Pol Capdevila

STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...

🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social!
👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social!
📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋

Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.

Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0

a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! '' ALT: a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! ''

El 44% de los investigadores en ecología han sufrido el efecto Gollum. Ese comportamiento territorial extremo que lleva a algunos a sentir que ciertos temas o ideas les pertenecen: "mi tesoro".
44% 🤔... Poco me parece.
www.the-scientist.com/the-gollum-e...
Paper: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

O paramos temporalmente (de explotar la anguila) o se acaba para siempre
Qué gusto ver a @malbercocs.bsky.social siendo tan clara (merci, Maria!)
Esperemos que se sigan sumando gentes de las cocinas
Es importante y es urgente

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...

Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort:

royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

🚨Paper Alert🚨: Read our recent editorial led by @danigomezgras.bsky.social about novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology.

@medrecover.bsky.social @ub.edu @biologiaub.bsky.social

Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming"

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea...

#bryozoans #microbiome
@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

Novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology: Identifying and addressing knowledge gaps in ecological impacts As the climate crisis unfolds, marine heatwaves (MHWs), defined as discrete periods of anomalously high seawater temperatures, are emerging as one of the most pervasive threats to marine biodiversi...

You can read the editorial here 👇:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@polcapdevila.bsky.social
@cristinalinares.bsky.social

🎙️ and listen to a podcast episode by the guest editors here: buff.ly/wMOiYiE
🤍 thank you to @cristinalinares.bsky.social,
@polcapdevila.bsky.social and @danigomezgras.bsky.social for bringing together an exceptional Special Feature!

"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous

🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e...

@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social
@commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨

🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8

We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

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@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat

Seguimos con
@cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la
@biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions.

With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam.
📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
@irbio-ub.bsky.social

New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

Les colònies de corall vermell sobreviuen una dècada després de ser trasplantades a les illes Medes

#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes!

➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit.

Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?

🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?

We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇

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

🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects.

An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam

🌍 Demà divendres 14 de març, a les 11:30, celebrem el Dia Internacional d'Acció pels Rius amb el Sr. Davi Kopenawa a l’Aula Magna Ramon Parés. No hi falteu!

Consulta el programa complet 👉 www.ub.edu/portal/web/b...

@ub.edu @hubsg-ub.bsky.social

A framework to assess the vulnerability of islands to global changes : ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... thanks to ...

very well deserved @dansmale1.bsky.social !!!