He subido a observation.org una colección selectiva de referencia de insectos polinizadores que he registrado y fotografiado en Cazorla y, en menor medida, otros sitios ibéricos. De momento van ~2600 obs y ~800 especies, pero no está acabada La entrada la tenéis aquí: observation.org/users/878312/

To those that enjoy the boundary areas of your pet scientific discipline, I'd heartily recommend this well-founded, beautifully written vindication of art in the advance of scientific knowledge by Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social et al Congrats, Pepe! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My blog is back after a few months of technical issues. It now updates correctly, so you can see my recent posts on: the 2025 Spain & Portugal fires, Hutto's book on severe fires, the passing of W. Bond, afforestation & fire severity, sequoia(dendron), and more jgpausas.blogs.uv.es 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire

Las charlas de las últimas Jornadas de Ecología en el Parque Natural Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas (25 octubre) están ya disponibles online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Gracias por el patrocinio y la ayuda en la organización a @ebdonana.bsky.social y @universidadjaen.bsky.social

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Muchas gracias por tantos buenos momentos, Robe, que la tierra te sea leve. Te recordaremos siempre a través de tu impresionante legado musical.

Striking animation showing the magnitude of glacier collapse since ca 1900 in the Alps! 🧊🔥 All the retreat you see here is caused by human activity, and it will only stop when the last cubic metre of ice has melted! 📈💧 📷 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo

It remains largely unknown whether epigenetic mosaicism arising in long-lived plants can have evolutionary relevance.We show in this new preprint that somatic epigenetic mosaics within Pistacia terebinthus trees leave a signature in DNA of the pollen grains produced www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Elucidating mutual relationships between bees and plants in biodiversity hotspots is a challenge that requires the joint efforts of ecologists and taxonomists.In this new paper we analyse community-wide relationships between plants and Andrena bees in the Cazorla mountains and describe 3 new species

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

Las hembras de la familia Melittidae, se caracterizan por ser pilosas y tener escopas muy desarrolladas para recoger polen. 1(Dasypoda cingulata) 2(Dasypoda iberica) 3(Dasypoda dusmeti) 4(Dasypoda morotei) 5(Dasypoda visnaga) 6(Dasypoda pyrotrichia) Falta mucho para primavera? @ebdonana.bsky.social

Avisaros de que aún quedan unas poquitas vacantes para las Jornadas de Ecología en Cazorla del próximo 25 Octubre y se ha vuelto a abrir un "last-minute" periodo de preincripción + matrícula, por si alguna persona ha cambiado de opinión o circunstancias: giepropias.ujaen.es/index.php?r=...

Ayer salió mi entrevista con @ib3oficial.bsky.social , en la que hablé sobre moscas jurásicas australianas con ventosas y tectónica continental. tinyurl.com/32hm2n3c @ebdonana.bsky.social @pakozoic.bsky.social @cesar-morales.bsky.social

🐦🦇 ¡Documentamos cómo el nóctulo grande captura y come aves migratorias en pleno vuelo! Alucina, la persigue en caída libre por más de 1 km y se la come en el aire. @laueast.bsky.social @theclickitclick.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @bioacousticsau.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🪰 Describen el fósil de quironómido más antiguo del hemisferio sur, el cual aporta nuevas pistas sobre el origen de esta familia. Esta nueva especie muestra una adaptación para fijarse a rocas en agua dulce. 🔗 delegacion.andalucia.csic.es/una-nueva-es... 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...