Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛

@adsalbert.bsky.social

Biologist and Ms in Zoology + Applied Ethology 🎓 | Curator assistant in the Entomoly Coll. at MNCN-CSIC 🏛️ Etho-eco-evo 🍃, digitalisation 🖥️, bio-art 🎨 & biodiversity conservation 🤲🏻 Co-comm leader of @incstep.bsky.social. He/him

🔥 Estamos a las puertas de una ola de calor y el peligro de incendios forestales es muy alto o extremo en la mayor parte de la Península y Baleares. Además, se incrementará en los próximos días. ¡Precaución! Predicción actualizada hasta a 7 días 👉🏻 www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/...

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Se cumplen 90 años del golpe de estado fascista que acabó con la República española y con la democracia por más de 40 años. Entre los muchos horrores que causó, y que seguimos pagando, acabó también con el sistema de Ciencia y Educación Superior. www.science.org/content/arti...

Spain’s largest research organization confronts its dark past

Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after civil war

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An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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📄Out now 📄: 90-year trends in Switzerland show declines in butterfly and saproxylic beetle richness around the mid-20th century, linked to agricultural mechanisation. Some groups have recovered in recent decades, especially warm-adapted species. Specialised and cold-adapted species remained low.🦋🪲

A combined figure with figure panels from the publication. One panel (panel a) showing the trends in Switzerland-wide relative richness of butterflies and saproxylic beetles, with clear declines of butterflies until the 1980s and declines followed by increases for the saproxylic beetles. The other panel (panel b) shows trends of relative species richness for the two insect groups divided by different traits. In the upper part of the figure, groups are built based on the habitat specialisation of the species and it is evident in both groups, that habitat specialists declined strongest. In the lower part of the figure, groups are built based on temperature niche of the species and it is evident that while warm-adapted species have declined strongest until the 1980s, they have clearly reversed their trends and are now increasing strongly.A photo of Lycaena virgaureae, a species with specialised food resources that has mostly disappeared from the Swiss lowlands in the last 90 yearsA photo of Aromia moschata, a longhorn beetle that has become rare in the mid 20th century, but which has increased in recent decades

🐜 The XX Iberian Myrmecology Congress – TAXOMARA 2026 is fast approaching in Móstoles! 🏛️ Organised by the AIM and Rey Juan Carlos University. 📝 Make a note of these IMPORTANT DATES so you don't miss a thing:

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🦋🌿High-quality genomes begin with quality biological material. 🐝 Before sequencing, each species is identified, documented, collected, and preserved to ensure integrity. For insects, this requires field expertise, taxonomy, and preservation workflows. Biodiversity genomics starts with the specimen🐞

A field biologist stands outdoors holding an insect net in a grassy landscape bordered by trees. Text overlay reads: “A day in the life of a biodiversity sampling team.” Additional text states: “Before a genome can be sequenced, someone has to find the species.” The image highlights the field collection stage that precedes biodiversity genome sequencing.A biodiversity genomics sampling team works in a wooded habitat, using insect nets and collection equipment to search for specimens. Text overlay reads: “A full day in the field.” Additional text states: “Sampling teams spend long days collecting organisms across different habitats, often targeting groups that help fill major gaps across the Tree of Life.” The image illustrates field-based specimen collection for biodiversity genomics research.

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists

Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted

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