Abdulwakeel

Employment | New York Botanical Garden Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

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Sleep pressure causes birds to trade asymmetric sleep for symmetric sleep Avian non-REM sleep can occur symmetrically, with both cerebral hemispheres sleeping deeply, or asymmetrically, with one sleeping lighter than the other. van Hasselt et al. find that during periods of...

Sleep pressure causes birds to trade asymmetric sleep for symmetric sleep: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

"Its publication marks a watershed moment in the evolution of the field of social-ecological systems." – Katrina Brown, Patricia Balvanera, and Craig R. Allen, Editors-in-Chief, Ecology and Society

🎉 New paper: Introducing SocSES – Why SocSES, and why now? 🎉

Read the open-access paper in Ecology and Society here 🔗 tinyurl.com/22zhetsc and visit the SocSES webpage that accompanies the paper here 🔗 tinyurl.com/35zuaamk

It's the best time of the year! I get to see all the wonderful work from my entomology students 🥰

Bittere scheefbloem (Iberis amara) op straat in Overvecht, Utrecht

📣 Call for speakers 📣

Present your contribution to the SES Methods website at the next speed talk-style SES Methods Bazaar on 🗓️ 19 June 2025.

🔗 Sign up as a speaker: tinyurl.com/yc34sa6z
⚠️ Sign up by Tuesday, 27 May 2025, at 18:00 Central (Africa/Europe – UTC+2)

Nature supports livelihoods and is vital for our health & wellbeing. But we're perpetuating a biodiversity crisis across the globe. 🌍🧪

.— @nevilleash.bsky.social, IPBES Officer-in-Charge

Let's act for harmony with nature & sustainable development.

🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkWNxaV4uA

@unbiodiversity.bsky.social

Congratulations 🥂

I credit my career path to being a 2015 PLANTS grant recipient and have volunteered as a mentor almost every year since. I cannot imagine BSA or the field of botany without it. Please consider donating to the BSA Human Diversity Fund to support future generations: crm.botany.org/makeadonation

IAPT Photo Contest! 📸💚
bit.ly/iaptphotocontest

Estimating effective population size trajectories from time-series identity-by-descent segments Abstract. Long, identical haplotypes shared between pairs of individuals, known as identity-by-descent (IBD) segments, result from recently shared co-ances

Estimating effective population size trajectories from time-series identity-by-descent segments
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Photo of karolina in the woods, wearing a blue UConn eeb hoodie, with a licor strapped to her.

Hello 👋

“86% of global deforestation occurring between 2001 and 2022 can be attributed to crop and cattle production.”

The title of the paper might lead people to think that it’s closer to 50%.

I have spent much more time putting out fires in the last 100 days than I have educating students or conducting research to address real-world problems.

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@alexandreloureiro.bsky.social led a global #meta-analysis in @respublications.bsky.social #RESEcolEnt that found many taxonomic holes and no evidence of a common pattern of taxon or #phylogenetic #diversity across #elevation for #beetle #Coleoptera families

doi.org/10.1111/een....

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Wide view of prairie with manage dropseed clumps.

Dropseed clump initiating growth that survived the March fire, but a large fraction of the clump (its meristems) were killed.

Dropseed clump completely killed by fire. No growth...living clumps show 3-6 inches of growth by now at this site.

Let's talk about the interaction of fire exclusion with the return of fire to #prairie. This bluff prairie in SW WI had not seen fire for at least many decades and was being encroached on by woody vegetation. Low herbaceous plants had been excluded from large portions by excessive thatch. 1/

Early Career Travel Funds Purpose

Are you an early career systematist needing a little extra funding for conferences this year? Check out SSB’s new Early Career Travel Fund!

www.systbio.org/early-career...

Deadline is coming up soon - March 31 to accommodate travel for summer meetings such as #Evol2025

Butterfly specimen retrieved from BOLD public database (www.boldsystems.org)

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#WorldWildlifeDay 2025 is here!

To celebrate, we’re highlighting recent #DNABarcoding research that enhances our understanding of wild animals and plants

Today, we’re focusing on 🧬🔬 methods to ID species, with a comparative study on butterflies, bumblebees, and parasitic wasps 🦋🐝.

A close up of a flower thats rubbery crimson color in the middle and five pointy petals that are yellow with red stripes

How a whole plant looks like - succulent stems and relatively small plant

Look at this Huernia zebrina flower! So amazing and unreal looking, as if made of rubber and belong to an alien world. #iamabotanist #plantjoy 🧪🌱🌸

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Whale nostril spacing allometry against the trophic level

Fascinating. Allometry of nostril spacing in whales negative scales with the trophic level.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 #EvoBio #Macroecology

#Climatechange shuffles nature’s deck, reshaping ecosystems as species struggle to keep up. Study on @nature.com finds rapid temperature shifts accelerate species turnover, threatening #biodiversity. Human impact worsens the crisis—making #conservation urgent than ever.
👓 10.1038/s41586-024-08456-z

www.iaptglobal.org/grants 🌿

A slightly wet Tui singing at the local park, Auckland New Zealand #Birds #photography 🪶📷🇳🇿

A little Black Morph Piwakawaka | Fantail came for a visit in Pohara, Tasman earlier in the year. (The Black Morph is a rarer version of the Fantail; its often seen throughout only the South Island of New Zealand)
Gear: Canon 5DM4 with Sigma 150-600mm
Settings: SS 1/8000 F/6.3 Iso 1600 #birds 📷 🇳🇿 🪶

Flowers that cool themselves: thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments Flower exposure to high temperature reduces the production, viability and performance of pollen, ovules and seeds, which in turn reduces individual fecundity and risks the survival of populations. Aut...

I spent the last five summers sharing the infamous mediterranean heat with 15 species of thistles that flower at that somewhat absurd time of year, seeking to understand (something about) their thermal ecology.

Here are the results. I think all my sweat was worth it.

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Photos of the flower heads of 15 different species of thistle

These are the protagonists of the story