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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A crushed metal soda can, long emptied of fizz, now drips with life. From its mouth, a lush community of mosses spills out—as if nature had found a new way to pour itself into the world…

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A couple of weeks ago, I had to make a quick trip to Valencia. As part of that visit, I took an even briefer detour to Paiporta—one of the areas hardest hit by the Dana in October 2024 in Spain. I was shocked by the quiet resilience of the place. There was one of those silences that says everything.

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Without a doubt, one of the emotions that impacts me the most when photographing my projects is the loneliness of animals that, in one way or another, have been torn from their natural environment. Java, Indonesia.

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Sonda Internacional @sondainternacional.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🪳 “Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro” Entrevista a Roberto García-Roa, doctor en Biología, investigador científico y fotógrafo de conservación e historia natural. ✍️ @juliacussomelero.bsky.social 👁️👇🏽 sondainternacional.com/proyectos/es...

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"Es en la supervivencia del medio natural donde radica nuestro propio futuro" - SONDA Internacional

Todo el mundo le decía que eran “bichos feos”, pero Roberto García-Roa ha sentido desde pequeño fascinación por aquellos grupos de animales que sufren un estigma por parte del gran público. Se doctoró...

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Clases terminadas hoy, mañana en "Biología Evolutiva" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social tendremos el lujo de contar con @rgarciaroa.bsky.social que nos hablará sobre sus trabajos en selección sexual, su carrera y su trabajo de comunicación científica a través de la fotografía. www.robertogarciaroa.com

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Mañanas de niebla en los bosques de Madrid.

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Sorry, but I’m very jealous of this guy... The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), the only living (nonhuman) primate in Europe.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/12/2024

Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to the facility’s director. “We’ve never had anything like it.”

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20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary

More than half of the cats at the sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., died of the virus over the past several weeks.

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It's not an ant dangling from its legs in the forest of Cameroon. What you're looking at is a bug (fam. Hemiptera) that cloaks its body with materials from its surroundings-sand, lichens…-creating a perfect disguise. The result is an insect's nightmare: a predator that looks like a piece of earth!

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

How does our presence shape the lives of other beings? Sometimes in ways we would never imagine. What you see here is the lizard Podarcis pityusensis, an endemic species from the Balearic Islands (Spain), recently listed as Critically Endangered.(1/2)

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Scientists: Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal. Link to the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign can be found therein. Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap. Thanks!

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EU post elections should revive the Green Deal 27.9.2024

Scientists urge EU policymakers to reinstate the Green Deal Laura Bosco1, E.R. Jasper Wubs2, Guy Pe’er3,4, Kris Decleer5, Marie Vandewalle3, Stephen Venn6, Volker Mauerhofer7, Róbert Gallé8, Vasilik...

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Francisco (Paco) Garcia-Gonzalez @pacogarciagonzalez.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Our Perspective article, in which Jon Evans @1jonevans.bsky.social and I discuss the utility of bringing together the fields of evolutionary biology and assisted reproduction, is out in PNAS Nexus: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Applying an evolutionary perspective to assisted reproductive technologies

Abstract. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are commonly used to address human infertility and to boost livestock production. During ART, procedures

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SESBE @sesbe-org.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja. Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on the planet, with one in three species facing serious conservation issues. This situation requires urgent action to avoid losing fascinating species such as the horned frog Pelobatrachus nasutus, a species whose populations are in decline.

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Roberto García-Roa @rgarciaroa.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Cuatro días. Como la DANA. Cuatro días.

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

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Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action

Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.

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Patricia Fernández de Lis @pflis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares, investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

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Más de 800 organizaciones sociales y medioambientales firman un manifiesto de apoyo al científico Fernando Valladares

El escrito defiende al investigador del CSIC, amenazado en redes sociales tras la dana que arrasó Valencia

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