El próximo martes estaré hablando sobre plantas poliploides en la Sala el Cachorro. Cómo tener “copias extra” del genoma puede influir en su evolución, diversidad y respuesta frente a la sequía. ¡No te lo pierdas! 🧬☀️🌱 #PintofScience #Sevilla

¡Actualizamos la lista de abejas silvestres de Canarias! En nuestro nuevo trabajo publicado en Zootaxa reconocemos 146 especies (¡60 de ellas endémicas!) y confirmamos a las islas como un punto caliente de biodiversidad en la Macaronesia y Europa. 🧵👇 polinizadoresdecanarias.org/actualizacio...

Sometimes the target is hit, and sometimes it is missed. This certainly increases the variance of the quality of a flower visitor as a pollinator. 'Osmia cornuta' on 'Lithodora fruticosa'. Funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

Among Andrinade, 'Andrena solenopalpa' has exceptionally long mouthparts. This picture of a male shows that the extendable portion measures more than half the length of the body. Pollen grains in the galea suggests that this adaptation promotes pollination. funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaLW... À sombra duma azinheira, 25 de Abril sempre, fascismo nunca mais!!

No light pollution, no atmospheric turbulence, yesterday's moon at the Sierra de Cazorla.

It's currently flowering season for Armeria euscadiensis, an endemic plant found only along the Basque coast (euskal itsas krabelina in #Euskara). A few pollinators were enjoying the view as well. 🌿

‘Bombylius cf. analis’ on 'Lithora fruticosa'. If I'm not wrong, this species features a sparse hair with a tuft of black hairs on the side of the abdomen, an evident white abdominal line, and a dark area on the leading edge of the wing fading into cell r1. Funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

'Bombylius torquatus' (if I'm not wrong...) another beauty among the diverse pollinator assemblage of 'Lithora fruticosa'. funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

The end justifies the means. Not long enough mouth parts? No problem you can always cut the corolla. 'Andrena' species (help is appreciated) on 'Lithodora fruticosa'. Funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

Back to the field in the Cazorla mountains to assess the effectiveness of pollinators of 'Lithodora fruticosa'. To my surprise, I’m finding new, unexpected species to add to this study. Here is a kleptoparasitic species of cf. Melecta. Funding: @britishecologicalsociety.org

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No me gusta poner esquelas pero hoy, lo haré. Para mi generación, Robe (Extremoduro), compuso y puso voz a la banda sonora de nuestra juventud, de las borracheras en los bares, las risas, las amistades y los primeros amores. Con poesía prestada y propia nos hizo como somos Que la tierra te sea leve

Amazing coronal mass ejections associated with the aurorae observed on 11/11/2025 at latitudes as low as southern Spain. Video taken by SOHO satellite (sun is covered by the central circle). 😮 soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtim...

An analysis of community-wide relationships between plants and Andrena bees in the Cazorla mountain range, a biodiversity hotspot in southeastern Spain: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.... @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @j-valverde.bsky.social @alexnunez23.bsky.social @unisevilla.bsky.social #bees #phylogeny

In this study led by Carlos Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social, we describe three new species of Andrena. The intensive survey over 27 years at the Cazorla range demonstrates the importance of this genus in the pollination of the flowering plant species in this area. 👉 jhr.pensoft.net/article/1659...

I couldn't be happier about my recently published paper in Annals of Botany!! I demonstrate the importance of 'Usia' beeflies in the pollination success between morphs of the distylous 'Linum narbonense'. This post by @annbot.bsky.social l is an incredibly accurate summary. Paper👉 doi.org/qc2r

Springer Nature journals failed to assign references correctly in many articles, incorrectly linking to the first article of the volume, thus misleading citation statis. Researchers pay up to €10,000 to publish in these journals, often public money. Reviewers do not charge arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

The decline of taxonomists is truly worrying. Perhaps, the capitalist vortex created by impact factors and publishing mafias, with the support of institutions to finance projects that comply with their standards, has something to do with it. It's just an opinion...

