Daniel García-Castellanos

Earthling scientist @CSIC.
Born at 321ppm CO2: Temp+1.3 C. SeaLevel+21cm. ExtinctionRatex100. What shapes the Earth's surface? Unknowns sexier than knowns.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

A short clip by France 5 on the Mediterranean salt giant (Messinian salinity crisis) - "Cataclysmes: le grandes régulateurs", a documentary by Christine Tournadre. Very happy of the final shape of the 3D animations. As real as they can get!
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[Diana Morant @DianaMorantR]

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de Josefina Castellví, pionera de la oceanografía española y primera directora de una Base Antártica Española.

Su legado en la ciencia, la investigación polar y la igualdad en la ciencia inspira a generaciones.

Gracias por abrir caminos.

[Patricia Rodríguez @patriciardguezc]

Está sí que es buena…

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

@DianaMorantR Ella propuso el nombre del rey emérito para la Base Antártica Española BAE, podría ser un buen momento para cambiarlo y ponerle el suyo.

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte @perezreverte]

La guerra que todos perdimos, en palabras exactas de David Uclés. 

Hace menos de un mes.

[EMA @Filomat_]

Hablar de Félix de Azara no es sólo hablar de un naturalista brillante. Es hablar de cómo la ciencia española se ejerció históricamente dentro de un entramado institucional, político y técnico que hizo posible conocer y dominar territorios a escala imperial. Y merece un hilo:👇🧵

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Fascinating paper just published in Science.

The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more.

Their central finding challenges a common belief.

Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time.

By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top.

An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence.

Link to the paper in the first reply.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

@OperadorNuclear @iterorg ¿sabes algo del reactor chino en construcción? en verano se publico que tenía fecha de *producción* para 2030 pero no he vuelto a ver más.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

El papel del sílice en el origen de la vida (divulgación) - por Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz https://t.co/0HwhPxvhsy

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Farthest ever landing. Titan landing.

It's a shame many people don't know we landed on a moon of Saturn.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

@meteourologo esto fue el 10-O

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

This paper by @TihanaPensa based on seismics, biostratigraphy, and strontium, suggests the Red Sea was restricted from the ocean near Suez, salinified, then desiccated, then reflooded from the Indian Ocean only 250 ky before the same happened to the Mediterranean.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

Fresh one:
Desiccation of the Red Sea basin at the start of the Messinian salinity crisis was followed by major erosion and reflooding from the Indian Ocean

By Pensa et al, 2025

https://t.co/4G0wOlUGRS

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

A landscape evolution model inspired by the evolution of the Duero and Ebro Basins (N Spain). The different topographic evolution is controlled by the faster erosion along the weaker Ebro outlet.
https://t.co/ZW1VYJGn5Z
From Struth et al., 2021, BSGF
https://t.co/EZfjjzXYps

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

I got this comment.
I had to click on his username, only to find out that his last upload to Youtube is a 'documentary' about an alien city in Antarctica. 🤦‍♀️

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

Our recent paper in @ScienceAdvances.
We may have a better picture of how the Mediterranean level evolved during the Lago-Mare: "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate"
https://t.co/jhR7dklJFH
https://t.co/sTPNGpPf95

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

I need to share this wonderful openwater swimming day in Barcelona

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

Source: ESA
https://t.co/E3zqiv9V6i

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

Measures of ozone in polar regions over time. The 'Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer' entered into force in 1989. The blue line is a model.

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

Ha fallecido la madre del programa Erasmus Sofia Corradi. 38 años después todavía no existe un programa comparable de intercambio a nivel español.

[Agenzia ANSA @Agenzia_Ansa]

E' morta 'mamma Erasmus'. Addio alla professoressa Sofia Corradi. Ideò il programma Ue che dal 1987 porta in giro per l'Europa migliaia di studenti #ANSA https://t.co/RF51DEtWGH

[Daniel García-Castellanos @danigeos]

This is fantastic. Are you familiar with he ‘Cargo Cult’? (Pacific islanders worshiping planes after WW2). This is Greece. Local islanders celebrate the end of the tourist season by diving behind the propellers of a departing boat

[GeocienciasHubCSIC @GeocienciasCSIC]

Hoy inauguramos "Explorar la Tierra: un viaje con Verne y las Geociencias".
A las 10.30 en la sede de Madrid del @IGME1849