Salva Duran-Nebreda

"The many ways toward punctuated evolution" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... by @sduran-nebreda.bsky.social, @svalver.bsky.social et al.

An illustration of Punctuated Evolution across scales and systems. This is a redrawing from the article "The many ways toward punctuated evolution" at the Journal of Palaeontology. It shows PE in real data from genes (in viruses, bacteria and oncology) to ecosystems (paleoecology). The authors are Salva Duran-Nebreda, Blai Vidiella, Andrej Spiridonov, Niles Eldredge, Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley, & Sergi Valverde.

Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant #adaptation?

Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated #evolution across scales—from genes to #ecosystems & our planet.

Our new collaboration at doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Shell Constraints on Evolutionary Body Size–Limb Size Allometry Can Explain Morphological Conservatism in the Turtle Body Plan Turtle body size and limb size scale nearly isometrically along the group's evolution, although major deviations are only seen in highly specialized ecological or morphological groups. The evolution ...

My PhD student Guilherme Hermanson & I have a new paper out today in Ecology & Evolution! 🐢🤩

We think the morphologically conservative body plan of turtles can in part be explained by allometric constraints imposed by the shell. Thread 👇 for some highlights

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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🦠 Minimal Membranes for Minimal Cells 🦠! In our latest preprint, we introduce an approach to minimize and tune lipidome composition in mycoplasma and the Minimal Cell JCVI-Syn3A. tinyurl.com/53235uzt #Lipidtime @jcvi.bsky.social

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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in scien...

Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia.
My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for
PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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A starter pack for researchers interested in #ComplexSystems. Complex system science investigates how interactions among multiple parts lead to collective behaviour, as well as how the system interacts and forms links with its environment - please add your name!

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wow there are nearly 6,000 starter packs on the Bluesky starter pack directory now

something for every taste

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Landsat-8 image of the current flood in Valencia (Spain), from The European Space Agency

Flooding in Valencia: +200 fatalities
Causes:
- of the intense storm: the Mediterranean Sea has been unusually warm for months
- of the disaster: poor urban planning & delayed warnings
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/11/01/l...

Intensity & severity are different things! doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
#disaster

Starting my Bluesky life by resharing this six-day time lapse movie of Dictyostelium discoideum we took a few years ago.