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Joaquín Hortal
@jhortal.bsky.social
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Más allá de las fronteras está el universo / Beyond the borders lies the universe / Mais além das fronteiras está o universo
Scientist working in biogeography and community ecology @MNCN-CSIC
https://jhortal.com/
Este es un perfil personal
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viajandoconciencia.bsky.social
No os imagináis lo laborioso que es analizar y preparar un conjunto de datos para entrenar un modelo de Machine Learning
La calidad del dato es vital para que estos sistemas funcionen
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
jhortal.bsky.social
#asimov nailed the definition of how those who mix liberal and illiberal views understand government:
"She hadn't liked Earth (...) its combination of anarchy in the important things and governmental force in the little things."
—In the description of Eugenia Insignia in Nemesis (1989)
jhortal.bsky.social Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · 5d
#asimov acertó con la definición de cómo entienden el gobierno los que combinan lo liberal con lo iliberal: "a ella no le había gustado la Tierra (...) ni su combinación de anarquía para las cosas importantes y fuerza estatal para las pequeñas" Descripción de Eugenia Insignia en "Némesis" (1989)
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
jhortal.bsky.social
#asimov acertó con la definición de cómo entienden el gobierno los que combinan lo liberal con lo iliberal: "a ella no le había gustado la Tierra (...) ni su combinación de anarquía para las cosas importantes y fuerza estatal para las pequeñas" Descripción de Eugenia Insignia en "Némesis" (1989)
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
jhortal.bsky.social
Interesting article about rethinking the Turing test, putting the focus on discriminating different aspects of "intelligence" (whatever this diffues concept is), and also on IA safety and biases. It seems more important to detect unsafe IAs and how to tackle the pervasive biases in their training
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Chatbots now ace the mathematician’s famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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basicapplecol.bsky.social
🌿📖 New #BAAE article: Collectomics in plant biodiversity research

By merging herbaria, #Museomics & data science, researchers trace biodiversity change through time — shaping future conservation strategies. 🌎

📖 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.07.002
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
Schematic display of an herbarium specimen and its use as an Extended Specimen.
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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clsong.com
Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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nymeriasolo.bsky.social
Hilo importante. Por esto procuro hablar con mis hijos, explicarles lo que me parece importante y responder a sus preguntas sin miedo ni eufemismos. Es cansado, pero muy agradecido. Los niños no son tontos, pero hay que explicarles las cosas, no aprenden por ciencia infusa.
latelyleti.bsky.social LaLeti @latelyleti.bsky.social · 29d
¿Por qué son así de fachas los adolescentes?

Pues siendo profe de primaria tengo una Opinión™.

En la EP muy pocos acceden a RRSS. Cuando lo hacen, LO NOTAS. Llama la atención.

Ya nos hemos dado cuenta de lo que hay, y no se les deja ver cosas, PERO también son MUY CRÉDULOS.
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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andremenegotto.bsky.social
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.
Front view of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid.
October 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social
¡Hola, ecoinformáticxs! 🌍💻 ¿Os gusta hacer mapas? ¿Y si os decimos que podemos unirnos para un reto divertido y colaborativo? Si estás leyendo esto, ¡TE QUEREMOS! ❤️¡Atentos, que esto mola! 👇
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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ipbes.net
🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation.

Read more from @mongabay.com :
Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently updated its Red List of Threatened Species to include an additional 482 fungi, bringing the total to roughly 1,300 species of…
news.mongabay.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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gbif.es
Biodiversity Heritage Library es una biblioteca digital abierta con millones de páginas sobre #biodiversidad con #BúsquedaTextoCompleto.
¡Aprende más sobre BHL en nuestro webinar sobre plataformas de información en biodiversidad!
📺 youtu.be/0urQfPemAc8?...
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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mmoroti.bsky.social
Today, I had the opportunity to present a little about myself and my career at the annual meet of the Biogeography and Climate Change department at @mncn-csic.bsky.social , where I will be doing a postdoctoral fellowship for a year with @jhortal.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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aberron.bsky.social
Me pasa Javi Álvarez la entrevista que le hicimos hace 12 años . Qué persona!! 😔 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZ-...
Jane Goodall: La crisis puede enseñarnos a vivir con menos cosas
YouTube video by lainformacion.com
m.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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madridvk.bsky.social
😔

