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Pepe Carrión

@pepecarrion.bsky.social

Paleoecologist, Quaternary pollen analysis, Naturalist, Professor of Evolutionary Botany at University of Murcia (Spain), Cat Lover, Red, Republican, Ecofeminist

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WHY BOTHER VOTING IN SPAIN? Just ask the Supreme Court, bishops, IBEX bosses, and Franco’s leftovers who should rule, who gets crushed, and who pays in silence. Keep people ignorant, the hierarchy sacred, and the cash flowing up. It’s tradition.

30.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say Researchers believe humans’ closest relatives may have stored meat from their kills for months before eating it

Neanderthals were not ‘hypercarnivores’ and feasted on maggots, scientists say www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

26.07.2025 10:05 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 4
Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

23.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 571    🔁 222    💬 20    📌 15
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The flowers of Shanidar | The Past A recent Netflix documentary, Secrets of the Neanderthals, has attracted a massive worldwide audience, and taken a major step forward in dealing with the wi ...

The flowers of Shanidar
by Charles Higham
the-past.com/comment/the-...

22.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Just finished the Spanish edition of a book I’d already read in English. Flawless translation. Solid, well-told science—no drama, no nonsense. One of the great minds behind it. Congrats, Tom. (Photo: my old grape knife, harvest-trained in 1970).

22.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Still buzzing after Parker Barrow’s wild set at #SanJavierJazz 🔥
Southern rock? More like a blast of blues, soul, metal & symphonic fire.
Megan Kane = unstoppable.

13.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A 2014 photo at the Biology faculty cafeteria (Murcia), with Encarni Montoya. She started in palynology under my distracted watch… and has long since surpassed me. Brilliant work, always humble, honest, and generous. So proud. Grande, my Encarni.

05.07.2025 06:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unique conifer assemblage from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous deposits (NE Brazil) unveils the paleoclimate and paleobiogeography in the interior of equatorial Gondwana
[Metapodocarpoxylon brasiliense sp. nov.]
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Art by Zeinner de Paula

05.02.2025 00:45 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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An oasis in Western Gondwana: A diverse Guadalupian paleoflora from South America

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

Art by Zeinner de Paula

04.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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La desvergüenza y ‘libertad de las cañitas’ contra la ciencia La lógica sostendría que para tomar buenas decisiones basta con los datos objetivos que arrojen luz sobre la cuestión en particular. Sin embargo, se

Un síntoma más de una sociedad débil y enferma que se vuelve incapaz de enfrentar realidades dificiles no es solo no escuchar las recomendaciones científicas sino que sea la desvergüenza la que lo impulse

#ciencia #fernandovalladares
elasombrario.publico.es/la-desvergue...

01.07.2025 07:29 — 👍 59    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 1
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Ariadna, one of my two artists, gave me this drawing: it brings back my childhood and the bond with Estrellica, a stray dog a friend and I once rescued. It was a tense night—we truly put ourselves at risk, as the city was rounding up dogs to be killed. That night, over 100 were saved.

27.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
cover of Mesozoic Art II, a big book

cover of Mesozoic Art II, a big book

Natalia Jagielska art, showing mid-sized theropod with pterosaurs in misty landscape.

Natalia Jagielska art, showing mid-sized theropod with pterosaurs in misty landscape.

This Friday (June 27th), 11am BST (apologies to those far to the west), join me and Dr Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social for a zoom chat about Natalia's work in the new palaeoart-themed @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social book #MesozoicArtII. Cont...

25.06.2025 09:56 — 👍 98    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1
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A closer look at yesterdays new dinosaur species, #Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, from the Morrison Formation. It is always a big thrill to be the first to reconstruct a new species.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

26.06.2025 10:22 — 👍 56    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland Beginning with the Early Aurignacian, Homo sapiens demonstrated an enhanced symbolic capacity, expanding artistic expressions from body decoration to portable art and aesthetically refined tools. Thes...

Wonderful paper by Sahra Talamo and colleagues: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

26.06.2025 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How did Spain come to be one of the few nations holding firm on aid spending? | Ana Carbajosa

26.06.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

El capitalismo siempre encuentra un sustrato favorable en la estupidez colectiva, la cual viene de serie y además es fácil de promover si tienes acceso mediático. Si encima utilizas fundamentalismos religiosos, más fácil todavía. El sentido y el bien comunes importan un carajo si no convienen.

21.06.2025 06:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Miracle" if Bournemouth retains university status after cuts, says protester Bournemouth University staff are protesting over planned job cuts in the first of four days of strike action.

Terrible times for academia. Those who enabled cuts, disrespect, and erosion of dignity—especially those in power—should be named. Their legacy is shame. If this continues, it will be a tragedy for British science. In Spain, we know the script

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2523095...

12.06.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My godmother is turning 100 this August. She has seen much, according to her too much.

09.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proud to share a profession with Juanma Rubiales — committed, generous, ego-free, and an outstanding teacher. He’s achieved his dream of becoming a university professor. An honor to have colleagues like him.

07.06.2025 07:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations, very interesting.

07.06.2025 07:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Modified Stalagmites in Cave in Spain Reveal Millennia of Human Activity - GreekReporter.com 100 modified stalagmites found in Spain’s Cova Dones cave reveal millennia of human activity at the underground site.

Modified Stalagmites in Cave in Spain Reveal Millennia of Human Activity greekreporter.com/2025/06/04/m...

06.06.2025 17:39 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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New Article: "Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations" rdcu.be/eoSkA

Marine Charophyceae fossils from the Upper Ordovician confirm that morphological innovations key to the evolution of terrestrial flora predate emergence of land plants.

31.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 60    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 0
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Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 20,000 years ago, and that those whale communities may have resembled today’s arctic waters.

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay www.nature.com/articles/s41...

27.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 34    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer
YouTube video by New Scientist Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer

How far back was our common ancestor with Neanderthals and Denisovans? [full disclosure - we dont actually know!] youtu.be/MA1cHPJPZfM

17.05.2025 11:00 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Dos investigadores de la UMU, presentes en la 19ª Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia Presentarán su obra inmersiva ‘Out of Cave’, seleccionada entre más de mil propuestas internacionales, en donde resaltan el papel de la biodiversidad en el éxito evolutivo.

Dos investigadores de la UMU, presentes en la 19ª Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia - www.murciadiario.com/articulo/dia...

17.05.2025 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Los investigadores de la UMU Gabriela Amorós y José Carrión participan en la 19ª Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia Presentarán su obra inmersiva ‘Out of Cave’, seleccionada entre más de mil propuestas internacionales, en donde resaltan el papel de la biodiversidad en el éxito evolutivo

www.um.es/web/sala-pre...

16.05.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MSCA PF 2025 UMU Hosting Offer - Environmental change and the biological and cultural evolution of Homo in the Mediterranean region during the Pleistocene

MSCA PF 2025 UMU Hosting Offer - Environmental change and the biological and cultural evolution of Homo in the Mediterranean region during the Pleistocene

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

16.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/16...

14.05.2025 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I learned to harvest grapes in 1970, aged 8, with my uncle’s hocete. There, I became a man—sweating, aching, talking. In the vineyard, camaraderie mattered more than age or origin. I miss those days, and the lessons learned from the hands of people shaped by the land.

01.05.2025 10:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nuestro académico Jesús Martínez Frías presenta su nuevo libro de ficción científica "La dimensión intangible", de la saga El Mensaje Darwin y La clave de Birmingham

🗓️ Jueves 6 de febrero, 18h, en el Planetario de Madrid

¡Enhorabuena! 👏

15.01.2025 07:45 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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