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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
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 21d
Proud of this highly collaborative, experimental study of the #Proyecto_SALTFISH project. Many cyprinodontiform fishes are very sedentary and thus have a restricted geographical distribution and sometimes their movement behaviour is related to metabolic capacities. However,...
michaelmargalef.bsky.social Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 21d
Check out our new paper on salinity effects on metabolism and movement in #invasive mosquitofish and the threatened Spanish toothcarp! Huge thanks to all the co-authors: @garciaberthou.bsky.social, @jollewjolles.bsky.social, Cesc, and Anna.🐟🔝
@greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social
neobiota.pensoft.net NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · 21d
How do #invasivespecies outcompete #native ones when #environmental conditions change?

🔬New #research on the #invasive Eastern Mosquitofish (𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪) and the endangered Spanish Toothcarp (𝘈𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴) sheds light on the physiological mechanisms at play ⤵️ doi.org/10.3897/neob...

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d
> $300 billion for AUKUS, but remote communities are still having to put up with this dangerous mess, as government funding is inadequate to resolve the issue. Probably wouldn't be tolerated if it were happening in Canberra, would it, @albomp.bsky.social?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Feral camels searching for water descend on remote communities
Large mobs of camels are wreaking havoc in remote Indigenous communities as they desperately search for water.
www.abc.net.au

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Fidra @fidrango.bsky.social · 3d
The UK's new #PFAS plan misses real action on source control - including action on PFAS #pesticides🌱

PFAS pesticides are widely used in the UK, in 2022 they were sprayed on more than 10 million hectares of arable crops 🍃

▶️ pfasfree.org.uk/pfas-in-pest...

▶️ www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/forever...
Forever chemicals plan ignores farming and pesticides, groups say
On Monday, environment minister Emma Hardy announced the government's PFAS (Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) Plan would help reduce their harmful effects and transition to safer alternatives
www.thegrocer.co.uk

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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 4d
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Western Canada glaciers suffered 2nd-greatest ice loss on record in 2025 | CBC News
"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," warns Brian Menounos, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Northe...
www.cbc.ca

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 5d
Traumatised refugees in Almería after escaping Franco and Mussolini's fascist bombing on the road from Málaga. 3-5,000 were murdered by bombs, shells and straffing, many of whom were children. These days in February 1937 by Gerda Taro. Same faces from Kiev to Gaza.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 5d
Las tabaqueras no creen que fumar provoque cáncer de pulmón
Las petroleras no creen que quemar combustible fósil genere cambio climático
Y esas cosas del gran periodismo
www.farodevigo.es/arousa/2026/...
Los pescadores no creen que la anguila vaya a extinguirse
Rechazan la prohibición de su captura que baraja el Gobierno de España
www.farodevigo.es

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 6d
Amb @sphaeromeria.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social i Maria Garcia @ceabcsic.bsky.social, entre d'altres. Més info:
mediambient.gencat.cat/ca/detalls/N...
www.creaf.cat/ca/articles/...
@xcn.cat
Jornada Anual Prismàtic - De la recerca al territori: com decidim davant de les espècies exòtiques invasores?
Dimarts 20 de gener de 2026 en sessió presencial al Districte Administratiu
mediambient.gencat.cat

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 6d
"Para ser buen periodista es imprescindible ser una buena persona."
Y para ser buen investigador/a, también.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Emili García‐Berthou, Mathieu Hainselin , and 3 more

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Nature @nature.com · 6d
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known.

go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
go.nature.com

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 6d
Content de participar en el Prismàtic de fa uns dies, organitzat de forma excel.lent per @creaf.cat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2iS...
parlant d'Anàlisis de riscs i Escanneigs d'horitzó d'espècies exòtiques invasores
@greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social #InvaNET
Com decidim davant les espècies exòtiques invasores? Jornada Prismàtic 2025
YouTube video by CREAF
www.youtube.com

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 7d
Rossella Alba, our new colleague at @hifmb.de leading the Marine Policy and Management working group, offers two fully funded PhD positions here: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21... apply until March 18, and feel free to make potential applicants aware. 🧪 @icbm-uol.bsky.social
Two PhD positions in "Infrastructures, knowledges and policy practices in marine governance" (d/f/m/x)
Layout AWI HIFMB extern, englisch
jobs.awi.de

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Ecologistas en Acción @ecologistasenaccion.org · 8d
Dependemos de la naturaleza para vivir, y la Unión Europea se está cargando las leyes que defienden el medio ambiente y nuestra salud.

Firma para evitarlo. ✍🏾

➡️ www.ecologistasenaccion.org/mi-salud-y-l...

#HandsOffNature

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9d
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit 

@retractionwatch.com
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/03/m...
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit
Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…
retractionwatch.com

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Carlos Hernández de Miguel @demiguelch.bsky.social · 9d
Mi despedida escrita antes de irme para el otro barrio. Hasta siempre.

Carta desde el más allá www.eldiario.es/129_c5c033?u...
Carta desde el más allá: la despedida de Carlos Hernández
El periodista Carlos Hernández, que ha fallecido este martes a los 56 años, dejó este texto escrito para que fuera publicado en elDiario.es tras su muerte
www.eldiario.es

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 10d
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
El rotundo informe para proteger a la angula: “Existe un consenso generalizado sobre su estado crítico”
El comité científico encargado de analizar el estado de esta especie en España advierte sobre la “sobrepesca”, pero Galicia y Asturias rechazan vetar su captura
elpais.com

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Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL) @aillimnologia.bsky.social · 11d
The first #ALQUIBLA of 2026 is already available. Remember, in our newsletter you can always find published works, job opportunities, conferences, courses, awards, divulgation of activities etc. Click here to find it: www.limnetica.net/en/alquibla-...
Alquibla bulletin | Asociación Ibérica de Limnología (AIL)
www.limnetica.net

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Ecologistas en Acción @ecologistasenaccion.org · 11d
Organizaciones ecologistas de toda la UE iniciamos campaña de recogida de firmas para que la ciudadanía exija a la UE que las leyes ambientales no se toquen ni se ponga en riesgo la salud del planeta ni la de los seres humanos.

