Os morcegos non son cegos: teñen ollos plenamente funcionais e unha visión adaptada á noite. Coñece máis no novo episodio de Desmontando Mitos da man de Javier Iglesias, director do Museo de Historia Natural da @usc.gal

Huge congratulations to Andrés Baselga, who has just been promoted to Full Professor of Zoology at Univ. Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal Yesterday we enjoyed his talk - from collecting beetles as a teen to developing methods for studying biodiversity. @andresbaselga.bsky.social @cretus.usc.gal

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English. Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano. Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽 revistas.usc.gal/index.php/na...

We have developed a new methodological framework to measure biodiversity. We focus on the uniqueness (or singularity) of biological communities and apply it to the GBF 30x30 target. If you only have 4:35 min, check the visual abstract to know a little bit more about it ☺️: youtu.be/dHMBhVJ8dns?...

Esta semana os IPs @andresbaselga.bsky.social e #C.Gómez-Rodriguez imparten “Código para biólogos: introdución a R” Curso da #UniversidadeDeVerán no que guiarán aos asistentes na aprendizaxe de R desde as bases ata a súa aplicación no ámbito da bioloxía. @biogeography-usc.bsky.social @usc.gal

And we’re off!
The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail.
This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿 #SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible

CRETUS organiza 3 cursos da #UniversidadeDeVerán: 🧫A bioloxía das pequenas e grandes cousas 10-12/06 ⚗️Química, a ciencia que envolve a nosa vida 10-12/06 🐛Código para biólogos: introdución a R 01-05/09 #JesusRomalde, #LIDSA, @biogeography-usc.bsky.social #FondosEuropeos www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

Un fin de semana de rabia y preocupación nos ha hecho componer una especie de himno en defensa de la naturaleza gallega, un Altri NON apelando a la emoción. Sumando narrativas, estilos y voluntades contra un proyecto que no debe ver la luz youtu.be/tzb6GbHdVzQ?... #AltriNon #fernandovalladares

Hemos creado un Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” en la @usc.gal. El objetivo es facilitar la iniciación en R al alumnado de Biología Ambiental, especialmente al interesado en los estudios de diversidad biológica. Y ya tenemos un par de videos! youtube.com/watch?v=XznC...

The scientific community working in environmental and natural sciences has taken an unprecedented, united stand against a new macro-scale pulp mill in NW Spain. We voted against However, the regional government gave its green light last week. The scientists’ manifest: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...

Our article on the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity in leaf beetles has been assigned to an issue in @ecography.bsky.social Paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Visual abstract in YouTube (with Abril's cute narration ☺️): youtu.be/8ALxwQ2e5-E?...

🪱 O grupo Biodiversidade, Bioxeografía e Conservación Integrativa (BiBiCI), vinculado ao @cretus.usc.gal, acaba de rematar un estudo de catro décadas sobre as lesmas do xénero Arion na Península e Baleares. O estudo contou cunha mostraxe de 5.000 exemplares. 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

Investigadores de CRETUS do grupo @biogeography-usc.bsky.social publican un exhaustivo estudo sobre as lesmas Arion da Península Ibérica e as Illas Baleares e ademais describen dúas novas especies para a ciencia! 👏 👏@andresbaselga.bsky.social #C.Gómez-Rodriguez

Fresh off the press! 📚 Our book about Arion is finally here! With the revision of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, the description of two new species and numerous plates with drawings and photographs. Not for a quick read (almost 400 pages) but definitely interesting! :-) @cretus.usc.gal

Our students are great! Look what they made! The Biology building looks cool and it also shows that we are against the project of a huge paper mill in Galicia. It will be a disaster for biodiversity. #AltriNON —- Nuestra facultad viste sus mejores galas contra Altri. Obra de arte del alumnado 🙌🏽

Very rapid #thermophilization & #xerophilisation of grassland #plant #communities 🌾🌼🍀🌸in the California Floristic Province #CFP attributed to #climate #change ⬇️ An important study relying on both field surveys & long-term experiments ⬇️ Congrats to Kai Zhu & team shorturl.at/3FsVm

Today, is the 216th anniversary of the birth of Charles #Darwin, a day to celebrate Darwin, natural selection and #evolution. Let's celebrate with a bit of (much needed) music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7N... Happy #DarwinDay!!!

We are very happy to be part of #CIGUSNetwork! 🪲 Biodiversity at @cretus.usc.gal cigus.gal/en/ “The CIGUS Network comprises 10 research centres. It’s a superstructure promoted by the Autonomous Government to strengthen and boost excellence in university research and drive progress in Galicia.”

CRETUS súmase á conmemoración do #11F Día Internacional da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia e aproveita a ocasión para destacar o talento científico feminino que ten! @usc.gal #11F #11F2025 #mujeryciencia #mullereseciencia

Happy #11F everyone! 🎉👩‍🔬 To celebrate, we’ve added a transcript of Carola’s talk on Maternity & Academia to our website—for those who prefer a quick read over a video. Check it out here, along with the video of her invited talk at WISE 2020 www.biogeography-usc.org/carola_wise.... @cretus.usc.gal

Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!

💡 Hoy comparto con ilusión una entrevista que me hicieron en El Progreso a raíz del premio RAGC-UIE para jóvenes investigadores. 💡 www.elprogreso.es/articulo/a-c... @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal @elprogresodelugo.bsky.social

📢📢Como non podía ser de outro xeito, comezamos recordándovos onde hai que estar o 15 de Decembro 📍12:00-Santiago de Compostela 💚✊Convocámoste xunto ca Plataforma en defensa da ría de Arousa a berrar con nós da Alameda ao Obradoiro: ALTRI NON !! !! Axudádenos a que lle chegue a todo o mundo🙏

The project of a huge pulp mill in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) has raised important environmental and social concerns. #AltriNon For the first time (since we can remember), there has been a united front against this type of project from many University departments and faculties. The vote is in.

I guess a must read for a macrecologist. The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #macroecology

Are you in Santiago de Compostela today? Do not miss Dr. Fernández-Palacios seminar about Island Biogeography. At 10:00 am at the Biology Building (Facultade de Bioloxía). See you there!

Join the second EvolTree Online Seminar of this November! On Wednesday, 27.11.2024, 14 CET, Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social will talk about "A future-oriented, deep-time perspective on European woodlands". For more information and registration see here: www.evoltree.eu/webinars

I'm giving an invited talk at the conference of the Dutch association for ordination and classification tomorrow. The slides can be found here: github.com/BertvanderVe... #GLLVM

If you are interested in distance-decay models for #Biogeography or Community #Ecology, we have made a quite cool whiteboard video about It. (Functions to adjust, compare and plot distance-decay models are available in betapart (R package) youtu.be/uw1SureoP3Y?...

We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English. Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano. Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽 revistas.usc.gal/index.php/na...

I'm looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab at Aarhus University. Details: bit.ly/3SMpLp7 The position is broad, basically statistical ecology, community ecology, macroecology, or related to animal science #PostDocJobs #Ecology

I have put together this short video explaining why we do what we do in the lab. It is our vision but also our mission: youtu.be/56QvmT48uFI?...

Hi BlueSky! We study large-scale biodiversity patterns, mostly of beetles 🪲. We also develop methods and maintain betapart, an R package for beta diversity partitioning and distance-decay. Here we explain why we are interested in Invertebrate Biogeography. youtu.be/eJD85pl-xlM?... #Macroecology