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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza

@ecoevodevolab.bsky.social
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Mom in STEM Assistant Professor at University of Basel Group leader at EAWAG @eawag.bsky.social Eco-evo-dev(m)o systems. webpage: pcchaparro.github.io

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Rob Salguero-Gómez @robsalgo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The gender gap emerges from the penalisation of motherhood, which fathers do not experience, or to a lesser extent. Therefore, it is not enough to show that a department/institute has as many men than women in faculty positions. Have you asked yourself how many of the men have children vs the women?
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 09/03/2026
What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋
Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.
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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Luisa F. Pallares @luisapallares.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic
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Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms
Abstract. The long-standing notion that genotypes map to phenotypes through simple one gene–one trait relationships continues to shape both research in the
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚨We are hiring🚨 We are looking for an early-career computational evolutionary biologist with a PhD in comparative genomics, phylogenetic methods, or related fields. We are part of @eawag.bsky.social a research insitutute of the ETH Domain in 🇨🇭
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Super excited to join the Department of Environmental Sciences at @unibas.ch‬ 🎉 www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
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New assistant professorship on ecosystem adaptability
ERC Grant for Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza: Research at University of Basel on biodiversity, tipping points and ecosystem resilience.
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚨We are hiring🚨 We are looking for an early-career computational evolutionary biologist with a PhD in comparative genomics, phylogenetic methods, or related fields. We are part of @eawag.bsky.social a research insitutute of the ETH Domain in 🇨🇭
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Postdoc position in Genomic signatures of adaptive evolution at Eawag, starting Q2 2026. Requires PhD, experience in comparative genomics, and fluency in English. Apply by 10 March 2026: apply.refline.ch/673277/1341/pub/1/… #postdoc
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Postdoctoral position in “Genomic signatures of adaptive evolution along the fast-slow life history continuum” (m/f/d) 80-100%
The Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling (SIAM) has an opening for a
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A Postdoc in eco-evolutionary dynamics is available at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science. Applicants with a PhD in relevant fields should apply by March 10, 2026. More details: apply.refline.ch/673277/1340/pub/1/… #postdoc
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Postdoctoral position in “Experimental eco-evolutionary dynamics of resilience” (m/f/d) 80-100%
The Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling (SIAM) has an opening for a
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We are hiring🚨 We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Looking forward to meet many women in (eco)Evolutionary Biology this Summer in the MPI in Plön.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 29/01/2026
I'm touched by the incredibly generous assessments that some of the first readers of "The Organism-Environment Pairing" (@mitpress.bsky.social) have offered! I'm excited to exchange ideas with everyone once the book is published in May! 📗 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #HPbio #HPS #evosky #philsky
Screenshot of a webpage displaying endorsement quotes for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda.

"This long-overdue history and philosophy of the 'environment' concept illuminates how biology thinks about one of its most fundamental ideas. A rewarding, eye-opening read for historians, philosophers, and scientists alike."
--Tobias Uller, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Lund University; coauthor of Evolution Evolving and Evolutionary Causation

"A formidable achievement, massive in scope, meticulously researched, densely argued, and timely. Fábregas-Tejeda's book is the definitive work on the history of thinking about the complex relation between organism and environment."
--Denis Walsh, Professor, University of Toronto; author of Organisms, Agency, and Evolution

"Fábregas-Tejeda's discerning analysis brings much-needed conceptual clarity to the enigmatic yet essential subject of biology--the organism-environment relationship. A lively, engaging book that will inform practicing biologists as well as philosophers and historians of science."
--Sonia E. Sultan, Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University; author of Organism and Environment

"A tour de force of integrated history and philosophy of biology. With impressive breadth and conceptual clarity, this outstanding monograph reshapes how we think about organisms, environments, and their entanglements."
--Daniel J. Nicholson, Assistant Professor, George Mason University; author of What Is Life? Revisited
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Many ideas to play with this toy 🤔
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our new paper in @plosbiology.org reveals that life history evolution is at the core of an eco-evolutionary feedback that promotes diversity. Do you want to know how? read more in: plos.io/4p7YT0a
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Evolving life-history traits promote biodiversity via eco-evolutionary feedback mechanisms
When colonizing a new habitat, organisms not only adapt to use ecological niches but also to maximize their reproductive success via life history evolution. This study identifies life history evolutio...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month. ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Lamarck is coming back... 😳
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇 👉global-tipping-points.org
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 07/10/2025
Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky
Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.
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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world. If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com
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Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are war...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/09/2025
“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Climate change made heatwaves more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed". #ClimateChange www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🌟 Super excited for the research to come, using models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution and plasticity shape tipping points. #cienciacriolla #ERCStG #ecosystems
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Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The @erc.europa.eu awards one of this year's starting grants to Catalina Chaparro Pedraza 💪🎉 In her five-year research project PHENOTIPPING she will address the question: How does adaptation contribute to ecosystem resilience? #ERCStG #ecosystems
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I'm very honored to receive an #ERCStG to fund my research project PHENOTIPPING. Are you interested to know how adaptation contributes to resilience? Stay tune! In the coming 5 years, PHENOTIPPING will use models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution & plasticity shape tipping points.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/08/2025
The crisis in Gaza is now officially a famine, according to a well-respected global expert body on food insecurity. But even before IPC released the two reports today, the Israeli military and other critics attacked the science underlying the assessments.
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International hunger watchdog faces political attacks over Gaza famine declaration
Israeli government tries to discredit science underlying the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Anyone who still supports fossil fuels in an escalating climate crisis will not get into heaven. Who will tell Trump?
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
More evidence to move away from race. Not surprising that self-identified latino ethnicity is a broad mixture of 3 ancestries: European, Native American and African. The history of European colonization in America (i.e. the whole continent), including the slavery trade, left traces in our genes.
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Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study
Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Read the story behind our new study published yesterday in Nature, unfiltered straight from the scientists: 🌊 theconversation.com/unprecedente...
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Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it
Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are again much warmer than normal, priming Europe for more extreme heat this summer.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
That’s not some tragedy that fell upon the world, but a totally predictable (and predicted for well over 3 decades) outcome of fossil fuel use. It must end very quickly to prevent far worse things to come.
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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is a great opportunity for ECR! If you are thinking to apply and have questions, I am happy to share my experience being a #MarieCurieFellow
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Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
💰🌍 Research by Sarah Schöngart et al. shows the wealthiest 10% caused TWO-THIRDS of global warming since 1990. The top 1% have an even bigger impact on extreme weather like #heatwaves and #droughts, hitting vulnerable regions hardest. usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12
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The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty | PNAS
Rates of evolution are fundamental to understand the processes that shaped the history of life. The predominant view holds that high rates of pheno...
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