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Lucía Alarcón-Ríos
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Associação BIOPOLIS | CIBIO – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos @CIBIO_InBIO
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Lucía Alarcón-Ríos @lalarconrios.bsky.social · Jun 16
An easy to read teaser from our article on coloration in urban salamanders and the methodology to analyze the wild patterns they show!
@natcantabrica.bsky.social @jzoology.bsky.social

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Quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the polymorphic fire salamander
Alarcón-Ríos, L., Álvarez, D. and Velo-Antón, G. (2024). A methodological workflow for quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the …
jzoblog.wordpress.com
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entomodaily.bsky.social
"Una madre da a luz a hijos de dos especies distintas".

Parece imposible, ¿verdad? ¡Pues agarraos!

Un estudio publicado en Nature sugiere que las reinas de Messor ibericus 🐜 son capaces de producir descendencia de una especie completamente distinta 😱.

Pero... ¿Para qué? 🧵👇
Las reinas de la especie ibérica Messor ibericus pueden dar a luz a ejemplares de su propia especie (izquierda) y, mediante un mecanismo de clonación, a descendencia de una especie distinta (Messor structor, derecha). Créditos de la imagen: Jonathan Romiguier, Yannick Juvé, Laurent Soldati
September 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
New paper out in the BAHE!
In this Cluedo match 🎲🐉🔥.... the culprit wasn't Proffesor Plum, but the wood mouse! 🐭
Cameras caught it consuming on #firesalamander carcasses on #Tambo island.
📃 here:
herpetologica.es/bahe-361-2025/
📹 the culprit in action:
youtu.be/HozKqjLRjDE?...
BAHE 36(1), 2025 – Asociación Herpetológica Española
herpetologica.es
September 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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chikichanka.bsky.social
My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
July 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by Lucía Alarcón-Ríos
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Imagina un combate silencioso entre genes maternos y paternos. El árbitro es la placenta, y el resultado marca toda una vida...
La batalla entre sexos se libra en el ring de la placenta
Los genes maternos y paternos compiten por influir en el crecimiento fetal a través de la placenta, órgano que interpreta sus intereses para salvaguardar el bienestar del feto.
theconversation.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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jzoology.bsky.social
Read the latest post on the Journal of Zoology #blog jzoblog.wordpress.com, written by Lucía Alarcón Ríos, David Álvarez and Guillermo Velo-Antón, to find out about a methodological workflow for quantitative #colouration and colour pattern comparison in the #polymorphic fire #salamander
Photos demonstrating differences in colouration and colour patterns between fire salamanders inhabiting a forest (left column) and a city (right column).
May 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
An easy to read teaser from our article on coloration in urban salamanders and the methodology to analyze the wild patterns they show!
@natcantabrica.bsky.social @jzoology.bsky.social

jzoblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/q...
Quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the polymorphic fire salamander
Alarcón-Ríos, L., Álvarez, D. and Velo-Antón, G. (2024). A methodological workflow for quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the …
jzoblog.wordpress.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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felixpleiva.bsky.social
Very detailed piece of work on the Rensch's rule...
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
🎉Closing with emotion🎉
Our final full day was filled with powerful sessions, reflections, and a moving closing ceremony. We wrapped it all up with music, smiles, and the joy of having been part of something big.
Thank you for being here 💚
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible
June 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Lucía Alarcón-Ríos
igue-aeet.bsky.social
Are you ready for next week at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social ? We are! 🌱🏙️

And so are the 37 amazing contributors to Urban Ecology:
🔹 26 talks (across 3 sessions + a few beyond Brown, Green & Blue Urban Ecology)
🔹 10 posters!

Follow this thread to explore them all! 🧵👇
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
Spring.
Nuevos comienzos
March 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
Amazing!!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Noncanonical inheritance of phenotypic information by protein amyloids - Nature Cell Biology
Eroglu et al. describe protein amyloid structures that are stably inherited across generations and transmit epigenetic memory in Caenorhabditis elegans. MSTR protein loss results in a transgenerationa...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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funecology.bsky.social
📰Published📰 Understanding the importance of surprise in antipredator defence

https://buff.ly/3EnXbpb

🧪🌍
Understanding the importance of surprise in antipredator defence
Olivier Penacchio, Liisa Hämäläinen, Bibiana Rojas, Kyle Summers, Justin Yeager, Thomas N. Sherratt, Alice Exnerova This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology review article which can…
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January 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
Sobre los pequeños dragones carbayones 🐉🔥
January 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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sepponet.bsky.social
Healthy #soil is full of life!
Better not mess around with it.
#WorldSoilDay #forestsoil #HoliSoils #fertilizers #herbicides #pesticides #ClearCut
Cartoon: Soil microbiota says to the scientist, please, do not mess around with forest soil.
December 5, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Lucía Alarcón-Ríos
funecology.bsky.social
👀 Behind the Paper!👀

🦎Carolina Reyes-Puig explores how different phenotypic traits contribute to niche segregation in Mediterranean green lizards, and highlights the need for ecophysiology research and the importance of forward planning💪

https://buff.ly/3DaQ3Mh

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Carolina Reyes-Puig: species coexistence and niche segregation in Mediterranean green lizards.
In our latest post, author Carolina Reyes-Puig asks us if it’s all about size (in this case, it is…kinda!). In their latest paper: “Is it all about size? Dismantling the integrated phenotype to und…
buff.ly
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
Amazing and productive trip to #Tambo island to continue the study of this fascinating #FireSalamander population

🏝🔥🐉🔥🏝
December 2, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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gorizaola.bsky.social
"La universidad española en modo supervivencia", por Elisa Silió @elpais.com

La #universidad (y su infrafinanciación) como ejemplo de la batalla contra los servicios públicos, el conocimiento y el pensamiento crítico.
elpais.com/educacion/20...
La universidad española, en modo supervivencia
La asfixia financiera de los campus públicos de Madrid no tiene parangón en resto de España, que aún así invierte mucho menos que la media europea. La comunidad educativa teme que el ejemplo de Ayuso ...
elpais.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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natcantabrica.bsky.social
Variabilidad intraespecífica en #Salamandra común.
A la derecha, hembra de la subespecie S.s. bernardezi (Asturias), a la izquierda, hembra de la subespecie S.s. bejarae (Zamora).
November 28, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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boixrichter.bsky.social
Fotos de cuando los cangrejos de herradura se capturaban a millones para hacer de ellos fertilizante para los campos de maíz. Las montañas de animales se enviaban a fábricas para triturarlos y vender el fertilizante bajo el nombre de "cancerine".
November 28, 2024 at 6:12 PM
lalarconrios.bsky.social
To debut in Bluesky, our latest article published in Herpetology Notes! www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/v...

Small, rich in history, ecologically transformed, and full of #FireSalamanders!! Tambo Island in #Galicia is the true #Dragonstone #HouseOfTheDragon 🔥🐉🔥
Tambo Island: a small and altered landmass in northwestern Spain with thousands of Salamandra salamandra (Linneaus, 1758) | Herpetology Notes
www.biotaxa.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:33 PM