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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society, is seeking new editors to join the team! If interested, please see the solicitation here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...

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André Menegotto @andremenegotto.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Species names are commonly treated as unique identifiers, but how similar are they really? How far apart are congeneric species names? By analysing the scientific names of over 𝟐𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, we found some interesting results. 🪸🦀🦈

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Standardising taxonomic names is an essential step in biodiversity studies to ensure robust data aggregation and up-to-date, valid species nomenclature. Fuzzy (inexact) matching is widely used in this...

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The new year of biogeography is off to a strong start! Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto will present our next Funk lecture on January 28 at 1:00PM UTC. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ja...

The International Biogeography Society advertises the next installment of its monthly Funk Biogeography Seminar Series. The speaker is Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto, whose talk is titled "Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environment." The talk will occur on Wednesday, January 26, 2026, at 1:00PM UTC. For details and registration, go to www.biogeography.org.

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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

A new study by @ukceh.bsky.social @khoproject.bsky.social et al. published at @natureportfolio.bsky.social #npjbiodiversity not only provides explanation for #biodiversity in the Amazon region, but also opens up new ways of reconstructing human-environment interactions in the past. How? Read more:

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How paleoenvironmental data improves climate models—the Amazon example

Study opens up new ways of reconstructing human-environment interactions in the past.

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scipertierralab.bsky.social @scipertierralab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

❄️Still welcoming contributions till fall 2025 to the @npjbiodiversity special collection on polar biodiversity change www.nature.com/collections/... reach us out for more details 📩

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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

As we near the final stages of #TIBS2026, Rob Whittaker shares exciting insights into the Frontiers of Biogeography journal —covering its development, impact factor, and a compelling call to action for @biogeography.bsky.social members to help grow the journal. ⏩ biogeography.pensoft.net

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I was delighted to receive a best poster award at the closing ceremony yesterday! Had a great time at #TIBS2026 and look forward to seeing all the wonderful biogeographers again in the future 🌍🌎🌏 @biogeography.bsky.social

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Ana (Guida) Santos @guidasantos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Coming back home from another great @biogeography.bsky.social TIBS meeting #TIBS2026. So many great talks, conversations with friends and colleagues, and renovated energy for future research! It is always a pleasure to attend these meetings.

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

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Frontiers of Biogeography

 Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

⏩️"It is not that there is life on the surface of earth. Life is THE surface of earth!"⏪️ #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social with a.very interesting symposium on co-evolution of landscape & life

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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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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Born on this day - Alfred Russel Wallace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... 🧪🌐

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Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 08/01/2026

New technologies are revolutionising ecology, with more data than ever available at our fingertips. But what are the costs and perils of ecologists doing less field work? Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article

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‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.

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scipertierralab.bsky.social @scipertierralab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Abrimos reservas para el proximo curso PRESENCIAL / ONLINE de nicho ambiental en el que abordaremos distintos tests de hipotesis, comparativas y predicciones alrededor de la macroecologia de las especies mncn.csic.es/es/sociedad-... 🐧🐞🌴🦁

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Análisis de nicho ambiental para entender las relaciones macroecológicas y evolutivas | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Impartido por Luis R. Pertierra. Asistente: Sabina Ioana Ciomag. Ponente invitado: Alberto Jimenez-Valverde.Resumen:

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Jorge Gar🏳️‍🌈 @jorgejungle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Los que no sepáis quién es Robe Iniesta, os invito a escuchar “Jesucristo García”. Y luego a pensar si a lo mejor, si esa canción hubiese salido hoy, Manos Limpias lo hubiera denunciado, hubiese ido a juicio y Robe hubiese acabado en la cárcel.

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Es cierto, en esos años cada concierto pensábamos que era el último, y se nos ha ido ahora que pensábamos que le íbamos a tener muchos años acompañándonos

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Se nos ha ido un pedacito grande de la vida

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Andrés Actis @actisandres.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hace diez años, el mundo tenía 1,04°C de calentamiento respecto a la era preindustrial y los modelos preveían alcanzar los 1,5°C en 2042. Con los datos de septiembre de 2025 -el planeta ya está en 1,4°C- se superará el umbral de 1,5°C en 2029. Un adelanto de 13 años.

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Este libro engaña. Esperas una guía de tracks de montaña y te encuentras con una lección maravillosa de ecología, geobotánica, historia natural, usos tradicionales del paisaje y efectos del cambio global en la Península Ibérica. Precioso. Muchas gracias Adri, mola

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

La genialidad no tiene porqué ir acompañada de la razón. Lynyrd Skynyrd escribieron Sweet Home Alabama en respuesta a las críticas de racismo de Neil Young en sus canciones.Y en la icónica etiqueta del Anís del Mono el mono es una caricatura de Darwin (el dueño era contrario a la teoría evolutiva)

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/11/2025

University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪

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To reform universities, first tackle global rankings

Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Screen grab showing International Space Station above a blue-cloudy Earth.

