Thrilled & deeply humbled to be featured in @newphyt.bsky.social with a profile on my journey as a Colombian scientist working at @rbgkew.bsky.social
M thanks to 🇨🇴 Embassy in 🇬🇧for the kind interview highlighting this story & the hidden secrets of #orchids
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Watch a summary of our ongoing research on the evol of the sacred #coca tree (the most misunderstood useful plant!), including unpublished but v exciting results 🤓 Grateful w the McKenna Acad for the invite to participate in the coca summit last Feb!
@natalia-asp.bsky.social
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Brilliant first day at the show. Delighted to win a Gold Medal for our display 🏅🌿 and a prize for the Best Hybrid in the Show for Masdevallia Mandy 🎉. Thanks everyone who came to visit. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

Using 90-million-year-old pollen fossils and DNA from a vast collection of global herbarium specimens, @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social has been able to map the spread of rattan palms across Asia, and understand the drivers that led to their astonishing diversity 🌴🏝️

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JOB: Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biodiversity Genomics & help unlock the genetic secrets of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest 🌿

From microbial diversity to bioactive compounds, your work will help shape conservation & bioeconomy research

📅 Apply by 13 April

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V excited to participate in the #Cocaleaf summit organised by the McKennaAcad! It was a privilege to share our science with researchers, policymakers & indigenous leaders shaping coca future, incl David Choquehuanca, VP of Bolivia! Stay tuned for exciting research on coca!
#Coca is not #cocaine

50 years of legume research at @rbgkew.bsky.social by Dr Gwil Lewis 👏🎊

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It was an incredible privilege to talk yesterday about the botanical and evolutive context of the #coca leaf during a conversation organised by OpenSociety at #UnitedNations! Keen on learning about the cultural and scientific value of this sacred plant? Watch here free!
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower

The first chapter of my PhD has finally been published in Systematic Biology! “Discordance Down Under: Combining phylogenomics & fungal symbioses to detangle difficult nodes in a diverse tribe of Australian terrestrial orchids” - advance access link below 1/🧵

This paper attempts to bring a comprehensive perspective on the origin and evolution of the orchid family. In addition it emphasizes the geographical location of the origin of the family

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Ayer fue el Día Nacional de la #Orquídea en #Colombia, el país con +4,270 especies registradas. La mayor riqueza del mundo!
Las orquídeas nos enseñan sobre evolución y cómo el #cambioclimático afecta su diversidad.
Descarga gratis el Árbol de la Vida de las Orquídeas:
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