Alex de la Concha
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Alex de la Concha
@alexcom09.bsky.social
PhD student at MNCN-CSIC.
Behavioural biology, chemical communication, sexual selection and animal personality.
Wildlife photography on Instagram @mirandoatodoslados
July is here, and with it, the end of the #field season is ending. Here are some of the highlights from our fieldwork in the #Chafarinas Islands and at the #Ventorrillo Biological Station!
July 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Soil moisture drives #habitat choice in Blanus cinereus but not Trogonophis wiegmanni. Different strategies in a changing #climate for two #amphisbaenians from contrasting environments? - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #fossorial #drought @alexcom09.bsky.social
May 25, 2026 at 3:48 PM
2026 spring field season is starting in Chafarinas islands!!
April 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Here's why we should not (only) study global change drivers in isolation! Check our new preprint showing how a fungal pathogen interacts with habitat disturbance to shape the skin bacterial communities of an Amazonian frog: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
March 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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¿Cómo saber la edad de un anfibio a partir de su tamaño? Respuesta corta: es complicado. Respuesta larga en este trabajo recién publicado (acceso abierto): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Wonder Years: A Demographic Approach to Revisit the Age‐at‐Size Conundrum in Amphibians
We combined repeated body size measurements of marked individuals of unknown age throughout their adult life with growth records of individuals marked as postmetamorphic juveniles and recaptured year...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 29, 2026 at 8:31 AM
New paper in @jzoology.bsky.social !

Soil moisture drives habitat choice in the Iberian worm lizard but not in the checkerboard worm lizard. Different strategies in a changing #climate for two #amphisbaenians from contrasting environments?
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 30, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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#jornadascientificasMNCN26 Hoy y mañana estamos celebrando las 'IX Jornadas Científicas del MNCN', un evento anual en el que el personal investigador habla del trabajo científico que desarrolla en la institución. En el MNCN- @csic.es se investiga... ¡Y mucho! www.mncn.csic.es/es/investiga...
March 18, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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El año del caballo 🐎 entra por la puerta grande en Usera y he aquí un pequeño reportaje de hoy.

Una pasada ver a tanta gente contenta y disfrutando del año nuevo chino.

¡Feliz año! 🐉
February 22, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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February 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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¿Cuál sería vuestra reacción al conocer que compañer@s de vuestro mismo despacho realizando la tesis igual que vosotr@s en un tema similar cobran alrededor de 700€ más al mes simplemente por estar reconocido como persona titulada con máster (M3)?

¡700 EUROS MÁS!

¿Qué locura de sistema tenemos?
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM