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Iris Menéndez

@paleoiris.bsky.social
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Paleobiologist researching squirrel & rodent evolution. Humboldt fellow at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Spanglish posts. #StopGenocide🍉 #DiversityInScience #Feminism #StopClimateChnge #Music

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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are so happy to celebrate one of our members winning the prize for 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 at #DGS2026! 🏆🎉 Huge congratulations, @pierreorgebin.bsky.social , you totally deserved it! 🐐🧠 @mammalbiology.bsky.social  @mfnberlin.bsky.social #AmniotaLab
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SEPaleontologia @sepaleontologia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
¡Nueva publicación de soci@s! 🗣️ 🦏 Los gigantes de África no desaparecieron porque se extinguieran más: dejaron de originarse nuevas especies. Nuevo estudio en Nature Comm. liderado por @singerstone.bsky.social  👇
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Un nuevo estudio revela que los gigantes de África no se extinguieron más, simplemente dejaron de aparecer nuevas especies.
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SEPaleontologia @sepaleontologia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
¡Nueva publicación de soci@s! 🗣️ 🦷 Fósiles de micromamíferos fechan ~400 yacimientos ibéricos del Neógeno-Cuaternario a lo largo de 25 millones de años. Lee más sobre esta publicación 👇
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Miembros de la SEP refinan la biocronología del Neógeno-Cuaternario ibérico mediante pequeños mamíferos
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German Society for Mammalian Biology @mammalbiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Annual Meeting 2026 draws to a close and we’re looking back on an inspiring week! 🐾 Thank you to all speakers, presenters, participants and everyone who made this 100th anniversary meeting so special! 🎉 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #DGS2026 #Mammalogy #MammalianBiology
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Then Pierre Orgebin (@pierreorgebin.bsky.social) on the divergent brain evolution of two extinct island bovids 🧠🐐 amazing work from his PhD Proud to see #AmniotaLab science at the meeting! #paleobiology #islandrule
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German Society for Mammalian Biology @mammalbiology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🐾 Mammal Monday: The Alpine marmot 🏔️ Meet the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)! Despite its rather hefty appearance, this mountain-dwelling mammal belongs to the family Sciuridae – like squirrels. 🐿️ Photos: Elias, © Christian Widmann 🧪 🦊 🦤 🌍
Photo: Elias, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179010621, Public Domain, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/© Christian Widmann, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334706749, CC-BY-NC, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Apolline Alfsen @aperegrination.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last PhD conference: SEB @sebiology.bsky.social in Florence. Had a great time alongside @johnnyakatura.bsky.social's lab! John also presented a great poster on our FEA project with Lisa Kean, in collaboration with Jordi @featunning.bsky.social Bonus: the Pisa natural history museum was incredible 🐳
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German Society for Mammalian Biology @mammalbiology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 Good news The Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission for the Annual Meeting 2026 were extended to 15 June! Don't miss your chance and register now! 👉 www.mammalian-biology.de/meetings @springernature.com @physaliacourses.bsky.social @selinabrace.bsky.social @paleoiris.bsky.social
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Iris Menéndez @paleoiris.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Join us in Berlin this September!
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German Society for Mammalian Biology @mammalbiology.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Reminder: Early bird registration for our September conference in Berlin ends soon! 👉 www.mammalian-biology.de/meetings Look forward to our amazing keynote speakers: Tim Flannery, Rainer Hutterer, @selinabrace.bsky.social, Marcus Clauss, Eduardo Eizirik and @paleoiris.bsky.social. 1/2 #mammals 🦊🧪
100th anniversary logo of the German Society for Mammalian Biology, featuring an okapi and the German text 'Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V.'.
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SEPaleontologia @sepaleontologia.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🔎 ¿Buscas museos y colecciones paleontológicas en España? En la web de la SEP tienes disponible un buscador. Una herramienta útil para investigadoras/es, estudiantes y amantes del patrimonio fósil.   Descúbrelo: sepaleontologia.es/buscador-museos-… #Paleontología #Patrimonio
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 24/02/2026
Descubierta en el yacimiento conquense de Las Hoyas una nueva especie de ave del Cretácico con pico dentado. Se asemeja a un martín pescador y entronca con el grupo biológico de los 'Longipterygidae', que hasta ahora solo se habían documentado en China
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Descubierta en el yacimiento conquense de Las Hoyas una nueva especie de ave del Cretácico con pico dentado
El Museo Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA) presenta el cráneo fosilizado de un nuevo linaje de las enantiornitas, las aves con garras y dientes que poblaron el Cretácico
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
By dressing it in its plumage, we gave it this appearance thanks to the incredible paleoart by Roc Olivé, with the help of paleo-ornithologist Juan Benito.
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Here you can check out the original article, published in the #SwissJournalofPalaeontology 👇 sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828...
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An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces)
The fossil record of Early Cretaceous enantiornithine birds from the Iberian Peninsula is the most significant in the world outside of China. Despite its historical relevance, taxonomic diversity, and...
