Iñigo Rubio López

Our new study: Species Richness Gradients Vary Across Phylogenetic Scales led by Antonin Machac and David Storch now published in GEB.

We show that species richness gradients in young clades differ, whereas older clades converge on similar gradients.

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

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our first QESIG meeting yesterday! 💫

Such a warm and friendly start to this new community. 🔗

Special thanks to @ondrejmottl.bsky.social for the idea and to Bryan Novio for co-organizing. 👥

Can’t wait for the next meetup! 🌱✨

I learned a lot from the sessions on version control, reproducibility, functional programming & project management—fundamental skills for any researcher. I also really enjoyed the evolutionary part, which was especially relevant to my thesis. #SSoQE

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Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology

Thanks for sharing—would love to read it! Could you send me a pdf?

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¿Y si te dijera que hay un mundo "invisible" bajos tus pies, lleno de animales que nadie ve pero que lo sostienen todo?🔍
Mi tesis va de ellos: la meiofauna. 🪱🦂

¡Te lo cuento en este hilo!🧵

#HiloTesis
@crueuniversidades.bsky.social
@filarramendi.bsky.social

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Hona hemen azken egunetan aurkitu dituzuen sugeen mapa. Anima zaitez parte hartzera!!! 🐍

 #sugebizi

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🐸🦎 Eskoletako urmaelen Sareko V. topaketak urmaeletako erabilera didaktikoak jarri du azpimarra

https://www.aranzadi.eus/eu/eskoletako-urmaelen-sareko-topaketak-urmaeletako-erabilera-didaktikoak

Microplastic ingestion by deep‐pelagic crustaceans and fishes A size-selective loss of smaller microplastics (< 1 mm) from surface pelagic waters has been reported, yet few surveys have studied biological ingestion by deep-pelagic organisms as a sink for the “m....

Sobering... fish and crustaceans that live deeper are ingesting more #microplastics than those closer to the surface 🌐🧪https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lno.12370

Lateral macro view of the Solenopsis minor worker attached to the hawk moth’s antenna. Source: Figure 2. of Sánchez Albert et al. 2025 Author: A. Sánchez Albert

An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️

We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️

Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6

Infographic made to spread the word about these ant antagonistic interactions. It says: Call for data! Hunting for hidden ant(agonistic) interactions. Have you seen an ant biting other animal? They can be anywhere? Collaboration is needed to gather sufficient data! Data describing this species interactions is hard to get! Posible sources are: (1) specimens held at Natural History Museums, (2) Photographs of live interactions and (3) Unknow bibliographic reports. Contact me to sanchezalbertadrian@gmail.com in case you can help!

However, many of these cases remain undescribed and are still hidden away in cabinets, drawers and literature. Unknown field observations 📷, papers 📄, books 📖, museum specimens... Everything helps!

Spread the word of these ant(agonistic) interactions! 🐜💥

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The wonderfully talented post-doc Sven Iburg, who was working with me in the last two years is seeking a new positon, pref BENELUX area. Let me know if you have any openings or suggestions! He is a true alrounder, really good both in the lab and with bioinformatics. meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/pe...

If you're looking for a high-quality workshop on quantitative #ecology, I highly recommend #SSoQE which I attended last year. Insightful, 🆓, well-structured, and practical—and definitely worth your time!

It's official - I'm organizing a field taxonomy workshop on freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna! 27 August-11 Sept, in the Lake District. We have 13 experts covering all major taxa, advanced microscopy, DNA taxonomy, sci-com, publishing. RT! Send your best!

www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Butterflies on a blue sky

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The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter

In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.

By quite a lot.

Release the Kraken...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Handy link to check out APC for different journals: apc.simon.net.nz

Pulgar_Panda

h/t @simongreenhill.bsky.social & El Pulgar del Panda

#OpenAccess #openscience

Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...

[New paper] Fundamental questions in meiofauna research.

Stimulating to see growing interest in macroecological questions in the meiofaunal field, especially in strategies to improve data quality for large-scale studies.

Check it out 👇
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

So cool 📌

Open PhD Positions PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...

Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...

Adi❗️Hona hemen orain arte #erratza -n jaso ditugun datuak.  Bagoaz aurrera pixkanaka, jarrai dezagun!

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1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

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Aquí se juntan 3 fenómenos muy actuales (y reflejo de los tiempos que vivimos a nivel intelectual e informativo) que afectan al ecologismo:
1) la conversión o reducción del animalismo en peluchismo (incluso en gatolicismo). El nombre de la sección ubica aquí la pseudonoticia.

Adi naturzaleok‼️
Beste ekimen batekin gatozkizue! Hurrengo asteetan zehar, Euskal Herriko erratzen inguruan bitxikeriak kontatzen ibiliko gara, eta, trukean, zuek #erratza horien inguruko informazio bilketan laguntzea gustatuko litzaiguke. 
Barneratu #erratza proiektuan!