Starting a 6-month secondment at @mncn-csic.bsky.social (🇪🇸).

Super glad to be joining @jhortal.bsky.social and his amazing team to advance our project #MarineGaps.

Had a great time at the @lifewatcheric.bsky.social #BEeS2025 conference! It was a pleasure to present the L.A.N.A. framework and receive such positive feedback. Looking forward to sharing more details officially soon.

Thanks to everyone involved in making it happen!

Last week I visited the Center for Marine Studies (UFPR), Brazil 🇧🇷, to share recent works on marine LDG, sampling bias and some ongoing projects.

It was so nice to return to this place full of good memories and catch up with old friends 😁.

A fun fact about Torres (RS): These cliffs are made of basalt from the Serra Geral Group, ancient lava flows that covered parts of South America and Africa when Gondwana began to break apart.

Heading south: sampling in Torres (RS), where the last rocky shores of Brazil’s southern coast can be seen. From there, it’s hundreds of kilometres of almost continuous sandy beach all the way to Uruguay.
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Also note the strong algal bloom in the water.

Quick stop in Laguna (SC), my hometown, to watch the traditional mullet fishing done with the help of local bottlenose dolphins.

Fieldwork is underway in southern Brazil, where I'm sampling eDNA with @marciakurtz.bsky.social for the 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒𝑖𝑜𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 survey, an international effort led by @jnmscience.bsky.social.
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During the first week, we worked along the stunning Santa Catarina coast.

We used two null models, testing different range size frequency distributions and species origination locations, while keeping sampling effort aligned with empirical data. The effects of sampling bias were clearly evident in richness patterns, latitudinal gaps, and sample coverage.

Just reached >1,000 records on iNaturalist, with many already contributing to GBIF. I've recorded at least 850 species so far—likely more, as some records are still unidentified. It's so great to be able to keep track of these sightings!
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Here are just a few examples...