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David Peris

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Paleontologist. Amber and beetle lover (better if mixed 💛🪲). Ramón y Cajal #RyC researcher at the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (Spain). PI of #PaleoecologyLab, Interested in #insect #evolution, insect-plant #interactions and #pollination ecology

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Gondwanan Origin of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles and Their Rapid Worldwide Diversification During the Cretaceous Aim It is not trivial to estimate the relative contributions of dispersal, vicariance, and range contraction in explaining the present-day distribution of ancient clades. In this study, we aim to in...

🚨PAPER ALERT🚨
A new work led by @jules2701.bsky.social explains the evolutionary dispersion of bark beetles (Scolytinae) and the angiosperms to gymnosperm host shifts during the Cretaceous.
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

25.02.2026 12:25 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Multiple Dating Methods and Insights from the Fossil Record Reveal that Bark Beetles Predate the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution Abstract. Estimating the age of a given clade is not trivial. Most dating studies rely on a node dating approach, which is highly sensitive to fossil place

🚨PAPER ALERT🚨
This is the (great!) first paper from @jules2701.bsky.social PhD project. Three different dating methods using fossil record point to the same results: Scolytinae predated the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution.
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology
academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

24.02.2026 14:31 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Evolution of Flower Beetles as Visitors and Pollinators An estimated 20% of about 400,000 species of beetles (Coleoptera) are flower visitors. Despite this huge taxonomic and natural history diversity, beetle–flower interactions have historically been over...

🚨New publication🚨
Beetles are not only neglected pollinators!
The Evolution of Flower Beetles as Visitors and Pollinators - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#LabPaleoecology @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

28.11.2025 13:57 👍 7 🔁 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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2️⃣punto del #PactoXLaCiencia
💆‍♀️Simplificación y eficiencia burocrática
👇🧵Vamos con el hilo para que también les quede bien explicado a @cienciagob.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social

15.09.2025 08:15 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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📢TWO JOB VACANCIES!!
Interested in Paleoecology, fossil insects or plants? 🪲🌸
These temporary research assistant positions may be for you!

Join the #LabPaleoecology at the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social Botanical Institute of Barcelona (Spain).

Check details here👇

19.08.2025 10:23 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations to Laura Pajot, PhD candidate in #PaleoecologyGroup, at @ibb-botanic.bsky.social, for the prize Fairon-Demaret to the best poster at Agora Palebotanica (Paris, France).
Title: Cretaceous–Paleogene angiosperm woodiness

16.07.2025 15:21 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🔴La convocatoria “Consolidación Investigadora” de este año vuelve a sufrir un recorte
📉Es un 50% menos que 2024, que a su vez ya fue recortada otro 50% respecto a 2023
👉¿Consecuencia? Aún más problemas para la estabilización @cienciagob.bsky.social @ageinves.bsky.social @dianamorantr.bsky.social
🧵

08.07.2025 09:07 👍 23 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3
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Developing Systematic Entomology and expanding its scope Click on the article title to read more.

some recent changes for #Systematic_Entomology @royentsoc.bsky.social !

We welcome new people on our board of EiCs ( #Ligia_Benavides, #Christopher_Owen and #Emmanuel_Toussaint) and expand our scope to include most non-terrestrial arthropods 🕷️

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

28.06.2025 17:41 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Pequeña mosca de rayas amarillas y marrón oscuras sobre una florecita de color rosa

Pequeña mosca de rayas amarillas y marrón oscuras sobre una florecita de color rosa

Minúscula hembra de Sphaerophoria scripta (~7 mm) comiendo granos de polen en una flor de Petrorhagia nanteuilii (Caryophyllaceae). En su vida anterior como larva se buscó la vida devorando pulgones entre las hierbas. Ahora en su vida adulta sigue ayudando a las plantas, pero ahora como polinizador

22.06.2025 17:56 👍 66 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

Tip si estás buscando un #postdoc por Europa: Hace poco salieron los últimos resultados de las #ERC Advanced: erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul... así que si estáis buscando grupos que puedan tener bastante financiación ahora, potencialmente ahí están ;) Yo conseguí mi 1er postdoc así hace 10 años.

23.06.2025 13:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Postdoc Job offer for Arthropod Ecologists 🪲🕷️

Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social offers a 3 year postdoc starting in October latest.
Arthropod diversity, interactions & functions in different research programs, e.g. @bexplo.bsky.social

Apply by June 19th

www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

08.06.2025 10:07 👍 16 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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A new study shows how garden flowers keep city pollinators flying all year round When we think of cities, gardens might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these green patches — whether in private yards, parks, or balconies — play a surprisingly important role in sup…

In a new study just published, I teamed up with some Brazilian colleagues to explore how the different features of garden flowers help sustain #pollinators throughout the year in a subtropical urban garden.

Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/05/30/a...

#biodiversity #ecology #bees

30.05.2025 13:27 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨
35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Please get in touch with questions!

29.05.2025 00:06 👍 69 🔁 62 💬 0 📌 3
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💸¿Cuánto cobra un postdoc en España en 2025?
📉 Spoiler: muy poco, seguimos perdiendo poder adquisitivo desde 2008 @cienciagob.bsky.social
📢Un año más, llega uno de nuestros informes estrella. ¡Acompáñanos en este hilo!🧵
🔗 fji.precarios.org/cuanto-cobra...

