Our recent paper in @ScienceAdvances. We may have a better picture of how the Mediterranean level evolved during the Lago-Mare: "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUn...

Fresh article in PNAS, by Udara Amarathunga & co. Using geochemical data and numerical models, we identify oxygenation of the Mediterranean and a 33kyr salinity stratification in the earliest Pliocene, both consistent with the Zanclean Megaflood hypothesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus So so resonant with the Holocene megafauna extinctions in the Americas theconversation.com/small-popula...

Seismic waves from the 3 Kamchatka mag 8.8 earthquake recorded by the @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social SEP seismometer in Barcelona, after travelling more than 9300 km

An outburst flood "has just devastated Nepal. It should be a wake-up call" www.the-independent.com/climate-chan...

La llamada 'tercera España' no fue un partido, fue una idea: diálogo frente al fanatismo. Un día como hoy de 1936 comenzaba la guerra civil española. 

Ok, the title might be a bit inflated, but ok😅 España descifra la 'paradoja del Mediterráneo': ¿cómo pudo estar lleno y vacío al mismo tiempo? www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/c...

Hace 5 millones de años, el Mediterráneo fue un desierto salado. ¿Te lo imaginas? Nos lo cuenta @danigeos.bsky.social‬ de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social‬:  

Sobre nuestra reciente publicación en @science.org Advances La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vez. theconversation.com/la-paradoja-... @sciencenews.bsky.social

By the way, parts of this video were created by Manuel Mantero, who short after won the Oscar for FX - special effects

🌊La paradoja del Mediterráneo, un mar vacío y lleno a la vez hace más de 5 millones de años 🌏Un estudio del #CSIC señala que los cambios climáticos y el aporte de agua desde ríos y lagos explicarían esta contradicción aparente de finales del Mioceno 👉 tiny.cc/epbp001

☀️💧"Durante el aislamiento del Mediterráneo su nivel habría caído hasta dos kilómetros por debajo del actual, y entonces habría comenzado a oscilar a causa de los cambios orbitales en la insolación de la Tierra”, explica @danigeos.bsky.social, investigador de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social 👇

5.3 magnitude strike-slip EQ in the Alborán Sea www.ign.es/web/ign/port...

We may have a detailed picture of how the Mediterranean sea level evolved. "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate" Finally published in @ScienceAdvances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy that the paper linked to this model is now 'in press' in Science Advances. First time we run this was 2009. It took us 13 years to understand what's the question it could answer: The mystery of the extreme sea levels of the Mediterranean Sea during the Lago-Mare period. youtu.be/AmUn-RYUfZc

How many citations would you grant these two scientists whose names form today the words ‘Medicine’ and ‘Algorithm’? Both grew in this madrassa in the 8 and 9th c. in the underrated millenary civilisation of Khorezm, a persian-arab region in today’s Uzbekistan.

15th-century astronomical center in Samarkand, built by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg

Cervantes at the exact level of the Miocene / Pliocene boundary in Cuevas de Almanzora. Featuring a paleosoil including roots and worm burrows. Below: Lago Mare with very shallow brackish water fauna; above: 200-300m-deep marine Zanclean foraminifera.

#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway at Guadalhorce. Variously dated as Messinian to Tortonian.

#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway cross-bedding near Zagra (Granada). Tortonian

Google DeepMind has used chatbot models to come up with solutions to major problems in mathematics and computer science. The system combines a large language model with algorithms that can scrutinize the model’s suggestions to filter and improve solutions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cyberattack has been officially discarded as a cause for the blackout in Spain and Portugal that left about 50 million people unplugged for ~12 hours.

I just learned from an American colleague that the US administration is massively cancelling active scientific projects dealing with global climate change. They are not even waiting for the next call. I'm searching the web and it is appalling. Not in my worst nightmares only a year ago.

How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean

Excelente entrevista sobre la sobreexplotación maderera en Valeria (Hispania) durante el imperio romano. youtu.be/1pJ-swOSftE?...

How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎 Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎 In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

National Geographic on our article: "How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean" www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... via @natgeoclassics.bsky.social

A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric grid. Updates to follow. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

All Spain and surrounding regions have no electric power since 12:40 (half an hour ago). Many websites down

Según el Ministerio de Economía de Alemania, las cavernas de sal del país pueden cubrir todas las necesidades de almacenamiento de hidrógeno a nivel nacional y europeo ecoinventos.com/las-cavernas...

Strange. This old post (2013) in my blog suddenly gets attention from what seem to be realistic Google accounts that leave suspiciously AI-like comments. @conspirator0.bsky.social @congosto.bsky.social ? retosterricolas.blogspot.com/2013/04/huma...

Interesting, physicists☝️ embrace extraterrestrial life more than astrobiologists🤔 What I find weird about the latter is their believe that it's full of life out there but magically it never becomes as "sophisticated" as ours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Please share! The ATRAE Program 2025 is now open — grants for the incorporation of established scientific talent into the Spanish research system. 🌎 Special focus on applicants from the USA. 💰 €40M total funding, up to €1.2M per grant. www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

This 2021 paper seems to solve the old mystery about the origins of basque culture using genome. In common with Iberia: more Paleolithic ancestry and less mix with Yamnayas. Differentiation came from less mix romans&arabs, feeding back with language isolation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33770488/

What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history - my summary in The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

🌊 The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily, refilling the Mediterranean in just a few years. @danigeos.bsky.social, GEO3BCN_CSIC researcher, explains the latest evidence in a new outreach article in The Conversation UK👇

Just learnt from @theconversation.com that our outreach article with Paul Carling on new evidence supporting the Zanclean Megaflood hypothesis has reached an amazing 200,000 views. This is the Phys.org republication. CC @sciencex.bsky.social @csic.es phys.org/news/2025-04...

The paradox of democracy’s success. "What prompts Europeans to turn away from the political system that rebuilt it into the world’s most prosperous single market?" Economic crises, inequality, social media negativity, and... "the power of personal experience" mappingignorance.org/2025/03/26/t...

An outreach note on our recent article "Potential Habitability of Present-Day Martian Subsurface for Earth-Like Methanogens" (automated translation from Spanish) theconversation-com.translate.goog/la-pista-del...

An outreach note on Micallef et al. 2024. paper in Communications Earth & Environment on the new evidence from S Sicily that supports the termination of the Messinian salinity crisis by a megaflood (this term implies discharge>1e6 m3/s) theconversation.com/the-largest-...

Percentage of patents filed by women. [source: epo.org]

This is how the 2018 tariffs (up to 20%) on China impacted on US imports

🎓 We have a new doctor in the house! Congrats to Yuanchao Yu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis last Wednesday, April 9. Well done, Dr. Yu! 👏

With great pleasure I learn that dr. Yuanchao Yu, who arrived to our lab at the peak of Covid, just obtained his PhD degree with the top qualification cum laude. Microstructural Evolution of Olivine with Numerical Simulations: Deformation and Dynamic Recrystallization @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social

Sometimes such things happen during fieldwork

España destinará 45 millones de euros para atraer a científicos extranjeros en pleno huracán Trump www.elperiodico.com/es/ciencia/2...

Sporting de Gijón stadium singing to Santa Bárbara in homage to the 5 coal miners dead this week in Asturias after an explosion in the Cerredo mine

New paper on public perception of germans of nuclear energy. It seems unfortunate this abrupt overturn towards overwhelming support for fission has arrived exactly the moment they closed their last kernkraftwerk. www.tech-for-future.de/atomkraft-um...

Trump's tariffs have been calculated as the ratio of trade balance to imports divided two. No kidding:

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