Happy Halloween from Doñana National Park (SW Spain)!

Un macho de TARABILLA EUROPEA /Saxicola rubicola/ en una postura muy característica encaramado a una de las ramas más altas del arbusto

I'm very happy to see this paper published at the end!! ;-)

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social High water requirement controls germination phenology in Miconia rubiginosa (Melastomataceae), a late-rainy-season fruiting species from tropical seasonal ecosystems Diego Fernando Escobar et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Yesterday, I went back to Doñana's marshaland after almost one year. The extraordinay flooding of this spring and summer made innaccesible the area by car until now, what is a problem to replace batteries and cards of #AudioMoths. Always a luxury to work here. #BIRDeep

📷 Cogujada montesina (Galerida theklae)

"Más de un 3% de las hubaras canarias podrían morir anualmente a causa de la depredación por gatos, que pasaría a ser la tercera causa de mortalidad de origen antropogénico, sólo superada por las colisiones con tendidos eléctricos y telefónicos y los atropellos". En @revistaquercus.bsky.social

Following Matthias Rillig's advice, I'm celebrating that the just received evaluation of the grant #BIRDeep (2022-2024), in which I was the PI, is overall positive. The evaluation committee qualified the results of the project as "satisfactory". It's a relief and a small milestone in my career

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

What kinds of life are possible? How can we know about that regarding life origins? Here's our new paper to appear in @royalsocietypublishing.org with C Kempes & S Stepney. Check our space of the possible for replicators. @sfiscience.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery! Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes! The scale of this study is really amazing! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

En este divertido podcast de @SEO_BirdLife hablamos de ecoacústica y de cómo las nuevas tecnologías permiten avanzar en el seguimiento de aves. Un placer colaborar con el equipo de #lasavesenserio #bioacoustics www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqCU...

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Si alguno está cerca de Navajeda (Cantabria) esta tarde y le apetece venir al chulísimo bar de La Central Navajeda, daré una charla sobre inteligencia artificial aplicada al seguimiento acústico pasivo de aves en Doñana. #BIRDeep #Ecoacoustics www.elfaradio.com/2025/08/13/a...

Today is the 1st August (school holidays and official holidays at the University) and I received five requests as reviewer/editor at the same time... It's great that authors want to submit their paper before holidays, but the also reviewers and editors need a break.

Y aquí va la distribución completa de proyectos: - 2/3 partes de los proyectos tienen 50.000€ o menos por año. Esto no cambia. - La financiación media por proyecto baja ligeramente (2%) respecto al PID2023. - El porcentaje de éxito cae al 46% (49% en el PID2023). La ciencia en España se estanca. 😕

I'm thrilled to share with you our lattest publication with the brilliant Alba Márquez as the first author. We propose here a two-stage pipeline for analyzing audios from a acoustic monitoring programme in #Doñana; 1) using a detector of vocalizations, 2) a fine-tuned classificator. #bioacoustics

Cazar con plomo no tiene sentido: contamina la cadena trófica y perjudica la salud de los que se alimentan de la carne cazada. Un grupo de científicos hemos pedido un cese total y sin excepciones del uso de plomo en la caza. www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

"Our field kits are better equiped for snake bites than for #menstruation". Very impacting presentation from @paleobicha.bsky.social explaining how we overlook menstruation in field work campaings. #SIBECOLAEET2025 @eco-aeet.bsky.social www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Very excited of being here in Pontevedra with such a great offer of interesting talks, posters, and scientific interactions!

We have had a great session on ecoacoustics at the #SIBECOLAEET2025 meeting in Pontevedra. Great speakers and very interesting questions from the audience, it was a great success! @eco-aeet.bsky.social @bigbiodataaeet.bsky.social #REIE #bioacoustics

We have started!with the great @phenogirl.bsky.social talking about Doñana birds trends using EcosAcustic to monitor them🐦🐦‍⬛🐧 #SIBECOLAEET2025 @bigbiodataaeet.bsky.social @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social #BIgBioData

Great talk by @phenogirl.bsky.social on bioacoustics at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

A new preprint on the best configuration settings of BirdNET for improving bird detections, lead by Cristian Pérez-Granados & David Funosas. A derived paper of the WABAD dataset, with more than 4,000 minutes of annotated audios. Enjoy reading!! #bioacoustics www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Esta tarde daré una charla dentro del ciclo de martes ornitológicos de la SEO BirdLife en Sevilla. Será a las 19:00 en la Biblioteca de la Univ. Pablo de Olavide. Hablaré sobre el proyecto #BIRDeep y el seguimiento ecoacústico de Doñana para conocer sus aves. ¡Estáis todos invitados! #ecoacoustics

Participé este sábado en la 5ª edición del Bioblitz de la @pablodeolavide para ayudar en la identificación de plantas y polinizadores. Había una gran diversidad de especies, entre otras, la bella Ophrys apifera. Puedes ver todas las observaciones aquí: observation.org/bioblitz/176...

