Àlex Giménez Romero
Physicist. PhD in Physics of Complex Systems. Currently at CEAB-CSIC.
Interested in ecology, epidemiology, AI, remote sensing, quantitative finances, economy, philosophy of science... I code in Julia and Python.
🌐 agimenezromero.github.io
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero🌊 La IA también puede proteger el Mediterráneo. Investigadores del IFISC y el @ceabcsic.bsky.social desarrollan un modelo con imágenes satelitales para mapear y conservar la posidonia, uno de los grandes sumideros de carbono. ✍Ángeles Durán para @eldiario.es 🔗 www.eldiario.es/illes-balear...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroDifferences between adults and juveniles matter for #ecosystem stability. Study by researchers from @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es & CEAB-CSIC offers a model with this often-ignored aspect 👇 ceab.csic.es/en/les-diferencies-…
- New article out in Ecology Letters! Developing a general math model, we show how cross-stage interactions modify the stability predicted by classic unstructured models. 📄 Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability. @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es @ceabcsic.bsky.social @csic.es
- Our results suggest that population structure may be an overlooked dimension in the complexity–stability debate. Biodiversity may persist not only because of who interacts with whom, but also which life stages interact. Thanks to all coauthors! @fishychrissy.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroEXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroPlease pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
- 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
- 🚨 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
- Galicia provides a nice small-scale example of our results:
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero📢 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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroUn latido oculto en el arrecife: dos modelos revelan cómo crecen y resisten los corales ante la crisis climática
- 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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero'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/...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romerohanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroHello 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/BLuVyWjat://did:plc:v352l64vpvrw62n7vdpasqck/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ls2zsch6ds2n
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroSurviving #SIBECOLAEET2025 until Thursday at 15:45? Come hear my talk! ( 🐝 photo by @curromolina.bsky.social )
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero🎓¿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 👇
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroDisponible #LaVacaEsférica S01E12 Episodio ninja: El Efecto Joker y otras vacas esféricas. Invitado: Alex Arenas Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3NYf... 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. +👇
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero🪸 @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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero🦠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
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero¿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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroEn 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
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroCom 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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero"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.
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroFor 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...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroLooking forward to #BES2024 this week! Look out for talks and posters by members of the SalGoTeam - hope to see you there! 🎄🧪
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroVery 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 🌿📈
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero1/ 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....
- 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
- 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.
- 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
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View full threadThe 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.
- Very happy to see this paper out! Nice collaboration with @carlosduartephd.bsky.social and @mamatias26.bsky.social @ifisc.uib-csic.es
- Just published today! Coral reef landscapes look beautiful from the air: they follow a fractal pattern expressing the Fibonacci series We provide an inventory of the 1.5 m tropical, shallow-water reefs in the ocean. A very important tool for conservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroMy pick for In Other Journals in this week's Science. Moralejo et al look at the reasons why there was no epidemic of Pierce's disease in European grapes in the last 150 years but suggest it might happen in the future. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
- Thrilled to see our research highlighted in @science.org 'In Other Journals'! @maddyseale.bsky.social wrote about our recent paper in @royalsociety.org t.co/i1ul1wOhxL @mamatias26.bsky.social @ifisc.uib-csic.es @uib.cat www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Nuestro último trabajo sobre Xyllella fastidiosa y Pierce's disease en formato divulgativo @mamatias26.bsky.social @ifisc.uib-csic.es @uib.cat 👇 Cómo los viñedos europeos escaparon de una devastadora enfermedad… por ahora theconversation.com/como-los-vin... via @theconversation.com
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- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroAre you excited about marine soundscapes? Interested in contributing to tackling the ocean noise challenge and mitigating its effects on marine life? 🌊🧪🎙️🐋 I have nice opportunities coming your way, MSc and postdoc projects building on a 4+ years dataset collected in the St. Lawrence. Stay tuned…
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroMass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-...
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroTime for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez Romero"In ecology, you have this fantastic and beautiful and inspiring phenomenon of convergent evolution..." A thread on 'creativity' by @tylermarghetis.bsky.social, guest on #SimplifyingComplexity https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-makes-us-creative/id1651582236?i=1000629904809
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroWow - bluesky! 📈 🦠 Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics. There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you! apply.interfolio.com/154339 1/4
- Reposted by Àlex Giménez RomeroAre the major evolutionary transitions describable as phase transitions, as in statistical physics? A great example of this is the transition to eukaryotic cells, as shown by this excellent paper by Jordi Bascompte and co-workers europepmc.org/api/fulltext...
