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Antonio J. Castro

@antoniojcastro.bsky.social

Full Prof University of #Almeria | #Drylands lover🌵| Social-Ecological Systems 🌍 | PI #SociECOSLab — — SociECOS Lab: https://sociecos.ual.es/

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What an inspiring day at the PhD defense of Dr. Irene Otamendi Urroz at the #SociECOSLab. She delivered an outstanding presentation, showcasing rigorous and up-to-date evidence on how to operationalize the concept of #BioculturalDiversity in research and practice.

Congratulations, Irene!

28.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Relatores de la ONU califican los archivos del caso Epstein como posibles delitos contra la humanidad

Relatores de la ONU califican los archivos del caso Epstein como posibles delitos contra la humanidad dozz.es/1fita3

16.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 406    🔁 240    💬 15    📌 9
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

14.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 11911    🔁 3591    💬 146    📌 470
Investigadores de la UAL impulsan la restauración de arrecifes de coral | Ideal El grupo SociECOs participa en el proyecto internacional SeaSTRONG, que mapea la conectividad espacial de ecosistemas

Nuestro grupo #SociECOSLab participa en el proyecto internacional #SeaSTRONG, que mapea la conectividad espacial de ecosistemas marinos como los arrecifes de coral y manglares en las Islas Fiji y Seychelles.

www.ideal.es/almeria/ual/...

11.02.2026 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Las plantas podrían absorber menos CO₂ del que creíamos: un estudio internacional obliga a revisar los modelos climáticos Un estudio con participación española revela que los modelos climáticos sobreestiman un 50 % la fijación de nitrógeno, reduciendo un 11 % el efecto fertilizante del CO₂

🔍❔ Un estudio internacional revela que los modelos climáticos sobreestiman >50% la fijación natural de nitrógeno, reduciendo un 11% la capacidad real de las plantas para absorber CO₂ 🌍🌱

www.plataformatierra.es/innovacion/p...

#CambioClimático #Sostenibilidad #ModelosClimáticos #Ecosistemas

23.01.2026 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

22.01.2026 03:47 — 👍 7351    🔁 2369    💬 141    📌 89
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How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...

There is much to be done, at all levels.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

18.01.2026 12:14 — 👍 89    🔁 49    💬 2    📌 2
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NEW PROJECT WEBSITE!

Check out the brand new website for my project "The Salmon and the Tomato"!

thesalmonandthetomato.org

The project focuses on salmon farming and tomato greenhouses to highlight the social-ecological impacts of food supply chains.

#food #foodsystem #environment #exploitation

15.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

14.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 347    🔁 223    💬 5    📌 24
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La brecha de renta entre caseros e inquilinos es brutal.

El mercado del alquiler está destrozando nuestra sociedad: redistribuye renta de quienes menos tienen hacia quienes más riqueza concentran, cada vez en mayor medida.

El alquiler es una fábrica de desigualdad.

14.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 680    🔁 536    💬 22    📌 40
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Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone | Documentary Pulled by BBC Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

Watch it here (permalink) azrcollective.com/media/docume...

23.02.2025 23:12 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Unstable bridges—exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance - Sustainability Science Social-ecological systems increasingly face polarization dynamics that challenge environmental governance. Such polarization implies the development of opposing narratives with limited interaction, ea...

New publication out where we:

✅ combine network and narrative analyses of the solutions for eutrophication
✅ identify solutions as bridges between divergent narratives
✅ explore solutions as unstable bridging spaces

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

18.12.2025 11:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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El grupo RNM933 - #SociECOSLab investiga cómo lograr sociedades en #equilibrio con la #naturaleza y adaptarse al #CambioClimático 🌍⚠️, integrando #ConservacióndelaBiodiversidad, #ValoraciondeServiciosEcosistémicos, #IAenAgrícultura y #PlanificaciónUrbanaSostenible🌱🤝👥

24.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024.

