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Emili García-Berthou
@garciaberthou.bsky.social
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Ecology of freshwater fish and Invasion biology at the University of Girona (Girona, Catalonia, Spain). Dad of 2 & Bach and jazz enthusiast
invasiber.org/GarciaBerthou
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · Aug 21
Proud of this #OpenAccess paper where we experimentally show that invasive Gambusia impacts a threatened cyprinodontiform fish through water quality degradation and competition. Led by @irene-gil-luna.bsky.social, Lluís Zamora and myself @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social. #bioinvasions

Reposted by Emili García‐Berthou, Ramón López Facal

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Comentadora Tortuga @comentadortortuga.bsky.social · 3d
⚠️Las élites anglosionistas han probado hasta dónde podían llegar, y no encontraron límite.
Gaza lo demuestra.

Erramos si pensamos que estas prácticas de exterminio son cosa lejana.

La barbarie exterminadora sedienta de sangre de pobres continuará. Son los amos del mundo y quieren todo para ellos.

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Tigotanguanche @tigotanguanche.bsky.social · 3d
TERRORISMO de ESTADO
12 diciembre 1977

La GUARFUA CIVIL ASESINÓ a JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ QUESADA

CANARIAS
LA LAGUNA

La Guardia Civil ametralló a Javier Fernández Quesada y la Justicia no buscó culpables: el crimen de la Transición que Canarias no olvida

www.publico.es/politica/mem...
La Guardia Civil ametralló a Javier Fernández Quesada y la Justicia no buscó culpables: el crimen de la Transición que Canarias no olvida
El estudiante fue asesinado en la Transición el 12 de diciembre de 1977, cuando varios agentes comenzaron a disparar en la Universidad de La Laguna durante una huelga general....
www.publico.es

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Infopoint #Klimawandel #Artensterben @infopointa.bsky.social · 4d
#PFAS
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 5d
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it 😼🪲🧪

www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it
Cat videos aren’t just funny, they fuel the growing field of iEcology.
www.popsci.com

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 5d
Doñana bajo el agua es un desastre
Cuatro nasas en la llegada del La Rocina a la marisma dan esto. Cangrejo rojo, /Procambarus clarkii/, y pez gato negro, /Ameiurus melas/.
Nada de anguilas, colmillejas, salinetes, pardillas, cachuelos o espinosos (spp presentes cuando se declaró el Parque Nacional)

Reposted by Emili García‐Berthou, David Burrows

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d
Excellent from @gilestremlett
"Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com

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Diario Público @publico.es · 6d
📰 La Portada de Público ya está disponible para las y los suscriptores:
👉 Fiscales y jueces progresistas consideran un "golpe blando" la condena contra el fiscal general
Adelanto exclusivo para suscriptoras y suscriptores
Consulta el adelanto exclusivo para suscriptores de Público y accede a las noticias más destacadas del día siguiente.
www.publico.es

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Julián Macías @julianmacias.bsky.social · 6d
José Antonio Martín Pallín (Magistrado emérito del Tribunal Supremo) sobre la sentencia que inhabilita al Fiscal General del Estado:
"El fallo es lo más parecido a un golpe de estado en Latino América".

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 6d
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com

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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 6d
We identify three major areas where change is possible:
1. Rethinking research evaluation
2️. Strengthening training & mentorship
3️. Reducing and recognizing administrative tasks

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Emili García‐Berthou, Lotte Korell

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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 6d
Why do so many ecologists share common feelings of disconnection between their research goals and real-world impact? 🌍

Our new article in #FE&E explores the constraints that limit ecological research and how we can mitigate them. 👇

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research
Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception ....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 7d
Illegal landfills, meanwhile, have no restrictions on what enters them, no lining + no filters. Until strong measures are taken to deal with illegal dumping, people's health will continue to be at risk from the chemicals they can contain.
3/3
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field
Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste
www.theguardian.com

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 7d
Historic landfills can contain items we use less today or wouldn't dispose of in landfill. Think lead paint or batteries, asbestos, arsenic. Until relatively recently, there was no requirement to line landfill. Many are in flood or coastal erosion zones.
2/3

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts
More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space
www.theguardian.com

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IEA-UdG @iea-udg.bsky.social · 7d
📢 Vols saber més sobre l'impacte de la contaminació en la fauna marina? Vine demà al seminari a càrrec d’Odei Garcia Garin @odeigg.bsky.social
🗓 20/11/2025 · ⏰ 12:30 h
📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 7d
A reminder of the measure of the man. Former Spanish King Juan Carlos wearing a coat of the incredibly endangered snow leopard (several in fact) as he stands with Kazak president Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2002. At the time he was head of the Spanish branch of WWF.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7d
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:

1982-83 = 0.17

2024-25 = 0.03

...

Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au

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UnArbolUnaVida @unarbolunavida.bsky.social · 10d
cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/11/15/c...
Un sistema de corrientes oceánicas clave podría colapsar. Este país lo declaró "amenaza" para su seguridad nacional | CNN
El clima relativamente templado de Islandia se debe a una crucial red de corrientes que serpentea por el océano Atlántico, llevando calor hacia el norte. Sin ella, la isla sería mucho más gélida y tor...
cnnespanol.cnn.com

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Ignacio Regulez Trenado @ignacioregulez.bsky.social · 10d
Vito Quiles, el activista ultraderechista que fue a provocar a la UAB, financiado por Feijóo, Ayuso y Almeida - El Triangle www.eltriangle.eu/es/2025/10/2...
Vito Quiles, el activista ultraderechista que fue a provocar a la UAB, financiado por Feijóo, Ayuso y Almeida - El Triangle
Vito Quiles, el provocador de extrema derecha que se presentó en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) el pasado 16 de octubre para inaugurar su
www.eltriangle.eu

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 11d
New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

Reposted by Emili García‐Berthou, James Connelly

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 12d
Plastic pellets are often mistaken for fish eggs + eaten by sea creatures. Because plastic is so absorbent, it soaks up pollutants from water which are consumed along with them. These beads were being used at a wastewater treatment plant so who knows what they could have absorbed.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Peter Thorne , and 13 more

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 12d
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.

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udgpolitecnica.bsky.social @udgpolitecnica.bsky.social · 13d
#EncenMontilivi durant 4 dies podeu gaudir d’aquest espectacle al #campus de la @univgirona.bsky.social www.udg.edu/ca/encenmont...

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 14d
Feijóo, sobre la dana: “Si vuelve a llover con la intensidad que llovió, volvería a pasar lo mismo”
Feijóo, sobre la dana: “Si vuelve a llover con la intensidad que llovió, volvería a pasar lo mismo”
El líder del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ha asegurado este miércoles que si vuelve a llover con la misma intensidad con la que lo hizo el 29 de octubre de 2024 en la Comunitat Valenciana volvería a ocur...
www.eldiario.es

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 19d
"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths."

"You couldn't put your finger in the water."

Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.

News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...

Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌎 🧪
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com

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ARNET – Aquatic Research Network @arnetla.bsky.social · 20d
🌿 Over 1,200 non-native species are established in the Iberian Peninsula, shows a new study in Diversity and Distributions.
“Biological invasions are among the main threats to biodiversity,” says Filipe Ribeiro (ARNET/@marescience.bsky.social).
#ARNET #MARE #CIMA #CBMA #BiologicalInvasions

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Carlos Cabido @cabido.bsky.social · 23d
Ante la crisis ecosocial, más que conocimiento, tal vez nos faltan vínculos.

Vivimos rodeados de vida. A veces, sin darnos cuenta.
Cada árbol o lagartija con la que nos cruzamos forma parte de una red de relaciones ecológicas. Y tal vez sepamos ponerles nombre o número a algunas de esas especies.

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 23d
Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️

Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation

Check who already signed up:
www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community
Fish embryos under the microscope

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 27d
98% of fish + mussels in English waters contaminated with mercury over EU safety levels

Sources:
1. burning fossil fuels in power stations, vehicles, homes, + to make cement
2. mercury fillings in dead bodies. Really.

Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social reports

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Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings
Exclusive: More than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above EU safety limits
share.google

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Javier Martín @txaverius.bsky.social · 29d
Un tenebroso comienzo para la invernada de grullas. Si veis grullas enfermas o muertas no las toquéis y avisad al 112, que ya tiene un protocolo al respecto.

elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
La gripe aviar se ceba con las grullas: Aragón ha localizado 500 aves silvestres muertas
La enfermedad ha alcanzado la reserva natural de Gallocanta, principal humedal salino de Europa occidental, donde se espera la llegada de decenas de miles de ejemplares
elpais.com

Reposted by Thomas Backhaus, Emili García‐Berthou, Anthony Ricciardi , and 4 more

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 29d
After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com