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Leonardo Platania
@ilplataleo.bsky.social
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PhD
Research assistant at Institut Botanic de Barcelona
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social

I am interested in #insect #evolution and #biogeography, islands, and diversification dynamics.

#entomology #taxonomy
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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Nov 15
Just arrived here! I hope for a social where I can comfortably share and talk about #science and the #natural world avoiding toxic and unpleasant contaminations.

I will post my last two posts from X just to have something on my profile.

#freedom
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calyptrochaeta.bsky.social
¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social
Fruiting 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 by the Tormes in Barco de Ávila, Spain. With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_hispanicus.jpg Author: Xemenendura (2018/07/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Flowering 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 in Valverde del Camino, Spain. Image downloaded from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_telonensis_en_flor.jpg Author: FRANCISCOR (2014/04/15). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴 leaves, Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Islands, Spain. With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_viscosus_02.jpg Author: Syrio (2023/10/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. in GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-03.
April 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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ibb-botanic.bsky.social
Pep Serra @serradiaz.bsky.social del IBB ha participado en un estudio de #darkdiversity que muestra que las regiones afectadas por la actividad humana albergan solamente 1/5 de las especies vegetales potenciales
April 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
New Paper!
Amazing fluorescent patterns in terrestrial #crabs from the forests of #Borneo!

In this field note, we review fluorescence in #Decapoda and discuss possible biological meanings, focusing on our bornean species.

link: ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/btp....

@biotropica.bsky.social
In this field note, we review fluorescence in #Decapoda and discuss its possible biological meaning focusing on our bornean species.
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
An amazing finding from collegues and friends!
A butt-termite face fly larva!

Another extraordinary story about adaptation.

#evolution #mimicry #behaviour #entomology

@rogervilalab.bsky.social
@phylomigrationlab.bsky.social
ibb-botanic.bsky.social Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Feb 11
🍑 The back end of these fly larvae mimics both the shape and scent of termites to infiltrate into their nests

@ibb-botanic.bsky.social contributes to this study led by @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social that raises many questions about adaptive evolution and interspecies communication 🔽
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
romansapino.bsky.social
🧬📢New bioinformatics approach using metagenomic sequences to detect pathogenic bacterial species in Iberian desman feces. A promising tool for wildlife health monitoring & species conservation! We hope you find it interesting!
🤓👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦦 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
Today was the last day of this interesting course.
It is always cool to learn new things!

#nichemodeling #sdm #biomod2
irbio-ub.bsky.social Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · Dec 11
📢 Avui comença el curs "Introducción al modelado del Nicho Ecológico" (11-13 des. 2024), organitzat per la SGR ZooSysEvo @marnedo.bsky.social i el doctorat en Biodiversitat, amb la instrucció de l'investigador Fernando Martínez-Freiría del CIBIO/InBIO (Portugal). 🌍🔗 sites.google.com/view/fmartin...
December 13, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
fonamental.bsky.social
‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina
‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina
One year into President Javier Milei's presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
An interesting issue about a hot topic!!

#microevolution #macroevolution
jevbio.bsky.social Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Dec 3
Our December issue is now online! A special issue Guest Edited by @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social, Theo Gaboriau and Thibault Latreille:

Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms

ow.ly/LHol50UjJql

Artwork by Alberto Garcia Jimenez
Volume 37 Issue 12 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
ow.ly
December 5, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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landismj.bsky.social
Here's the second starter pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists: go.bsky.app/j5DX3f

Link to first starter pack: go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Follow these inspirational folks to support the next generation of evolutionary biologists #evobio

Out of time for now! Will add more names this weekend
Screen shot of starter pack image
December 3, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
noemiehevin.bsky.social
Our article on the evolution of Apollo butterflies just got published in @ssbbulletin.bsky.social 🦋 We investigate how using total-evidence dating with the two Parnassiinae fossils reshapes their age and historical biogeography. 🌍 @cnrs.bsky.social #ISEM #evolution
👉 doi.org/10.18061/bss...
Original illustrations of the two fossils belonging to Parnassiinae. Illustrations of †Doritites bosniaskii on the left were made by Rebel (1898), and illustrations of †Thaites ruminiana on the right were made by Scudder (1875)
December 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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ibb-botanic.bsky.social
We are looking for a candidate for a 2-year postdoc position at IBB

Focus areas: fossils, insect-plant interactions, evolution and 3D reconstructions 🪲🌿

Deadline: Dec 15.

