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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · 4d

📖Read it now to learn how differences in #heritability, #evolvability and #plasticity between floral traits may affect rapid adaptation to novel #pollinators.
Thanks again to @calacastellanos.bsky.social for the effort and guidance that went into this!
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Nectar and floral morphology differ in evolutionary potential in novel pollination environments

Plants can evolve rapidly after pollinator changes, but the response of different floral traits to novel selection can vary. Floral morphology is often expected to show high integration to maintai...

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · 4d

So glad to see our article on #evolvability of flower nectar and morphology and its role under novel pollination environments featured in this virtual issue @newphyt.bsky.social.
There is still so much to know about the regulation and #evolution of #nectar and its role in angiosperm evolution!

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 7d

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: #Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae). Photo by Evin Magner, courtesy of the University of Minnesota CBS Conservatory.

📖 See Virtual Issue: Nectar and nectaries
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#PlantScience

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 3

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

go.nature.com

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Good to hear I contributed to spark that green interest! You are definitely travelling through some of the most inspiring bioregions on Earth both in terms of biodiversity and geodiversity!

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Alicia Valdés @aliciavaldesr.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wow!

Science Magazine @science.org · Jun 25

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.

Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food

Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

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Sociedad Botánica Española @sebot.bsky.social · May 26

Este viernes tenemos un nuevo Café Sistemático ☕️🍀 con
Mario Mairal @ucm.es:

"Expediciones botánicas al último confín biogeográfico: historia natural, evolución e invasiones en las islas subantárticas"

🗓️ Viernes, 30 de mayo
⌚️ 11:00 (CEST)
🔗 conectaha.csic.es/b/mar-dl5-qf...

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · Mar 9

Joyous arrival of the first Moschatel Adoxa moschatellina in local woods. Things are afoot. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Kat Dahl @wildkatdahl.bsky.social · Mar 9

Explored a heavenly slice of @southdownsnp.bsky.social ancient woodland this evening, filled with the leaves of Wild Garlic, Bluebell and Yellow Archangel, and lots of wild Green Hellebore 💚 #greenflowers #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Green Hellebore flower in evening sunlight.

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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · Mar 9

This is Macrocillix maia & he's a moth who mimics bird poo. But he's taken it to the next level, he's also mimicking flies feeding on the bird poo, right down to the shimmer of their wings!

I have wanted to see one for so long, but never thought I would! In Trus Madi entomology camp in Borneo.
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A photo of a white moth on a green leaf in Borneo who mimics bird poo. Including the flies feeding on the bird poo!

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Muchas gracias! La verdad es que hasta me lo pasé bien! Un abrazo!

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Jóvenes por la Botánica Española @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social · Feb 10

¡JxBE ha superado los 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ miembros¡ 🎉

¡Gracias por ser parte de esta gran comunidad botánica! 🌱

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Muchas gracias Joāo! 🙂

Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Feb 26

What a great ending for a great chapter of my life!
Lots of emotions, but could not be happier to have completed my PhD in such a great environment, with such great people and the amazing guidance of @calacastellanos.bsky.social!
Just starting to get a grasp about what flower evolution is about!

Maria Clara Castellanos @calacastellanos.bsky.social · Feb 25

I don't think students realise how proud you feel as a supervisor when they get their PhDs after so many years of hard work! Congratulations to @a-romerobravo.bsky.social for a very successful viva and PhD overall! 🪻🐝🐦🌱🌿🌼

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Danillo O. Alvarenga @danilloalvarenga.bsky.social · Feb 14

Wow, they found fungal hyphae inside the sheaths of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria! Usually with these types of symbiosis it's the other way around, with bacteria growing inside their host. This is supercool!🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A thallus-forming N-fixing fungus-cyanobacterium symbiosis from subtropical forests

Fungus lives within cyanobacterial sheaths in a thallus-forming symbiosis, named “phyllosymbia.”

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 24

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Jan 22

Great job! All that bee knowledge had to be put into paper for us rookies to be able to find our way through all that beeodiversity!
Congratulations!

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FLOWer Lab 🌸🍒 🐝 🪰🔬🧬 @flowerlab.bsky.social · Jan 22

📚🐝 Discover the new book on the bees of Portugal!

The book "Chaves Dicotómicas dos Genneros de Abelhas de Portugal" has been published by the UC Press.

Coordinated by Hugo Gaspar from the FLOWer Lab, you can download the book in here (in PT): monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 22

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? A study in Nature Human Behaviour reports on a survey of 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and finds that trust in scientists is moderately high. https://go.nature.com/3PLgKKU 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows weighted means for trust in scientists across countries and regions (1 = very low, 3 = neither high nor low, 5 = very high).

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SEBICOP @sebicop.bsky.social · Jan 16

Gyrocaryum oppositifolium es una pequeña planta de uno de los linajes más antiguos de la Península Ibérica. Un fósil viviente, que sólo se conoce en dos localidades separadas por cientos de kilómetros (León y Madrid), extinta en la Sierra Norte de Sevilla. doi.org/10.15366/cv2...

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Erik Öckinger @eockinger.bsky.social · Jan 13

One week left to apply!

Erik Öckinger @eockinger.bsky.social · Dec 17

I have an open position (fully funded for 4 years) for a PhD candidate in a project on pollinator communities and populations in relation to forest structure and microclimate.
See more, and apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu....

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.

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Carlos Briones @brionesci.bsky.social · Dec 4

"Nada tiene sentido en biología excepto a la luz de la evolución"
Theodosius Dobzhansky

#MensajeMayorOreja

(Pintura de Kan Srijira)

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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Ginkgo leaves are blanketing NYC in yellow. Little known #cilia fact: the sperm of Ginkgo trees are large cells with ~1000 cilia arranged in a spiral that have to swim a short distance to fertilize the egg. 1/2

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Dec 3

Y como uno ya no se puede tirar de los pelos, me conformo con imaginarme esto proyectado en pantalla grande en el Senado como cierre de cumbre:

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Andrés Romero Bravo @a-romerobravo.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hace una semana celebramos el #DíadelaEvolución y que hace 165 años Darwin publicó su libro sobre el origen de las especies por medio de la selección natural.
No han sido suficientes años para este señor, ex-ministro de Interior con el PP, que ayer decía en el Senado esta mamarrachada:

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · Dec 2

Petal size and shape is generally determined by a period of cell proliferation followed by cell growth. Extending the period of proliferation results in much larger petals without compromising shape.

The robustness of plant development is admirable.

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