“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is (...) people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist” ―Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

How long do ecosystems need to recover from a mass extinction? I am glad to share today's paper in Science: "Biodiversity impact of the Messinian salinity crisis", in collab with Konstantina Agiadi and many others. 1/5 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#ricercaOGS Sulla rivista Science lo studio sul "gigante salino" che, più di 5 milioni di anni fa, ha radicalmente rimodellato la biodiversità del Mediterraneo. Info su science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Two physicists, Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha from the Indian Institute of Science, inadvertently discovered a new formula for calculating π while working on string theory. Their findings were published in Physical Review Letters in January 2024. This formula generates an

Outreach video summarising scenarios proposed for the biodiversity crisis we quantify in this week's paper in Science. The biological impact of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean youtu.be/y6GV_tnFta0?si…

"El lado oscuro de la ciencia en España", por J.J. Gómez Cadenas: "la paradoja de que la investigación fundamental (un área donde somos competitivos) no obtiene suficiente financiación a expensas de inversiones fallidas en innovación. Dos tiros en el pie." jotdown.es/2024/08/dimens…

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive? The answer has just been published in Science Magazine Daniel García-Castellanos & Konstantina Agiadi in The Conversation ES theconversation.com/5-5-million-ye…

Stage 19 in the battle for red in #lavuelta24 brings the riders to the Rioja region, along the flanks of the Ebro valley. We didn't get much change to talk Pyrenees this Vuelta, but here we can, a little bit! The hills of todays' stage coincide with large, NW-SE trending

¿Cómo acabar con el 89 % de las especies del Mediterráneo? Lecciones del pasado geológico. theconversation.com/como-acabar-co…

#BREAKING #Poland: The dam in Międzygórze is beyond any control, close to breaking due to the huge amounts of water in the reservoir The entire region in the strategic border area between Austria, Czech Republic, Poland & Slovakia faces historical floods

“España vivió una especie de apocalipsis ambiental a mediados del siglo XIX, lo que pasa es que se ha olvidado”. De 6 a 19 millones de hectçareas forestales en 180 años. El gran avance del bosque en España: así ha cambiado el paisaje. elpais.com/clima-y-medio-…

This is a cool one! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Este cambio tuvo consecuencias vigentes hasta hoy: se fijó un patrón que sigue existiendo, según el cual la biodiversidad disminuye progresivamente desde el Mediterráneo occidental hasta el oriental. Para saber más, lee aquí: elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20…

Un informe para el Comité Español de Ética confirma la “manipulación sistemática” del currículum del rector de Salamanca elpais.com/ciencia/2024-0…