Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️ 611509747
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I got this comment on Youtube. I had to click on his username, only to find out that his last upload is a 'documentary' about an alien city in Antarctica. 🤦 120
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Our 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...youtube.comMediterranean Sea Messinian Salinity Crisis: Landscape evolution model for Lago-Mare - M0 ReferenceYouTube video by Daniel García-Castellanos 040
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Fresh 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... 031
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Small 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...theconversation.comSmall populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on CyprusPig-sized hippos and elephants the size of horses once roamed the lush forests of Cyprus – until humans arrived. 130
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosJordi Diaz @jdiazcusi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Seismic 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 043
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 21/07/2025An outburst flood "has just devastated Nepal. It should be a wake-up call" www.the-independent.com/climate-chan... 000
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosThe Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 18/07/2025La 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. theconversation.com¿Qué fue la ‘tercera España’?En el conocido como ‘Contubernio de Múnich’ se sentaron las bases para una posterior reconciliación española en base a una idea que se alejaba de las ‘dos Españas’. 034
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Ok, 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...elconfidencial.comEspaña descifra la 'paradoja del Mediterráneo': ¿cómo pudo estar lleno y vacío al mismo tiempo?Una nueva herramienta ha permitido recrear 600.000 años de cambios geológicos aplicando todo tipo de variables. El resultado pone fin a uno de los grandes misterios del Mediterráneo 010
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosThe Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 17/07/2025Hace 5 millones de años, el Mediterráneo fue un desierto salado. ¿Te lo imaginas? Nos lo cuenta @danigeos.bsky.social de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social: theconversation.comLa paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vezHace unos cinco millones de años, hubo un tiempo en que el Mediterráneo se secó. Ya no podía retener el agua de los ríos en sus desembocadoras y estos pasaron a formar lagos someros en su centro, trayendo nuevas especies acuáticas desde Europa del este. 025
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Sobre 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.socialtheconversation.comLa paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a la vezHace unos cinco millones de años, hubo un tiempo en que el Mediterráneo se secó. Ya no podía retener el agua de los ríos en sus desembocadoras y estos pasaron a formar lagos someros en su centro, tray... 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 15/07/2025By the way, parts of this video were created by Manuel Mantero, who short after won the Oscar for FX - special effects 010
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosCSIC @csic.es · 15/07/2025🌊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 34917
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosCSIC @csic.es · 15/07/2025☀️💧"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 👇 11710
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 14/07/20255.3 magnitude strike-slip EQ in the Alborán Sea www.ign.es/web/ign/port... 011
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 14/07/2025We 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/... 011
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Happy 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-RYUfZcyoutu.be 111
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 02/06/2025How 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. 020
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 01/06/202515th-century astronomical center in Samarkand, built by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg 020
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Cervantes 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. 030
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway at Guadalhorce. Variously dated as Messinian to Tortonian. 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 19/05/2025#MessiBético2025 Atlantic-Mediterranean seaway cross-bedding near Zagra (Granada). Tortonian 020
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosCésar Tomé López @edocet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Google 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...nature.comDeepMind unveils ‘spectacular’ general-purpose science AISystem improves chip designs and tackles unsolved maths problems, but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company. 002
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Cyberattack has been officially discarded as a cause for the blackout in Spain and Portugal that left about 50 million people unplugged for ~12 hours. 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I 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. 120
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosTeddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterraneannationalgeographic.comHow the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the MediterraneanScientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara. 2229
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Excelente entrevista sobre la sobreexplotación maderera en Valeria (Hispania) durante el imperio romano. youtu.be/1pJ-swOSftE?...youtu.beLA MADERA EN ROMAYouTube video by Isaac Moreno Gallo 010
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosJames Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 28/04/2025How 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...nature.comMicrobial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth - Nature CommunicationsDormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev... 47124
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 29/04/2025National 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.socialnationalgeographic.comHow the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the MediterraneanScientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara. 041
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A 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...euronews.com 100
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025All Spain and surrounding regions have no electric power since 12:40 (half an hour ago). Many websites down 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Según 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...ecoinventos.comNuevo estudio afirma que las cavernas de sal en Alemania ofrecen capacidad suficiente para las necesidades de almacenamiento de hidrógeno de toda EuropaSegún 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, eliminando la necesidad de usar... 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Strange. 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...retosterricolas.blogspot.comHumans, Lakes, and Plate Tectonics in the Amazon BasinTectonics and surface processes have historically interfered with landscape and therefore with human societies. Earthquakes and floods are t... 110
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Interesting, 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... 010
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🚨 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...aei.gob.es 021
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 24/04/2025This 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/ 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 23/04/2025What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history - my summary in The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/science...independent.co.ukThe cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s historyThe Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Daniel García-Castellanos 031
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosGEO3BCN - CSIC @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🌊 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👇 043
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Just 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...phys.orgThe largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire MediterraneanA little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down... 030
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The 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...mappingignorance.orgThe paradox of democracyPeople in Western Europe have experienced democracy for more than 70 years. They underestimate the risk of democratic collapse. 024
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025An 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...theconversation-com.translate.googLa pista del metano para encontrar vida en el subsuelo de MarteHemos encontrado el rincón más propicio en Marte para que proliferen microorganismos capaces de generar metano. 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025An 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-...theconversation.comThe largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few yearsNew evidence supports theory of ‘Zanclean megaflood’ 5 million years ago. 021
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Percentage of patents filed by women. [source: epo.org] 010
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is how the 2018 tariffs (up to 20%) on China impacted on US imports 100
Reposted by Daniel García-CastellanosGEO3BCN - CSIC @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social · 11/04/2025🎓 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! 👏 011
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025With 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 040
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Sometimes such things happen during fieldwork 110
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025España destinará 45 millones de euros para atraer a científicos extranjeros en pleno huracán Trump www.elperiodico.com/es/ciencia/2...elperiodico.comEspaña destinará 45 millones de euros para atraer a científicos extranjeros en pleno huracán TrumpLa nueva convocatoria del programa ATRAE, del Ministerio de Ciencia, es la más ambiciosa hasta la fecha para captar a investigadores punteros 000
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Sporting 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 010
Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos.bsky.social · 04/04/2025New 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...tech-for-future.deMehrheit für Kernenergie: Aktuelle Umfragen zur Atomkraft in Deutschland - Tech for FutureDeutschland ist so skeptisch gegenüber Kernenergie, wie kaum ein anderes Land. Aber selbst bei uns gibt es eine klare Mehrheit für die Atomkraft. Nach dem Unfall von Fukushima war die deutsche Meinung... 000