Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

Last paper: paleoecology of Cueva del Arco. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Papilio machaon sobre Lavandula latifolia (espliego) y Xylocopa cf. violacea sobre Cirsium odontolepis

Ayer tuvimos la suerte de ver bien cerca un precioso ejemplar de búho real (Bubo bubo). :-)

Reflecting on the career of paleoecologist Margaret Davis. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Ex compañeros al borde dl colapso mental y físico tras casi una semana bajo las alas del dragón hasta 20 horas diarias, descansando apenas 8, malcomiendo, malbebiendo, sin dormir apenas porque la radiación acumulada y la adrenalina absorbida no te lo permiten. Viendo cómo los compañeros van cayendo

Felices encuentros hoy en el parque de Casas de Ves: escarabajo rinoceronte (Oryctes nasicornis) y una araña enorme y preciosa que no sé si podría ser Macrothele calpeiana. A ver si alguien por aquí nos ayuda a identificarla.

What do you think about open and reproducible science? In this new post published in the @eco-aeet.bsky.social blog, some of our editors show two cases that represent current challenges in relation to reproducibility. Take a look! blogaeet.org/2025/07/14/a...

- Too much pressure to publish. - More volume, less quality. - Predatory journals. - Crazy fees to publish your own work. - Too many low-quality papers. - Pre-prints masquerading as, peer reviewed. Academic publishing is broken. We need overhaul the system, focusing on quality not quantity.

Despite we got some hail in spring when all these folks were blooming, the fleshy fruit yield so far looks excellent: Euonymus europaeus, Prunus spinosa, Rhamnus cathartica and Viburnum lantana.

Y por último, una bonita y grandota abeja en un Cirsium, que no sé por dónde anda... ¿Alguna idea @cmhmaliani.bsky.social y/o @curromolina.bsky.social? Muchas gracias.

Two more butterflies spotted this weekend: Limenitis reducta (on the trail) and Cynthia cardui on Mantisalca salmantica.

Yesterday, I was also lucky enough to spot several beautiful butterflies like Argynnis paphia on Rubus gr. ulmifolius or Brenthis hecate on Prunella vulgaris.

Hoy he tenido una mañana afortunada con la observación y fotografía de aves rupícolas por el Alto Tajuña: avión roquero (Ptynoprogne rupestris), roquero solitario (Monticola solitarius), buitre común (Gyps fulvus) y roquero rojo (Monticola saxatilis).

Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!

Hi, this is a intro, as our lab new to BlueSky. Viktor Baranov´s lab ( past @swarmofthougts on X) is Ramon Y Cajal fellow, research focused on the aquatic insects extinction, palaeo (we use uCT) & impact of climate change on insects´populations. Posts by Viktor or Lab manager - Dr. Celsa Señaris

Un par de sírfidos sobre umbelíferas (Heracleum sphondylium y Thapsia villosa, respectivamente) y un caballito del diablo.

Algunas abejas silvestres que he podido ver esta mañana. Una vez más, necesito invocar a mis "gurús" entomólogos responsables de mi creciente disfrute con los polinizadores a ver si pueden ayudarme a seguir aprendiendo. @cmhmaliani.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @txaverius.bsky.social

Ruta ciclista visitando pueblos con encanto (siempre he sido un enamorado de los lavaderos, y éste con su impresionante fuente es una de mis paradas favoritas) y la zona afectada por el incendio del rodenal de 2005 (subida dura mediante :-P). La vegetación sigue recuperándose bien 20 años después.

In our latest review paper, just out in @ecography.bsky.social, we stress the need of considering multiple timescales to fully understand the impact of hotter droughts on forests. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Nice summary of our recent paper on what drives variation in crown architecture across the world's trees in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many thanks @walterandriuzzi.bsky.social for writing this up!

after 6 years, finally out in @nature.com! ‪Huge expansion of the human #niche in Africa ~70kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with unique ecological flexibility co-led with Emily Hallett @eegcam.bsky.social & @elliescerri.bsky.social #prehistory #humanevolution #paleoecology #SDM

Zerynthia rumina, the favourite butterfly of my children this spring. ;-)

Finally, this beautiful narrow endemic to central Spain in full bloom, Centaurea toletana.

Some bee orchids from central Spain: Ophrys speculum, O. scolopax and O. lutea.

Anacamptis morio subsp. champagneuxii, Ornithogalum with a beautiful visitor (any suggestion, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social? Thanks!), Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis and Pyrus bourgaeana. The latest is widespread on the red sandstones where recruits well, but I have rarely seen it bearing fruits...

I spotted big groups of European bee-eaters at the beginning of May in the River Tajuña headwaters.

