El cambio climático intensificó las lluvias torrenciales y amplió un 55% el área afectada en la dana de Valencia Un equipo de investigadores españoles determina que el calentamiento aumentó la cantidad de agua caída tres veces más de lo esperado y expandió drásticamente el área afectada: sin la acción humana, el...

ÚLTIMA HORA ‼️ Una investigación muestra que el cambio climático intensificó las lluvias torrenciales y amplió un 55% el área afectada en la dana de Valencia www.eldiario.es/1_c6452f?utm...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4q5giqz

Is DNA metabarcoding an option for formaldehyde-preserved zooplankton time series?
Short answer: it depends.
For more details including recommendations for further work check out our new preprint in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks a lot, we need to stop this, it is killing science...😔

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

It is already more than 10 years old but this open access book about the Tree of Life can still be interesting for (Spanish-speaking) people. We collaborated to write some chapters about different groups of microorganisms.
bit.ly/3tZelyx

MICROMON: DNA from micro-organisms to monitor the health of estuarine ecosystems YouTube video by AZTI

Short video about what we do in the MicroMon project hosted in @azti.bsky.social (funded by Spanish govt. and EU) with estuary microbial communities, their global biogeography, interactions, effects of environmental impacts, and their use in eDNA-based monitoring.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04y...

The answer, based on #eDNA #metabarcoding seems to be that in addition to their favourite staple, #copepods of the genera Clausocalanus, Paracalanus, Pseudocalanus and Ctenocalanus, they eat as much as 14% of other fish larvae.

Diet of European hake (Merluccius merluccius) preflexion larvae in the Atlantic through DNA metabarcoding: eating fish from the very beginning - Marine Biodiversity The diet of preflexion European hake larvae (Merluccius merluccius) in the North-Eastern Atlantic was assessed through miniCOI metabarcoding in its fishery’s Northern and Southern stocks. As previousl...

Proud to have contributed in a small way to this study, now published in Marine Biodiversity, where we ask the question that is on everybody's mind, namley

-> What do #hake (Merluccius merluccius) larvae eat? <-

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

¿Han cambiado los veranos en España?

Y tanto: aquí vemos cómo se comportaban en la década de los 80 frente a cómo lo hacen ahora.

T. diaria promedio a 850 hPa (~1500m) y su comparación con la media 1940-2025.

Las anomalías cálidas (+) son ahora más intensas, pero especialmente más persistentes.

Species in disguise: why taxonomic uncertainty matters in zooplankton monitoring.
Long-term zooplankton time-series in the ICES region are vital for tracking ecosystem change.But how reliable are the signals they provide if species are taxonomically unresolved? MORE HERE: www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼

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Taxonomic uncertainty in North Atlantic and Mediterranean zooplankton limits species-level monitoring accuracy Abstract. Taxonomic discussions often permeate the broader scientific community slowly, yet they may hold more relevance than typically assumed. In many zo

For proper monitoring of the oceans, we need to know what we have, and what we do not have. But, sometimes, it is very difficult due to taxonomic challenges. Here we review some of the major issues in the ICES and Mediterranean waters for zooplankton uncertainties
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Taxonomic uncertainty in North Atlantic and Mediterranean zooplankton limits species-level monitoring accuracy Abstract. Taxonomic discussions often permeate the broader scientific community slowly, yet they may hold more relevance than typically assumed. In many zo

Our new review paper "Taxonomic uncertainty in North Atlantic and Mediterranean zooplankton limits species-level monitoring accuracy" is available at @icesmarine.bsky.social ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Congratulations to Janna Peters & coauthors! Download it at academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

@ieo-oceanografia.bsky.social

Nuestra compañera Lidia Yebra del @ieo-malaga.bsky.social ha publicado un resumen de nuestro nuevo trabajo en Journalof Plankton Research: Know your limits; miniCOI metabarcoding fails with key marine zooplankton taxa academic.oup.com/plankt/artic...

laboratorioplancton.blogspot.com/2024/12/revi...

The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.

What is this all about?

We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.

Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵

www.economist.com/science-and-...