Maria Jesus
@moonrisebotany.bsky.social
Rare plant conservation & desert botany • she/her/hers
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We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward.
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
March 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward.
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
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The fantasy that you can engage in one big effective action that will solve & dominate the problem is supremacy resin in the brain.
You’ve been taught that small things don’t matter, that planting seeds doesn’t matter, that people, communities don’t matter
These are the only things that matter.
You’ve been taught that small things don’t matter, that planting seeds doesn’t matter, that people, communities don’t matter
These are the only things that matter.
March 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The fantasy that you can engage in one big effective action that will solve & dominate the problem is supremacy resin in the brain.
You’ve been taught that small things don’t matter, that planting seeds doesn’t matter, that people, communities don’t matter
These are the only things that matter.
You’ve been taught that small things don’t matter, that planting seeds doesn’t matter, that people, communities don’t matter
These are the only things that matter.
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And, my @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social-inspired op-ed is online at LNP/Lancaster Online — in print, it's alongside a piece from two geoscientists with local roots on the front page of the Sunday Perspectives section
lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
March 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And, my @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social-inspired op-ed is online at LNP/Lancaster Online — in print, it's alongside a piece from two geoscientists with local roots on the front page of the Sunday Perspectives section
lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
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Just in time for spring! New research led by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social on the evolutionary origins of desert wildflowers in genus #Linanthus, the desert snow or sand blossoms.
When the sand blossoms: #Phylogeny, trait #evolution, & geography of speciation in #Linanthus
New #AJB research by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social, Lydia Smith, Isaac Lichter-Marck & Felipe Zapata
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #desert
New #AJB research by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social, Lydia Smith, Isaac Lichter-Marck & Felipe Zapata
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #desert
February 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just in time for spring! New research led by @ioana-anghel.bsky.social on the evolutionary origins of desert wildflowers in genus #Linanthus, the desert snow or sand blossoms.
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If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
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Please share widely
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March 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
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Join us tomorrow, February 25th at 10am PT for the continuation of the California Fire Science Seminar Series. @weatherwest.bsky.social will present Shifts in seasonality and increases in hydroclimate whiplash are increasing California wildfire risk. Register here: https://buff.ly/40HelHi
February 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us tomorrow, February 25th at 10am PT for the continuation of the California Fire Science Seminar Series. @weatherwest.bsky.social will present Shifts in seasonality and increases in hydroclimate whiplash are increasing California wildfire risk. Register here: https://buff.ly/40HelHi
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🌿 new plant species found in national park.
We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
'Devil'-like flower with 'horns' found in Texas is new species: Its location is secret
In a rugged stretch of desert in one of the nation's most remote national parks, a volunteer's eyes were caught by a colorful sight sprouting up from the beige and brown of the Chihuahuan Desert—"devi...
phys.org
February 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🌿 new plant species found in national park.
We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
This new genus of sunflower 😍🌻🤯
Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets.
Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net
Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net
February 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This new genus of sunflower 😍🌻🤯
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🚨New Paper Alert🚨 @emlombardi.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today the CA Fish and Game Commission voted to grant state protections to the Inyo rock daisy in response to a petition submitted by CNPS, Center for Bio Diversity, and myself 🌻🌻🌻It's a big deal!!!
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
October 11, 2023 at 11:51 PM
Today the CA Fish and Game Commission voted to grant state protections to the Inyo rock daisy in response to a petition submitted by CNPS, Center for Bio Diversity, and myself 🌻🌻🌻It's a big deal!!!
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
VERY slowly transitioning from the other site and deciding if/how I want to stay active in these spaces 🌻
October 4, 2023 at 1:45 AM
VERY slowly transitioning from the other site and deciding if/how I want to stay active in these spaces 🌻