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TIBS 2026 in Aarhus: Connecting Biogeography, Culture, and Colleagues Biogeography forms an important framework within the Temporal Ecology Lab (TEBLab), supporting research into how species distributions, environmental change, and human activities interact across long ...

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🏝️ Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social tells us about the recent International Biogeography Society (TIBS) Biennial Conference @biogeography.bsky.social in Aarhus, Denmark ❄️

www.temporalecology.com/post/tibs-20...

@creaf.cat @uab.cat #TIBS

Paleodetectives! Bringing paleoecology to schools Last month, Javi and Judit visited the school IE Rec Comtal (Barcelona) to run a hands‑on activity for high school students as part of the Ciència al Barri (Science in the neighbourhood) initiative. C...

🚨 First TEB Lab blog post of the year! 📣

Javi and Judit tell us about "Paleodetectives!", an educational activity they designed and ran at a local school last month 🔍

www.temporalecology.com/post/paleode...

'Vermut Temporal' hosted at CREAF This November CREAF celebrated an event called Vermut Temporal, co-organised by TEB Lab member Javier de la Casa. This events aim to gather different researchers from CREAF to present their work, fost...

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Javier de la Casa tells us about the Vermut Temporal which he co-organised at @creaf.cat last month 🍻

www.temporalecology.com/post/vermut-...

Exploring South Africa’s Coasts: Tracing the History of Marine Invasions Through Sediments This July, a CEAB team, including TEB Lab PhD student Elena Baños, embarked on a remarkable field expedition along the diverse South African coastline, as part of the ICOOP24 Project. Our mission: to ...

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Elena Baños tells us about a recent field campaign to South Africa, sampling for eDNA and sedaDNA 🧬

www.temporalecology.com/post/explori...

Bromeliad in study. Photo credit: Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley.

Diagramatic representation of bromeliad. Credit: Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley.

The study's first author climbing into the tree canopy. Credit: Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.

New #OpenAccess research by @xaalii.bsky.social et al. in #RESEcolEnt reports on how height and #phytotelm size affect the #invertebrate #communities of epiphytic #bromeliads in the Amazon rainforest.
doi.org/10.1111/een.70030

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social

Great talk by @ymalhi.bsky.social at the @ub.edu this morning 🌴

Research stay with the TEB Lab From April to July 2025, Franka Gaiser, a PhD candidate from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, stayed with the TEB Lab in Bellaterra, Barcelona. When Franka moved to the Universitat de Autònoma d...

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This time, we hear about Franka Gaiser's time visiting the TEB Lab earlier this year – via La Garrotxa, Barcelona, and Tromsø! 🌍

www.temporalecology.com/post/researc...

Alas the credit of getting this feral Bilbergia to flower goes to my mom, not me 🌸

Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’

This might be impressive gene-editing but it’s nonsense as “de-extinction”. They’re not the same and they can’t be. At the end of this piece, the company basically admits that it’s just a flashy claim to drive money into their company. This is not conservation, & it diverts money from work that is.

5 years ago in the old @manmetuni.bsky.social greenhouses, repotting precious bromeliad babies 🍍

An unexpectedly hot expedition to Finnish Lapland This summer, Mariana spent two weeks in Finnish Lapland conducting fieldwork for her BIPOLAR Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. The aim of this project is to quantify the potential for adaptation to clim...

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@nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her summer trip to Finnish Lapland for fieldwork! 🥾

www.temporalecology.com/post/an-unex...

Back to the Seychelles: science, sediments, and surprises From April 28th to June 9th 2025, Sandra, Sergi, and Judit from TEB Lab returned to the Seychelles Islands for another exciting round of fieldwork. This time, they were joined by Jaume Pellicer, a bot...

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Judit and Sandra talk about recent field work in the Seychelles with Sergi and Jaume 🏝️

www.temporalecology.com/post/back-to...

Talking at the sedaDNA conference in Tromsø this week 🧬

End to a very nice conference in Tromsø ☀️ the 2nd sedaDNA conference 🧬

Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’ It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year. The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world with judges praising its approach to addressing its complex past and its extensive work with communities. Continue reading...

Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Pint of Science in Barcelona with @davidperis.bsky.social and @isabelalmudi.bsky.social 🪰👀

The network nature of language endangerment hotspots - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - The network nature of language endangerment hotspots

Cool paper by Nala H. Lee et al

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Olot last week

Somehow ended up in Monaco for the day

Welcome to our first lab retreat! From the 8th to the 10th of April 2025, the TEBLab team, together with two collaborators from Bayreuth University – Dr. Manuel Steinbauer and Franka Gaiser (PhD student) – headed to La Garrotxa for a ...

The TEB lab has just finished its lab retreat in stunning La Garrotxa! 🌋

Judit Rodrigo writes about it in the latest blog ✍️

www.temporalecology.com/post/welcome...

Geochemical imprints of humans on ecosystems Every human action has a fingerprint on the ecosystems, whether it is direct or indirect. Given the intense use of land and human resources, the human fingerprint is also a geochemical fingerprint. Es...

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Javier de la Casa on geochemical imprints of humans on ecosystems 🌱

www.temporalecology.com/post/geochem...

Yup! Coelogyne fimbriata, I think – I lost the tag 😅

Terrarium success 🌸

DNA metabarcoding in Tromsø Last year, I had the pleasure to attend an eDNA metabarcoding course in the Arctic University Museum of Norway, Tromsø.Environmental DNA (eDNA) is that which is obtained from environmental samples suc...

New post on the TEB Lab blog 🧬🏔️🔭

www.temporalecology.com/post/dna-met...

I can talk about eDNA but know nothing of birbs 😅

Thinking about submitting that beautiful manuscript on #eDNA applications in #biomonitoring & #conservation, but you aren't sure where?
Why not consider this collection in @springernature.com Discover Conservation that Eva Aylagas, John Pearman & I are editing?
link.springer.com/collections/...

Whip spider (Paraphrynus laevifrons) covered with chloropid fly puparia. The parasitoid fly attacks the eggs carried by the female. When done, the maggots climb on the "childless" mom's back and pupate. She protects them during this period thanks to her motherly instincts.