Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱

Biologist because of Humboldt | Interested in plant ecology, evolution and biodiversity | MSc Biology student at @WUR | #BotanyIsNotDead | ESP - ENG - PT

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

I'm glad to announce that the poster I brought to #IBC2024 will be physically displayed at position 303!!

[AJ Thurston, PhD @AJThurston]

Me coming back to R after bravely venturing into Python.

[Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @Davey_F_Wright]

"Extinction of experience" in areas like ecology & paleobiology isn't just about fieldwork. It's also loss of taxonomic expertise. Any focus on Big Data, divorced from knowledge of natural history, is a largely vacuous enterprise w/ limited capacity to generate meaningful insight

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

It feels appropriate to retweet this, and even more so considering that in the university in which I did my undergrad there is pressure to eliminate field trips in biology and similar degrees…

[saskya van Nouhuys @Saskyavn]

An important article about the decline of Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology.

Extinction of experience among ecologists: Trends in Ecology & Evolution https://t.co/MTmYT7788V

[Guille 🦠 (willogeny.bsky.social) @willogeny]

My colleagues have just finished a decade-long project to write this gorgeous monograph (free to read online!) on testate amoebae of the family Hyalospheniidae 🦠📖🥳
https://t.co/RpXnewCAAh

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

Can we be sure?

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to spend an afternoon working at the herbarium of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. It’s such a shame I couldn’t stay longer to explore the museum—I guess I’ll have to return to Leiden someday!😜

[Ecoinformatics IAVS @iavs_ecoinfo]

📣 Our series of free practical webinars "Cutting vEdge Tools" is back for a festive session focusing on different facets of vegetation and biodiversity data!
Save the dates 📅 December 20th and January 31st. Be sure to register at https://t.co/NELnMObIyU only 100 places!

[Milan Chytrý @MilanChytry]

🌍🌱 It’s often believed that plant communities with greater phylogenetic diversity also have higher functional diversity. In other words, the more evolutionary lineages present, the greater the range of traits. But is this always true?
🌿 In our Preslia article last year, led by Martin Večeřa and Zdeňka Lososová, we discovered that in European grasslands, these two measures of diversity are often decoupled. Now, in our latest study led by Georg Hähn, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, we expanded the scope to a global scale using 1.8 million vegetation plots from the sPlot database.
🌿 The results were unexpected and challenged conventional wisdom: globally, plant communities with high phylogenetic diversity often have low functional diversity.
📖 Read more in our study:
https://t.co/IO8fXVVmZZ

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Not terrified by this graph?

That’s because you’ve been deliberately confused & distracted by inanity, culture wars & conspiracy theories spread by a media & politics in the pocket of psychotic billionaires who are gutting our society & our futures for grotesque personal profit.

[🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk]

Agreed! That's why I wrote ggpubfigs, a ggplot2 extension that *only colorblind-friendly color palettes.

Easily make your figures colorblind-friendly with ggpubfigs! https://t.co/frQgsl7zjP

[Fernando Valladares @FernandoVallada]

¿Qué podemos hacer para que colectivamente vinculemos lo que hacemos y lo que no hacemos con lo que pasa, con las consecuencias del cambio climático? ¿Hasta cuando sancionar a los que denunciamos los impactos de la inacción climática? ¿A quien tranquiliza que vayan a la cárcel?

[Andrés Actis @ActisAndres]

En poco más de 50 años, nos hemos cargado casi tres cuartas partes de la biodiversidad del planeta.

[𝑫𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐 🌿 @don_helecho]

Para que se te quiten las ganas de barrer.
Y si la vas a recolectar, colócala en jardines y parques 🍂

[Andrés Actis @ActisAndres]

Todas las noticias que leas hoy son intrascendentes respecto a esta: los ecosistemas están perdiendo su capacidad de almacenar y absorber carbono.

"Hasta ahora la naturaleza ha compensado nuestro abuso. Esto está llegando a su fin", alerta @jrockstrom
https://t.co/nJ6Y9DpLCr

[Rebelión Científica España @EsRebelCientif]

El científico jefe del @IPCC_CH,@JimSkeaIPCC, declara que el objetivo de 1,5ºC esta muerto.
Al de 2ºC poco le falta.
Podríamos llegar a 3ºC entre 2050-2060.

Llevamos años advirtiéndolo.
Ahora es evidente aun para los más conservadores.
#LaCienciaEsClara
https://t.co/GcNp8qKaiC

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse."

😬 Read that twice!

[𝑫𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒐 🌿 @don_helecho]

Todo lo que se puede observar en un espacio pequeño de "maleza".

Algo que no te da el pasto podado a 5 cm del suelo.

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

Check out this!

[WikiProject Protista @WikiProtista]

WikiProject Protista is the newest project in the biology-related side of @Wikipedia. We collaborate in creating & editing articles for protists 🦠, which are all eukaryotes except animals 🐀, plants 🌿 and fungi 🍄. Any help is welcome! https://t.co/YYGNTrkXAg

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

@maria_smur A ti por exponerlo! Es el primer paso para que los que tengan que esconder la cara sean ellos

[Elvira Castillo-Almansa🌱 @ecastilloalmans]

Es increíble la inacción de las instituciones ante estas situaciones. Fuerza a las víctimas.

[María Sánchez @maria_smur]

He decidido hacer un hilo denunciando los abusos sexuales por parte un profesor de ambientales de la UV, hace unos 10 años, que no sé si sigue trabajando.
No voy a dar datos, pero quiero contar mi experiencia.
Quiero se sepa que esto pasó durante mucho tiempo y la UV no hizo nada