Os morcegos non son cegos: teñen ollos plenamente funcionais e unha visión adaptada á noite.
Coñece máis no novo episodio de Desmontando Mitos da man de Javier Iglesias, director do Museo de Historia Natural da
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Huge congratulations to Andrés Baselga, who has just been promoted to Full Professor of Zoology at Univ. Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal
Yesterday we enjoyed his talk - from collecting beetles as a teen to developing methods for studying biodiversity.
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Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.
We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English.
Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano.
Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽
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We have developed a new methodological framework to measure biodiversity.
We focus on the uniqueness (or singularity) of biological communities and apply it to the GBF 30x30 target.
If you only have 4:35 min, check the visual abstract to know a little bit more about it ☺️:
youtu.be/dHMBhVJ8dns?...
Esta semana os IPs @andresbaselga.bsky.social e #C.Gómez-Rodriguez imparten “Código para biólogos: introdución a R” Curso da #UniversidadeDeVerán no que guiarán aos asistentes na aprendizaxe de R desde as bases ata a súa aplicación no ámbito da bioloxía. @biogeography-usc.bsky.social @usc.gal
And we’re off!
The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail.
This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible
CRETUS organiza 3 cursos da #UniversidadeDeVerán:
🧫A bioloxía das pequenas e grandes cousas 10-12/06
⚗️Química, a ciencia que envolve a nosa vida 10-12/06
🐛Código para biólogos: introdución a R 01-05/09
#JesusRomalde, #LIDSA, @biogeography-usc.bsky.social #FondosEuropeos
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Un fin de semana de rabia y preocupación nos ha hecho componer una especie de himno en defensa de la naturaleza gallega, un Altri NON apelando a la emoción. Sumando narrativas, estilos y voluntades contra un proyecto que no debe ver la luz
youtu.be/tzb6GbHdVzQ?...
#AltriNon #fernandovalladares
Video del Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” de la @usc.gal
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Hemos creado un Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” en la @usc.gal.
El objetivo es facilitar la iniciación en R al alumnado de Biología Ambiental, especialmente al interesado en los estudios de diversidad biológica.
Y ya tenemos un par de videos!
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University Departments and Faculties of the three Universities in the region have formally endorsed the “Open Letter (Manifesto) Against Altri”, after holding official internal votes.
This extraordinary alignment represents a historic act of collective academic dissent.
Official Endorsements 👇🏽
The scientific community working in environmental and natural sciences has taken an unprecedented, united stand against a new macro-scale pulp mill in NW Spain. We voted against
However, the regional government gave its green light last week.
The scientists’ manifest:
www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
Our article on the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity in leaf beetles has been assigned to an issue in @ecography.bsky.social
Paper:
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Visual abstract in YouTube (with Abril's cute narration ☺️):
youtu.be/8ALxwQ2e5-E?...
🪱 O grupo Biodiversidade, Bioxeografía e Conservación Integrativa (BiBiCI), vinculado ao @cretus.usc.gal, acaba de rematar un estudo de catro décadas sobre as lesmas do xénero Arion na Península e Baleares.
O estudo contou cunha mostraxe de 5.000 exemplares.
🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
Investigadores de CRETUS do grupo @biogeography-usc.bsky.social publican un exhaustivo estudo sobre as lesmas Arion da Península Ibérica e as Illas Baleares e ademais describen dúas novas especies para a ciencia! 👏 👏@andresbaselga.bsky.social #C.Gómez-Rodriguez
If you are interested, you can purchase it here (Servicio de Publicaciones de la @usc.gal):
libros.usc.gal/gl/categoria...
@culturausc.bsky.social
Fresh off the press! 📚
Our book about Arion is finally here!
With the revision of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, the description of two new species and numerous plates with drawings and photographs.
Not for a quick read (almost 400 pages) but definitely interesting! :-)
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@usc.gal @adegagz.bsky.social @ulloaviva.bsky.social @ecologistasenaccion.org @ecoloxistasenaccion.gal
Our students are great! Look what they made!
The Biology building looks cool and it also shows that we are against the project of a huge paper mill in Galicia. It will be a disaster for biodiversity.
#AltriNON
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Nuestra facultad viste sus mejores galas contra Altri. Obra de arte del alumnado 🙌🏽
Very rapid #thermophilization & #xerophilisation of grassland #plant #communities 🌾🌼🍀🌸in the California Floristic Province #CFP attributed to #climate #change ⬇️ An important study relying on both field surveys & long-term experiments ⬇️ Congrats to Kai Zhu & team
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Today, is the 216th anniversary of the birth of Charles #Darwin, a day to celebrate Darwin, natural selection and #evolution.
Let's celebrate with a bit of (much needed) music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7N...
Happy #DarwinDay!!!
We are very happy to be part of #CIGUSNetwork!
🪲 Biodiversity at @cretus.usc.gal
cigus.gal/en/
“The CIGUS Network comprises 10 research centres. It’s a superstructure promoted by the Autonomous Government to strengthen and boost excellence in university research and drive progress in Galicia.”
CRETUS súmase á conmemoración do #11F Día Internacional da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia e aproveita a ocasión para destacar o talento científico feminino que ten! @usc.gal #11F #11F2025 #mujeryciencia #mullereseciencia
Happy #11F everyone! 🎉👩🔬
To celebrate, we’ve added a transcript of Carola’s talk on Maternity & Academia to our website—for those who prefer a quick read over a video.
Check it out here, along with the video of her invited talk at WISE 2020
www.biogeography-usc.org/carola_wise....
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Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!
💡 Hoy comparto con ilusión una entrevista que me hicieron en El Progreso a raíz del premio RAGC-UIE para jóvenes investigadores. 💡
www.elprogreso.es/articulo/a-c...
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