New research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4eOcwhy

In the last 50 years, Britain has lost an astonishing 73 million wild birds from its landscape, says British Trust for Ornithology. The twittering of the house martin and the voice of the song thrush are heard no more in gardens across many parts of Britain. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Acabo de ver esta publicación en LinkedIn y de verdad pensaba que era una coña a lo Pantomima Full para reírse del abuso de anglicismos que a veces se hace en el entorno digital cuando hablamos en español. Pero resulta que no. Que es una publicación real. Que hay gente que de verdad habla así… 🫠

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Rapid evolution of Dark-eyed Juncos in an urban environment avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/01/03/r... #ornithology

What a strange migratory divide. Do the populations even mix? 🪶 Many red-necked phalaropes breed on small ponds in West Greenland. Had no idea that they probably go to the western side of Central America. #Ornithology 🌍 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Horned lizards collect water droplets through tiny channels in their skin, then use a slow-open, fast-close jaw motion to pull the moisture into their mouths. A system inspired by these biomechanical principles could be used to collect/purify water in arid climates! 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

No solemos cambiar de opinión durante una discusión. Lo hacemos después, cuando no nos miran y nuestro ego no tiene que defender su territorio. La gente que influye no humilla. Pregunta, escucha, despierta curiosidad. Hace que la otra persona sea quien encuentre la grieta en su propio razonamiento.

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Colourful songbirds are more likely to be threatened, even those not known from the pet trade: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨NEW PAPER🚨'A systematic survey of brachyuran land crabs in the online tropical aquarium trade' in Oryx by Ella Whitaker, @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social, John Spicer & Lucy Turner; Uni of Plymouth & @dice-kent.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44sFvTg

Likely no hunters of Elephants nor masters of fire - new paper on taphonomic analysis challenges former assumptions on Homo floresensis. Congratulations to Grace Veatch, who recently started her position as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead at Human Origins! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

¿Es este el final de la ciencia como la conocemos? El anuncio de la creación de la vida en un laboratorio es una prueba más de que la ciencia avanza hacia un sistema de publicación sin revisión con consecuencias inciertas elpais.com/opinion/2026...

Fresh from the #Torlonia collection to the #VillaGiulia, this #fresco from the #tombaFrançois captures #Etruscan augury. Vel Saties waits to read the sky as his servant Arnza prepares to release a bird. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky 🏺

Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild

Va exactamente de lo que indica su nombre, sin sorpresas. Me ha parecido muy bueno, el libro más completo y detallado que conozco sobre el tema. La autora divulga muy bien, y se nota que es experta en la materia.

Fantástico, imprescindible si te gusta la historia natural y muy disfrutable si te gusta la historia de Eurasia, la historia de la conservación de la naturaleza y los viajes. Sin duda, un libro realizado con muy buen gusto.

Fantástico, lo he disfrutado mucho, se lee como una novela. Ideal si te interesan temas como la historia y la exploración. En este caso el libro funciona casi como biografía de James Cook, y explica el descubrimiento de sitios como Hawái. Tiene mucha información etnográfica.

Lo pongo como "una lectura", aunque son 7. Siempre un gusto volver a meterme de lleno en la biografía de Valverde, obra que me ha acompañado casi los últimos 20 años, y que hasta me ha servido de motivación en ocasiones. Imprescindible en la biblioteca de un naturalista español.

Está bien, muy ameno, y los autores me parecen idóneos para escribir del tema. Me gusta leer sobre mi tierra, pero deja con ganas de más. Creo que el tema está falto de un libraco de divulgación tal vez más durilla, pero de 500 páginas o así, y que sea el libro divulgativo de referencia.

After 20+ years studying ecology, I've realised the it's about much more than plants and animals. It's really about understanding how complex systems work and change. 10 ecological ideas that changed how I see the world 🧵

A thought provoking feature on the decline in bird populations over the last fifty years, and the dangers of shifting baseline syndrome. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A high-quality peer review should always be standard. But paying reviewers seems reasonable, especially when journals charge such substantial publishing fees and the reviewing process is so important

Leopard populations showed signs of recovery in Benin between 2017 and 2023, despite regional instability. With only 354 individuals left across West Africa, the transboundary park's success proves conservation works, though armed conflict remains a threat. Ruth Kamnitzer reports for #Mongabay.

