Isabel Ferrera
@iferrera.bsky.social
PI in Marine Microbial Ecology @IEO_Malaga. Secretary of @sibecol. Views are my own. #GenderEquality
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Very happy to share that Adrià Auladell @adriaula.bsky.social has received the ‘Exceptional Thesis Award’ from the UAB for his thesis ‘Seasonality of marine prokaryotes using taxonomic and functional diversity approaches’ co-supervised by Pep Gasol & myself 🤩🎉
July 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Very happy to share that Adrià Auladell @adriaula.bsky.social has received the ‘Exceptional Thesis Award’ from the UAB for his thesis ‘Seasonality of marine prokaryotes using taxonomic and functional diversity approaches’ co-supervised by Pep Gasol & myself 🤩🎉
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Last week we attended the Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva, organized by the @scb.iec.cat 🧫
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
July 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last week we attended the Jornades de Biologia Evolutiva, organized by the @scb.iec.cat 🧫
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
@matteoagazzi.bsky.social and @rociomozo.bsky.social did a great job presenting their advances on their coral HMW and HiC data generation and Suessiales de novo transcriptomics projects🧬🤩
Keep it up folks!☺️
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
Frente a los desafíos que enfrenta el océano, asombrarnos nos recuerda que formamos parte de algo más grande 🐳🌍
8 de junio, Día Mundial de los Océanos 🌊
"Asombrarnos para entender y proteger lo que nos sostiene"
@csic.es | @ieo.es
#WorldOceanDay2025
8 de junio, Día Mundial de los Océanos 🌊
"Asombrarnos para entender y proteger lo que nos sostiene"
@csic.es | @ieo.es
#WorldOceanDay2025
June 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Frente a los desafíos que enfrenta el océano, asombrarnos nos recuerda que formamos parte de algo más grande 🐳🌍
8 de junio, Día Mundial de los Océanos 🌊
"Asombrarnos para entender y proteger lo que nos sostiene"
@csic.es | @ieo.es
#WorldOceanDay2025
8 de junio, Día Mundial de los Océanos 🌊
"Asombrarnos para entender y proteger lo que nos sostiene"
@csic.es | @ieo.es
#WorldOceanDay2025
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
🔵 Ya en Niza, para asistir a la Tercera Conferencia de los Océanos de la ONU. Un encuentro clave para la protección de los océanos que debe estar guiado por la ciencia y la acción urgente.
Proteger los océanos es una responsabilidad compartida: los desafíos globales necesitan respuestas globales 🌊
Proteger los océanos es una responsabilidad compartida: los desafíos globales necesitan respuestas globales 🌊
June 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🔵 Ya en Niza, para asistir a la Tercera Conferencia de los Océanos de la ONU. Un encuentro clave para la protección de los océanos que debe estar guiado por la ciencia y la acción urgente.
Proteger los océanos es una responsabilidad compartida: los desafíos globales necesitan respuestas globales 🌊
Proteger los océanos es una responsabilidad compartida: los desafíos globales necesitan respuestas globales 🌊
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Very excited to share our preprint on a new resource: the Encyclopaedia of Viral Anti-Defence Systems (EVADES)! This is the main result of my PhD at EMBL-EBI (@ebi.embl.org)
and the University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n"
and the University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n"
Elucidating the mechanisms of action and evolutionary history of phage anti-defence proteins
Phages and bacteria are locked in a molecular arms race, with phage anti-defence proteins (ADPs) enabling them to evade bacterial immune systems. To streamline access to information on ADPs, we develo...
www.biorxiv.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Very excited to share our preprint on a new resource: the Encyclopaedia of Viral Anti-Defence Systems (EVADES)! This is the main result of my PhD at EMBL-EBI (@ebi.embl.org)
and the University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n"
and the University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n"
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And it's happening! Here we are at the opening ceremony of the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social .
A week to do science and community. Our best wishes to all the attendees!
A week to do science and community. Our best wishes to all the attendees!
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
And it's happening! Here we are at the opening ceremony of the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social .
A week to do science and community. Our best wishes to all the attendees!
A week to do science and community. Our best wishes to all the attendees!
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
Adrián Escudero, full of emotion, receives the ECOSISTEMAS - Luis Balaguer award.