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Sergio @nebreda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Say👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦 We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China... Thread!!🧵👇 Paleart by Roc Olivé
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
These microevolutionary trends mirror patterns seen across millions of years of squamate evolution, highlighting tooth complexity as a powerful link between micro and macroevolution 🔗 Read more 👇
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Recently published #AmniotaLabCollab!  How does development shape evolution? Using 3D skull data, this study shows that neural crest cells drive rapid skull changes within species of lizards.
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
More #AmniotaLab research!  Using micro-CT scans, Tomás Fornari and Johannes Müller show that the skull bones 🦴 of fully aquatic frogs 🐸 carry signals of both shared lifestyle and deep evolutionary history👇
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New #AmniotaLab research! How well do computer models really predict bite force in living animals? 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 has just published this paper from her PhD, testing digital jaw models against real bite-force measurements in #lizards 🦎
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Iris Menéndez @paleoiris.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Some pics from these last weeks in Spain 1. At @sesbe-org.bsky.social meeting with great colleagues and friends 📸
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Iris Menéndez @paleoiris.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🧵 Why are there so many habitat-specialist squirrels? A new global study explores how habitat specialization has shaped squirrel evolution 👇🐿️🌍
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Manuel Hernández Fernández @hdezfdez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Biome specialization in squirrels: phylogenetic and geographic patterns doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... by @paleoiris.bsky.social et al.
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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇
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Guillermo Navalón @gnavalon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Some of our past and current #AmniotaLab members just got back from the #CPEG meeting in Zurich so happy to have met so many fantastic and inspiring people! Huge thanks to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social for a great conference, and for recognizing our poster as one of the best! An honor to be part of it 🙌
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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
No, it is not a dream. This actually happened!!! We had a *fantastic* #CPEGCPB26 meeting and I cannot articulate any other adjective to describe it until I recover from it. Thanks to everyone who attended and everyone who helped making this happen. @kristinakocakova.bsky.social
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CVMP @cvmp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🎬The theme for this year is: "From Capture to Creation: Intelligent 3D Scene Representation", but we welcome papers and talks from all areas of visual media production related to film, games, and broadcast. For a more comprehensive list of topics check: www.cvmp-conference.org/2025/call-fo...
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CVMP – Call for Submissions to CVMP 2025!
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CVMP @cvmp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📣𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲! Submit your full (10p), short (1p) papers, demos, industry talks on media production to #CVMP2025 📝Full Papers: 25 July 2025 🎥Industry Talks: 19 September 2025 📜Short Papers: 05 September 2025 🤖Demos: 05 September 2025 More info: www.cvmp-conference.org/2025/call-fo...
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CVMP – Call for Submissions to CVMP 2025!
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Some pictures of our latest lab meeting. So many of us, we had to bring in an extra table! Always a joy to gather as the #AmniotaLab and share science, laughs, and plans for what’s next.
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Sara Gamboa @paleobicha.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Es un gusto presentar: "Blood, Sweat, and Research: Menstruation’s Impact on Fieldwork in Natural Science" www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
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Sangre, Sudor e Investigación: El Impacto de la Menstruación en el Trabajo de Campo en Ciencias Naturales | Ecosistemas
En este artículo, examinamos el impacto, a menudo pasado por alto, de la menstruación en las experiencias de trabajo de campo en las disciplinas de las ciencias naturales. Realizamos una encuesta transversal a 429 participantes, predominantemente mujeres (86.0%), con una representación limitada de personas no binarias y sin hombres trans, para investigar los desafíos logísticos, sociales y relacionados con la salud que se afrontan durante el trabajo de campo.
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Galvanización @galvanizacion.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A ver, habiendo nacido en BOULDER, Colorado, asi cualquiera...
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Punto Violeta Somosaguas @puntovioletaucm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Compartimos el testimonio de una estudiante en la cuenta de Cristina Fallarás. Ha sido en la Facultad de Filosofía. Como siempre, la Unidad de Igualdad y la @ucm.es dejando el acoso impune.
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#News&Views in @nature.com from Faysal Bibi spotlights a fascinating study: Ancient Arabia wasn’t always dry🏜️ Wetter periods over the past 7 million years may have opened key migration routes for animals and early humans 🚶‍♀️🌍 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00905-7
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A wetter ancient Arabia could have enabled easier intercontinental species dispersal
Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past seven million years could have influenced how species, including human ancestors, moved between continents.
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Pedro Mocho @pmocho.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Este encontro nas ilhas #Canárias ( #Espanha) é apoiado pelo Grupo de Património Paleontológico da @sepaleontologia.bsky.social ! Um bom momento para aprendermos um pouco sobre como os nossos colegas trabalham e protegem o seu património paleontológico da Península Ibérica! #Paleontology #Heritage
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Amniota Lab @amniotalab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Burgos retreat at @cenieh.bsky.social with some Amniota Lab members! Ignacio Lazagabaster, @fernandoblancos.bsky.social , @paleoiris.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social & @ohsanisidro.bsky.social Fossils, science, food and good vibes #paleobiology #AmniotaLab #MACPALS
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