At last, I have found some time to go through the pictures I have take during our excursions this spring. :-) A beautiful bumblebee, Bombus cf. pascuorum (please, confirm @cmhmaliani.bsky.social and @curromolina.bsky.social), on a blooming apple tree at the beginning of May.

¡ULTIMOS DÍAS! Venga, animaros a pedir algo para hacer en Cazorla. Os aseguro que nadie se arrepiente de trabajar allí. ¡Nos vemos por los barrancos!

Really great talk by Sofia Miguel Romero from the University of Alcalá on the distribution, size, and severity of natural forest disturbances in Europe. I can't wait to see and cite the finished article #SIBECOLAEET2025

El Colle delle Finestre es de los puertos más bonitos de Europa con diferencia, no me canso de verlo, y siempre pasan cosas en el Giro. :-)

Job alert! Open Research position in our group on "Tree line ecology in mountain regions" at @slfdavos.bsky.social Apply and become my colleague 😊 apply.refline.ch/273855/1731/...

🌲🖥️ #PhDAlert! MSc in a #natural #science & experience with #tree-ring analysis and statistical software (R)? Fluent in English and ready for #fieldwork? Our #forest dynamics #research unit is looking for a #PhD candidate in #dendroecology and #ecophysiology! apply.refline.ch/273855/1736/...

#NeotomaDB ranks in top 10 of databases that mint dataset DOIs using DataCite and CrossRef services. We're just ahead of Taylor & Francis! Not totally sure about methods and weirdly Neotoma is listed as solely affiliated with UMinnesota, but still interesting journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Interesting bibliometric analysis of #palynology papers and NeotomaDB datasets noting that papers per year has peaked, but the number of international coauthorships has grown, suggesting that the field has reached a new stage of maturity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @neotomadb.bsky.social

Rebut!!!! @annatraveset.bsky.social 🧪🌍💚🐞🦋 #invert @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social

🧪Open Postdoc position (up to 2 yrs) on Integrating Flux Data and Remote Sensing to Quantify Environmental Footprints of Agroecosystems in my lab at ETH Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

¿Alquien que sepa algo de chinches y que me pueda orientar? Nuevo para mí, ni siquiera estoy seguro de la familia (¿Lygaeidae, Miridae, otra?). Sobre cabezuela de Glebionis segetum, ayer en Sierra Morena central, Córdoba.

Más de 3000 comparaciones de más de 2000 trabajos científicos para obtener uno de los análisis más completos del impacto de la actividad humana en la #biodiversidad. Breve hilo sobre esta reciente publicación en la revista Nature 🧵🌱🌍

Hace unas semanas, una colega del departamento @laranavesalegre.bsky.social y otros investigadores sacaron un monográfico sobre fototrampeo en la revista @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social. Los artículos están en español. Podéis echarle un vistazo aquí: www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Lo siento mucho pero Pogačar me está llevando a "apartarme" del ciclismo profesional una vez más. Ojalá me equivoque, pero esta película ya la hemos visto y no acabó muy bien...

🌳🌲#Sciencejob Alert! MSc in #forest or #environmental #science? Knowledge of #climate adaptive forest management, project management skills & readiness to carry out fieldwork in Armenia? We are looking for a #research assistant for the FORACCA project! 🌱 apply.refline.ch/273855/1729/...

During the Easter break, we also enjoyed a family bike ride to watch our beloved vultures: the resident griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus), and the just arrived summer visitor, the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

Blooming is a bit delayed in central Iberia this year after many weeks in a row of persistent rainfall. Over the Easter break I managed to spot some of the earliest flowering species in my region: Biscutella atropurpurea, Narcissus triandrus pallidulus, Prunus spinosa and Noccaea stenoptera.

Una metáfora viva de que las interacciones entre plantas y animales crean novedad en la naturaleza. La minúscula oruga que hace días entró, comió varios estambres y salió del botón floral de este Cistus salviifolius antes de que abriera ha dejado su huella en forma de agujeritos bien distribuídos.

Aunque con menor frecuencia que las hembras, los machos de los dípteros también comen polen. Este macho de Eristalis similis está chupeteando una antera de una flor de Silene colorata. Durante esa operación las patas y la cabeza se le "contaminan" de polen, que luego dejará en otras flores

#ATRAE2025 program. The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) is offering grants to bring top international talent into its research ecosystem. Up to 1M € or 1.2 M per project if based in the US 5+ years. 🔗 www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem... #ResearchFunding #SpainScience

Que lleva a que un buitre decida bajar a una carroña y no a otra??? Esa es la pregunta que nos hicimos en el último articulo que hemos publicado 👇🧵https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.250085

Imagine this: the Amazon and other tropical forests are like nature’s lungs 🌎 But those lungs? They’re wheezing A new study shows these forests aren’t adapting fast enough to climate change. They're struggling to keep up It’s not just trees at risk - it’s all of us 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...