Juanma Rubiales

@jmrubiales.bsky.social

I teach Botany at @upm.es 🌱🌿 Quaternary, megafossils, charcoals, fossil woods, urban forestry 🌳 Traveler, japanophile and bonsai enthusiast ⛩️

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended www.botany.one/herbarium-sh... When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake. #Botany #PlantScience

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended

When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.

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A nice thing about the dark spots of C. ladanifer is that in sunny windless days they are a little warmer than the white petal area. I bet it's not by chance that the spots are the preferred standing places for ectothermic pollinators such as these flies (Stomorhina lunata and Eristalinus taeniops).

White flower with dark spots. Two flies feeding on the pollen while they stand on one dark spot each
🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴@scottzona.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Yesterday I forgot to post the flowers of Cistus ladanifer, which are fabulous. I love the crumpled petals with their basal spots. The flowers attract bees, beetles & flies, & they must be cross-pollinated to produce seeds. They can’t self. (📷: mxtivoli CCBYNC4) #Cistaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a shrub with large, 5-petaled, white flowers. Each of the five petals has a dark, red spot at its base.

We published a Teaching Tools on Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections, including Lectures Notes, a teaching presentation (college level) and activities for a flipped classroom approach. Feel free to use it in your courses! Translations to other languages coming up soon! #PlantScience #Teaching

The Plant Cell@theplantcell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📣 Check out the latest unit in the Teaching Tools in Plant Biology series, “Genomic Analysis of Botanical Collections: Opportunities and Challenges,” blog.aspb.org/new-teaching.... 🌱 #PlantScience

Teaching Tools in Plant Biology Graphics highlighting several scientific images/figures.

Tenemos la oportunidad de hacer oír nuestra voz en el diseño del Plan Nacional de Restauración de la Naturaleza. Rellenar el test son solo unos minutos ¡el plan marcará décadas!

iBartomeus@ibartomeus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

El @miteco.gob.es lanza una consulta pública a la ciudadanía sobre el Plan Nacional de la Restauración de la Naturaleza forma.administracionelectronica.gob.es/form/open/co... Que vean que es importante! Son solo 5 minutos con los que también demostramos que la democracia ha de ser más participativa.

Muy ilusionado de incorporarme como editor asociado de la revista Ecosistemas @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social , una referencia cercana, abierta y comprometida sobre ecología y sistemas forestales en el contexto ibérico e iberoamericano #Palaeoecology #openscience #DiamondOAJ #forestry #quaternary

Ecosistemas AEET@ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 2y ago

ECOSISTEMAS, the scientific journal of @eco-aeet.bsky.social joins bluesky!!! We are a free to publish + free to read journal, open to submissions from every field in #Ecology and every place in the world. Support our vision, send us your work!! www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Are you a paleoecologist & ECR active on social media? Interested in a leadership role at Neotoma DB? Apply to be Neotoma’s Social Media Manager! Contact Nick Hoffman (hoffmanick@gmail.com) by Feb 28 with interest (<500 words) + a strategy proposal (<1000 words).

En los periódicos se habla de la Complutense, pero en la @upm.es nos hemos acostumbrado a dar clases en aulas con goteras y a la falla de personal. Una historia que ya conocemos: Los alumnos de la pública pierden, los amigos de los que gobiernan en Madrid, ganan. @upm-por-la-publica.bsky.social

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 9mo ago

La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto. Así se mata una universidad