#HandsOffNature
La coalición Hands Off Nature lanza una nueva campaña contra el retroceso de las normativas ambientales europeas • Ecologistas en Acción
Se abre una nueva campaña de firmas para que la ciudadanía pueda mostrar su apoyo y exigir que las leyes de la naturaleza no se toquen ni se ponga en riesgo la salud del planeta ni la de los seres hum...
www.ecologistasenaccion.org

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WWF EU @wwf.eu · 11d
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! If you love Europe's wetlands, birds, rivers... Sign our petition against dismantling the laws that protect them 💚👇

Powerful polluting industries are pressuring lawmakers to take apart Europe's oldest nature laws.

Stop them: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/ha...

#HandsOffNature

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 13d
Insuficiente y tarde pero...
www.miteco.gob.es/es/prensa/ul...
El MITECO propondrá a las comunidades autónomas declarar la anguila (angula) ‘En peligro de extinción’
El MITECO propondrá a las comunidades autónomas declarar la anguila (angula) ‘En peligro de extinción’
www.miteco.gob.es

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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 14d
"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
igure 1: Overview of results: (Left) We find a significant decrease in library-specific skills (conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging) among workers using AI assistance for completing tasks with a new python library. (Right) We categorize AI usage patterns and found three high skill development patterns where participants stay cognitively engaged when using AI assistance.

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Comentadora Tortuga @comentadortortuga.bsky.social · 14d
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Universitat de Girona @univgirona.bsky.social · 15d
📅 El divendres 6 de febrer se celebra la Jornada de Portes Obertes de la Universitat de Girona 🎓

✨ Podreu viure moments com els que es van viure l’any passat gràcies a la diversitat d’activitats programades.

🚪💡 Obre les portes al teu futur amb la UdG.

#PortesObertesUdG #UdG #univgirona #somudg

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 15d
¿Cómo es posible que, a pesar de la situación crítica en la que se encuentra, la anguila no esté protegida en España?
Porque @miteco.gob.es no está haciendo su trabajo
@ec.europa.eu tampoco lo está haciendo, pero desarrollo en el hilo cómo (parece) que está el tema en España
(1/9)

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 16d
Glad to contribute to this review on the knowns and unknowns on #Salinity tolerance of #freshwater #fish,
with oustanding collaborators, led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social #Limnology #Ecology #Biodiversity #Osmoregulation #Ichthyology #WaterQuality #InlandWaters #OpenAccess

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 16d
Front cover of "Paris Match", today 26 January 1939. Spanish Republican refugees. And on that same morning, cold and grey like this morning in 2026, Franco's invading army entered Barcelona. Five days later "legal" executions began. Some 1700 would be judicially murdered in the city in next 10 years

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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 16d
Salinity tolerance data are available via figshare
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Data from: Global patterns and gaps in research on salinity tolerance of inland fishes
Freshwater salinization is an emerging threat impacting one-third of the world's freshwater bodies. However, the salinity tolerance of many inland fishes remains understudied, despite being a crucial factor in determining species distributions and fitness. We analyzed a global database of experimental salinity tolerance of inland fishes, compiled from 128 sources, to investigate geographical and taxonomic biases. Additionally, we examined how salinity tolerance relates to fish traits and how experimental data align with field-reported salinity levels..Experimental data on salinity tolerance was available for less than 1% of the world’s inland fishes, with data severely lacking from diverse tropical regions and orders such as Siluriformes. Most studies focused on relatively large and widely distributed species from North America, Europe and Oceania. Our results showed that fish salinity tolerance was strongly associated with fish habitat type, taxonomy, aspects of morphology, migratory behaviour and the experimental approach used (direct vs. gradual). Our results also showed significant, though sometimes weak relationships between field-reported salinity levels and experimental estimates. Overall, maximum salinities reported for habitats occupied by inland fishes were lower than experimentally-estimated tolerances.Improved understanding of fish salinity tolerance will be essential for assessing impacts of freshwater salinization and forecasting the invasion potential of non-native species.
doi.org

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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 16d
📈Salinity tolerance was strongly linked to habitat type, taxonomy, morphology, migratory behaviour, and experimental design.

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Emili García‐Berthou

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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 16d
📢 New article alert! Freshwater salinization is an emerging global threat affecting ~1/3 of freshwater ecosystems. Yet, the salinity tolerance of most inland fishes remains poorly understood.
@mncn-csic.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @oldenfish.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Global Patterns and Gaps in Research on Salinity Tolerance of Inland Fishes
Freshwater salinization is an emerging threat impacting approximately one-third of the world's freshwater bodies. However, the salinity tolerance of many inland fishes remains understudied, despite b....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Emili García‐Berthou

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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 17d
Deliberate, organized #poaching for body parts now “represents an intensifying challenge to lion conservation, compounding other threats, many of which are also growing in intensity." #wildlifecrime
Poaching African lions for black market could pose existential threat
Trade in lion bones, skin and teeth is intensifying across Africa, researchers warn poaching could become a defining threat to the species.
news.mongabay.com

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IEA-UdG @iea-udg.bsky.social · 17d
📢 Aquest dijous primer seminari IEA de l'any: "Can Hypersaline Endorheic Lakes Act as a Carbon Sink? Preliminary Results from the CARINSAL Project"
🗓 29/01/2026 · ⏰ 12:30 h
📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Emili García‐Berthou , and 3 more

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 18d
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
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Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
english.elpais.com