The soil of imported garden plants may be hiding uninvited guests. A new study found 2,181 seeds of 80 taxa in substrate samples from Hungarian garden centres, 48% of which contained seeds of emerging #neophytes. This research presents an overlooked #invasion pathway: doi.org/10.3897/neob...

🌡️ June 2026, Spain: heat killed silently. MACE recorded: 🔴 1209 deaths from extreme heat 🟠 3008 from moderate heat Moderate heat kills more than heatwaves. Chronic, cumulative exposure flies under the radar, but not under the data. 💻 ficlima.shinyapps.io/mace/ #heatwave #health #climatechange

"All 3 groups obtained most of their food from megaherbivores (>1000 kg): woolly mammoth in Beringia, Columbian mammoth in North America, and giant ground sloths and gomphotheres in South America. Focus on them allowed rapid human expansion into different ecosystems…" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

El hábitat óptimo de nidificación de las aves litorales es la franja de la playa seca donde se depositan los restos mareales y se desarrollan las dunas embrionarias: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Poner una pasarela de madera justo encima y paralela a la orilla es una buena forma de destruirlo.

Surviving strategies in the #Sahara: Understanding diel activity patterns of #ungulates in hyper-arid regions zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #cameratraps #gazelles @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social Photo credit: Harmusch, Estudio y Conservación de Fauna

🍂 A new global meta-analysis reveals the effects of litter addition on plant performance and ecosystem functions 👉️ buff.ly/jp0v2hb

Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to know how it all began for the ZSL journals in 1830? Here is how our scientific meetings turned into publications: www.zsl.org/news-and-eve... Artwork: Elizabeth Gould, 1831, in ‘A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains’; licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/... #ZSL200

Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation

Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

🧵Las colonias de gatos, 'Felis catus', están reduciendo las poblaciones y el tamaño corporal del lagarto tizón, 'Gallotia galloti', en la isla de Tenerife. Así lo confirma un estudio tras analizar más de 200 lagartos en las proximidades de 22 colonias. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Una cosa que me gusta de Taiwán es que hay mucho panel informativo, y no son tan avecéntricos como suelo percibir en general. Aquí puedes encontrar buena difusión sobre invertebrados, anfibios, peces, plantas,etc.

Taiwan Whistling-Thrush (Myophonus insularis) #birds

Scientists studied 190 different Swifts from 243 nests over 15 years and found that 94% of Swifts reused the same nesting site as in a previous year.

Phylogeny of flamingos: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Díaz et al.)

"Measurements of lizard carcasses found near colonies indicate that cats preferentially prey on larger individuals, explaining both their reduced abundance and their smaller body size" @airamrodriguez.bsky.social et al. Biol Lett. @royalsociety.org 🧪🌎🐊

This is a ridiculous paper in the category of "computational bestiary" but Fig. 1 is wonderful: fcampelo.github.io/EC-Bestiary/

Pues ya tengo mi otro libro más esperado del año junto al de Erika Fatland. Tras La Roma de Constantino tenía muchas ganas de ver qué sacaban nuevo, y estoy seguro de que va a estar genial. Compraría todos los de este estilo que saquen.

Un poco más de difusión

A feral population of 200 yellow-crested cockatoos in urban Hong Kong holds unexpectedly high genetic diversity. Representing 10% of the global population, these birds preserve rare lineages now extinct in their native Indonesia, offering a potential "genetic rescue." @npbrao.bsky.social reports.

A ver qué tal esta lectura veraniega que he empezado hoy. Por ahora me va gustando.

Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change. The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually. Look where people are dying. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In 2016, we published a paper: Where did all the pangolins go? International CITES trade in pangolin species. The international demand for pangolins is still driving these eight species towards extinction. So much more needs to be done! Check out the paper at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pues en este artículo que hemos publicado en la revista @NatureComms mostramos el descubrimiento del primer metamaterial programable natural. Y tú dirás… ¿y eso qué es? Pues algo que en el futuro podrá ser muy útil. Aquí va el link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Tira del hilo...