🌿 New paper alert! 📢 We used flower-based eDNA metabarcoding to uncover how forest structure and microclimate shape the diversity of flower-visiting arthropods in a Swedish boreal forest. #pollinators #eDNA 🧬🌼

45 ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla are approaching Gaza ... "We need your eyes & your pressure on international institutions to keep everyone safe and to help us achieve our goal of breaking the siege and opening a humanitarian corridor." globalsumudflotilla.org @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

Si tus derechos están determinados por tu poder. Si el apoyo de los demás (desde los vecinos hasta la comunidad internacional) está condicionado por tu riqueza. Si crees que eres un "elegido", si consideras que al haber sido víctima tienes derecho a ser victimario, si deshumanizas a los que...👇🏻🧵

Israel kills 65,000 Palestinians, of whom ~18,430 are CHILDREN!! Europe's reaction so far has been to consider eliminating Israel from participating in a song contest. Shame on us, and deepest sadness and disgust.

No pidas perdón. En España hay mas de 1.100 especies de abejas y la gran mayoría son solitarias. Solitarias por que no hay castas, solo una hembra que es copulada por un macho y esa abeja construye su nido sola. En este dibujo la ilustradora @nermonper.bsky.social lo explica perfectamente.

Evidencias de que la exposición al Bisfenol A durante el embarazo altera la composición de la microbiota intestinal de bebés, correlacionándose a su vez con un aumento de la obesidad y con cambios de comportamiento...

❗ La naturaleza en Europa está en peligro. ⚖️ La Comisión Europea quiere debilitar las leyes que la protegen. ✊ Solo hasta el 10 de septiembre para alzar la voz. 👥 Ya somos +100.000, súmate aquí: 🔗 handsoffnature.eu

El 25 de octubre se celebran las IV Jornadas de Ecología en el Parque Natural Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas organizadas por la @universidadjaen.bsky.social y la @ebdonana.bsky.social. La preinscripción es hasta el 30 de septiembre en giepropias.ujaen.es/index.php?r=...

⏳ ¡Solo quedan 10 días para defender la naturaleza! La Comisión Europea quiere revertir protecciones ambientales vitales y te pide opinión. Diles alto y claro: ¡quitad vuestras manos de la naturaleza! 🙅🏾‍♀️ Puedes enviar tu mensaje aquí: 👉🏾 www.ecologistasenaccion.org/quitad-vuest... #HandsOffNature

💧Water shapes the fate of polyploid plants! In Dianthus broteri, higher polyploids thrive in dry conditions, while lower ploidy levels win when water is abundant, thanks to key functional physiological traits.🌼#Polyploidy buff.ly/alH3z1m

'Andrena solenopalpa' is unusual within its genus due to its long mouthparts. It exclusively visits 'Lithodora fruticosa' flowers, probably being a textbook example of adaptation. Does this adaptation mean higher pollination effectiveness? #botany #ecology #pollination @britishecologicalsociety.org

Los incendios de este verano han resultado letales para los lobos ibéricos y por ello Lobo Marley ha iniciado una campaña para detener los controles de población de este mítico cánido en nuestro país. ¡Ya van casi 2.000 firmas recogidas! Puedes añadir la tuya en www.change.org/p/los-incend...

Two endemisms from Sierra Nevada, 'Colletes schmidi' (male) and 'Reseda complicata', both generalist species, observed at 3100 m a.s.l. Although restricted, fortunately both are in good conservation state, unlike many other species in this area.

A la luz de los acontecimientos actuales en Palestina, un gran número de cineastas han puesto sus películas sobre #Palestina a disposición en línea de forma gratuita. Aquí una lista 🇵🇸 fediscience.org/@jgpausas/11...

Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es

🎙️ En este podcast te cuento cómo el aumento de temperaturas está afectando a la capacidad de los suelos subárticos para retener carbono y nitrógeno, y por qué eso debería importarnos a todos. 👉 Escúchalo aquí: www.cartv.es/aragonradio/... @aragonradio.bsky.social

'Hoplitis sulayr' (Megachilidae): a newly discovered bee species in the mountains of Cazorla and Sierra Nevada (Spain) that specialises in visiting the flowers of 'Onosma tricerosperma' (Boraginaceae). This discovery highlights the great diversity that remains to be discovered in these ecosystems.

This kind of reading makes the field sampling season even more appealing. I 100% recommend this @waspwoman.bsky.social book to appreciate Hymenoptera and in particular wasps even more!