Muere la primatóloga y activista Jane Goodall a los 91 años www.rtve.es/n/16752855/ a través de RTVE Noticias.
Muere la primatóloga y activista Jane Goodall a los 91 años
Muere la primatóloga y activista Jane Goodall a los 91 años
www.rtve.es
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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stopbiogas3cv.bsky.social
Así transcurrió el #27S La manifestación estatal contra las macroplantas de #Biogás.
El manifiesto y fotografías de casi 40 de los pueblos participantes. Y, seguiremos ampliando.
#STOPBiogasColmenarTresCantos #ColmenarViejo #TresCantos #Macroplanta
stopbiogascolmenar.org/informacion/...
27 de septiembre. En Madrid - Stop Biogas Colmenar Viejo Tres Cantos
Manifestación Estatal de Plataformas contra las Macoplantas de Biogás el 27/09/2025 en Madrid. ¡Ni tan grandes, ni tan cerca!
stopbiogascolmenar.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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oikosjournal.bsky.social
🥳 Meet Dr. Elise Thábault, our new subject editor from from Paris, France

Read her interview here: vist.ly/43hhw
Welcome Elisa Thébault - New SE | Oikos Journal
Welcome Elisa Thébault - New SE | Oikos Journal
www.oikosjournal.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
jhortal.bsky.social
Who said that biogeography is necessarily a correlative science? This is the way to do ecological experiments with a biogeographical perspective. Read this nice thread about a superb #functionalbiogeography work (spoiler: they find regional variations and habitat effects in antipredation traits)🧪🌐
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jhortal.bsky.social
Ayer tuvimos una charleta muy interesante sobre biodiversidad, servicios de los ecosistemas, cambio global, eventos extremos, incertidumbre y hasta coprofagia, en la Tertulia de Utópicos de @rutopiafm.bsky.social. Gracias a los Irregulares por un rato bien pasao y buena conversación (episodio 147)
Tertulia de Utópicos - Radio Utopía - 107.8
Es el programa en el que l@s alumn@s del curso de radio pueden hacer sus prácticas en riguroso directo, de qué hablamos, pues… de muchos temas como por ejemplo cosas tenebrosas o de humor, también de ...
www.radioutopia.org.es
September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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bio-diverse.bsky.social
A must-read special issue: “Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy”
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
I: Determinants of diversity & resilience.
II: Measuring the state of biodiversity
III: Biodiversity & natural capital
IV: Future scenarios for nature
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1917
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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stopbiogas3cv.bsky.social
Este jueves las mesas de #TresCantos y el carrito de #ColmenarViejo serán sólo por la mañana. Por la tarde tenemos Plenos Municipales. A la 17,00 h en 3C y a las 17,30 h en CV.
#StopBiogasColmenarTresCantos
Este sábado 27-Sept manifestación nacional #StopBiogas en Madrid a ls 12h desde Puerta Alcala
September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
jhortal.bsky.social
Assessing the dynamic interactions between the multiple impacts that different global change stressors may impose on biodiversity is key to develop tansnational mitigation and adaptation strategies that are truly effective for preserving it in this changing world. Check this nice #mncn-csic paper 🧪🌐
pedroaragoncarrera.bsky.social Pedro Aragón @pedroaragoncarrera.bsky.social · Sep 24
European amphibian hotspots in the hot pot. Published in Earth’s Future

doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Central & Eastern Europe sites: intense temperature increments & expanded droughts

Mediterranean sites: Increasing floods

Mediterranean coast, France & Italy vulnerable: low fecundity+high threat
Assessing Vulnerability of Relevant Sites for Amphibian Conservation Through Spatiotemporal Analyses of Global Change Factors in Europe
Sites for amphibian conservation in Central and Eastern Europe face intense temperature increments and expanded droughts Sites in the Mediterranean experienced a slower pace of temperature increm...
doi.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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biogeography-usc.bsky.social
We have developed a new methodological framework to measure biodiversity.
We focus on the uniqueness (or singularity) of biological communities and apply it to the GBF 30x30 target.

If you only have 4:35 min, check the visual abstract to know a little bit more about it ☺️:
youtu.be/dHMBhVJ8dns?...
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Los resultados de este artículo deberían ser tenidos muy en cuenta quienes tienden a confiar demasiado en los datos de la ciencia ciudadana.

"adjusting for day-of-the-week effects can change the statistical significance of temporal trends in bumblebee emergence dates"

rdcu.be/eHA9B
Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?
rdcu.be
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM