Ben Nyberg

Yes! I waited 7 yrs. Ask me questions.

PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research

A wonderful opportunity for a fully funded #PhD position in collections-based research at Natural History Musuem Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social

Reach out if interested in a PhD project in #peatland #sedges, #aquatic plants, or #ferns! 🌿🍂🌾

#globalchange #eco-evo

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

It has been wonderful to see all the enthusiasm for the #woolydevil in the midst of everything else going on. This is a wonderful write up by @npr.org @jamesdoubek.bsky.social

💼 Job alert!!!

🌺 Endowed Chair in Botany at the University of Hawaiʻi!

Continuous recruitment until position is filled – application review begins March 17,2025.

www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

Picture of the face and side view of male and female of the new bee species. Both are completely black.

New species of native bee from Hawaiʻi! I discovered this a few months ago on the island of Molokaʻi. It's named Hylaeus paumako, from the Hawaiian word paumākō (mourning or grief), as it's the first species from there that's all black even in males. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/817817...

🌻 Out now our paper, "Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity" in @natureplants.bsky.social 🌴

🌺 We argue that pollen banking is an essential tool in the plant conservation toolbox that urgently needs focused research attention and resources. 🌸

Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs.

Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.

Happy World Soils Day.

🙋🏼‍♂️Great starter pack Shah!

Would you mind adding me? Thanks

Schiedea waiahuluensis (Caryophyllaceae), an enigmatic new species from Kaua'i, Hawaiian Islands and the first species discovered by a drone collection system During a survey by the National Tropical Botanical Garden drone team, an enigmatic Schiedea was observed in December 2021on steep, rocky cliff faces of the Waiahulu Valley in the Waimea Canyon of Kaua...

The development of this tool has been a collaboration between National Tropical Botanical Garden and Outreach Robotics. They are amazing engineers.

Check out the publication: phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1302...

And more about the Mamba 🤖: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schiedea waiahuluensis, first collected March 2022. Described and published in PhytoKeys (Oct 2024). Potentially undescribed mirid insect just below the open flower.

The Mamba collecting arm making a collection of Schiedea waiahuluensis, Waimea Canyon, Kauai.

Newly-described species!! 📒

Schiedea waiahuluensis (Caryophyllaceae)

Perhaps the first new species to be located, then collected by drone.

Our plant collecting drone has been a game changer for documentation and conservation of cliff flora in Hawaii.

Bonus: maybe a new insect too! 🪲

🙋🏼‍♂️

Ken Wood and Steve Perlman - outer reaches of insular space - Kauai 2024

Aloha BlueSky 🤙

Looking forward to making some new friends.