Andrés Baselga
@andresbaselga.bsky.social
Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) - Interested in beetles, biogeography and macroecology Santiago de Compostela. Web: http://biogeography-usc.org/
Song et al introduced a geometric measure intended to quantify beta diversity, called betavolume. I assessed its behaviour: 1) betavolume does not measure beta diversity or differentiation; 2) links to species interactions remain to be proven. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A geometric approach to beta diversity: Comment
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📽️ Primer video de la serie #BeetleBits sobre métodos de muestreo de coleópteros, en ell marco del proyecto #MetaBeetle (AEI) Empezamos con unos consejos que nos da Mauro Quintanilla-Viana para evitar picaduras de garrapatas. -.- Tick bite prevention tips (in Spanish) youtu.be/kW15M_jV2cg?...
Beetle Bits: Prevención de picaduras de garrapata en muestreos de campo
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Nice seminar by @antoineguisan.bsky.social from @unil.bsky.social at @usc.gal. Thanks to @biogeography-usc.bsky.social for organizing it!!
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
New post: All The Things I Was Never Trained To Do. Which turns out to be a sneakily disguised meditation on what university education is for, and thus what university is, and what it isn't - despite the persistence of idiots who don't understand that!
All the things I was never trained to do
I’m reminded just about every day that the disconnect between my education, and the career I built from it, is enormous. Or at least, it seems so. I had a pretty unremarkable educational sequence f…
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Important thoughts about museums, extinct species, and all the biological diversity that is going extinct unnoticed (not even preserved as museum specimens)
Stephen Heard@stephenbheard.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe other day I got to hold an ivory-billed woodpecker. It hit pretty hard - some thoughts here.
Álvaro Pérez Gómez defendió ayer su tesis doctoral en la UCA. Ha sido fácil y fascinante trabajar con él; entre otras cosas, por su formación naturalista, que traía ya de su mentor desde pequeño: Íñigo Sánchez. Álvaro ha realizado este breve documental de su tesis: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjpp...
Vídeo presentación Tesis Doctoral Álvaro Pérez Gómez
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Beetles have taken me a long way!
Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC)@biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 10mo agoHuge congratulations to Andrés Baselga, who has just been promoted to Full Professor of Zoology at Univ. Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal Yesterday we enjoyed his talk - from collecting beetles as a teen to developing methods for studying biodiversity. @andresbaselga.bsky.social @cretus.usc.gal
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?...
Areas of high biodiversity value evidenced by the spatial scaling of phylogenetic uniqueness
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Andrés Baselga@andresbaselga.bsky.social · 11mo agoOur paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.
Andrés Baselga@andresbaselga.bsky.social · 11mo agoOur paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Areas of High Biodiversity Value Evidenced by the Spatial Scaling of Phylogenetic Uniqueness
Phylogenetic endemism is the most efficient single criterion to maximise global phylogenetic diversity within the smallest land area, and can be complemented with the spatial scaling of phylogenetic ...
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Gracias al programa CICERON del @csic.es mi colega y amigo @oscar-godoy.bsky.social y yo coordinamos este itinerario que persigue acercar la conservación y restauración de la naturaleza a la sociedad. youtu.be/WlJCXlgp310?... gracias! @actisandres.bsky.social @clementealvarez.bsky.social
CSIC Cicerón 13.8 Coordinación Itinerario Cicerón Agresta
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CSIC@csic.es · 12mo ago➡️ ¿Conoces el Itinerario Cicerón lanzado desde @csicaragon.bsky.social para abordar el reto de la conservación y restauración de la naturaleza? 👩🔬 Conocimiento, herramientas y propuestas para los retos ambientales que afrontan actualmente diversos sectores Descúbrelo 🧵👇
Hoy hay que leer esto con Serafín González y @xabiervp.bsky.social sobre el gran valor del matorral. Un hábitat, que en su versión "maleza", cada vez se parece más en boca de algunos al de "alimañas" para el mundo animal. www.eldiario.es/1_bfe5f5
El "matorral" calcinado que Alfonso Rueda desprecia: hábitats protegidos, hogar de especies amenazadas y sumidero de carbono
Expertos destacan el papel "valiosísimo" del monte bajo y ponen el foco en los animales salvajes que han muerto y los que se están viendo obligados a desplazarse en busca de alimento
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Abstract submission for the meeting in Aarhus has been extended by one week! The new abstract submission deadline is 8 September. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...
