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Sònia Garcia

@sphaeromeria

CSIC Associate Professor, Botanical Institute of Barcelona. Plant evolutionary biology, genomics, cytogenetics, cytogenomics, repetitive DNA, ribosomal DNA, (sex) chromosome lover... And now adding biological invasions!

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Today at the session on invasive species organised by prismàtic

20.01.2026 11:58 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Organisers
- @aruizherrera.bsky.social | @ibb-uab.bsky.social
- Daniel Jeffries | University of Bern
- Paul Jay | Universite Grenoble Alpes
- @sphaeromeria.bsky.social | @ibb-botanic.bsky.social
- @astridboehne.bsky.social | @leibnizlib.bsky.social
- @cbenvenuto.bsky.social | @salforduni.bsky.social

08.12.2025 14:58 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026!

🔹 Daniel Jeffries
🔹 Paul Jay
🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social
🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social
🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social

Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution

17.12.2025 09:38 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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This week we're running the Transposable Elements course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social and @ritarebollo.bsky.social

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#TE25 #Bioinformatics #Genomics

04.11.2025 15:04 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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À Punt emite un programa de corridas de toros "históricas" mientras miles de personas se manifiestan contra Mazón un año después de la dana La televisión valenciana ha emitido la feria de toros de Alicante de 1997 en lugar de las masivas protestas que tienen lugar en la capital por el aniversario de la dana

‼️ À Punt emite un programa de corridas de toros “históricas” mientras miles de personas se manifiestan contra Mazón un año después de la dana.

La televisión valenciana ha emitido la feria de toros de Alicante de 1997 en lugar de las masivas protestas que tienen lugar en la capital

25.10.2025 17:51 👍 750 🔁 569 💬 108 📌 147
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"ADN repetitivo, intersección entre la citogenética y la genómica", con Sònia Garcia @sphaeromeria.bsky.social, Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social.

📺 youtu.be/FNP6dfxMhkA?...

13.10.2025 12:35 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Nuestro instituto @ibb-botanic.bsky.social ha propuesto una tematica, contactame si estas interesada/o

09.10.2025 17:57 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#LabPaleoecology from the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social visited ALBA synchrotron for the first time to scan fossil insects embedded in amber. Results are very promising!

04.10.2025 08:24 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Organizing the National Course of Genetics 🧬 by @segenetica.bsky.social and Conexion Genoma @csic.es alongside @dariloops.bsky.social has been a blast!

A great opportunity for young researchers to learn and interact with leaders in the filed of #genomics during a whole week - the future is bright!

19.09.2025 19:06 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

@gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @aruizherrera.bsky.social @segenetica.bsky.social @scb.iec.cat @irbio-ub.bsky.social @sebot.bsky.social

16.09.2025 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free workshop on Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona! All organisms included - not only plants ;-) Last chance for registration, don’t miss it!
bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

16.09.2025 19:27 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

🧐 El grup de recerca de la Integritat i la Inestabilitat del Genoma, liderat per la investigadora Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, demostra que els canvis en la temperatura ambiental poden alterar els processos genètics per a la reproducció i l’evolució de les espècies.

@aruizherrera.bsky.social
#IBBpapers

08.09.2025 07:30 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Interested in repetitive DNA?
We are organising a free repetitive DNA workshop this Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute in Barcelona! Registration is open until September 7th :)
bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

01.09.2025 09:40 👍 7 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
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Family photo of the 2025 Workshop of the @treeofsex.bsky.social ! Thanks everyone for attending and see you soon!

24.08.2025 16:05 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

23.08.2025 09:52 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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13.08.2025 12:55 👍 64 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 0

I can see they are doing quite well! Great!

23.07.2025 05:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Esta es Pepita, la salamanquesa🦎

Como todas las salamanquesas,Pepita:
❌NO es venenosa💀
❌NO te muerde👹
❌NO se come tu ropa👕
❌NO entra por ningún orificio de tu cuerpo para comerte desde dentro👃

😍Es preciosa
🦟Come bichos

Sé responsable. No la mates y repostea para proteger a Pepita.✌️

09.05.2025 19:35 👍 1936 🔁 1175 💬 97 📌 66
The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader

The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader

🌱🌎 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘The winner takes it all: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @joanperepd.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵(1/7)

👉 doi.org/pjvs

@sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social
#AoBpapers

29.04.2025 12:48 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social

03.04.2025 17:03 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada. Jason Stanley who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939 says US may become a 'fascist dictatorship'

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada. Jason Stanley who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939 says US may become a 'fascist dictatorship'

Massive canary in the coalmine moment

27.03.2025 20:22 👍 922 🔁 195 💬 13 📌 11
Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

Drosophila follicle showing retrotransposons (pink & yellow) expressed in somatic cells infecting the oocyte

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇

17.03.2025 11:56 👍 546 🔁 259 💬 12 📌 33

A paywalled article from @nature.com bemoaning the exploitation of scientists' unpaid labour. Chef's kiss. Perfection. No notes.

17.03.2025 18:42 👍 168 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0

This is so destructive and idiotic. mRNA vaccines are one of the most exciting opportunities to tackle diseases - from infectious disease to cancer and beyond - and these morons want to shut it down.

17.03.2025 08:06 👍 51 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1

The letter contains some fascinating insight into workings of a society operated paper vs a for-profit one, and mentions figures specific to operation of MBE. Well worth a read if you're interested in academic publications landscape.

15.03.2025 12:25 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The world’s richest man cries because his stocks fell and uses the White House for a Tesla advert. Meanwhile thousands of Americans he made jobless have no food.

Power only cares about itself. Which why the only real power is PEOPLE POWER. Time to bring the oligarchs down

14.03.2025 06:21 👍 159 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 4
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One of these things is not like the others

13.03.2025 15:51 👍 28899 🔁 10691 💬 639 📌 617
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The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.

Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future?

According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.

12.03.2025 22:50 👍 609 🔁 165 💬 24 📌 17
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Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

12.03.2025 23:57 👍 95 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 1