The good thing of Bluesky is that I spend less time on social networks because I don't like it as much as former Twitter. The bad thing is that I'm missing interaction and feedback from other scientists and I enjoyed this very much...

How do you illustrate the richness of a rainforest? Fruit is a good proxy for describing how vital plant diversity is for wildlife. Here, a sample collected along an 8-km trail shows many fruits opened by vertebrates and other ripening fruits. #Guyane #Nouragues @cnrs.fr @mnhn.fr

I am moved to see that part of our 2001 litter traps are still operational after we stopped the phenology study at Nouragues in 2011, then published it in 2018 with @phenogirl.bsky.social in @biotropica.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/btp....

hrough Deep Learning: A Case Study from Doñana" is now available! 🐦📢 🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.155... In this work, we develop a Bird Song Detector to analyze audios coming from a PAM in Doñana National Park. Detecting first which audios have bird vocalization improves later classification. #bioacoutics

It's raining at Doñana National Park after five years of drought and this is wonderful news, even if you need to struggle a bit to replace batteries and SIM cards of your @AudioMoth! #ecoacoustics @ictsdonana.bsky.social

My hero-rat.

Much less known is their role as seed dispersers in African habitats, from savannas to montane rainforest. Read our paper in @biotropica.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

OPEN CALL FOR EDITORIAL SERVICE AT BIOTROPICA Please consider serving on the Biotropica Editorial Board... we have an open call for service here. forms.gle/F9Lf2qWAB8rv... All ctenosaurs agree, Biotropica is a great place to publish tropical ecology, evolution, and conservation research!

We're hiring a 2-year postdoc to study the diversity of the vertebrate communities in the canopy of the Guianan rainforest. If you want to candidate to join us in this fantastic adventure, follow the link. recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d...

So far, #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social has been very good after two days of intense oral and poster sessions. These two young fellows (Shuiqing He and Alessandro Mainardi) are the future of tropical ecology (with camtraps in the canopy).

La #CRUE no consigue un acuerdo con la editorial #Elsevier para conseguir subvencionar las publicaciones OA de sus investigadores. Desconozco los detalles, pero imagino que Elsevier haría un acuerdo abusivo. Nos deja mal parados a los que tenemos artículos en revisión que contaban con esa ayuda.

14 February 2001 was D Day of a phenology study at the Nouragues forest in Guyane. We weighed biomass for a decade between 2001-2011. The paper was released in 2018 doi.org/10.1111/btp..... Uncut flowers (and fruit) to all rainforest lovers. cc @phenogirl.bsky.social

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 To celebrate at my work, I asked some of the brilliant researchers I work with about their experiences in science - and their passion for it really shines through #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

I'm proud to be a member and trustee of an academic society whose commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion is unwavering. Join the BES! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/equi...

On International Day of Women in Science let's celebrate the life of Prof. Georgina Mace (1953–2020) who was instrumental in creating the Red List of endangered species which now underpins conservation around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

It's International Day of Women in Science! A Celebrating with palaeontologists that defined the field, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), pioneer of early mammalian evolution, the leader of Polish-Mongolian expeditions that led to discoveries of Deinocheirus, Gallimimus and fighting Velociraptor.

Muchas compañeras y yo salimos en este bonito cartel que ha hecho la Estación Biológica de Doñana para celebrar el #11F. Por una ciencia más inclusiva y diversa, reivindicamos el #diamujeryninaciencia. ¡Porque todas hacemos ciencia! @EbdIgualdad @ebdonana.bsky.social

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

This week, I gave my first classes in Ecology at the University of Sevilla and it has been published on the website of the department my profile. I feel it is very challenging to combine research with teaching, but I guess I will survive as everyone does. area.us.es/bioeco/perso...

As a part of the PhD thesis of Loréna Boisseau, we have installed several #AudioMoths at two parks of Seville (Spain). Our purpose is to monitor the acoustic impact of the invasive parakeets present at Seville city. Combining #urbanEcology, #invasivespecies and ##bioacoustics! @ebdonana.bsky.social

Qué alegría descubrir al preparar los #sexenios24 que mis mejores artículos se han publicado en períodos sin vinculación por más de ocho meses a ninguna institución, en parte porque me pilló una baja maternal no remunerada de por medio. ¿Por qué castigar más la precariedad?

An enjoyable fieldwork day today: we went to Doñana National Park to change the batteries and SIM cards of #AudioMoths and watched many birds for our parallel census by experts. Doñana with some water is awesome! #BIRDeep @ebdonana.bsky.social @ictsdonana.bsky.social #ecoacoustics

As a scientist, do you prefer X or Bluesky for social media? I guess that everyone here would say Bluesky, but I've the feeling that my posts in Bluesky are lost by the algorithm and almost nobody reading them. I had more impact using X. Anyway, answer Nature's poll: www.nature.com/articles/d41...