Congrats, Adrián!
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
Congrats, Adrián!
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Adrián Escudero, full of emotion, receives the ECOSISTEMAS - Luis Balaguer award.
Congrats, Adrián!
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
Congrats, Adrián!
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
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Mario Pansera: "more science produces more innovation; more innovation, more creation; and more creation, more destruction.
Provokative and thoughful talk.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
Provokative and thoughful talk.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Mario Pansera: "more science produces more innovation; more innovation, more creation; and more creation, more destruction.
Provokative and thoughful talk.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
Provokative and thoughful talk.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
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Elena Ojea is outlining the impacts that #ClimateChange is provoking on marine ecosystems. Marine species are shifting their ranges around 60km per year! Very concerning for the mature but also for the sea-dependent human communities.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Elena Ojea is outlining the impacts that #ClimateChange is provoking on marine ecosystems. Marine species are shifting their ranges around 60km per year! Very concerning for the mature but also for the sea-dependent human communities.
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
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Microplastic contamination in bivalves from Iberian estuaries: are they sentinels for differences in pollution levels? #microplastics @ebdonana.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @ramsar.org @tourduvalat.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Microplastic contamination in bivalves from Iberian estuaries: are they sentinels for differences in pollution levels? #microplastics @ebdonana.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @ramsar.org @tourduvalat.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Josefa Antón de la @ua.es e Isabel Ferrera del @ieo.es han sido designadas miembros del Comité Científico del Mar Menor, a propuesta de la Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología.
#MIMArMEnor
@iferrera.bsky.social
#MIMArMEnor
@iferrera.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Josefa Antón de la @ua.es e Isabel Ferrera del @ieo.es han sido designadas miembros del Comité Científico del Mar Menor, a propuesta de la Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología.
#MIMArMEnor
@iferrera.bsky.social
#MIMArMEnor
@iferrera.bsky.social
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🛠✨ Sign up for the workshops of the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting!
On Monday morning, June 2nd, we will open the congress with a powerful session of practical workshops designed for you to acquire new tools, improve your methodology and connect with people who share your scientific interests.
On Monday morning, June 2nd, we will open the congress with a powerful session of practical workshops designed for you to acquire new tools, improve your methodology and connect with people who share your scientific interests.
May 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🛠✨ Sign up for the workshops of the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting!
On Monday morning, June 2nd, we will open the congress with a powerful session of practical workshops designed for you to acquire new tools, improve your methodology and connect with people who share your scientific interests.
On Monday morning, June 2nd, we will open the congress with a powerful session of practical workshops designed for you to acquire new tools, improve your methodology and connect with people who share your scientific interests.
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
ENCUESTA "SIBECOL-AEET in NUMBERS"
Iniciativa @sibecol.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social dirigida a sus miembros, con el objetivo de recopilar información sobre las condiciones laborales y la financiación en la comunidad científica ecológica.
Enlace a la encuesta: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Iniciativa @sibecol.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social dirigida a sus miembros, con el objetivo de recopilar información sobre las condiciones laborales y la financiación en la comunidad científica ecológica.
Enlace a la encuesta: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
ENCUESTA "SIBECOL-AEET in NUMBERS"
Iniciativa @sibecol.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social dirigida a sus miembros, con el objetivo de recopilar información sobre las condiciones laborales y la financiación en la comunidad científica ecológica.
Enlace a la encuesta: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Iniciativa @sibecol.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social dirigida a sus miembros, con el objetivo de recopilar información sobre las condiciones laborales y la financiación en la comunidad científica ecológica.
Enlace a la encuesta: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Nuestro congreso @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social se acerca!!!
Ayer fue la presentación a los medios en Pontevedra.
Allí nos vemos!!!
www.diariodepontevedra.es/articulo/pon...
Ayer fue la presentación a los medios en Pontevedra.
Allí nos vemos!!!
www.diariodepontevedra.es/articulo/pon...
Más de 800 expertos de 20 países debatirán sobre ecología en Pontevedra
El congreso, organizado por Sibecol y AEET, hablará sobre cambio climático, sequías y otras investigaciones sobre el medio terrestre, marino y aguas dulces. El evento también sacará la ciencia a las p...
www.diariodepontevedra.es
May 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Nuestro congreso @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social se acerca!!!
Ayer fue la presentación a los medios en Pontevedra.
Allí nos vemos!!!
www.diariodepontevedra.es/articulo/pon...
Ayer fue la presentación a los medios en Pontevedra.
Allí nos vemos!!!
www.diariodepontevedra.es/articulo/pon...
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⛰️ Friday 6 June: field trip day!
After a week of intense science, it's time to put our feet on the ground (and on the coast 🌊). The last day is dedicated to technical field trips, a unique opportunity to explore some of the most emblematic and diverse landscapes of Galicia... with a scientific eye!
After a week of intense science, it's time to put our feet on the ground (and on the coast 🌊). The last day is dedicated to technical field trips, a unique opportunity to explore some of the most emblematic and diverse landscapes of Galicia... with a scientific eye!
May 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
⛰️ Friday 6 June: field trip day!
After a week of intense science, it's time to put our feet on the ground (and on the coast 🌊). The last day is dedicated to technical field trips, a unique opportunity to explore some of the most emblematic and diverse landscapes of Galicia... with a scientific eye!
After a week of intense science, it's time to put our feet on the ground (and on the coast 🌊). The last day is dedicated to technical field trips, a unique opportunity to explore some of the most emblematic and diverse landscapes of Galicia... with a scientific eye!
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🖼️🌿 Science can also be experienced outside the halls!
During the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting you will be able to enjoy a series of parallel exhibitions that broaden the ecological view from art, narrative, activism and education.
During the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting you will be able to enjoy a series of parallel exhibitions that broaden the ecological view from art, narrative, activism and education.
May 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🖼️🌿 Science can also be experienced outside the halls!
During the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting you will be able to enjoy a series of parallel exhibitions that broaden the ecological view from art, narrative, activism and education.
During the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting you will be able to enjoy a series of parallel exhibitions that broaden the ecological view from art, narrative, activism and education.
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #15, April 14-21, 20 posts !
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #15
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
globalecologybs.github.io
April 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #15, April 14-21, 20 posts !
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
Five people have seen a color never before visible to the naked human eye, thanks to a new retinal stimulation technique called Oz.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
scim.ag
April 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Five people have seen a color never before visible to the naked human eye, thanks to a new retinal stimulation technique called Oz.
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/442Hjn6
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
Bogs and other types of peatlands are critical to combating the climate crisis, preserving biodiversity, and more.
Yet, peatlands are under increased threat.
The Global Peatlands Map 2.0 provides key data on the status of peatlands: wesrmapportal.unep.org/portal/apps/...
Yet, peatlands are under increased threat.
The Global Peatlands Map 2.0 provides key data on the status of peatlands: wesrmapportal.unep.org/portal/apps/...
April 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Bogs and other types of peatlands are critical to combating the climate crisis, preserving biodiversity, and more.
Yet, peatlands are under increased threat.
The Global Peatlands Map 2.0 provides key data on the status of peatlands: wesrmapportal.unep.org/portal/apps/...
Yet, peatlands are under increased threat.
The Global Peatlands Map 2.0 provides key data on the status of peatlands: wesrmapportal.unep.org/portal/apps/...