A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

12.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 6191    🔁 1433    💬 216    📌 124
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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, and all @islandpress.bsky.social e-books, is on sale for $6.99 through 12/19.
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2

13.12.2025 22:36 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2
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La paradójica transformación verde europea: eliminamos combustibles fósiles, pero abrimos minas

La paradójica transformación verde europea: eliminamos combustibles fósiles, pero abrimos minas dozz.es/hlht24

02.12.2025 07:02 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Arranca semana con acento gallego: el 3 charla en el CEIDA (A Coruña) y taller el 4 sobre comunicación de la crisis climática. Por la tarde a Gondomar inaugurar exposición infografías de puntos de inflexión climáticos hechas por Academia Ilustraciencia con mi apoyo
www.ceida.org/gl/formacion...

01.12.2025 08:34 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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The mystery of emerald green — cracked ‘Emerald’ or ‘Paris’ green was once a highly popular pigment among painters, but the chemistry behind its slow decay over time has been unclear.

‘Emerald’ or ‘Paris’ green was once a highly popular pigment among painters, but the chemistry behind its slow decay over time has been unclear

go.nature.com/4paYhqU

01.12.2025 15:38 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Lo hemos leído está genial 👍 #carlosfresneda #GenteAPIA #CongresoAPIA

28.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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25N 2025. El precio del conocimiento: recordar a las mujeres que dejaron la vida por la ciencia En el Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres 25N, recordamos también a aquellas que murieron en el ejercicio de su labor científica o técnica, en contextos donde l…

Hoy #25N, la Comisión de Igualdad de la AEET recuerda en el #BlogAEET a las mujeres que dejaron la vida por la ciencia.

blogaeet.org/2025/11/25/2...

25.11.2025 08:12 — 👍 24    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1

When women thrive, everyone benefits.

Thank you #EmpoweredWithMegRyan for having me alongside 2X Global to talk about an important topic close to my heart: financing for gender equality.

Investing in women builds a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world.

#OrangeTheWorld🧡

25.11.2025 11:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Google Scholar is trying AI, and it's not too bad: scholar.google.com/scholar_labs... I like that it mainly ranks papers by relevance (and gives a quick assessment), and let you read the actual titles, etc...

23.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now

‘News editors told me not to be too downbeat, but the facts speak for themselves’

Last post by the inestimable, much admired and even more loved Paul Brown

The climate, he observes sadly, has changed much more than politics since the first UN COP in 1995.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

21.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The contribution of rock strength to soil production - Nature Findings from a tectonically active mountain range show that soil production is driven by bottom-up rock weakening rather than by soil thickness, challenging long-held top-down models.

Nature research paper: The contribution of rock strength to soil production

go.nature.com/3K0XYzE

18.11.2025 09:08 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Nos vemos en Oleiros (A Coruña)

18.11.2025 09:29 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The next IGUE #UrbanEcology seminar will take place in three weeks' time, on 20 November at 16:30 CET. It will be delivered by @trigos-peral.bsky.social 🐜🌇 from @mizpas.bsky.social

Scan the QR to save the event in your calendar or save the link:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

27.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

08.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 1350    🔁 424    💬 14    📌 62
Los agentes forestales son observadores que ayudan a los científicos en sus trabajos de campo
YouTube video by Tierra y Mar & Espacio Protegido Canal Sur Los agentes forestales son observadores que ayudan a los científicos en sus trabajos de campo

Nuestro proyecto #CACORES financiacido por la @ageinves.bsky.social llega a su fin con resultados clave para la gestión de carnivoros en la Península Ibérica

youtu.be/bSNkjE24EUw?...

05.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Garau et al. (2025) Where nature is not so green: Exploring perceptions of urban nature in a semi-arid city - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
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28.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
An illustration of a woman walking up stairs in the back of another woman's head, with text: As a Ph.D. student, I felt unprepared to mentor—but I’m glad I took the leap

An illustration of a woman walking up stairs in the back of another woman's head, with text: As a Ph.D. student, I felt unprepared to mentor—but I’m glad I took the leap

"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29

27.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 43    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1