27.05.2025 09:28 👍 25 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3

Any young paleo workers will be hard pressed to find a better opportunity than this.

21.05.2025 05:28 👍 9 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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Insects and #pollination will have room at @pintofscience.es in Barcelona 🪲🪷
🗓️ 19th of May
⏰ 19:00 h
📍Bocca di Bonifacio Tetuan - Ausiàs March, 43, Barcelona
Science & Beer 🍻
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology

10.05.2025 11:14 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
bumblebee on flower by Felix Fornoff

bumblebee on flower by Felix Fornoff

We are #hiring a lecturer and #researcher:

- Teaching in ecology and nature conservation
- Research on plant-pollinator interactions
- Supervision of students
- Contribution to our major collaborative projects

Start 01.09.2025
Salary according to TV-L E13, 100%

🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

06.05.2025 06:19 👍 27 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
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🦋🌿 Convidem a les famílies a venir a la propera Jornada “Plantes i petits animals”!

Ciència i art convergiran en tallers, jocs i activitats per a infants de 3 a 12 anys.✨

📍Institut Botànic de Barcelona
🗓️Dissabte 24 de maig, d’11h a 17h
👉Les places són limitades! Inscriu-te aquí: bit.ly/4k5rSz0

07.05.2025 16:20 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Hace dos meses denunciábamos la violencia burocrática y pedíamos un CV unificado:
bsky.app/profile/fjip...

Pero la violencia burocrática también es papeles y más papeles para justificaciones mínimas. Como dice @fpalazon.bsky.social, ¡queremos tiempo para hacer ciencia!

29.04.2025 14:23 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Ruta de la Botánica Funeraria | Cementiris de Barcelona CBSA

• Botànica funerària al Cementiri de Montjuïc (27/04) bit.ly/42a89s7

• Visites al papilionari per a escoles

• V Biomarató de Flora: sortida al Jardí Botànic (17/05) i a Collserola (19/05)

• Jornada Art i Ciència per famílies (24/05)

Anirem donant més informació

11.04.2025 10:17 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨New publication in @cp-iscience.bsky.social 🚨
Peñalver et al. describe diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm to angiosperm plant-host ecological shift
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social @amberia-team.bsky.social
#LabPaleoecology

07.04.2025 15:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing #beetle

05.04.2025 19:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany

www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

01.04.2025 16:26 👍 41 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 5
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📢 Buscamos candidato/a para beca JAE Intro

Conexión GENOMA-02 "Papel de los elementos transponibles en la diversificación del sistema nervioso"

Estudiantes de grado/máster
800 €/mes (20h)
Grupo: @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social

⏳ Deadline: 16 de abril

👉 bit.ly/3QPrBDW

27.03.2025 14:17 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
On improving the sustainability of peer review The term “reviewer fatigue” has become only too familiar in scientific publishing. This editorial discusses how we can ease the burden on reviewers to make the peer review system more sustainable, whi...

This interesting article on reviewer fatigue prompts me to publicize my most over-used web resource: JANE - the Journal Author Name Estimator jane.biosemantics.org which, based on an abstract, can help authors find a home for their manuscripts and help editors to find reviewers for submissions

28.03.2025 09:15 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Pollinator Academy The Pollinator Academy is a learning platform with integrated taxonomic tools and information on European pollinators.

Amigos y amigas abejologas, estos cursos van a ser top y creo que pueden estar financiados por la EU, así que si os interesa la taxonomía, hacer una expresión de interés: pollinatoracademy.eu/training/eu-...

25.03.2025 17:33 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Graphical abstract of: Whole-genome data shed light on speciation and within-species differentiation of the Papilio machaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin

Graphical abstract of: Whole-genome data shed light on speciation and within-species differentiation of the Papilio machaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin

In a new #RESSystematicEnt article, whole-genome data shed light on #speciation & within-species differentiation of the #PapilioMachaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin🦋

See the #OpenAccess article🔽
doi.org/10.1111/syen.12675

@gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com

23.03.2025 13:47 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Defensa de tesi doctoral

🔬 Aquest dimecres Constanza Peña Kairath presenta la seva recerca sobre la pol·linització en el Cretaci, analitzant evidències en ambre de fa milions d’anys!

Si t’interessen els fòssils i la relació insecte-planta al llarg de l’evolució, aquesta defensa és per a tu!

17.03.2025 07:51 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Solemne Acto de Investidura de Carlos Manuel Herrera Maliani, como Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Jaén El Solemne Acto de Investidura de Carlos Manuel Herrera Maliani, como Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Jaén, se celebrará el martes 18 de marzo, a las 12 horas, en el Aula Magna del Campus L...

Mañana seré investido Doctor Honoris Causa por la Univ Jaén. El acto se retransmitirá por streaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lo...

En mi discurso desarrollaré la idea de que la primera víctima de los cambios ecológicos globales fue la ciencia ecológica misma. Haré diagnóstico y también propuestas.

17.03.2025 11:35 👍 124 🔁 19 💬 32 📌 1