Nick Rocha

CSULB MS • Cornell ‘23 Botany+Entomology • Evolution, Phylogenetics, Conservation, Plant Propagation, Macrophotography

[Jamie Thompson @Jamie_T42]

New paper in Nature @ScientificData! 🌵

We present CactEcoDB, an open access database integrating trait, spatial, environmental, phylogenetic, and diversification data for the #cactus family.

https://t.co/oOkz0SO8gC

@CactusSucculent @LeverhulmeTrust @UniRdg_Research

[New town every hour (ret.) @TownsUsa]

Those skyscrapers formed when two residential plates collided

[Cladistics Journal Alert @CladisticsAlert]

⚠️#NewPaperAlert📝
Areas of endemism of semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha): an approach to the biogeographic regionalization of #Colombia 🇨🇴
By Morales et al.

https://t.co/QJNmwBRzJ6

#Cladistics #EndemicAreas #Hemiptera #NDM #VNDM #Biogeography

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

[Phytotaxa updates @Phytotaxa]

Passionflower trees of #Ecuador: revising the presence of Passiflora subg. Astrophea (#Passifloraceae) and including resolution to the P. putumayensis and P. macrophylla taxonomic complexes
https://t.co/rexTzYnfcI

[Gil Wizen @wizentrop]

Have you stopped to appreciate a cockroach lately? Cockroaches get a lot of unjustified hate for simply existing. Species like this yellow glass cockroach (Chorisoneura sp.) from Ecuador can be charming if you take the time to view them in a positive light. I think it's beautiful

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

Quantifying macro-evolutionary patterns of trait mean and variance with phylogenetic location-scale models. DOI: https://t.co/QFktpDg4Tb

[Cladistics Journal Alert @CladisticsAlert]

⚠️ #NewPaperAlert🚨
Accuracy of phylogenetic reconstructions from continuous characters analysed under parsimony and its parametric correlates

By Tagliacollo et al.
https://t.co/lbR2Vq7I39

#ModelBasedMethods #GeometricMorphometrics #Morphology #Parsimony #Phylogenetics

[Liam Revell @phytools_liam]

I'm pretty happy how my review "Ancestral State Reconstruction of Phenotypic Characters" turned out in @SpringerNature 'Evolutionary Biology.'

Please check it out: https://t.co/jOaN8lpKPp (and feel free to email me for a reprint if you don't have access).

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

A nuclear phylogenomic tree of grasses (Poaceae) recovers current classification despite gene tree incongruence

Grass Phylogeny Working Group III

📖 https://t.co/AWdkuplbi0

[New York Botanical Garden @NYBG]

Vanuatu celebrates the opening of its new botanical Garden, named after local botanist Chanel Sam! NYBG Curator Gregory Plunkett & local dignitaries made opening remarks at its inaugural ceremony, highlighting the efforts of the Plants and People of Vanuatu Program. #NYBGscience

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

Humans won’t survive the next century unless you are prepared to sacrifice a significant amount of recently developed, planet-destroying, non-essential creature comforts.

[LM Cunningham @PaleoLaura]

I support better climate change mitigation policies. But Climate advocates telling me I have to sacrifice my desert home and Joshua trees and tortoises and burrowing owls…. No, you have to sacrifice more too

[Melody Petersen @MelodyPetersen]

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” https://t.co/bQz0ucIxUa

[Matt Coco @MattCoco11]

🕷️背甲collection✨✨✨

[Evolutionary Genomics @evol_genomics]

Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification https://t.co/Lwz4gbM4XG @NatureComms

[Natalia Przelomska @natalia_chirps]

1/7 New research spotlights the challenge of taxonomic ID in the #coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) using an integrative approach of morphometrics and genomics. Applications: describing biodiversity in this #leaf crop & better characterisation of plantations https://t.co/KzHNvA6iBc

[shloop 𓆤 @HuiSt]

I see some people ask me how to pin insects, so I would do a thread on how you can make your very own collection! I will be focusing on preserving hard-bodied insects big enough to be pinned. 🧵1/15

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

#TansleyReview Vascular cambium stem cells: past, present and future

Wybouw et al. @BWybouw @xizhang27241046 @AP_Mahonen

📖 https://t.co/rvAVNOauwP