Pepe Carrión

@pepecarrion.bsky.social

Paleoecologist, Quaternary pollen analysis, Naturalist, Professor of Evolutionary Botany at University of Murcia (Spain), Cat Lover, Red, Republican, Ecofeminist

Our beloved teacher in palynology, Michèle Dupré, has left us — a luminous being of knowledge and kindness. May she rest in peace and live on in all of us who learned from her how to walk lightly, rise gently, and fall without a sound.

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A last paper. To our knowledge, the Biennale has never shown paleoart before. With Gabriela Amorós, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo & Federica Crivellaro, we bring a scientifically informed work that explores the ecological, artistic & social scope of the Venetian panel. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Out of the cave: Rewilding deep time at the Venice Biennale

Out of the Cave, part of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, reimagines prehistoric human life through scientifically grounded paleoart. This visual installation bridges deep-time knowledge with co...

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WHY BOTHER VOTING IN SPAIN? Just ask the Supreme Court, bishops, IBEX bosses, and Franco’s leftovers who should rule, who gets crushed, and who pays in silence. Keep people ignorant, the hierarchy sacred, and the cash flowing up. It’s tradition.

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Just finished the Spanish edition of a book I’d already read in English. Flawless translation. Solid, well-told science—no drama, no nonsense. One of the great minds behind it. Congrats, Tom. (Photo: my old grape knife, harvest-trained in 1970).

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A 2014 photo at the Biology faculty cafeteria (Murcia), with Encarni Montoya. She started in palynology under my distracted watch… and has long since surpassed me. Brilliant work, always humble, honest, and generous. So proud. Grande, my Encarni.

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Ariadna, one of my two artists, gave me this drawing: it brings back my childhood and the bond with Estrellica, a stray dog a friend and I once rescued. It was a tense night—we truly put ourselves at risk, as the city was rounding up dogs to be killed. That night, over 100 were saved.

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