Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo discusses the unicellular rehearsal for animal multicellularity on Principio de incertidumbre.
OPEN ↗SCIENCE & SOCIETY
Science belongs
in society.
PUBLIC LIFE
Opening science
in both directions.
Public engagement is more than dissemination. It is a conversation: a way to return publicly funded knowledge to society, help young people discover what scientific life is like, and allow researchers and wider communities to understand one another better.
We collaborate with schools, cultural initiatives, public events, journalists, artists and outreach organisations.
OUTREACH ARCHIVE · 2015–2026
Ideas leave
the laboratory.
Sergio Vasco Francisco and Elena Casacuberta write about dark oxygen for The Conversation.
OPEN ↗Marina Carmona joins [R]evoluciona la vida en los océanos, bringing ecological and evolutionary change to high-school students.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta discusses our unicellular relatives on the Raticos de Ciencia podcast.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta speaks at Congreso Futuro, Latin America’s largest science and knowledge outreach event.
OPEN ↗Nature features the laboratory and five unicellular organisms that may illuminate how life became multicellular.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta participates in a theatre work about Barbara McClintock, science and scientific culture.
Marina Carmona reaches the Rin4min final, explaining her research to a general audience in four minutes.
OPEN ↗Marta Álvarez celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with primary-school students.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta speaks at Universitat de València for Women and Girls in Science Day and Darwin Day.
OPEN ↗Marta Álvarez talks about fieldwork on the Science with a View podcast.
OPEN ↗Marina Carmona and Gonzalo Bercedo introduce Treescape to visiting high-school students.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta joins the Evolution panel at Chateando con la Ciencia.
OPEN ↗Vika Shabardina presents ‘Little organisms and big questions about evolution’ at OpenPRBB; Patricia Suárez volunteers.
OPEN ↗Guifré Torruella asks ‘Who are our unicellular relatives?’ with school students during Matins de la Recerca.
OPEN ↗Rubén González presents his Lake Sanabria project at the National Geographic Dynamo Academy.
Elena Casacuberta joins a staged reading about Barbara McClintock and the jumping genes.
OPEN ↗Vika Shabardina volunteers in outreach activities during the TREC expedition’s visit to Barcelona.
OPEN ↗Vika Shabardina joins a Let’s Talk Science panel on sustainability at work.
OPEN ↗Hallo Plankton is published, with Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo contributing knowledge about plankton research.
OPEN ↗Marta Álvarez and Rosana Garrido bring animal-origins research to primary schools for Women and Girls in Science Day.
Lab members present Treescape and The World of Protists during school visits and IBE Science Week.
OPEN ↗Michelle Leger is interviewed by Absolutos y Relativos.
OPEN ↗Vika Shabardina speaks at OpenPRBB; Gonzalo Bercedo and Patricia Suárez participate as volunteers.
OPEN ↗Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo participates in ¡Vamos, Simbiosis!, connecting science, art and marine life.
OPEN ↗Elena Casacuberta organises EVOKE Barcelona; lab members support the event as volunteers.
OPEN ↗The lab hosts Joves i Ciència students to explore what protists reveal about animal origins.
Lab members support university visits; IBEtreescape receives UPF’s award for the best 2019 scientific communication initiative.
OPEN ↗The lab participates in BCNspiracy, Barcelona’s Festa de la Ciència, radio interviews and Joves i Ciència.
OPEN ↗Young researchers teach at BIYSC; Alicia S. Arroyo and Konstantina Mitsi receive Rin4 communication prizes.
OPEN ↗The team contributes to the PRBB Open Day, BIYSC and the ITN ScienceSlam Barcelona.
OPEN ↗Tree-of-life games, marine-diversity teaching, press and radio bring the lab’s science to wider audiences.
OPEN ↗The laboratory participates in the PRBB Open Day.
GENDER & INCLUSION
Better science needs
fairer conditions.
Scientists do not live outside society; research environments inherit its conscious and unconscious biases. Recognising those patterns is a necessary step toward changing scientific culture.
We keep these resources visible as practical starting points for reflection, recruitment and the integration of gender into research.
FURTHER READING
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women — Virginia ValianAn Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence — Abigail J. Stewart & Virginia ValianEvery Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists — Ellen DaniellMENTORING
Perspective grows
through trust.
Peer mentoring creates a trusted space where colleagues help one another make better decisions, interpret results and evaluations, navigate expectations and gain perspective.
These groups can strengthen confidence, empathy, communication and conflict-resolution skills throughout a scientific career.
