Paleontologist. Amber and beetle lover (better if mixed 💛🪲). Ramón y Cajal #RyC researcher at the @IBB_botanic. #labPaleoecology, #evolution, #pollination
Barcelona
Joined December 2021
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
Led by @JulesFerre94120, it describes a new fossil Ptinidae (Coleoptera) from the Eocene Oise amber using synchrotron light 🪲🌳⌛️💡
academic.oup.com/aesa/articl…
@IBB_botanic #PaleoecologyLab
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Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects, for food, shelter, protection and much more - read about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/3…
🚨Paper alert 🚨
Our new publication in @SciReports demonstrates that #DNA is not better preserved in #insects embedded in #resin than in those preserved outside 🦟🧬
Jurassic Park will remain always fiction
👉 rdcu.be/Np9Xk5q5kgYa
@IBB_botanic @CSICdivulga #LabPaleoecology
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🦟🧬 Com de realista era la premissa de Jurassic Park?
Un estudi liderat per l'IBB amb @IBE_Barcelona i @IGME1849 analitza si la resina conserva millor l'ADN dels insectes.
📖 Publicat a Scientific Reports.
🔗 Més informació: ibb.csic.es/2026/09/02/juras…
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A new genus and species of Trechinae discovered from the ~100 Ma French Charentese amber! Dedicated to the famous English rock band MUSE, Cydonius musei helps refining the age of the subfamily in a TED framework.
doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixag028
#LabPaleoecology @IBB_botanic
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Felicidades a Josefa González, investigadora científica @CSIC en el @IBB_botanic, escogida como nuevo miembro de @EMBO, la prestigiosa Organización Europea de Biología Molecular
delegacion.catalunya.csic.es…
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Després de molt de temps de treball, estrenem web nova!
Encara s'està posant en marxa, així que és probable que durant els pròxims dies trobeu algun error... Però estem treballant per deixar-la perfecta.😊
Ja la podeu visitar aquí👉 ibb.csic.es/
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A deep dive into the fossil record of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): Bayesian inferences elucidate their origin & pulsed diversification at the genus level onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @JulesFerre94120 @JouaultCorentin @David_Peris_ @IBB_botanic @datadryad @WileyEcology
ALT Main photograph is of a large, round, diving beetle with stems of water plants in the background. This is the extant species Cybister lateralimarginalis. There are smaller photographs of two fossil diving beetles overlapping this image: top right is Liadytiscus latus (in a brown matrix) and bottom left is Sinoporus lineatus (in a yellow matrix). Each photograph has a 1 mm scale bar in the lower right corner. Plot at bottom right shows the origination rate of new genera on the vertical axis and geological time on the horizontal axis. Blue rectangle at top left is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.
🚨Paper Alert🚨
A new paper in Palaeontology led by @JulesFerre94120. The evolution of diving beetles, using modern analytical techniques, is revealed:
doi.org/10.1111/pala.70074
#LabPaleoecology @IBB_botanic
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YA!! My New Paper has been published on @fossil_record Using quantitative morphological analysis, now we know more about Helotidae!
新しい論文「オオキスイムシ科の形態多様性の定量解析と進化」が国際誌『Fossil Record』に掲載された！
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‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:
PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.
🚨PAPER ALERT🚨
A new work led by @JulesFerre94120 explains the evolutionary dispersion of bark beetles (Scolytinae) and the angiosperms to gymnosperm host shifts during the Cretaceous.
@IBB_botanic #LabPaleoecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
🚨PAPER ALERT🚨
This is the (great!) first paper from @JulesFerre94120 PhD project. Three different dating methods using fossil record point to the same results: Scolytinae predated the Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution.
@IBB_botanic #LabPaleoecology
academic.oup.com/sysbio/arti…
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1/Hoy @el_pais publica que se duplican las solicitudes de científicos de EE.UU. para venirse a España. Vamos a comparar el programa ATRAE con las condiciones del PDI que ya está dentro 🧵
elpais.com/ciencia/2026-02-2…
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The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: slow-science.com
🚨New publication🚨
Beetles are not only neglected pollinators!
The Evolution of Flower Beetles as Visitors and Pollinators - go.shr.lc/44tQ20R
#LabPaleoecology @IBB_botanic
#LabPaleoecology from the @IBB_botanic visited @ALBAsynchrotron for the first time to scan fossil insects embedded in amber. Results are very promising!
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🚨 New #AmberArticle 🚨
"Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests". Just published in @CommsEarth
The discovery of an early Albian amber deposit with arthropod bioinclusions opens a new window to the Mesozoic of South America 🌲🌎
📢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👇
Congratulations to @laura_pajot, PhD candidate in #PaleoecologyGroup, for the prize Fairon-Demaret to the best poster at Agora Palebotanica (Paris, France).
Title: Cretaceous–Paleogene angiosperm woodiness