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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#BlogMNCN Las musarañas elefante atrajeron a los zoólogos por su peculiar morfología. Estrechamente emparentadas con las verdaderas musarañas, los erizos y los topos, las incluyeron en el orden Insectivora. Con el tiempo se vio que era otro: Macroscelidea. www.mncn.csic.es/es/comunicac...

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Lo cantó Battiato sobre su 'povera patria' italiana, y nos lo cantó en nuestra lengua. Pobre patria, medio siglo y así seguimos. Ojalá podamos cambiarla, y finalmente traer la primavera que tarda tanto en llegar. youtu.be/qHCF9pYsr9M?...

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60. Pobre Patria, de Franco Battiato

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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035 @cscherber.bsky.social

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Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT)

Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...

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La Enzima Inquieta 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @viajandoconciencia.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

No os imagináis lo laborioso que es analizar y preparar un conjunto de datos para entrenar un modelo de Machine Learning La calidad del dato es vital para que estos sistemas funcionen

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#asimov nailed the definition of how those who mix liberal and illiberal views understand government: "She hadn't liked Earth (...) its combination of anarchy in the important things and governmental force in the little things." —In the description of Eugenia Insignia in Nemesis (1989)

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#asimov acertó con la definición de cómo entienden el gobierno los que combinan lo liberal con lo iliberal: "a ella no le había gustado la Tierra (...) ni su combinación de anarquía para las cosas importantes y fuerza estatal para las pequeñas" Descripción de Eugenia Insignia en "Némesis" (1989)

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Interesting article about rethinking the Turing test, putting the focus on discriminating different aspects of "intelligence" (whatever this diffues concept is), and also on IA safety and biases. It seems more important to detect unsafe IAs and how to tackle the pervasive biases in their training

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AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?

Chatbots now ace the mathematician’s famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.

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Basic and Applied Ecology @basicapplecol.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🌿📖 New #BAAE article: Collectomics in plant biodiversity research By merging herbaria, #Museomics & data science, researchers trace biodiversity change through time — shaping future conservation strategies. 🌎 📖 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.07.002 @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Schematic display of an herbarium specimen and its use as an Extended Specimen.

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 27/10/2025

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

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Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...

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Nymeria Solo @nymeriasolo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hilo importante. Por esto procuro hablar con mis hijos, explicarles lo que me parece importante y responder a sus preguntas sin miedo ni eufemismos. Es cansado, pero muy agradecido. Los niños no son tontos, pero hay que explicarles las cosas, no aprenden por ciencia infusa.

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André Menegotto @andremenegotto.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Starting a 6-month secondment at @mncn-csic.bsky.social (🇪🇸). Super glad to be joining @jhortal.bsky.social and his amazing team to advance our project #MarineGaps.

Front view of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid.

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

¡Hola, ecoinformáticxs! 🌍💻 ¿Os gusta hacer mapas? ¿Y si os decimos que podemos unirnos para un reto divertido y colaborativo? Si estás leyendo esto, ¡TE QUEREMOS! ❤️¡Atentos, que esto mola! 👇

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪 @crossref.bsky.social

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 08/10/2025

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation. Read more from @mongabay.com :

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Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 07/10/2025

Biodiversity Heritage Library es una biblioteca digital abierta con millones de páginas sobre #biodiversidad con #BúsquedaTextoCompleto. ¡Aprende más sobre BHL en nuestro webinar sobre plataformas de información en biodiversidad! 📺 youtu.be/0urQfPemAc8?...

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Webinar GBIF.ES: Plataformas de información en biodiversidad

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A mí me gusta más la del koala y el ventilador, pero vamos, está claro que MoBo es un menosmola

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Matheus Moroti @mmoroti.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Today, I had the opportunity to present a little about myself and my career at the annual meet of the Biogeography and Climate Change department at @mncn-csic.bsky.social , where I will be doing a postdoctoral fellowship for a year with @jhortal.bsky.social

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Antonio Martínez Ron @aberron.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Me pasa Javi Álvarez la entrevista que le hicimos hace 12 años . Qué persona!! 😔 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZ-...

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Jane Goodall: La crisis puede enseñarnos a vivir con menos cosas

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Fernando del Amo #7291 @madridvk.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025

😔 Muere la primatóloga y activista Jane Goodall a los 91 años www.rtve.es/n/16752855/ a través de RTVE Noticias.

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Muere la primatóloga y activista Jane Goodall a los 91 años

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