Miguel Serrano
@miguel-serrano.bsky.social
A biologist botanizing. University of Santiago de Compostela.
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Phyllanthoid branching evolved only once but has been lost several times. Some species have kept the branching but ditched the leaves. Phyllanthus angustifolius of the Antilles has cladodes (flattened, photosynthetic branches). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Phyllanthoid branching evolved only once but has been lost several times. Some species have kept the branching but ditched the leaves. Phyllanthus angustifolius of the Antilles has cladodes (flattened, photosynthetic branches). #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Cuánto trabajo cuesta crear algo valioso, cuánto esfuerzo y sacrificio (me consta) de tanta gente para que ahora venga esta pandilla ignorante, rancia y ratera a destruirlo en un momento. Desesperante.
Carta de apoyo de AEET al Observatorio del Cambio Global de Sierra Nevada, solicitando a la Junta de Andalucía que garantice la continuidad del Obsevatorio, restaurando un marco de colaboración y asegurando recursos para mantener sus programas de seguimiento, análisis y transferencia de conocimiento
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Cuánto trabajo cuesta crear algo valioso, cuánto esfuerzo y sacrificio (me consta) de tanta gente para que ahora venga esta pandilla ignorante, rancia y ratera a destruirlo en un momento. Desesperante.
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A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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Phyllanthus has what is called “phyllanthoid branching”: Orthotropic (erect) shoots with spirally arranged leaves & plagiotropic (horizontal) branches with distichous leaves. Guam’s P. saffordii shows the dimorphism. 📷: Lauren Gutierrez CCBYND2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Phyllanthus has what is called “phyllanthoid branching”: Orthotropic (erect) shoots with spirally arranged leaves & plagiotropic (horizontal) branches with distichous leaves. Guam’s P. saffordii shows the dimorphism. 📷: Lauren Gutierrez CCBYND2. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Xa teño contado algunha vez que a visión romantizada que hoxe temos dos mosteiros medievais non se corresponde coa memoria popular. Alí onde había un mosteiro galego recolles historias terribles sobre a depravación e a tiranía dos frades sobre as xentes.
Teño un caso novo.
Teño un caso novo.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Xa teño contado algunha vez que a visión romantizada que hoxe temos dos mosteiros medievais non se corresponde coa memoria popular. Alí onde había un mosteiro galego recolles historias terribles sobre a depravación e a tiranía dos frades sobre as xentes.
Teño un caso novo.
Teño un caso novo.
As elegantes folhas do Helleborus foetidus, mui frequente nas montanhas orientais galegas, aqui, nos regos encostados da paróquia de Beira, concelho de Carral, na Corunha, aparecem raramente. Este é o núcleo mais noroccidental (e levemente disjunto) da sua área de distribuição na península ibérica.
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
As elegantes folhas do Helleborus foetidus, mui frequente nas montanhas orientais galegas, aqui, nos regos encostados da paróquia de Beira, concelho de Carral, na Corunha, aparecem raramente. Este é o núcleo mais noroccidental (e levemente disjunto) da sua área de distribuição na península ibérica.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪
Every gift helps:
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#ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
Every gift helps:
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#ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
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Avisaros de que aún quedan unas poquitas vacantes para las Jornadas de Ecología en Cazorla del próximo 25 Octubre y se ha vuelto a abrir un "last-minute" periodo de preincripción + matrícula, por si alguna persona ha cambiado de opinión o circunstancias:
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October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Avisaros de que aún quedan unas poquitas vacantes para las Jornadas de Ecología en Cazorla del próximo 25 Octubre y se ha vuelto a abrir un "last-minute" periodo de preincripción + matrícula, por si alguna persona ha cambiado de opinión o circunstancias:
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Assim se desfai o país. Retirando o conhecimento sobre vida e ecossistemas dos lugares onde se decide sobre o futuro do país
www.galiciaconfidencial.com/noticia/3074...
www.galiciaconfidencial.com/noticia/3074...
Cales son os técnicos da Xunta que aproban os grandes proxectos industrias da Xunta como Altri ou os eólicos?
O Colexio de Biólogos denuncia a súa exclusión de postos chave en xestión ambiental na Xunta.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Assim se desfai o país. Retirando o conhecimento sobre vida e ecossistemas dos lugares onde se decide sobre o futuro do país
www.galiciaconfidencial.com/noticia/3074...