🐝 A captura masiva da 'Vespa velutina' con trampas non selectivas mata tamén insectos polinizadores ⚠️ É urxente apostar por métodos de control sostibles Así o explican investigadores da Universidade da Coruña neste artigo de @es.theconversation.com
Por que a captura masiva de velutinas con trampas debe parar?
O uso indiscriminado de trampas contra a avespa asiática provoca a morte de milleiros de especies de insectos beneficiosos
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Esta semana os IPs @andresbaselga.bsky.social e #C.Gómez-Rodriguez imparten “Código para biólogos: introdución a R” Curso da #UniversidadeDeVerán no que guiarán aos asistentes na aprendizaxe de R desde as bases ata a súa aplicación no ámbito da bioloxía. @biogeography-usc.bsky.social @usc.gal
Probably not the standard way of having fun at the beach, but I just had a lot of fun observing for the first time a new phylum (new for me, of course). The xenacoelomorph Symsagittifera roscoffensis. It has no digestive system, because it lives from its symbiotic algae (hence the green colour)
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Frontiers of Biogeography (the flagship journal of @biogeography.bsky.social, now with an impact factor!) has recently published some cool papers. Check them out and consider publishing your work in our journal.
Exciting news! Our society journal has been included in the Clarivate Journal Citation Report for the first time, with an impact factor of 2.5! It's an excellent option for fully open access publication of biogeographical research! biogeography.pensoft.net
Frontiers of Biogeography
Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...
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Mark Vellend has a new book, available for pre-order: "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, From Proteins to Politics". It looks interesting and VERY ambitious. Here's Mark's pitch for why you should read it: dynamicecology.wordp... 1/2
The Second Science*
Note from Jeremy: this is a guest post from Mark Vellend. *** When the Covid pandemic sent everyone home in the spring of 2020, Françoise Cardou and I – amidst some guilt about our generally good h…
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CRETUS organiza 3 cursos da #UniversidadeDeVerán: 🧫A bioloxía das pequenas e grandes cousas 10-12/06 ⚗️Química, a ciencia que envolve a nosa vida 10-12/06 🐛Código para biólogos: introdución a R 01-05/09 #JesusRomalde, #LIDSA, @biogeography-usc.bsky.social #FondosEuropeos www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
Un total de 40 cursos integran a oferta da Universidade de Verán da USC para os vindeiros meses | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
A USC bota a andar unha nova edición da súa Universidade de Verán, na que un total de 40 cursos, espallados por Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Ribeira, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Lalín, Meis, Oia e Ribadeo,...
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Hoy cumplo un sueño: he publicado en 'Babelia', y sobre mi escritor favorito, Gerald Durrell. Leer a Durrell en un mundo de guerras, fascistas, mentiras y aranceles es descubrir, sonreír, emocionarte y sorprenderte. Es, por un rato, volver a ser un niño
Leer a Gerald Durrell, o volver a ser un niño
El centenario del nacimiento del escritor y naturalista es una nueva ocasión para adentrarse en una obra indispensable, luminosa y adelantada a su tiempo
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Altri y el sistema del eucalipto incentivan la despoblación de la Galicia rural
¿Cuántos eucaliptos más haría falta plantar para alimentar a una hambrienta macrofábrica de celulosa? Su impacto en el ecosistema iría mucho más allá de su consumo de ingentes cantidades de agua, d...
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📢📢Deixámosvos a ligazón da páxina web da plataforma onde se irán actualizando (na medida do posible) os buses dispoñibles para acudir á manifestación da Pobra do Caramiñal do sábado!! Comparte💚🙌 plataformaulloaviva.com/22-03-25-man... #altriNon
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Una injustificable irresponsabilidad
La Xunta de Galicia ha dado luz verde al proyecto de la macrocelulosa de Altri con una Declaración de Impacto Ambiental positiva. Debemos sumarnos a la sociedad gallega para detener un disparate de cu...
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Un fin de semana de rabia y preocupación nos ha hecho componer una especie de himno en defensa de la naturaleza gallega, un Altri NON apelando a la emoción. Sumando narrativas, estilos y voluntades contra un proyecto que no debe ver la luz youtu.be/tzb6GbHdVzQ?... #AltriNon #fernandovalladares
Altri non, non che deixes enganar - 210
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