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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly

@rafadscruz.bsky.social
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Postdoc @EdinburghUni, Natural history of plant development, he/him, 🏳️‍🌈. Botany, evolution, politics, geek stuff, pics of Floema the cat.

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
End of era in the lab @instmolplantsci.bsky.social as we say goodbye to @rafadscruz.bsky.social and @jeremywyman.bsky.social. It’s been a pleasure having you both in the team. Wishing you both the best for your next steps in Australia 🇦🇺 and Brazil 🇧🇷 🌿
Sandy, Jeremy and Rafael standing by a blue sign that says Daniel Rutherford Building, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences 9 members of the lab standing next to a blue sign that reads Daniel Rutherford Building, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is also common in Rutaceae. I wonder how many of these are just simple leaves with weird petioles.
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Sorry guys, I needed to purge the old Botany Feed to remove some nsfw posts that were getting too frequent. I tried to correct the old one, but in the meantime, after some modifications, I deleted it by accident. However, this is the patched version that should work well. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!
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Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead
The gradual unfurling of fronds from tightly coiled tips, termed fiddleheads or croziers, is one of the most recognizable features of the fern lineage…
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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚩Shedding light on fern stems! 🪴🌿 Read more by @rafadscruz.bsky.social 1url.cz/41ke0 The #stems of #ferns are important as #functional response #traits in #competition for space and light, as well as for reaching optimal #microhabitats in #stressful #environments #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome
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Guillermo Santos @guillermo-santos.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I have created this starter pack for all fern enthusiasts. Gotta catch'em all! Reply to be added 🌿💚👇 #Fern #Botany #Plantscience #Pteridology #Frond bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Many like botany and mentioned it outside of a scientific context. And other users used some tags to promote inappropriate content. I've narrowed the criteria a bit to make a better selection now. Let me know if you users start to find too many weird posts in the feed again.
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Remedios @caixadoremedios.art · 02/09/2024
BlueSky /BlueSky São Paulo
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
I hope this meme is appreciated here as well.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 30/08/2024
Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇 Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
I edited again the Botany feed, with some new tags, and ranking the content by a ranking that takes into account freshness/likes (it was random before), since a lot of non-related and non-academic content was appearing. It is adjustable, so let me know if you are not happy. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 14/08/2024
I suspect you want this feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Been too long since I shared any #Hawaii wildlife! Catching up on processing images, here's a geometry lesson I got from a native Hāpu'u tree fern while visiting the Big Island. :) #endemic #botany
A brown, hairy tree fern fiddlehead, still curled in a tight spiral with four smaller spirals inside, creating a nice contrast with the series of straight fronds behind.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Scientists are not arguing about this nonsense. Please stop this. Many fascinating plant science topics to cover @TheAtlantic THE MYSTERIES OF PLANT “INTELLIGENCE” 🤡 apple.news/ANsyOpmlMQZy...
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The Mysteries of Plant “Intelligence”
Scientists are arguing about whether concepts like memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom. May 01, 2024 On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madi...
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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
Adders tongue fern @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
I edited again the Botany feed, with some new tags, and ranking the content by a ranking that takes into account freshness/likes (it was random before), since a lot of non-related and non-academic content was appearing. It is adjustable, so let me know if you are not happy. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
I just (re)created a Botany feed tracking several Botany terms. The last one was quite limited and impossible to edit. I hope it is useful =)
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eepy 🍂🥧🥀 @eepy.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Botany and Plant Science!
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Vera Straetmanns @yavannakemi.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
I´m in love with this interactive poster on the evolution of plants!! 🤩🌿 madland.science/greening.php
Screenshot of the poster. It shows the evolution of multicellular plants and other details on plants and life in general in great detail and with miniature illustrations.
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Phil Kyriakakis @breakliquid.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
You're welcome! (recipes to lots of reagents you wanted to know how to make) geneseesci.com/wp-content/u...
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Neelima Sinha @plantdevo.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Students are allowed two notecards for exams - look at this one
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Archaeology Carl @archaeologycarl.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Enjoying this one from USGS.
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Come and join the group! 3yr postdoc position investigating the origin of apical growth in land plants focused on the Rhynie chert fossils! Deadline 30/10/2023 Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A microscope images of brown spiral of fossil plant leavesMicroscope image of a cross section through the stem of a fossil plant. The stem is circular, light brown and individual cells can be seen
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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
The #Ginkgoales mega-diagram I've been working on is finally done, so I've written a #blog post to showcase it! There is a key to all the species included and some personal thoughts I had while doing it. I hope you enjoy! palaeoflora.blogspot.com/2023/10/too-... #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
I just (re)created a Botany feed tracking several Botany terms. The last one was quite limited and impossible to edit. I hope it is useful =)
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
No research is ever finished. We just run out of time, money or motivation.
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Science and animal nerds: check out this fun game! Every day, a new mystery animal is posted. You have 20 guesses to narrow down which species it is. (Phylogenetic trees are HARD, y'all.) metazooa.com/game Here are my results from yesterday.
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
I asked Floema to come and say hello.
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
I am specimen rejected
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
I hope this meme is appreciated here as well.
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Rafael Cruz 🪴🔬🧬 #FernAlly @rafadscruz.bsky.social · 20/08/2023
Hello world 🌎, is this how we start?
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