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Iñigo Rubio López

@inirubio.bsky.social
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PhD Student @czechacademy.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social | Interested in understanding biodiversity patterns and their drivers across spatial, temporal and phylogenetic scales.

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Sailee Sakhalkar @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our latest work is out @natecoevo.nature.com! We revisit a classic: Are interactions more specialised towards the tropics?🌻🪰 Great to lead this with @robtrop.bsky.social, and our coauthors across the world! Grateful for their collaboration🥳, and hope to continue working with this amazing community!
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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026
Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba
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Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴
Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale
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daniel cadena @cdanielcadena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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In Memoriam: Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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Dr JJ González Alemán @glezjuanje.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
El verano que se salió de la campana de Gauss. Es una locura lo que estamos viendo este año comparado con años anteriores… Ya no hablamos de un año más cálido de lo normal. El clima se ha movido a un rango que la vieja estadística decía que no debía ocurrir.
El verano que se salió de la campana de Gauss: la estadística del clima antiguo decía que era imposible.

Es una locura lo que estamos viendo este año comparado con años anteriores… 

Anomalías de temperatura (en 850 hPa; 1500 m.) estandarizadas en Europa Occidental (15 may – 15 jul), en desviaciones típicas (σ):

🟢 1951–1980: la vieja normalidad, centrada en 0 🟡 1991–2020: ya desplazada a la derecha 🔴 2026: la distribución ENTERA se ha marchado a +3sigmas, con cola más allá de +6sigmas.

Y lo más fuerte: el panel inferior mide cuánto de cada año supera los +4sigmas, un umbral que en un clima estable tiene una probabilidad de 0,0032% (≈1 entre 30.000, solo por el lado cálido).

Durante 70 años: prácticamente 0. En 2026: ~15%. 🤯

Ya no hablamos de un año más cálido de lo normal. El clima se ha movido a un rango que la vieja estadística decía que no debía ocurrir.
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Eliska Bohdalkova @elbohdalkova.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In our new paper in 🌍 Global Ecology and Biogeography, David Storch and I show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while variation in extinction rates drives differences among communities. doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Grace I Ridder @graceridder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Where is the evidence for biodiversity equilibria? Follow the debate in the following publications. Our original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... The response: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Our reply: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Melina F. Maxwell @melinafm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy to share that one of my PhD chapters is out now! In this study, we investigated how geographic range size and body size influence abundance in reef fishes 🐠 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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Geographic Range and Body Size Influence Abundance Patterns in Reef Fishes
Aim Understanding how body size and geographic range size influence species abundance is central to macroecology. Here, we characterized these relationships for reef fishes, the world's most diverse.....
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Felipe Cerezer @cerezer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📣 New paper out in @plosbiology.org What drives global patterns of species richness? 🌍 Using a unified framework across 129 tetrapod clades 🐸🦎🐦🐘, we find: 👉 Productivity-driven equilibrium dynamics largely explain biodiversity patterns ⚖️🌱 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Macroecology #Biogeography
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Center for Theoretical Study @cts.cuni.cz · 14/04/2026
New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics
Why do some groups contain far more species than others? By testing competing explanations across terrestrial vertebrates, this study shows that biodiversity patterns are most often shaped by long-ter...
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Iñigo Martínez-Solano @batracofistro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Recién publicado (descarga libre): especies crípticas en el tritón alpino: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As we get into the final parts of the amazing meeting that #TIBS2026 was, a reminder to follow and share the starter pack for ECRs in Biogeography: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK And a reminder to check it again, as we've had many new additions over the conference. See you all at the dinner!
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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK
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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Our new study: Species Richness Gradients Vary Across Phylogenetic Scales led by Antonin Machac and David Storch now published in GEB. We show that species richness gradients in young clades differ, whereas older clades converge on similar gradients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Natálie Námešná @natynamesna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who joined our first QESIG meeting yesterday! 💫 
Such a warm and friendly start to this new community. 🔗 
Special thanks to @ondrejmottl.bsky.social for the idea and to Bryan Novio for co-organizing. 👥 Can’t wait for the next meetup! 🌱✨
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Guillaume Dillenseger @dillensegerg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
[Please RT] Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology
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Marta García-Cobo @nemamarta.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
¿Y si te dijera que hay un mundo "invisible" bajos tus pies, lleno de animales que nadie ve pero que lo sostienen todo?🔍 Mi tesis va de ellos: la meiofauna. 🪱🦂 ¡Te lo cuento en este hilo!🧵 #HiloTesis @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hona hemen azken egunetan aurkitu dituzuen sugeen mapa. Anima zaitez parte hartzera!!! 🐍  #sugebizi
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🐸🦎 Eskoletako urmaelen Sareko V. topaketak urmaeletako erabilera didaktikoak jarri du azpimarra www.aranzadi.eus/eu/eskoletako-urma…
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sobering... fish and crustaceans that live deeper are ingesting more #microplastics than those closer to the surface 🌐🧪https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lno.12370
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Microplastic ingestion by deep‐pelagic crustaceans and fishes
A size-selective loss of smaller microplastics (< 1 mm) from surface pelagic waters has been reported, yet few surveys have studied biological ingestion by deep-pelagic organisms as a sink for the “m....
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Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛 @adsalbert.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️ We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️ Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6
Lateral macro view of the Solenopsis minor worker attached to the hawk moth’s antenna.

Source: Figure 2. of Sánchez Albert et al. 2025
Author: A. Sánchez Albert
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Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛 @adsalbert.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
However, many of these cases remain undescribed and are still hidden away in cabinets, drawers and literature. Unknown field observations 📷, papers 📄, books 📖, museum specimens... Everything helps! Spread the word of these ant(agonistic) interactions! 🐜💥
Infographic made to spread the word about these ant antagonistic interactions.

