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Nick Rocha

@megetra

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

 Stanislaus County
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Joined February 2020
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Jamie Thompson@Jamie_T42Mar 9
New paper in Nature @ScientificData! 🌵 We present CactEcoDB, an open access database integrating trait, spatial, environmental, phylogenetic, and diversification data for the #cactus family. nature.com/articles/s41597-0… @CactusSucculent @LeverhulmeTrust @UniRdg_Research
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Those skyscrapers formed when two residential plates collided
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@2024dion2 Jul 2025
This is such a dogshit way to build cities man
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⚠️#NewPaperAlert📝 Areas of endemism of semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Gerromorpha): an approach to the biogeographic regionalization of #Colombia 🇨🇴 By Morales et al. doi.org/10.1111/cla.12616 #Cladistics #EndemicAreas #Hemiptera #NDM #VNDM #Biogeography
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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
Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.

ALT Map of local National Weather Service office "areas of responsibility" modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.

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Passionflower trees of #Ecuador: revising the presence of Passiflora subg. Astrophea (#Passifloraceae) and including resolution to the P. putumayensis and P. macrophylla taxonomic complexes phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/art…
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Gil Wizen@wizentrop2 Apr 2025
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
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Quantifying macro-evolutionary patterns of trait mean and variance with phylogenetic location-scale models. DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2XS7K
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⚠️ #NewPaperAlert🚨 Accuracy of phylogenetic reconstructions from continuous characters analysed under parsimony and its parametric correlates By Tagliacollo et al. shorturl.at/pz7PL #ModelBasedMethods #GeometricMorphometrics #Morphology #Parsimony #Phylogenetics
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I'm pretty happy how my review "Ancestral State Reconstruction of Phenotypic Characters" turned out in @SpringerNature 'Evolutionary Biology.' Please check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s11692-025-0… (and feel free to email me for a reprint if you don't have access).
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A nuclear phylogenomic tree of grasses (Poaceae) recovers current classification despite gene tree incongruence Grass Phylogeny Working Group III 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Phylogeny of 1153 Poaceae accessions inferred from 331 nuclear genes, including paralogs, using a multispecies coalescent approach.

ALT Phylogeny of 1153 Poaceae accessions inferred from 331 nuclear genes, including paralogs, using a multispecies coalescent approach.

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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
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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.
🦕 thegaminghyena 🦖 (🦣 #NewPleistocene arc 🦥) (@crocutamatata) profile picture🦕 thegaminghyena 🦖 (🦣 #NewPleistocene arc 🦥)@crocutamatata15 Sep 2023
What zoology opinion will have you like this
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Zito (@_Zeets) profile pictureZito@_Zeets29 Sep 2024
Incredible to see the news that climate change protestors have been sentenced to years in prison on the same morning where entire towns are disappearing or underwater from floods, a kind of event that’s becoming more and more normal
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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
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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” bit.ly/4dSFEm6
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Matt Coco@MattCoco1130 Aug 2024
🕷️背甲collection✨✨✨
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Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @NatureComms
Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification

Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification

Nature Communications - Here, the authors combine machine learning with phylogenetic modeling to assess the impact of 39 abiotic and biotic drivers on Cactaceae evolution. They suggest that cactus...

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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 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae1…
Morphometrics and Phylogenomics of Coca (Erythroxylum spp.) Illuminate Its Reticulate Evolution,...

Morphometrics and Phylogenomics of Coca (Erythroxylum spp.) Illuminate Its Reticulate Evolution,...

Abstract. South American coca (Erythroxylum coca and E. novogranatense) has been a keystone crop for many Andean and Amazonian communities for at least 8,0

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shloop 𓆤@HuiSt9 Jul 2024
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
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#TansleyReview Vascular cambium stem cells: past, present and future Wybouw et al. @BWybouw @xizhang27241046 @AP_Mahonen 📖 ow.ly/7eul50SlysE
Comparison of the Auxin/CLE/WUS-WOX factors in the three plant meristems.

ALT Comparison of the Auxin/CLE/WUS-WOX factors in the three plant meristems.

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