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Juanma Rubiales

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

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Qué bonitos resultados y qué fenomenal hilo! Enhorabuena! 👏

06.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Such a brilliant news, Anson! Keep shining! 🚀

06.02.2026 07:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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).

04.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 60    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3

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

03.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

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!

04.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Pues yo no sé qué he hecho pero desde hace un tiempo ya no me funciona. En realidad el asistente de Google era también IA blanda, no?

04.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tremendo! 🥲💔

04.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
A star-of-Bethlehem, woode anemone and spurge c.1506-12

The focus of this drawing is a clump of star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum L.), whose swirling leaves are seen in the studies for the kneeling Leda and in most copies of the painting, where it softens the edge of the rock on which the swan stands (the same device is seen by the infant Baptist’s legs in the St Anne cartoon, of a similar date).

Flanking the star-of-Bethlehem is wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa L.), and below is sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia L.) with details of its seedheads. Although the star-of-Bethlehem is somewhat stylised, the blades of grass growing untidily among and behind the anemones suggest that Leonardo observed these plants in the wild. Melzi's number 130.

Provenance
Bequeathed to Francesco Melzi; from whose heirs purchased by Pompeo Leoni, c.1582-90; Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, by 1630; probably acquired by Charles II; Royal Collection by 1690

https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/collection-online/4/f/755905-1526312430.jpg?_ga=2.13689712.670852902.1770025817-1950293379.1770025817

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) A star-of-Bethlehem, woode anemone and spurge c.1506-12 The focus of this drawing is a clump of star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum L.), whose swirling leaves are seen in the studies for the kneeling Leda and in most copies of the painting, where it softens the edge of the rock on which the swan stands (the same device is seen by the infant Baptist’s legs in the St Anne cartoon, of a similar date). Flanking the star-of-Bethlehem is wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa L.), and below is sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia L.) with details of its seedheads. Although the star-of-Bethlehem is somewhat stylised, the blades of grass growing untidily among and behind the anemones suggest that Leonardo observed these plants in the wild. Melzi's number 130. Provenance Bequeathed to Francesco Melzi; from whose heirs purchased by Pompeo Leoni, c.1582-90; Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, by 1630; probably acquired by Charles II; Royal Collection by 1690 https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/collection-online/4/f/755905-1526312430.jpg?_ga=2.13689712.670852902.1770025817-1950293379.1770025817

Garden muse

Renaissance man and polymath Da Vinci was deeply interested in botany; many of his better-known works include signs of his careful examination of plants.

Top 10 Leonardo Drawings in the Royal Collection:
www.rct.uk/collection/s...

At PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#botany

02.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Great paper! Congratulations! 👏

02.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

02.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

The Boss acting like a boss

youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?...

29.01.2026 20:09 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

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).

27.01.2026 22:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

¿pero qué ha pasado? ¿ya te has cansado del Oud? ¿te has comprado una balalaika? o mejor aún, ¿te la has hecho? 😂

26.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Este análisis es brillante y da una perspectiva muy esclarecedora sobre muchas cosas. 👏👏

24.12.2025 11:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

It finally happened. Got asked to review my own paper.

23.12.2025 18:25 — 👍 83    🔁 6    💬 14    📌 1
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Vendedores de muérdago

13.12.2025 22:43 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Los chicos en su prime!

Los chicos en su prime!

Una suerte haber disfrutado de los míticos "Los chicos" en la fiesta del ¡cuarenta! aniversario del Ruta66
En su prime! 🤩

Larga vida al Rock'N'Roll🤘🤘

14.12.2025 12:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

14.12.2025 09:53 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Lo suscribo con toda mi fuerza!

14.12.2025 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Qué reflexión más bonita esta. No solo hay que compartir el gran arte, sino las pequeñas artesanías que cada cual sabe hacer, y en las que hay más belleza de la que creemos. El hecho mismo de crear es hermoso, independientemente del resultado. Y más en estos tiempos de IAs y basuras similares.

14.12.2025 08:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Telenorte, de @rtvenoticias.rtve.es en Euskadi sobre la crítica situación en la que se encuentra la anguila
La oposición critica que aún se pueda comercializar la angula, estando prohibida su pesca en Euskadi
Mi apoyo total. Hay que prohibir la comercialización ya
Enlace: www.rtve.es/play/videos/...

11.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium | Geology | GeoScienceWorld New dating of lahar-killed trees underscores volcano hazards in the Puget Sound metropolitan area. Beginning as a landslide from the west flank of Mount

Very cool work by Bryan Black here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research establishing the exact date of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound metropolitan area: 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium'
doi.org/10.1130/G537...

09.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 41    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 2
Photo of liverwort sporophytes. They look like goofy little aliens with green necks, green hoods and single brown eyes peeking out from the hoods.

Photo of liverwort sporophytes. They look like goofy little aliens with green necks, green hoods and single brown eyes peeking out from the hoods.

Liverwort Athalamia hyalina, looking like the advance party for a goofy alien invasion. The liverwort structures are about 1cm high. #liverwort #bryophyte #fungifriends

09.12.2025 01:05 — 👍 1269    🔁 141    💬 35    📌 7

qué pasada! precioso!

09.12.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Academia is just a job - Nature Human Behaviour Working in academia can be stressful. Laurel Raffington suggests treating it as ‘just a job’ to reduce performance pressure and advocate for structural improvements.

This x 100. You can embrace the wonder of scholarship, while treating your job... like a job.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

06.12.2025 09:20 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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Dr Graciela Gil-Romera Global Change at Long-Term Scales, bridging the gap between past and present.

El cambio global es uno de los grandes retos de nuestro tiempo.
@gilromera.bsky.social investiga cómo los ecosistemas han respondido históricamente a las perturbaciones y qué nos dice esa historia sobre resiliencia y estabilidad.
➡️ gilromera.com
#Ciencia #CambioGlobal #Paleoecología

03.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

podría haberme pasado a mi perfectamente #jesuisdrtugo

01.12.2025 23:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quise hacerme el hombre de la casa cambiando yo solito la goma de la escotilla de la lavadora y... bueno; el jueves viene el técnico. Y me temo que a certificar la defunción de todo el conjunto. Quién me mandaría a mí...

01.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1
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Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds

Migratory birds are heading south to warmer climes and more abundant food. But until recently, scientists didn’t have a good understanding of exactly where they went.

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

#Forests

01.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Bua, me hubiese encantado ir. Me encanta dar clase, pero estoy deseando acabar las clases de este cuatrimestre y
respirar un poco 😅

01.12.2025 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0