Siempre habrá una cosa que me haga gracia sobre el desarrollo Chino Ves una ciudad china cómo ChongQing que en 1980 tenia 2, 4 millones de habitantes y ves que ahora tiene 19 MILLONES Madrid superaba por 2 millones de habitantes esta ciudad, que era basicamente una ciudad

🇨🇳 Cuando viajéis a China, no uséis Google Maps: no va bien ni con VPN. Usad Amap. Además, permite ya usar su aplicación en inglés, como muestra este vídeo:

Small is beautiful! In a new pre-print in eLife, a team led by Alexey Polilov 🕊️ do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp! elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

A spectacular flower spider from Brazil. (Photo Sergio Monteiro)

This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is.. we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

📢Exciting Opportunity!! 🙌 We are hiring a reseach assistant! Do you have experience in computerized tomography of insects and 3D segmentation? Come to work with us! Institut Botànic de Barcelona #LabPaleoecology Amberia Research Postgrado CSIC

Los chinos cuando los portugueses les dijeron que tenían Japón al lado

🚨 NEW EARLY VIEW 📃 Peñalver et al., 2025. Fungal cortices in kauri resin from New Zealand as taphonomic and ecological analogues of #Cretaceous #amber cortices: an actualistic approach check it now! 👇 doi.org/10.7203/sjp.29… #OpenAccess #SJP #SpanishJournalofPalaeontology

New paper out ✍️ in Communications Biology: Diversification and extinction of Hemiptera in deep time with my friends Mathieu Boderau and André Nel doi.org/10.1038/s42003… ISYEBsp Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Oxford University Museum of Natural History

📢Paper alert! Fossil record is fundamental to elucidating the origin and evolution of insect pollination, as well as informing on present-day plant–pollinator interactions. Check it out in Peris et al. Biol. Rev.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC #LabPaleoecology

In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris & Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. More here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/evo… #pollinators #biodiversity

A new Doctor in the team!!! Congratulations Constanza 🌷🦋

Prototaxites update

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to immobilise other insects newscientist.com/article/247381…

Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination 🌺🪲 David Peris et al. review the current knowledge on insect pollination of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants, highlighting the relevance of the study of the fossil record. doi.org/10.1111/brv.70…

🚨New publication in iScience journal 🚨 Peñalver et al. describe diverse Mesozoic thrips carrying pollen during the gymnosperm to angiosperm plant-host ecological shift doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… Institut Botànic de Barcelona Amberia Research #LabPaleoecology

🇨🇳 La situación actual con China es muy graciosa porque es el país más desarrollado de la actualidad, pero hay como un acuerdo tácito global para seguir simulando que son pobres y viven mal.

🇨🇳🇯🇵 Japanese blogger went to China to prove that the shiny cyberpunk cities are fake!

📢TWO JOB VACANCIES!! Interested in Paleoecology, fossil insects or plants? 🪲🌸 These temporary research assistant positions may be for you! Join the #LabPaleoecology at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (Spain). Check details here👇

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Un problema de que la anglosajonada tenga a China como enemigo civilizacional es que no es recíproco. Los chinos suelen tener una vision positiva de Occidente, son hospitalarios y no tienen un sistema que les alimente de odio. Odiáis a gente que os invitaría a su casa👍