Maria Sampere, the painter's wife

Grape harvester

The young newsboy in the glow of early dawn

Self-portrait

On this day, in 1877, was born Francesc Pausas in Barcelona. Pausas, a pupil of Joaquin Sorolla, was a painter mostly specialised in portraits. He worked primarily in Catalonia, New York and Cuba. For more info of my great-granduncle:
www.uv.es/jgpausas/fra...
blog.museunacional.cat/en/maria-sam...

Para los que estéis en Valencia el 22/4, esta es una buena oportunidad de aprender de @jgpausas.bsky.social uno de los mayores expertos en Ecología del fuego, antes de que, con el verano, vuelvan los grandes incendios y, con ellos, los incendiólogos a saturar los medios.

¡Nuevo término!

#Desbiologización: abolición de principios biológicos básicos en su trato con el mundo natural. Negación de lo biológico en lo viviente no humano. @cmhmaliani.bsky.social

#RAE @significadode.bsky.social @wordmeaningdic.bsky.social #lengua #linguistics

It would be better if you could provide a proper link in addition to the QR code. For many, clicking a link is much easier than finding a way to scan a QR code, as not everyone always has a smartphone at hand.

Dimecres 22 #EspaiCiència @octubreccc.bsky.social @iec.cat #BardeCiències amb @jgpausas.bsky.social i @socreisjuan.bsky.social una oportunitat única de dialogar amb un dels màxims especialistes mundials en incendis forestals. @ucciuv.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es @revistametode.bsky.social @acpv.cat

Disculpad, pero este mapa tiene más de 160 años!

Map of Europe by Eugène Cortambert, 1894
#maps #cartography #gis #histsci

Nice to be back in the WTREX, this time in Spain, with participants from S, C & N America: #WTREX 2026 Quijota

I could only be there for 1 day, but enough to see the great WTREX work & team building

Thanks, GEACAM @infocam.bsky.social @fiap.gob.es etc

#WTREXQuijota #RXFire #quemas 🔥🌳🔥🍁♀️ #equity

Picture of a pen and pencils handcrafted from wild olive (Olea africana) in a container made of African rosewood

Now you need to do the box!

This was a gift I received once in South Africa.

Si andáis por Valencia no deberíais perderos esto😊👇

LAST CALL to join the Global Sumud Flotilla mission to break the illegal siege on Gaza

⚓️ Are you a captain? Apply here: registration.globalsumudflotilla.org

🌊 Not a captain? You can still fuel the boats: globalsumudflotilla.org/donate

@freedomflotilla.bsky.social @freedomflotillafr.bsky.social

🔥 Fire, savannas & global change — join us April 28 for a live webinar featuring @sallyarchibald.bsky.social exploring fire ecology, savanna ecosystems, and earth-system feedbacks. A conversation you won't want to miss! 🌿

🇮🇱La iniciativa ciudadana para romper el acuerdo de asociación UE-Israel supera el millón de firmas.

📷 @aminguito.bsky.social 

https://elsal.to/47415

UN experts condemn Israel’s unprecedented bombing in Lebanon after ceasefire announcement, demand immediate halt to hostilities GENEVA — UN experts* today condemned Israel’s illegal aggression and indiscriminate bombing campaign against Lebanon on 8 April, only hours after a ceasefire agreement was brokered by Pakistan between...

Los expertos de Naciones Unidas piden que se suspenda la transferencia de armamento a Israel ante sus sistemáticas violaciones de los Derechos Humanos. Israel existe gracias a las Naciones Unidas. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I don't think the bark ignited; flames and smoke may have reached that high. I think it was intense enough to kill the stem of most trees

Pinar con jaras

Cistus ladanifer & Pinus pinaster, seedlings
Larouco fire (8/2025), Galicia, Spain
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire

Botany details

🪴🌱🌾🌿 #botany #PlantBiology

Ahhhh! No ho sabia, gràcies!