Please apply or share! Full details below 👇
davidperis.bsky.social David Peris @davidperis.bsky.social · Nov 28
🚨Seeking for early postdocs at #LabPaleoecology from the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

Please spread it among your interested contacts

Please DM if any doubt

#postdoc #paleontology #fossil #insects #plants #paleoecology #evolution #ecosystems
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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xcsci.bsky.social
"Common misconceptions of speciation", nice! I have to read this, definitely will use this image!

academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
A cool and useful list to find Natural Science starter packs!
blahttodea.bsky.social georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 11
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:12 AM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
Remembering the cool moments from last year, I want to share this shot of the entrance to a Lepidotrigona nest.

#entomology #borneo #bees #stinglessbees
Remembering the cool moments from last year, I want to share this shot of the entrance to a Lepidotrigona nest.
November 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
mariodosreis.bsky.social
Our paper on Bayesian selection of relaxed clock models is out in Systematic Biology! This is the work of our PhD student Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, in collaboration with Lucas Freitas from Brazil.
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-clock Models: Distinguishing Between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates
Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
irishrainforest.bsky.social
Ask yourself: why are dog owners obliged to licence and control their pets, while cat owners aren't?

Because cats only kill vast numbers of 'mere' wildlife, and not livestock (ie human property).
irishrainforest.bsky.social Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Nov 20
Killer kitties: a reminder that cats play a major role in wiping out wildlife. How?

By killing literally *billions* of native animals every year, driving numerous extinctions. 🌍

Cats are NOT 'part of nature'. If you must have one, keep it indoors.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk
The first study to quantify what our felines eat on a global scale finds they have a significant impact on wildlife
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
m-b-petersen.bsky.social
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
mikeyoungacademy.dk
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 AM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
It's amazing to look at how complex and unexpected the ecological interactions can be.

#Naturgemälde #pollination
joannabagniewska.com Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Nov 20
Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸
a) Ethiopian wolf lapping nectar from a Kniphofia foliosa inflorescence; (b) nectar foraging in a large K. foliosa field of the Web Valley, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia; (c) deposition of a relatively large pollen load on the wolf's muzzle; (d) female adult (left) and female subadult (right) Ethiopian wolves foraging together for K. foliosa nectar. Picture credits: Adrien Lesaffre.
November 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
Just an Anthribidae contemplating the landscape of #Barcelona from a window at @ibb-botanic.bsky.social some days ago...

Maybe curious about #science?

#entomology #coleoptera
#weevil #insects #weevilwednesday
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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sarammendes.bsky.social
🔥 Paper in Science🔥

We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍

#seeddispersal

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis
Seed dispersal is crucial for ecosystem persistence, especially in fragmented landscapes, such as those common in Europe. Ongoing defaunation might compromise effective seed dispersal, but the conserv...
www.science.org
November 14, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
ibb-botanic.bsky.social
Sabies que la vegetació d’un cementiri no és aleatòria? 💀🌿Aprofitant les darreres sortides al cementiri de Montjuïc organitzades per l' @ibb-botanic.bsky.social
i #CementirisDeBarcelona
obrim les càpsules de #BotànicaFunerària ⚰️
November 19, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
jennmchenry.bsky.social
Pinning the EcoEvo job board so I’ll no longer have a reason to revisit the blue bird website.

🚨📌
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 PM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
Cool talk today at @ibb-botanic.bsky.social
about #genomics of #Coralreefs from #Micronesia by
David Combosch from Guam University
November 19, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Leonardo Platania
carbonick.bsky.social
*Don’t trade off #carbon for #biodiversity*
The scientific consensus is clear: we cannot address climate change by industrialising the biosphere. #Climate solutions must protect ecosystem integrity and support biodiversity, not compromise them for carbon gains.🌎 theconversation.com/the-climate-...
The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other
In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.
theconversation.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:54 PM
ilplataleo.bsky.social
Looking for it but didn't find anything.

A starter for #biogeography to easily connect biogeographers in bsky!

Link
go.bsky.app/FjrZgr6

Ask with a comment to be included or suggest other profiles!
November 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM