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Irene Villa-Machío
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Ramón Areces Fellow & Visitor Researcher at Missouri Botanical Garden (USA) | Earlier Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC (Spain) | #Bioinformatics #Evolution #Biodiversity #Genomics #Plants
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📢❗La ciencia no se firma, se financia
Hace ya dos años que se firmó el #PactoXLaCiencia y no puede quedarse en un pacto vacío
✊🏼El 28 de septiembre saldremos a las calles de diferentes ciudades para recordar que #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo @dianamorantr.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🔴La convocatoria “Consolidación Investigadora” de este año vuelve a sufrir un recorte
📉Es un 50% menos que 2024, que a su vez ya fue recortada otro 50% respecto a 2023
👉¿Consecuencia? Aún más problemas para la estabilización @cienciagob.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social
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July 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A new study reveals the ancient origins and genetic diversity of Femeniasia balearica, prompting the development of new conservation strategies for Balearic endemics.
#insular #threatened #PPEES
@mfmazuecos.bsky.social @sebot.bsky.social @sebicop.bsky.social

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Population genomics and taxonomy solve a conservation conundrum in the Balearic paleoendemic Femeniasia balearica
A robust understanding of taxonomy, distribution and intraspecific genetic diversity is crucial for the conservation of narrow endemic species, which …
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July 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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📢 It’s time to harmonise practices for assessing genome-wide genetic diversity 🧬 Standardisation is key to meet the needs of stakeholders in biodiversity #conservation.
🔗 New publication by #ERGA
@biogeneurope.bsky.social out now in #MolecularEcology
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Biodiversity Genomics Research Practices Require Harmonising to Meet Stakeholder Needs in Conservation
Biodiversity resilience relies on genetic diversity, which sustains the evolutionary potential of organisms in dynamic ecosystems. Genomics is a powerful tool for accurately estimating genetic divers...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2)

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🧪 #science
DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution
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June 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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♻️Ecological correlates of population genetics in Linum suffruticosum, an heterostylous polyploid and taxonomic complex endemic to the Western Mediterranean Basin by Maria Antònia Vanrell and co-authors

Full #openaccess
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#PlantScience
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June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!

Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.

Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...

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Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.
May 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Proud to share our new study: genetic diversity in European alpine plants is less shaped by environment than expected. Highlights the need for species-specific data in conservation! 🧬🏔️ Awesome co-workers! #Genetics #Alpine #Conservation
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Environmental Data Do Not Correlate With Plant Genetic Diversity in Alpine Ecosystems
This study investigates the impact of environmental factors on genetic diversity in 14 European alpine plant species using AFLP data. Among 48 environmental factors, only surface curvature (pcurv) sh...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Explore how hybridisation drives biodiversity! New research shows recurrent hybridisation and HHS shape genetic diversity & create incipient hybrids in Iberian Phalacrocarpum 🌱⛰️
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social

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Homoploid hybrid speciation and recurrent hybridization along the northwestern Iberian mountain chain
AbstractBackground and Aims. Natural hybridisation can lead to diversification and adaptive introgression, among other outcomes. However, the mechanistic u
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May 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Distinguishing species boundaries from geographic variation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Impact of Ghost Introgression on Coalescent-Based Species Tree Inference and Estimation of Divergence Time
Abstract. The species studied in any evolutionary investigation generally constitute a small proportion of all the species currently existing or that have
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May 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Tracing the biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular floras
We inferred the spatio–temporal colonization histories of seven vascular plant lineages (Acaena magellanica, Austroblechnum penna-marina, Azorella selago, Colobanthus kerguelensis, Notogrammitis cras....
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April 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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PlaceMyFossils: An Integrative Approach to Analyze and Visualize the Phylogenetic Placement of Fossils Using Backbone Trees
Abstract. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using morphology to establish the placement of species on phylogenetic trees derived from m
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April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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¿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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Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
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March 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Mañana se presenta un libro muy necesario que visibiliza a grandes científicas que quedaron en la sombra, con propuestas didácticas para llevarlo al aula.

"Matildes" ha sido editado por
Daniel Gómez Escrivá
Claudia Pérez Gómez
Borja Puchol Forés

Podéis descargarlo aquí: omp.uv.es/index.php/PU...
February 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Ecology-Evolution scientific societies on Bluesky:

ESEB: @eseb.bsky.social
SSE: @sse-evolution.bsky.social
ASN: @asn-amnat.bsky.social
SMBE: @official-smbe.bsky.social
BES: @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
CSEE-SCEE: @csee-scee.bsky.social
and joining us today, welcome!:
SFE2: @sfecologie.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 4:53 PM