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Fernando Vélez
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PhD in progress 🌺
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mossmatters.bsky.social
New addition to the lab door courtesy of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Door with three posters, including Biology is Bigger than Binaries from SkypeAScientist, along with In this Lab we Believe (Science is real, love is love, black lives matter, feminism is for everyone, plants are cool, and immigrants are welcome) Also a lab inside joke about poorly drawn dinosaurs from the movie "Drasik Werl" with a QR code that leads to the screeching recorder version of the Jurassic Park theme song.
May 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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txaverius.bsky.social
Para poner en perspectiva la imagen del polen de Malva hispanica.
May 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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christhorogood.bsky.social
We described this new species today: Orobanche andryalae, from the Canary Islands. Welcome to science you beautiful thing ✨
We described this new species today: Orobanche andryalae, from the Canary Islands.
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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rlinares.bsky.social
Love this, and need to re-read it again: #Malvales and #Malvaceae #classification\

doi.org/10.1002/tax....
Taxonomy in the light of incongruence: An updated classification of Malvales and Malvaceae based on phylogenomic data
Malvales is a diverse order of flowering plants, economically and ecologically relevant, and it is known for its broad morphological variability. Recent phylogenomic studies have revealed a complex e...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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andrewlhipp.bsky.social
Fascinating phylogenomic study of Oak Family by Shui‐Yin Liu et al. (including @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social) showing that hybridization & ILS both generate gene-tree discordance in the family; ILS contributes ~3x as much as hyb'n to discordance in Quercus, but both matter.

doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
Figure 3. Plots showing the relative contributions of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), gene tree estimation error, and gene flow to the observed gene tree discordance, across two datasets and two taxonomic levels The Hyb‐Seq (A–B) and transcriptome (C–D) datasets are represented here by the HYB‐98RT and RNA‐2821RT datasets, respectively. R2 denotes the total proportion of gene tree variation explained by the model. Relative importance with 95% bootstrap confidence intervals is decomposed with the “lmg” method and regressors of log transformations and summed to 100%. Figure 2. Discordance between nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies for oaks and relatives (A) Cophylogeny showing incongruence between the nuclear ASTRAL (left; HYB‐98RT) and unpartitioned chloroplast maximum likelihood (ML) (right) trees. Tip labels are shown in Figure S15. Clade frequencies of gene trees from the coalescent simulations are shown near the nodes; clade frequencies associated with deep cytonuclear discordances are red and enlarged. Figure S21. Species networks from reduced-representation datasets of oaks and Fagaceae. A. Optimal network under the “planA” taxon set of Fagaceae using the Hyb-Seq dataset (represented by the HYB-114RT dataset here). B. Optimal network under the “planB” taxon set of Fagaceae using the Hyb-Seq dataset. C. Optimal network under the “planC” taxon set of oaks using the Hyb-Seq dataset. D. Optimal network under the “planA” taxon set of Fagaceae using the transcriptome dataset (represented by the RNA-4853RT dataset here). E. Optimal network under the “planB” taxon set of Fagaceae using the transcriptome dataset. F. Optimal network under the “planC” taxon set of oaks using the transcriptome dataset. Dashed red curved branches denote the minor edge of a reticulate node while solid blue curved branches denote the major edge of a reticulate node. Values next to curved branches denote the inheritance probabilities. A reticulate node with an asterisk denotes that its parents contributed relatively equivalent inheritance probabilities (~ 0.5 vs. 0.5). Abbreviations: sect. CY, sect. Cyclobalanopsis.
December 27, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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pepecarrion.bsky.social
Iberian Paleofloras. Free download. Three books (Tertiary, Pleistocene, Holocene). Thanks for your interest.

www.paleofloraiberica.org
December 24, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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sebicop.bsky.social
Casi 1K personas participaron en la elección de la especie amenazada 2025: Gracias 🙏
Resultó ‘Geranium dolomiticum’ que se enfrenta a presiones que tb limitan la interacción de polinizadores
Únete a la campaña de protección compartiendo este mensaje
♥️ #SEBICOP
#Conservación
#PlantaAmenazada2025 💚
December 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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joshlukedavis.com
Yeah not super great that a journal dedicated to ecology is happily using AI art when the environmental costs of generative AI is now a well known, widespread issue 🫠
December 1, 2024 at 12:11 PM
fervelesp.bsky.social
Last Sunday I went to the shopping mall to take a round and I didn't expect to see my target species 🤣
November 26, 2024 at 11:36 AM