Thrilled to start today as a Severo Ochoa Fellow at the Doñana Biological Station @ebdonana.bsky.social ! ! Over the next three years, I will study the macroecological evolution of vertebrate faunas across deep time 🌍🦴
Fernando Blanco
@fernandoblancos.bsky.social
Paleobiologist studying the evolution of ancient ecosystems/Severo Ochoa Fellow at Estación Biológica de Doñana/Tocateclas
🧵 Why are there so many habitat-specialist squirrels? A new global study explores how habitat specialization has shaped squirrel evolution 👇🐿️🌍
Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!
#EBDSeminars Join us to explore ecosystem resilience through mammal communities spanning millions of years! 🔹Connecting the past: how ecological networks reveal the dynamics of ancient ecosystems 🔸 @fernandoblancos.bsky.social 📅6th November, 13:00h CET Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhu_...
🦴 The Doñana National Park serves as a natural laboratory for investigating fossilization processes in a Mediterranean climate. Published in PLOS ONE, a new study offers a new perspective on bone weathering. 🔗 www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/... 📄 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A new chapter begins! Starting this September, I’ll be working on bird macroevolution at @ebdonana.bsky.social . Excited for this new adventure and the amazing research ahead 🐦🐤🪶
👨🔬Also Joaquín Calatayud, #IICG researcher, is co-authors of the new article ‘Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution’, published in @natcomms.nature.com 👀You can read it here👇
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications
Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional transitions in ungulate assemblages linked to tectonic and climatic events.
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🚨 I'm looking for #Postdoc opportunities starting this September! 🧑🔬🔍 I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time.
¡Nueva publicación de soci@s! 🗣️ Un nuevo estudio liderado por @fernandoblancos.bsky.social explora cómo los cambios ambientales impactaron en los grandes #mamíferos y sus ecosistemas durante el Neógeno 🐘🌍 👉 Léelo aquí: https://sepaleontologia.es/?p=1423 #SEPsocios #Paleontología #CambioClimático
60 millones de años en movimiento: cómo los cambios ambientales transformaron a los mayores herbívoros del planeta—y cómo sus ecosistemas resistieron - sepaleontologia
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La Tierra puede acercarse al tercer colapso ecológico www.lavanguardia.com/sociedad/202...
La Tierra puede acercarse al tercer colapso ecológico
MADRID, 05 (SERVIMEDIA) Los ecosistemas de la Tierra afrontaron dos reorganizaciones abruptas por cambios ambientales como glaciaciones o movimientos tectónicos en los úl...
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Los ecosistemas resistieron cambios muy abruptos en el pasado, pero ahora pueden colapsar www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025060...
Los ecosistemas resistieron cambios muy abruptos en el pasado, pero ahora pueden colapsar
Madrid, 5 jun (EFE).- Un equipo de científicos ha comprobado la capacidad de adaptación que tenían los ecosistemas del pasado a las perturbaciones más abruptas, como las...
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🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications
Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...
nature.com
Back from a fun 10 days @imsi.institute in Chicago 🇺🇲, working as part of an Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on 'Advances in Mathematical Modelling of mass extinction events'. Great collaborations and some thought-provoking work!
Burgos retreat at @cenieh.bsky.social with some Amniota Lab members! Ignacio Lazagabaster, @fernandoblancos.bsky.social , @paleoiris.bsky.social @singerstone.bsky.social & @ohsanisidro.bsky.social Fossils, science, food and good vibes #paleobiology #AmniotaLab #MACPALS
Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial del Clima, un sistema complejo que incluye a la hidrosfera, la atmósfera, la geosfera y la biosfera.
Shupinski AB, Craffey M, Smith FA, Lyons SK. Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-10. doi:10.1017/pab.2024.53 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
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Hola! El 26 de marzo a las 15:00 en la Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas (UCM) proyectamos Off the Archeological Record. Después, abrimos debate en una mesa redonda con la arqueóloga y guionista Paloma Zarzuela, y las paleontólogas Mª Ángeles Álvarez Sierra y Dánae Sanz
Late for Darwin's big day, but a new paper adding to his great theory, addressing the persistence of ecological systems on long timescales. "Selection, evolution and persistence of paleoecological systems" www.frontiersin.org/journals/ear... #evolution #paleontology #selection
Frontiers | Selection, evolution and persistence of paleoecological systems
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In 2021, in a paper led by @fernandoblancos.bsky.social published in @science.org we analyzed the evolution of functional faunas in large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula over the last 20 million years. …
Punctuated ecological equilibrium in mammal communities over evolutionary time scales
Functional richness in past mammal communities increased ecosystem resilience.
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Hey everyone! Since I’m new to BlueSky, I thought I’d share a quick summary of some of the main projects I’ve worked on over the past three years. Buckle up for some paleontology! 🦴⚒️💻
Don't miss the chance to attend this incredible meeting in Zurich this July! Mark your calendar and join us for insightful discussions and networking opportunities 👇👇
CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025@cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon! 🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025 🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025 Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below! 👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html # CPEGCPB25
Hiya @thepalass.bsky.social meeting delegates, I'm Alex and I lead the Palaeo@Leeds Research Cluster. If you're an undergrad/postgrad looking for a PhD position for '25 start, please find me for a chat at the #PalAss24 meeting - see below for some of the projects on offer.
Palaeo@Leeds@palaeoleeds.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you a postgraduate scientist looking for a PhD in palaeobiology, geochemistry or palaeoenvironments? Then look no further than these NERC YESDTN scholarship opportunities to come and work at Leeds with the Palaeo@Leeds cluster yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
Network of the networks represented in academic starter packs! Interactive and searchable here: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade... #academicsky
Interactive Network Visualization with D3.js
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Ketika Garg@ketikagarg.bsky.social · 2y ago1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...
The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025
📢 Registrations and Abstracts are now open! Don't miss the chance to join us @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social (Twitter). Submit your abstract and register today! 👇👇
CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025@cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 Registration & abstract submission are NOW OPEN for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium! 🚨 📅 Summer 2025 📍 University of Zurich, Switzerland Visit our website for keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more: cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html #CPEGCPB25
Second paper in Ecology & Evolution out in two consecutive days! 🐢🤩🐢 "Functional and character disparity are decoupled in turtle mandibles", w team fr MfN Berlin (incl. @plannapus.bsky.social) I guess the German chancellor would call this a "Doppel-Wumms" 😜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Functional and Character Disparity Are Decoupled in Turtle Mandibles
Here, we compare functional disparity measured by biomechanical proxies and character disparity measured by discrete morphological characters in turtle jaws. Exploration of mandibular patterns reveal...
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I'm looking for a #Postdoc position ! 🧑🔬🔍 I'm a highly motivated researcher with experience in R programming, network analysis, and multivariate statistics. My focus is on the evolution of ecosystems and biodiversity over deep time. Any retweets or shares are greatly appreciated! 🙏
