientists like Sandra, our scientific system is being defunded and is in deep crisis under the current government. #CONICET #Argentina
Sandra Diaz' talk at #BES2025 was one of the best keynote's I've seen. She managed to weave art, storytelling, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary functional trait ecology together to show us the importance of connecting with people when we do our science. A great start to the conference!
So happy to see Sandra Diaz use trees from Gorbea as an example of relational values with nature #BES2025 🪾🍂💚💚
Sandra Diaz' talk at #BES2025 was one of the best keynote's I've seen. She managed to weave art, storytelling, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary functional trait ecology together to show us the importance of connecting with people when we do our science. A great start to the conference!
So happy to see Sandra Diaz use trees from Gorbea as an example of relational values with nature #BES2025 🪾🍂💚💚

Ah, está bien! ❤️‍🩹

¿Vas?

🫶🏽🫶🏽

Qué belleza 💗

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En el Wallmapu, una machi mapuche, una científica del #IEB #UdeC y una comunicadora, tejen un vínculo entre saberes ancestrales y ciencia para sanar la relación con la Tierra.

Escuchar profundamente es conservar.

#PRENSA #LaderaSur

laderasur.com/articulo/esc...

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The reviewer crisis: data from the journal Biological Invasions:

"Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

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Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful!

From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey

Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry

gulfnews.com/world/americ...
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America

📖 buff.ly/ZgIX5IC
#TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social

@uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci

Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
How did North American and European fungi end up in Argentine forests?

New research in @newphyt.bsky.social from UE @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social looks underground at how non-native tree species and their fungal partners have spread.

Read here: buff.ly/919OOs0
New paper!
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi: belowground insights from South America
Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are essential for nutrient cycling and plant symbiosis, yet their invasions remain understudied, particularly in South America. Large-scale forestry introductions have spr...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Not great odds in favor...
How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