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@xabilopalf.bsky.social

Marine Microbial Ecology 🔬 at the @icmcsic.bsky.social 💻 🧬 Virus Bioinformatics 📊 Omic-data Analysis Resque Diver | Night & Nitrox diver || (he/him)

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Unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the western Mediterranean linked to climate change revealed | Institut de Ciències del Mar A team led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has described a sustained and unprecedented decrease in the abundance of marine viruses in the northwestern Mediterranean over the last two de...

A press note on our latest study has been released (select the language in the web)

📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.

🗞️ Read the full press release here:

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

04.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same patterns to those we've been observing in the mediterranean sea! Decrease in the overalll chlorophyll-a values

21.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What a week in @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona! 🔬🧬

🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!

🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊

#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology

13.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Complex transcriptional regulations of a hyperparasitic quadripartite system in giant viruses infecting protists - Nature Communications Giant viruses infecting protists can be hyperparasitized by virophages, and carry mobile DNA elements called transpovirons. Here, Bessenay et al. analyze the transcriptional program of this complex qu...

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

30.11.2024 16:16 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1
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GitHub - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir: GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir

🏆The GAMANN-vir code is now open-source for the community!🏆

This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).

github.com/xabilopalf/G...

09.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long-term decline of marine viruses associated with warming and oligotrophication at a NW Mediterranean coastal site Abstract. Viruses play key roles in controlling microbial abundance and community composition, nutrient cycling, and productivity in marine systems. Rising

#NewPaperAlert in @isme-microbes.bsky.social

🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social

📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

09.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Group pic SAME18!

01.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 37    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 2
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Arqueologies queer (Presencial) Gènere, sexualitat i materialitats des de la prehistòria fins a la modernitat

@putomikel.bsky.social i Enrique Moral de Eusebio ens parlaran d’arqueologia queer; entenent-la no només com un nou enfocament del passat, sinó també com una interpel·lació als discursos que hem produït històricament i al lloc des d’on s’han enunciat.

www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...

05.12.2024 10:49 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

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