Jose M. Iriondo. Evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist En Bluesky: @txiriondo.bsky.social

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Joined October 2008
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Electric cars are now up to nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel ones to drive in Britain, a Carbon Brief analysis calculates. If charged with off-peak power they cost 2.3p a mile, compared to 20.1p for petrol and 21p for diesel. carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs…
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Q3 2026 was the first quarter ever in the EU where battery electric vehicles outsold pure petrol cars Over 700k BEVs were sold between July and September, a staggering 64% increase over Q3 2025
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MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record 2/3 of new cars in China are now electric, while combustion-car sales have fallen by 2/3 since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵
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#BEV adoption status in the #Nordics as share of new car registrations (and % of the fleet): 🇳🇴 #Norway 98% (35%) 🇩🇰 #Denmark 80% (24%) 🇮🇸 #Iceland 52% 🇫🇮 #Finland 48% (8%) 🇸🇪 #Sweden 42% (10%) #elbil #rafmagnsbíll #sähköauto 📈 by @electric_nick_ 🔗 public.flourish.studio/story…
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EVs are not a "rich" country phenomenon at all anymore Roughly 30% of new car sales in Indonesia are already fully battery electric. Oil importing countries across the globe are making the sensible choice of moving away from oil dependency in the transport sector.
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Denmark 🇩🇰 shows the way - electric cars reach 90% of the market. Six years ago, battery electric cars made up less than 10% of Denmark's new car market. In September it reached 90. To catalyse this transition, Denmark helped make electric cars more attractive to buy and own: ✅ Substantial registration tax reductions for electric cars. ✅ Grants for charging infrastructure in housing associations. ✅ Building regulations requiring charging infrastructure in certain car parks. These measures address both the purchasing decision and the practical question of where people will charge. With more than 800,000 electric cars on the road, Denmark is displacing 13% of the country's entire oil consumption - becoming more energy independent! For long we in Norway was alone at the world electric car per capita top. Now we are joined by Denmark. China, Nepal, Ethiopia, Vietnam and some other European countries are right behind. The future of driving is electric!
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What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%.
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Hace mucho tiempo.
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📣 We are looking for a PhD student in 2027! Interested in studying rapid evolutionary dynamics of species in changing climates? Apply to the MOI LAB by Nov 19! Flyer below & tinyurl.com/flyerphdmoilab @UCBerkeley @igisci @hhmi_science
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#Madrid ha superado los límites europeos de #ozono, según datos de las 13 estaciones de medición. #Ecologistas en Acción critica la falta de información municipal, ya que puede reducir la capacidad respiratoria y daña la vegetación telemadrid.es/noticias/madri…
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Un día como hoy, hace 114 años: "el consumo de carbón podría afectar el clima". Se acababa de descubrir el primer fósil de T-Rex, aún faltaban 10 años para descubrir Andromeda y no existía aún ni el plástico, pero ya sabían que el CO2 podría retener el infrarrojo térmico y acabar calentando la Tierra si se quemaban grandes cantidades. 114 años después un señor con gafas en TeleMadrid nos dice que en verano siempre ha hecho calor como argumento de peso para desestimar décadas de avisos sobre algo que ya todos estamos sufriendo en nuestras propias carnes.
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La NASA elige como foto del día una imagen del eclipse solar desde Zaragoza tinyurl.com/msnx8s65
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The warmer the oceans get, the less CO2 it can hold. So it creates a feedback. More greenhouse gases stay in the air, and it all warms even more.
The world’s oceans are reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air go.nature.com/4qgxJ9g
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The planet is getting hotter, and there’s an unexpected reason why. Earth’s albedo—which is a measure of how much sunlight it reflects back into space—is falling. This means Earth is absorbing more heat than it is emitting, and that could make warming in the coming years 10-30% higher than current estimates suggest. Find out why scientists are alarmed: bit.ly/4ziIwnc
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This skateboard trick may never be eclipsed. Danny León, a Spanish Olympic skateboarder, set up this shot and landed it during today's eclipse in Spain. Perfect planning!
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This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it. By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?
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We haven’t seen atmospheric CO2 levels consistently this high in 14 MILLION years. We’re in so so SO much trouble, & pretty much every politician & journalist has just decided to ignore it. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy (graph by Dr Thomas Ronge)
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Adiós al mito del 'goteo': 50 años de datos en 18 países OCDE confirman que bajar impuestos a los ricos aumenta su renta 0,8% y la desigualdad pero NO sube el PIB ni baja el paro. Solo enriquece más a los ricos. Punto.
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El mapa del proceso de desertificación de Europa, elaborado por la Comisión. Da miedo: publications.jrc.ec.europa.e…
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The EU’s Right to Repair rules are now in effect. Manufacturers must offer repairs at a reasonable price & time for covered products even after the warranty ends. Choosing repair over replacement extends the warranty by 12 months. A solid win for European consumers
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