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Leonardo Platania

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PhD Research assistant at Institut Botanic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social I am interested in #insect #evolution and #biogeography, islands, and diversification dynamics. #entomology #taxonomy

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just arrived here! I hope for a social where I can comfortably share and talk about #science and the #natural world avoiding toxic and unpleasant contaminations.

I will post my last two posts from X just to have something on my profile.

#freedom

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Lisa Pokorny @calyptrochaeta.bsky.social · Apr 3

¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social

Fruiting 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 by the Tormes in Barco de Ávila, Spain.
With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_hispanicus.jpg Author: Xemenendura (2018/07/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Flowering 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 in Valverde del Camino, Spain. Image downloaded from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_telonensis_en_flor.jpg Author: FRANCISCOR (2014/04/15). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴 leaves, Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Islands, Spain. With minor modifications from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenocarpus_viscosus_02.jpg Author: Syrio (2023/10/18). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. in GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-03.

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Apr 3

Pep Serra @serradiaz.bsky.social del IBB ha participado en un estudio de #darkdiversity que muestra que las regiones afectadas por la actividad humana albergan solamente 1/5 de las especies vegetales potenciales

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Feb 20

New Paper!
Amazing fluorescent patterns in terrestrial #crabs from the forests of #Borneo!

In this field note, we review fluorescence in #Decapoda and discuss possible biological meanings, focusing on our bornean species.

link: ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/btp....

@biotropica.bsky.social

In this field note, we review fluorescence in #Decapoda and discuss its possible biological meaning focusing on our bornean species.

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Feb 11

An amazing finding from collegues and friends!
A butt-termite face fly larva!

Another extraordinary story about adaptation.

#evolution #mimicry #behaviour #entomology

@rogervilalab.bsky.social
@phylomigrationlab.bsky.social

Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Feb 11

🍑 The back end of these fly larvae mimics both the shape and scent of termites to infiltrate into their nests

@ibb-botanic.bsky.social contributes to this study led by @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social that raises many questions about adaptive evolution and interspecies communication 🔽

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · Feb 10

A study led by #IBE discovered fly with a fake termite face capable of infiltrating and socialising in a termite mound🪰🪱

👉 https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/news/-/asset_publisher/PXTgqZXxlocA/content/fly-with-a-fake-termite-face-capable-of-infiltrating-and-socialising-in-a-termite-mound/maximized

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romansapino.bsky.social @romansapino.bsky.social · Jan 31

🧬📢New bioinformatics approach using metagenomic sequences to detect pathogenic bacterial species in Iberian desman feces. A promising tool for wildlife health monitoring & species conservation! We hope you find it interesting!
🤓👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦦 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 13

Today was the last day of this interesting course.
It is always cool to learn new things!

#nichemodeling #sdm #biomod2

Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢 Avui comença el curs "Introducción al modelado del Nicho Ecológico" (11-13 des. 2024), organitzat per la SGR ZooSysEvo @marnedo.bsky.social i el doctorat en Biodiversitat, amb la instrucció de l'investigador Fernando Martínez-Freiría del CIBIO/InBIO (Portugal). 🌍🔗 sites.google.com/view/fmartin...

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Javier del Campo @fonamental.bsky.social · Dec 10

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina

One year into President Javier Milei's presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

www.nature.com

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Sure!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Of course!

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Of course!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

An interesting issue about a hot topic!!

#microevolution #macroevolution

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Dec 3

Our December issue is now online! A special issue Guest Edited by @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social, Theo Gaboriau and Thibault Latreille:

Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms

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Artwork by Alberto Garcia Jimenez

Volume 37 Issue 12 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Sure!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Of course!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 5

sure!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sure!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 4

You're in!

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Dec 3

Here's the second starter pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists: go.bsky.app/j5DX3f

Link to first starter pack: go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Follow these inspirational folks to support the next generation of evolutionary biologists #evobio

Out of time for now! Will add more names this weekend

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sure! You're in!

Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 3

Sure!

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Noémie Hévin @noemiehevin.bsky.social · Dec 3

Our article on the evolution of Apollo butterflies just got published in @ssbbulletin.bsky.social 🦋 We investigate how using total-evidence dating with the two Parnassiinae fossils reshapes their age and historical biogeography. 🌍 @cnrs.bsky.social #ISEM #evolution
👉 doi.org/10.18061/bss...

Original illustrations of the two fossils belonging to Parnassiinae. Illustrations of †Doritites bosniaskii on the left were made by Rebel (1898), and illustrations of †Thaites ruminiana on the right were made by Scudder (1875)

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 3

Sure!

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Nov 28

We are looking for a candidate for a 2-year postdoc position at IBB

Focus areas: fossils, insect-plant interactions, evolution and 3D reconstructions 🪲🌿

Deadline: Dec 15.

Please apply or share! Full details below 👇

David Peris @davidperis.bsky.social · Nov 28

🚨Seeking for early postdocs at #LabPaleoecology from the @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

Please spread it among your interested contacts

Please DM if any doubt

#postdoc #paleontology #fossil #insects #plants #paleoecology #evolution #ecosystems

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Mikko Kolkkala @xcsci.bsky.social · Dec 1

"Common misconceptions of speciation", nice! I have to read this, definitely will use this image!

academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 2

Of course!

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Leonardo Platania @ilplataleo.bsky.social · Dec 1

Sure!