Rafael Medina
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Rafael Medina
@bryomedina.bsky.social
🌱 Explorer of sophistication within the simplicity of nature's smallest wonders
🔬 #Bryophyte #Systematics @FlagLab.bsky.social
🎓 Professor @unicomplutense.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 He/Him rafamedina.com
Si te interesa conocer formas de llevar la investigación basada en especímenes de herbario a un nuevo nivel, te recomiendo que no te pierdas el seminario de @mossplants.bsky.social

Será el 3 de octubre y tiene las relaciones gametófito-esporófito de los musgos como tema de fondo. ¡Estás invitadx!
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I have mixed feelings (panic, but also morbid curiosity and fascination) for people like Stephani or Rafinesque. Tropicos cites over 7,400 names with his authority. What a nightmare!
January 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Vincent Hugonnot and Jeannette Chavoutier have just announced that the second volume of "Les Bryophytes de France" (Pleurocarps and Sphagnum) is out. The first volume (liverworts and hornworts) received the Hattori Prize by the International Association of Bryologists. This is a top quality flora
January 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Publicadas las nuevas citas briológicas de España en 2024. Gracias a todos los que habéis contribuido
www.doi.org/10.58469/bse...
December 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Prepping a lecture and out of curiosity I wanted to read how Betty Molesworth published the presence of /Psilotum nudum/ in Cádiz in 1966. Quite a succint note! The only locality of this species in Europe became a Mecca for Spanish botanists whose exact location is passed through generations
December 12, 2024 at 10:49 AM
December 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
"A lack of awareness is connected to a lack of funding and high-impact publishing, which in turn creates a research gap that negatively impacts education and perpetuates a feedback loop."
December 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM
My friend Jaime has perfected a system to honor this legacy: he harvests acorns in Fall, air-dries them till they crack, and grinds them into flour. Mixed with other grains, they make delicious acorn bread. A living link to Iberia's heritage!
December 1, 2024 at 3:36 PM
/Quercus rotundifolia/ is an icon of the Iberian flora. Its sweetish acorns have shaped our ecosystems and cultures for millennia, feeding both, livestock and people. It's a cornerstone of Iberian natural and semi-natural landscapes
December 1, 2024 at 3:36 PM
/Pogonatum nanum/ and /Encalypta vulgaris/ near the Holly Forest of Garagüeta (Soria, Spain)
December 1, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Reposting the moss ID alignment chart from 2020 because why not
November 23, 2024 at 10:41 AM