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Paleoecologist, Quaternary pollen analysis, Naturalist, Professor of Evolutionary Botany at University of Murcia (Spain), Cat Lover, Red, Republican, Ecofeminist
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Welcome to the forest theatre: Unveiling a Balkan refugium through paleoart. Quaternary Science Reviews doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

MI NUEVO LIBRO ya está aquí: PALEOARTE Y PAISAJE: UNA TEORÍA ESTÉTICA. . Es open access, se puede descargar de forma gratuita e inmediata para su lectura, y ha sido publicado por la editorial EDITUM. Este es el enlace de la editorial, de la Universidad de Murcia: publicaciones.um.es/publicacione...

Queridos amigos, Comparto el anuncio de una nueva exposición de mi trabajo de paleoilustración de paisaje. Es en el Museo Primeros Pobladores Josep Gibert, en Orce (Granada).

🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿 Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany. Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

En las telas de las Argiopes y otras especies, como Nuctenea umbrática o Cyrtophora citricola (es donde las he visto yo), si ponéis atención podréis encontrar una araña diminuta plateada. #argyrodesargyrodes #argyrodes #arañagotaderocio #macrophotography #naturephotography #araña #Theridiidae

New book: #Paleontology in Public - and it's 100% free to read! I contributed a chapter on the public history of #Spinosaurus, co-authored with @tattersdill.bsky.social, and also provided some Gertie-inspired cover art. Congrats to @chrismanias.bsky.social for getting this over the line!

Have you seen these amazing books available for free download on Paleo-Iberian flora? There are three volumes: Paleocene-Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene @pepecarrion.bsky.social  Check them out here: https://s.mtrbio.com/ppmzkzmouy

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I almost missed the first #FossilFriday of 2025. Anyway, better late than never: here's my reconstruction of Wielandiella angustifolia, which I did last year!!! 2024 was a productive year of #paleoart, and that'll hopefully continue this year, so stay tuned!!! #paleobotany #paleontology #plants

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding

Iberian Paleofloras. Free download. Three books (Tertiary, Pleistocene, Holocene). Thanks for your interest. www.paleofloraiberica.org

Want to lead a world-leading #biology department - see open position to head our dept international.au.dk/about/profil... @aarhusuni.bsky.social 🐋🌴🦇🦠 #ecology #evolution #physiology of #animals & #plants #aquaticbiology #microbiology #botany #conservation #rewilding #restoration, #ecosystems🐎🌐🌸🪰💩🌦️🐻‍❄️

Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇 The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...

🏺🧪 A great opportunity!

New Correspondence: "Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism" rdcu.be/d38L4 The emphasis on vascular plants reveals a bias that leaves the non-vascular plants — the tiny, overlooked, inconspicuous plants — hidden in the shadows, literally.

New publication out showing how highland forests of Mozambique, even those highly inaccessible to people, have been burnt. Evidence from the forest and soils show that the fire regime has changed and forest have been strongly modified by human activities for millennia. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Como todos los años por estas fechas, os regalamos el pdf de un tratado en español sobre la clasificación de los seres vivos. Por favor, re-enviadlo a quien consideréis. bit.ly/3tZelyx

Describing the phenotype of a long-lived plant can be tricky. My recent paper in @eco-aeet.bsky.social shows that shapes of lifetime fecundity schedules of individual lavender shrubs differ widely among individuals and is subject to phenotypic selection [paper in English] doi.org/10.7818/ECOS...

In southern Africa, grazing herbivores decline over the last 50 kyr, but regional pollen records show no change in grass abundance through time. How do we make sense of these patterns? Check out our new study led by postdoc Alex Norwood (Univ of Utah) in QSA: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

I think like a Neanderthal! (At least when it comes to collecting seashells...) #seashell #seashells

Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart? Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed www.vox.com/unexplainabl...

Hello everyone!!! We just landed on Bluesky!! We are the Paleontological virtual Congress an iniciative that was born in 2018 to try and bring palaeontology together from around the world. Please check uor website for the #5thPVC 🧪⚒️ palaeovc.org

Chris Stringer & I have a paper in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (the typeset version will be available soon!) It’s a perspective on species & speciation in paleoanthropology, with a particular focus on HS & Neanderthals. #Homosapiens #Neanderthals @chrisbstringer.bsky.social 🧪🏺

✨ Hi everyone! I’m thrilled to join Blue Sky as PachaGaia! Let's explore the Gaia Hypothesis. Ecosystems as self-regulating systems, hrough a scientific lens & a special focus on biodiversity & global changes. Celebrating our living planet together! 💙💚🌍 #Gaia Illustrations (c) Glynn Gorick

🌞 Glynn Gorick’s stunning artwork shows how energy flows across biological scales. A masterpiece of art and science! Glynn Gorick is celebrated for his fantastic drawings of ecological processes. His work bridges art & science of Earth’s complex systems 🌍💚💙 🧪🦤🦑 fishlarvae.org/galleries/a-...

Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The main focus of my work is the Neanderthal site of La Cotte de St Brelade. We're working with the brilliant @jerseyheritage.bsky.social to protect the site, study the artefacts & share with the public. This neat animation explains how Neanderthal people used the site. search.app?link=https%3... 🦣🏺

Avui en Jaume Terradas, fundador del @creaf.cat ret homenatge a Margalef a pàgina sencera al Diari Ara ❤️

👉Financiación absoluta menor que 2009 (IPC?) 👉Costes extras por reducción horas/profesor en LOSU (2023/24) no asumidos 👉Aumento en 2025 del 0,9% vs 5,84% en 2024 👉Universidades piden +45M€ (vs 5,5M) para sobrevivir, 200M para igualar a 2009 👉Madrid financia un 0,4% PIB, lejos del 1% PIB obligatorio

I spent the last five summers sharing the infamous mediterranean heat with 15 species of thistles that flower at that somewhat absurd time of year, seeking to understand (something about) their thermal ecology. Here are the results. I think all my sweat was worth it. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

A worth read

Contrasting Patterns of Genetic Diversity in European Mammals [including humans] in the Context of Glacial Refugia www.mdpi.com/2981296 #mdpidiversity via @DiversityMdpi

Ancient humans were so good at surviving the last ice age they didn’t have to migrate like other species – new study theconversation.com/ancient-huma... via @ConversationUK

Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals www.nature.com/articles/s41...