It says: Call for data! Hunting for hidden ant(agonistic) interactions. Have you seen an ant biting other animal? They can be anywhere? Collaboration is needed to gather sufficient data! Data describing this species interactions is hard to get! Posible sources are: (1) specimens held at Natural History Museums, (2) Photographs of live interactions and (3) Unknow bibliographic reports.

Contact me to sanchezalbertadrian@gmail.com in case you can help!
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Ester Eckert @me-ester.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The wonderfully talented post-doc Sven Iburg, who was working with me in the last two years is seeking a new positon, pref BENELUX area. Let me know if you have any openings or suggestions! He is a true alrounder, really good both in the lab and with bioinformatics. meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/pe...
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Iñigo Rubio López @inirubio.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you're looking for a high-quality workshop on quantitative #ecology, I highly recommend #SSoQE which I attended last year. Insightful, 🆓, well-structured, and practical—and definitely worth your time!
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Chris Laumer @tendersombrero.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It's official - I'm organizing a field taxonomy workshop on freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna! 27 August-11 Sept, in the Lake District. We have 13 experts covering all major taxa, advanced microscopy, DNA taxonomy, sci-com, publishing. RT! Send your best! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
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Field workshop on the taxonomy and natural history of freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna | Natural History Museum
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 27/03/2025
THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
Butterflies on a blue sky
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Handy link to check out APC for different journals: apc.simon.net.nz Pulgar_Panda h/t @simongreenhill.bsky.social & El Pulgar del Panda #OpenAccess #openscience
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André Menegotto @andremenegotto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
[New paper] Fundamental questions in meiofauna research. Stimulating to see growing interest in macroecological questions in the meiofaunal field, especially in strategies to improve data quality for large-scale studies. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
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Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...
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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...
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Open PhD Positions
PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Adi❗️Hona hemen orain arte #erratza -n jaso ditugun datuak.  Bagoaz aurrera pixkanaka, jarrai dezagun!
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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️ A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers! 🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space 🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
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Carlos Cabido @cabido.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Aquí se juntan 3 fenómenos muy actuales (y reflejo de los tiempos que vivimos a nivel intelectual e informativo) que afectan al ecologismo: 1) la conversión o reducción del animalismo en peluchismo (incluso en gatolicismo). El nombre de la sección ubica aquí la pseudonoticia.
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Adi naturzaleok‼️ Beste ekimen batekin gatozkizue! Hurrengo asteetan zehar, Euskal Herriko erratzen inguruan bitxikeriak kontatzen ibiliko gara, eta, trukean, zuek #erratza horien inguruko informazio bilketan laguntzea gustatuko litzaiguke.  Barneratu #erratza proiektuan!
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NEIKER @neikerbrta.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🌿Este domingo celebramos el Día Mundial de los Humedales. 💧Aunque parecen simples charcas, son mucho más, un refugio para la #biodiversidad 🌍En el marco del proyecto #MIKROKLIMA trabajamos para establecer una Red de microhumedales que hagan frente a la crisis climática. ℹ️https://bit.ly/4gqCeYn
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Iñigo Rubio López @inirubio.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ezagutu ezazue nola MIKROKLIMA proiektuaren mikrohezeguneen sareak krisi klimatikoari aurre egiten dion! 🦟🐸🕷️ Jarraitu @aranzadi.bsky.social eta @neikerbrta.bsky.social biodibertsitatea kontserbatzeko ahaleginetan 👉 labur.eus/eSSDB
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MIKROKLIMA: Krisi klimatikoari aurre egiteko mikrohezeguneen sarea
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
La importancia de lo pequeño 💚 En este Día Mundial de los Humedales queremos poner atención en la biodiversidad de las pequeñas charcas‼️  MIKROKLIMA: Red de microhumedales ante la crisis climática 👉 labur.eus/SD9yX @gipuzkoa.eus  @neikerbrta.bsky.social  #kutxafundazioa #Naturklima
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Aranzadi Zientzia Elkartea @aranzadi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Txikiaren handitasuna 💚 Hezeguneen Nazioarteko Egunean putzu txikietan aurki dezakegun biodibertsitateari erreparatu nahi diogu‼️ MIKROKLIMA: Krisi klimatikoari aurre egiteko mikrohezeguneen sarea. 👉 labur.eus/eSSDB @gipuzkoa.eus  @neikerbrta.bsky.social  #kutxafundazioa #Naturklima
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Ricardo Zaldívar @rzaldivar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Vídeo completo youtu.be/yarWxTP99Qs?...
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MIKROKLIMA. Red de microhumedales ante la crisis climática
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André Menegotto @andremenegotto.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occurrence records currently available may be insufficient to capture the latitudinal gradient of marine diversity. Computer simulations show that sampling bias persists even with the use of different richness estimators. 🌎🧪🦑 #Macroecology #MarineEcology 👇 Out now in GEB!
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Sampling Simulation in a Virtual Ocean Reveals Strong Sampling Effect in Marine Diversity Patterns
Aim Undersampling and other sources of sampling bias pose significant issues in marine macroecology, particularly when shaping conservation and management decisions. Yet, determining the extent to w...
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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Last week to apply for a fully funded PhD position in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology🌿 at @sciencecharles.bsky.social, Prague! 🇨🇿 📅 Deadline: January 15 🔄 Spread the word! #plants #vegetation #global #macroecology #palaeoecology #quantitative #ecology #functional #traits #fossil #pollen
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