Just posted: a group paper describing major updates to my software pixy, for population genetic summary statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... New since 2021: arbitrary ploidy, multiallelic sites, missingness-aware Watterson's θ and Tajima's D, Hudson's FST, multicore execution!

Our researchers from the Museums in Uppsala and Madrid are streaming LIVE from the Arctic Mid-Atlantic Ridge: on Bamboo Coral Garden at 1000 m depth. So many #sponges! @biodiversa.eu @greenpeace.org @uu.se @mncn-csic.bsky.social #deeparcticexpedtion

Sergi Taboada@sergitaboada.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.youtube.com/live/aat4yLR... Live stream of the Deep Arctic Expedition led by Greenpeace. Exploring a seamount with loads of sponges and bamboo coral

¡Directo! Seguid la campaña Deep Artic Expedition organizada por @greenpeace.org. Participa @sergitaboada.bsky.social, investigador del MNCN.Contemplad organismos,esponjas y otros seres vivos que sustentan este ecosistema marino ubicado entre 500-3000m de profundidad. www.youtube.com/live/HyqR7Si...

Deep Arctic - Divestream 02 - Hydrothermal Fields

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www.youtube.com/live/aat4yLR... Live stream of the Deep Arctic Expedition led by Greenpeace. Exploring a seamount with loads of sponges and bamboo coral

Happy to share my recent 🎧 interview on Ecoshock Radio! We discussed our new findings on how long-term and short-term ocean warming is impacting fish biomass across the Northern Hemisphere. Take a listen here: www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES... #ECOSHOCK #podcast #climate #fisheries #marine #ecology

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-10 marine species of 2025! Do you have a favorite? www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

Don’t miss it! 🎓 On 26/02 at 15:00, @elenafcorr.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis at ICM‑CSIC: “Drivers of trophic ecology in large predatory fishes...”. 📍 Main Auditorium 🔴 Live stream: www.youtube.com/live... ICM-CSIC

Today in marine invertebrates youtu.be/Vf1AC3OKi9c?...

New MBARI videos help reveal siphonophore secrets

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#seminarioMNCN 'Understanding senescence in wild populations: environmental effects and underlying mechanisms' Por Elisa Pérez Badás (MNCN) 📆23 de enero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/u4Ch2jY...

Os esperamos en el XV congreso del grupo de microbiología del medio acuático 🦠💧 de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología. Se celebrará en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social en Madrid del 10 al 12 de junio de 2026. Toda la info en la web: www.xvmmamadrid.es

🧵(HILO) Un equipo internacional que ha estudiado cómo el diente de león común ha logrado extenderse por todo el planeta, investiga una nueva estrategia para luchar contra las especies de plantas invasoras.👇 www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

¡Feliz 217 cumpleaños a #Darwin! 🎂 Hoy lo hemos celebrado en el MNCN con la lectura pública de una de sus obras más conocidas: 'El origen de las especies'. El sábado seguiremos los festejos con 'La noche de Darwin y Wallace'. www.mncn.csic.es

#seminarioMNCN 'Evolution, Function & Mechanisms of Multimodal Communication' Por Cristina Romero Díaz (MNCN-@csic.es ) 📆20 de febrero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/BPPpsXt...

¡El MNCN- @csic.es forma parte del nuevo #barriodelaciencia! Conoced más sobre esta iniciativa aquí: shorturl.at/EqHKN

This is a great video on speciation after the Chicxulub impact, well worth watching. Video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/geolog... Credit @geosociety.bsky.social youtube.com/@geogirl Paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... 🧪⚒️🦴🧬

Sergi Taboada showing all the great research they do on sponges. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social @sergitaboada.bsky.social

‪ #seminarioMNCN 'Life Finds a Niche: Ecological Specialisation Across the Tree of Life' Por Sara Gamboa Ramón 📆6 de febrero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/hySyQNd...

Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.

@mncn-csic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ciimar.bsky.social y.social @universityofri.bsky.social @geomarkiel.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Connectivity and Adaptation Patterns of the Deep-Sea Ground-Forming Sponge Geodia hentscheli Across Its Entire Distribution

Abstract. Geodia hentscheli, a species forming sponge grounds in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, is a common deep-sea organism, that plays a fundamen

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New observations of fascinating rock #sponges 🤩, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea! A short note from our Greek partners highlight some of the threats rock sponges face, such as #plastic liter in the deep-sea 🙁 @biodiversa.eu link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amazing SponBIODIV discovery 🤩 by Díaz et al. at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, Sweden. We welcome the VILESIDA, an entirely new order of #sponges 🪸 @biodiversa.eu

Paco Cardenas@paccardenas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧵We just described Vilesida @uu.se, a new ORDER of #sponges potentially linked to the earliest known animal biomarker! 🔬🪸🪼 #MueumofEvolution doi.org/10.1093/zool... @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social @ieo.es @ucriverside.bsky.social @sponbiodiv.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu

The Uppsala University News today talk about our new order of sponges! 🪸If you want to know more 👇

New marine sponges provide clues about animal evolution - Uppsala University

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Uppsala University was curious to see for themselves the new order of #sponges we discovered 😅

Uppsala universitet on Instagram: "(English below) Paco Cárdenas och Julio A. Díaz har hittat helt nya svampdjur, som bland annat lever utanför Spaniens kuster. Vid närmare analys upptäckte forskarna ...

112 likes, 3 comments - uppsalauniversity on December 2, 2025: "(English below) Paco Cárdenas och Julio A. Díaz har hittat helt nya svampdjur, som bland annat lever utanför Spaniens kuster. Vid närmar...

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The use of historical #collections is pivotal in the understanding of today's taxonomy and biodiversity. Our SponBIODIV partner @uu.se illustrates this with a 19th century🎩 #sponge🪸 collection from the North Atlantic 🌊. @biodiversa.eu

Paco Cardenas@paccardenas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Particularly proud of this paper: the discovery of an unknown historical #collection of #sponge fragments from the German Oscar Schmidt (1823–1886) bringing us back to the early days of spongiology. What a treasure! 🤩 doi.org/10.1093/jhc/...

#Photogrammetry works to monitor vulnerable marine ecosystems such as deepsea #spongegrounds! A population of the iconic 'Asconema setubalense' slightly increased reveal our partners from IEO-CSIC (Gijón, Spain), despite high fishing pressure. @biodiversa.eu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do microbes contribute to #sponge sexual reproduction❤️ ? A team from SponBIODIV finds significant microbial composition changes in two species between reproductive and non-reproductive sponges! Spoiler: #Archaea are important! @mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

#Connectivity in the #deepsea! EXCELLENT study on the key sponge ground species ‘Geodia hentscheli’, shows strong genetic and microbiome structures segregated by depth. 👇 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

What a great SponBIODIV kickoff meeting we had at @ciimar.bsky.social in June 2023. 🙌 to this awesome All-Atlantic & Mediterranean consortium with 10 partners +7 associate partners, and over 60 researchers! Since then the #sponge science (and fun) has never stopped 😊 . @biodiversa.eu

Can #sponges help protect the threatened coastal lagoon of the Mar Menor (SE of Spain)? 🧽 #eDNA 🧬 to monitor biological communities in shallow coastal ecosystems. 76 taxa, 9 phyla identified by Corral-Lou et al! @mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...