Portada del libro: "Sabios paisajes: Naturaleza y cultura campesina del Bierzo a través de las estacions", editorial A Morteira

¡Qué título más interesante!
Gracias por el regalo, @luzvalbuena.bsky.social

🧪🌍💙📚 #Bierzo #libros #naturaleza #paisaje #rural

Burned landscape: The shrublands (left) burned at high intensity but became low intensity (surface fire) when reaching the beech forest (right) due to its lower flammability.

Burned landscape: The shrublands (front) burned at high intensity but the fire became low-intensity (surface fire) when reaching the beech forest (back).

Fagus sylvatica (beech) forest that burned in a low-intensity surface fire, but probably with high-severity effects (the trunk of many beech trees is likely to die; we will be sure in a few weeks)

Another novel disturbance: fire affecting beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests. It burned at low intensity (surface fire), but it is likely to have high-severity effects.

Barniedo fire 8/2025, Riaño, León, Spain
🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴🌱 wildfire

Fire-embracers possess higher shoot flammability, lower litter flammability and a more acquisitive strategy than fire-tolerators in Pinus yunnanensis Plants in fire-prone environments have evolved traits to survive recurrent fires. Some traits enable plants to survive under crown fires (fire-embrace…

Fire-embracers possess higher shoot flammability, lower litter flammability and a more acquisitive strategy than fire-tolerators in Pinus yunnanensis

Dachuan Dai, @jgpausas.bsky.social, Xinglei Cui et al.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@octubreccc.bsky.social

La propera setmana, dimecres 22 a les 19h, @socreisjuan.bsky.social i jo parlem d'incendis forestals a l'@octubreccc.bsky.social, València, amb motiu de la nova edició del llibre www.uv.es/jgpausas/inc...

@cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🌱 wildfires

* skiing area

View of the El Morredero sky area that burned in the Llamas de Cabrera wildfire (Aug 2025), León, Spain

It is uncommon to see a sky area affected by a wildfire! Climate change is making it possible. The environmental consequences of those fires are little known.
El Morredero (1,700-2100 m), Llamas de Cabrera fire, Aug 2025, León, Spain (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

El Consejo de Investigación Científica del Gobierno de Líbano ha estimado que entre el 2 de marzo y el 7 de abril, los ataques de Israel han destruido cerca de un millar de casas AL DÍA en todo el territorio libanés

A resprout of Quercus ilex and seedlings of Cistus ladanifer, after a recent fire

Encinar con jaras

The coexistence of seeders and resprouters
(Cistus ladanifer seedlings, Quercus ilex resprout)

IF Molezuelas 8/2025, León, Spain
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire

Ranunculus cf. nigrescens (?) in a burned area. General view

Ranunculus cf. nigrescens (?) in a burned area

Flower of Ranunculus cf. nigrescens (?) with an insect (pollinator)

Flower of Ranunculus cf. nigrescens (?) with an insect (pollinator; hymenoptera)

Lots of Ranunculus cf. nigrescens (?) in some of the pine woodlands burned in Molezuelas fire (8/2025), Leon, Spain. They maintain the population of pollinators in the burned area.

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🌱🪰🐝 #botany wildfire #pollinators #plantscience

A resprout of Quercus ilex and seedlings of Cistus ladanifer, after a recent fire

Encinar con jaras

The coexistence of seeders and resprouters
(Cistus ladanifer seedlings, Quercus ilex resprout)

IF Molezuelas 8/2025, León, Spain
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire

Interessant ... no deien "No al foc" o "Prohibit fer foc", sinó que sigueu prudents!! Sembla un missatge més madur ...

Old and hollowed chestnut (Castanea sativa) burned in Aug 2025, with a resprout (on the right side). Las Médulas, El Bierzo, Spain

Resilience

Old and hollowed Castanea sativa (chestnut) resprouing after the 'Las Medulas' fire (Aug 2025), El Bierzo, Spain

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🌱 wildfire