The last three days, I spent quite some quality time with 20 PhD students at the University of Barcelona, sharing knowledge and experiences about ecology data analyses using R statistical software. It was a great initiative that came from themselves, and, maybe by coincidence, it became a tribute to Ramón Margalef, to whom different events were being celebrated on the 10th anniversary of his death. It was really a pleasure to discover a very diverse and, at the same time, un