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Ixchel González-Ramírez
@ixchelgr.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley * Liverworts fan * Phylogenetics enthusiast * Dog mom * WNBA wannabe I'm an evolutionary biologist interested in macroevolution, biogeography, and fossils! Extra points if it's a plant with conspicuous gametophytes
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Sep 9
Omg!! Guayas!!! I haven’t had one in years!!!!
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11
Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Aug 7
Dang! Feel better!!!
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Aug 7
It posted more than a week ago, but I finally find time to share my work with @iochromaland.bsky.social and @rociodeanna.bsky.social on the divergence times of Solanaceae! It has been one of the greatest collaborations in my lifetime with two inspiring scientists! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Late Cretaceous origins for major nightshade lineages from total evidence timetree analysis
Background and Aims The timing of the radiation of nightshades (Solanaceae) has been contentious in the literature, with estimates of the crown age ranging from ca. 30 to 70 Mya (mid-Oligocene to late...
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · May 19
It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program!

Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025.

Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p...

Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF...

@systbiol.bsky.social
Logo for Society of Systematic Biologists Mentorship Program. Two parallel phylogenies, nothing fancy.
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · May 5
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · Apr 9
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Apr 2
A couple weeks ago we crawled among the redwoods looking for bryophytes. I finally got a little time to write about it! It’s just a tiny bit liverwort-biased!
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A California Native Plant Society public hike: learning little plants among the redwoods
*Main post picture by Sunit Mody
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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Mar 28
Interested in learning basic statistical concepts in Spanish during #Evol2025? This workshop is for you! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social and I are talking about it. Official registration in the meeting website. Thanks to @systbiol.bsky.social for the support (workshop in Spanish, bilingual materials.
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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · Mar 28
Únete a nosotras en #Evol2025! No hay nada mejor que aprender sobre modelización estadística con la única e inigualable @roszenil.bsky.social-excepto hacerlo in español! //Join us! Nothing's better than learning about statistical modeling from the one and only Rosana ZF- except doing it in Spanish!
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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Mar 28
Interesado en aprender conceptos basicos de estadística durante #Evol2025? Este taller es para tí. @tropicalbotany.bsky.social y yo estaremos hablando de la importancia de estos conceptos. Regístro en la página oficial del congreso. Gracias @systbiol.bsky.social por el apoyo!
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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · Mar 17
Vittaria appalachiana (Appalachian Gametophyte). This neat fern is native to Appalachia and scattered areas beyond. Related to shoestring ferns, it exists only as a gametophyte in rock shelters and other sheltered habitat. #Fern #plants #nativeplants #Appalachia #botany #photography #nature
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Mar 17
Today I led a public hike to see some bryophytes! It was an awesome experience! I’m so happy people are interested in looking at little plants 💚💚
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 11
The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes

By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Pteridophyte Collections Consortium logo. On the left side, "Pteridophyte Collections Consortium" is on a green background. On the right side, there are two columns of 0's and 1's, with an image of a fern fiddlehead composed of 0's and 1's on top.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 13
Endophytic #bacteria discovered in oil body organelles of the #liverworts Marchantia polymorpha & Radula complanata

New #AJB research by Blair Young, Barbara Thiers, James White, & Lena Struwe

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience
A confocal microscope photo of the cells of Radula complanata with fluorescent staining of cell walls and oil bodies.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 3
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
A promotional graphic for Botany 2025, featuring Plenary Speaker Lúcia G. Lohmann. The background includes a scenic view of Palm Springs, CA, with mountains and wildflowers. The event logo, displaying "Botany 2025: Botany Without Barriers," is at the top left. Lúcia G. Lohmann's name and affiliations (Missouri Botanical Garden and Washington University in St. Louis) are displayed on a purple banner. A QR code and website link (www.botanyconference.org) are at the bottom. Lúcia G. Lohmann is pictured on the right, smiling, wearing glasses and a cream blazer over a black outfit.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 3
Annnouncing Dr. Amy Litt as the #Botany2025 Regional Botany Lecturer!

Dr. Litt's research has taken her from the wonderful flowers of Vochysiaceae, to the evolution of flower development genes, & now to the stunning manzanitas (Arctostaphylos).

Learn more! www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html.
A promotional graphic for "Botany 2025: Botany Without Barriers," taking place in Palm Springs, CA, from July 26-30. The image features a circular event logo with palm trees, mountains, and desert flowers in the top left corner. Bold purple text announces a "Regional Botany Lecture." Below, a purple banner introduces "Amy Litt, Associate Professor and Herbarium Director at UC Riverside." A QR code in the bottom left corner directs viewers to www.botanyconference.org. The background showcases a scenic desert landscape with wildflowers. On the right side, a smiling woman with curly red hair, sunglasses, and a black zip-up jacket stands outdoors in natural light.
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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · Oct 31
Looking for geological data? 🪨⚒️ We've got you! Check out our new R package for accessing Macrostrat 👇
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · Oct 31
🚨New paper!🚨

Want to use data from macrostrat.org, but struggle working with APIs?

Our (Christopher Dean, @willgearty.bsky.social, @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, & I) article describing the rmacrostrat R package 📦 is now published #OpenAccess in #Geosphere

doi.org/10.1130/GES0...

#Geology #RStats
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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · Feb 24
Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm!

NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪
A photograph of a velvet worm - an orange and purple-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture. A photograph of a velvet worm - an Blue and yellow-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.
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mick @mickischill.bsky.social · Feb 22
New #Azolla #microbiome #CCGP paper! With @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The nitrogen‐fixing fern Azolla has a complex microbiome characterized by varying degrees of cophylogenetic signal
Premise Azolla is a genus of floating ferns that has closely evolved with a vertically transmitted obligate cyanobacterium endosymbiont—Anabaena azollae—that fixes nitrogen. There are also other les...
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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · Feb 18
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
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · Feb 14
A moss petting zoo? How cool!

www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
Moss doesn't get a lot of love. Moss Appreciation Week in Oregon aims to change that
Students at Lewis & Clark College are trying to bring more attention to one of the world's smaller and more humble plants with this year's seventh annual Moss Appreciation Week.
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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Feb 6
Next Thursday!
Jesus Martinez-Gomez

February 13th, 2025
7-8 pm PT

“The genetic basis of variable ultraviolet pigmentation in yellow monkey flowers (Erythrante sect. Simiola)"

Zoom link at calbotsoc.org/botany-speak...

#PlantScience #evobio
A photo of speaker Jesus Martinez-Gomez by a river with lots of plants around.
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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Jan 28
Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · Jan 27
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Ixchel González-Ramírez @ixchelgr.bsky.social · Jan 28
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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Jan 24
Announcing the 30th CalBotSoc Graduate Student Symposium on April 5, 2025 at Cal Poly SLO!

A great opportunity for grads and undergrads to present research in a friendly setting. Plus, field trips to local wildflower displays!!

Registration and info at calbotsoc.org/graduate-stu...
A drawing of Calochortus obispoensis by Emma Fryer with the date of the symposium
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