Hace 200 años, Darwin y Hooker se preguntaron si era posible cambiar el clima de una isla construyendo un ecosistema de novo. Demostraron que sí. Ahora he viajado a Ascension con @nastassiakn.bsky.social para entender cómo ocurrió y cómo podemos exportarlo. Gracias @pflis.bsky.social por contarlo.

Ascensión, la isla desértica que se hizo selva

Este remoto paraje en medio del Atlántico podría esconder la fórmula para combatir la desertificación en otros lugares del planeta. Un científico español ha decidido investigarlo. Viajamos hasta allí ...

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The Storm Glass says rain. Its chemicals crystallize differently with weather shifts. There was one aboard the Beagle when anchored in Ascension in 1836, no crystals then. The eco-climatic shift would take, at least, 50 more years. @nastassiakn.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social @pflis.bsky.social

Very proud that our research was featured in @natbiotech.nature.com. Congratulations to all my co-authors and colleagues!

Nature Biotechnology@natbiotech.nature.com · 7mo ago

For Nature Biotechnology’s 30th anniversary, our editors look back at a few of their favorite papers published in the past decade go.nature.com/4sWhZs1 rdcu.be/fbCVM

New Preprint!! Alejandro González-Delgado accomplished a major feat on this one: ported retron recombineering, which we love so much in E. coli, into 14 new bacterial species via a massive collaborative effort involving 9 labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do we test the (Gaia) theory of planetary self-regulation (Lovelock-Margulis)? We just started our experimental implementation on bioreactors using #synbio to bring planetary scale to the Lab.Exciting day! @vmaull.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social