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
🌊 El fósforo marino, clave en la oxigenación de la Tierra de hace 3.000 millones de años
🌍 Un estudio internacional del #CSIC desvela cómo se formaron los primeros oasis de oxígeno, esenciales para que el planeta se convirtiera en habitable
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mujbuktv
🌍 Un estudio internacional del #CSIC desvela cómo se formaron los primeros oasis de oxígeno, esenciales para que el planeta se convirtiera en habitable
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mujbuktv
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🌊 El fósforo marino, clave en la oxigenación de la Tierra de hace 3.000 millones de años
🌍 Un estudio internacional del #CSIC desvela cómo se formaron los primeros oasis de oxígeno, esenciales para que el planeta se convirtiera en habitable
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mujbuktv
🌍 Un estudio internacional del #CSIC desvela cómo se formaron los primeros oasis de oxígeno, esenciales para que el planeta se convirtiera en habitable
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/mujbuktv
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
🥔Descifrado el genoma de la patata europea. Un científico del #CSIC han colaborado en reconstruir los genomas de diez cultivares históricos de patata
🧬Estas diez variedades ya cubren el 85% de la variabilidad total de las patatas europeas modernas
➡️ http://tiny.cc/viqg001
🧬Estas diez variedades ya cubren el 85% de la variabilidad total de las patatas europeas modernas
➡️ http://tiny.cc/viqg001
April 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🥔Descifrado el genoma de la patata europea. Un científico del #CSIC han colaborado en reconstruir los genomas de diez cultivares históricos de patata
🧬Estas diez variedades ya cubren el 85% de la variabilidad total de las patatas europeas modernas
➡️ http://tiny.cc/viqg001
🧬Estas diez variedades ya cubren el 85% de la variabilidad total de las patatas europeas modernas
➡️ http://tiny.cc/viqg001
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What do @sibecol.bsky.social ecologists do? 🔎
In this fascinating study María Rosario Moya et al. show that wind-driven ventilation releases CO2 from arid soils, highlighting subterranean ventilation as a key process in carbon dynamics 🔄
sibecol.org/en/review_ro...
In this fascinating study María Rosario Moya et al. show that wind-driven ventilation releases CO2 from arid soils, highlighting subterranean ventilation as a key process in carbon dynamics 🔄
sibecol.org/en/review_ro...
April 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What do @sibecol.bsky.social ecologists do? 🔎
In this fascinating study María Rosario Moya et al. show that wind-driven ventilation releases CO2 from arid soils, highlighting subterranean ventilation as a key process in carbon dynamics 🔄
sibecol.org/en/review_ro...
In this fascinating study María Rosario Moya et al. show that wind-driven ventilation releases CO2 from arid soils, highlighting subterranean ventilation as a key process in carbon dynamics 🔄
sibecol.org/en/review_ro...
El pasado lunes impartí una conferencia en Biology Seminar Series de @Portland_State como parte de mi estancia Madariaga @CienciaGob
Un placer volver al lugar donde hice mi Postdoc y mostrar parte de la ciencia que hacemos en casa
🚢🦠🧬🔬👩🔬👩💻
@IEO_Malaga @epra_ieo
@icmcsic.bsky.social
Un placer volver al lugar donde hice mi Postdoc y mostrar parte de la ciencia que hacemos en casa
🚢🦠🧬🔬👩🔬👩💻
@IEO_Malaga @epra_ieo
@icmcsic.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
El pasado lunes impartí una conferencia en Biology Seminar Series de @Portland_State como parte de mi estancia Madariaga @CienciaGob
Un placer volver al lugar donde hice mi Postdoc y mostrar parte de la ciencia que hacemos en casa
🚢🦠🧬🔬👩🔬👩💻
@IEO_Malaga @epra_ieo
@icmcsic.bsky.social
Un placer volver al lugar donde hice mi Postdoc y mostrar parte de la ciencia que hacemos en casa
🚢🦠🧬🔬👩🔬👩💻
@IEO_Malaga @epra_ieo
@icmcsic.bsky.social
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Very grateful to @iferrera.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about intranuclear parasites of deep-sea mussels at the Oceanographic Institute of Málaga.
I had the opportunity to talk about Endonucleobacter, an intranuclear bacterial parasite of bathymodioline mussels (more below!).
I had the opportunity to talk about Endonucleobacter, an intranuclear bacterial parasite of bathymodioline mussels (more below!).
February 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very grateful to @iferrera.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about intranuclear parasites of deep-sea mussels at the Oceanographic Institute of Málaga.
I had the opportunity to talk about Endonucleobacter, an intranuclear bacterial parasite of bathymodioline mussels (more below!).
I had the opportunity to talk about Endonucleobacter, an intranuclear bacterial parasite of bathymodioline mussels (more below!).
Reposted by Isabel Ferrera
🚨New COMMENT in Nature Microbiology: Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe🚨 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe - Nature Microbiology
This paper is a call to action. By publishing concurrently across journals like an emergency bulletin, we are not merely making a plea for awareness about climate change. Instead, we are demanding imm...
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:33 PM
🚨New COMMENT in Nature Microbiology: Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe🚨 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...