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Giovanna Fontenelle will introduce the BHL Wikimedia portal (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodive...) and share the incredible impact of the BHL-Wiki working group has had in making biodiversity heritage knowledge accessible to all. #LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 #IloveBHL
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Giovanna Fontenelle will introduce the BHL Wikimedia portal (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodive...) and share the incredible impact of the BHL-Wiki working group has had in making biodiversity heritage knowledge accessible to all. #LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 #IloveBHL
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this clip is apparently from February but evidently there may be a lesson here for who romanticizes prizes
Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
this clip is apparently from February but evidently there may be a lesson here for who romanticizes prizes
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One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Are you a student studying ecology or conservation? Do you lecture ecology or conservation? I created this playlist for you and hope it is useful. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Conservation concepts for undergraduates and postgraduates - YouTube
Key concepts underpinning undergraduate ecology and conservation courses
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September 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Are you a student studying ecology or conservation? Do you lecture ecology or conservation? I created this playlist for you and hope it is useful. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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📣Onte espertamos co alcalde de Palas dicindo que hai oposición activa a Altri, pero sen ningún veciñx de Palas
😂 Non sabíamos se estábamos nun soño dos Serrano...así que decidimos manifestarnos de novo💥
🙂 Aos medios que lle dan voz sen cuestionar nada: tapádevos un pouco as vergoñas🙈
#altriNon
😂 Non sabíamos se estábamos nun soño dos Serrano...así que decidimos manifestarnos de novo💥
🙂 Aos medios que lle dan voz sen cuestionar nada: tapádevos un pouco as vergoñas🙈
#altriNon
August 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📣Onte espertamos co alcalde de Palas dicindo que hai oposición activa a Altri, pero sen ningún veciñx de Palas
😂 Non sabíamos se estábamos nun soño dos Serrano...así que decidimos manifestarnos de novo💥
🙂 Aos medios que lle dan voz sen cuestionar nada: tapádevos un pouco as vergoñas🙈
#altriNon
😂 Non sabíamos se estábamos nun soño dos Serrano...así que decidimos manifestarnos de novo💥
🙂 Aos medios que lle dan voz sen cuestionar nada: tapádevos un pouco as vergoñas🙈
#altriNon
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Your "deal" looks like this, Mrs. von der Leyen:
July 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Your "deal" looks like this, Mrs. von der Leyen:
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The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza.
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July 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The PNG Courier on the crime against humanity currently being permitted to take place in Gaza.
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Substack - mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
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#NoncodingRNA plays a crucial role in #butterfly #speciation—but what about other #flora and #fauna? A PNAS Inner Workings: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#microRNA #LongNoncodingRNA #evolution #PepperedMoth #MonkeyFlower
#microRNA #LongNoncodingRNA #evolution #PepperedMoth #MonkeyFlower
July 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#NoncodingRNA plays a crucial role in #butterfly #speciation—but what about other #flora and #fauna? A PNAS Inner Workings: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#microRNA #LongNoncodingRNA #evolution #PepperedMoth #MonkeyFlower
#microRNA #LongNoncodingRNA #evolution #PepperedMoth #MonkeyFlower
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La UE (conservadora que no conserva) decide eliminar el programa LIFE del nuevo presupuesto de la UE. Gracias a él se salvan especies pero hay que gastar en armas , dicen. efe.com/euro-efe/bru...
Bruselas decide eliminar el programa LIFE del nuevo presupuesto de la UE - EFE
La CE ha decide eliminar en su borrador de presupuesto el programa LIFE, dedicado a invertir en acciones beneficiosas para el medioambiente.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
La UE (conservadora que no conserva) decide eliminar el programa LIFE del nuevo presupuesto de la UE. Gracias a él se salvan especies pero hay que gastar en armas , dicen. efe.com/euro-efe/bru...
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Thank you to everyone who has shared & responded to our Call for Support thus far. Our Call proposes a more distributed & sustainable future where BHL is shared across multiple hosts supported by multiple funding sources. Find out more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... 🌱 📖 🧪 🌏 #ILoveBHL
BHL Transition Update #2
Help us shape the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is at a turning point. After nearly two decades of calling the Smithsonian Institution home, BH…
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July 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Thank you to everyone who has shared & responded to our Call for Support thus far. Our Call proposes a more distributed & sustainable future where BHL is shared across multiple hosts supported by multiple funding sources. Find out more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... 🌱 📖 🧪 🌏 #ILoveBHL
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ENTREVISTA | "El uso de las matemáticas no es objetivo. Cuando Trump tomó posesión, los que estaban en primera fila, ¿quiénes eran? Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk. Esa gente son de las personas más poderosas que hay en el mundo. ¿Cómo han conseguido ese poder? Con matemáticas"
Redirecting
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June 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ENTREVISTA | "El uso de las matemáticas no es objetivo. Cuando Trump tomó posesión, los que estaban en primera fila, ¿quiénes eran? Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk. Esa gente son de las personas más poderosas que hay en el mundo. ¿Cómo han conseguido ese poder? Con matemáticas"
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Alien vs Predator
Trouble in ParadICE
It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it.
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Trouble in ParadICE
It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it.
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Alien vs Predator
My latest postcard as the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Alien vs Predator
Trouble in ParadICE
It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it.
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Trouble in ParadICE
It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it.
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Woohoo! Publication Day! It’s finally hitting the streets, just like the plants it features. From walls to pavements, fallow waste ground, the grassy bits and street trees, it’s a celebration of urban botany and I really hope you enjoy it! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
June 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Woohoo! Publication Day! It’s finally hitting the streets, just like the plants it features. From walls to pavements, fallow waste ground, the grassy bits and street trees, it’s a celebration of urban botany and I really hope you enjoy it! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
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In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israel destroys Gaza dialysis centre; outrage over killings at aid sites
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.
www.aljazeera.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Una noticia excelente : después de décadas considerada extinta en Andalucía reaparece ‘Gyrocaryum oppositifolium’ - más información 👇🏻
www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/...
www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/...
La Junta confirma el redescubrimiento del 'Nomevés' en Sevilla tras 42 años dado por extinguido
Catalina García destaca que este hallazgo refuerza el compromiso andaluz con la protección de especies amenazadas y la conservación de la biodiversidad
www.juntadeandalucia.es
May 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Una noticia excelente : después de décadas considerada extinta en Andalucía reaparece ‘Gyrocaryum oppositifolium’ - más información 👇🏻
www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/...
www.juntadeandalucia.es/presidencia/...