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Luciana Alves

@lufalves.bsky.social

Plant ecologist. I can see the forest for the trees Associate Researcher @ UCLA My own views

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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert

LOVE IT
Genius David Byrne πŸ’•
youtube.com/watch?v=PNmc...

03.12.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis

Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most needed to close the skill gaps.

www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

01.12.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

01.12.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

01.12.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ™Œ

01.12.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science This article advocates for the formal recognition of botanists who identify plants in scientific publishing, highlighting their essential role in ecological research and data integrity. It proposes p...

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Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science - Bonari - 2025 - Applied Vegetation Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

28.11.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

agora ele tem q contar!!!

27.11.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life

2–5 June 2026
University of CΓ³rdoba, Spain

Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026

Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

#PlantScience

26.11.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in BrasΓ­lia after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, BrasΓ­lia, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

25.11.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1172    πŸ” 277    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 234
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Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time

Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

25.11.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lucia, no
video, me parece que Trump nao entendeu a 1a pergunta e se referia a Lula (sem lembrar o nome dele). Depois alguem
explica e
ele
entende que eh Bolsonaro

23.11.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing, no?

23.11.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from the capital

Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil

22.11.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 730    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 115

esse eu nao sabia..

20.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction --

"People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

20.11.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weak global trade‐off between frost and drought resistance in trees Drought and frost stresses play important roles in determining species distributions, especially at range margins. Understanding how stress resistance traits interact to determine vulnerability to c...

Resharing new paper
@newphyt.bsky.social πŸ§ͺ

🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌑️πŸ”₯❄️
🌲πŸ’ͺ Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺
🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum πŸƒπŸŒ±
πŸ“–more:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

17.11.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#COP30 is underway! 🌎

Meet #AGU member Mercedes Bustamante, Global Environmental Change section leader and expert in climate and biodiversity.

She shares insights on Brazil’s leading role in climate solutions and what she’s most looking forward to at COP30.

#Brazil #ClimateAction #Biodiversity

17.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...

in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

12.11.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

it has some aura πŸ˜…

10.11.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/thes...

05.11.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.11.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 87289    πŸ” 18441    πŸ’¬ 3207    πŸ“Œ 2401

congratulations!!!πŸŽ‰

05.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🌊🌊🌊🌊

05.11.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™

05.11.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what a
lovely landscape!!!

03.11.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....

New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

03.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 874    πŸ” 255    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 28

πŸ’™

02.11.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES!!! πŸ™Œ #DodgersWin ⚾️ 🧒 #WorldSeries

02.11.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

😞

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