Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza

Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.

Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.
If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

"Climate change made heatwaves more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed".
#ClimateChange

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟 Super excited for the research to come, using models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution and plasticity shape tipping points.
#cienciacriolla #ERCStG #ecosystems

The @erc.europa.eu awards one of this year's starting grants to Catalina Chaparro Pedraza 💪🎉

In her five-year research project PHENOTIPPING she will address the question: How does adaptation contribute to ecosystem resilience?

#ERCStG #ecosystems

I'm very honored to receive an #ERCStG to fund my research project PHENOTIPPING.

Are you interested to know how adaptation contributes to resilience? Stay tune!

In the coming 5 years, PHENOTIPPING will use models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution & plasticity shape tipping points.

International hunger watchdog faces political attacks over Gaza famine declaration Israeli government tries to discredit science underlying the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

The crisis in Gaza is now officially a famine, according to a well-respected global expert body on food insecurity.

But even before IPC released the two reports today, the Israeli military and other critics attacked the science underlying the assessments.

Anyone who still supports fossil fuels in an escalating climate crisis will not get into heaven.
Who will tell Trump?

Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

More evidence to move away from race.

Not surprising that self-identified latino ethnicity is a broad mixture of 3 ancestries: European, Native American and African. The history of European colonization in America (i.e. the whole continent), including the slavery trade, left traces in our genes.

Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are again much warmer than normal, priming Europe for more extreme heat this summer.

Read the story behind our new study published yesterday in Nature, unfiltered straight from the scientists: 🌊
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That’s not some tragedy that fell upon the world, but a totally predictable (and predicted for well over 3 decades) outcome of fossil fuel use. It must end very quickly to prevent far worse things to come.

This is a great opportunity for ECR! If you are thinking to apply and have questions, I am happy to share my experience being a #MarieCurieFellow

💰🌍 Research by Sarah Schöngart et al. shows the wealthiest 10% caused TWO-THIRDS of global warming since 1990. The top 1% have an even bigger impact on extreme weather like #heatwaves and #droughts, hitting vulnerable regions hardest.

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Very very cool work! Felicitaciones @ignacioq.bsky.social

The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty | PNAS Rates of evolution are fundamental to understand the processes that shaped the history of life. The predominant view holds that high rates of pheno...

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12