Here’s another plant that stumped the @inaturalist.bsky.social model.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
It’s natural position and s hanging straight down. Also from Amazonia, namely Putumayo, Colombia. Anyone know what this might be? 🌱 🧪
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
This crazy plant 🌱 stumped the @inaturalist.bsky.social AI model.
Can anyone help me with an ID?
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#Botany
#Putumayo 🇨🇴
Rio Putumayo.
Colombia 🇨🇴 on the left, Ecuador 🇪🇨 on the right.
_ Orthrosanthus chimboracensis_, in the iris family, species endemic to the Andes + Costa Rica.
_Neobartsia_ (family Orobanchaceae), endemic to the Andes.
_Castratella piloselloides_, endemic to the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes.
A bramble, or wild raspberry.
Four more páramo flowers. asher alt text t for 🆔s and comments 🧪
Vaccinieae. Common name Mountain Grape.
Semi-parasitic plant, like mistletoe.
Castilleja so.
Some flowers from the páramo in Chingaza National park, near Bogotá, Colombia, elevation about 3,000 m.
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Lovely. But don’t kid yourself. Toucans will also “make a snack” of baby birds right outta the nest. 😋
Humboldt's squirrel monkey (Saimiri cassiquiarensis),
Reserva Natural El Caduceo, San Martín, Meta, Colombia.
Alt EN: Image shows a large green and brown American bullfrog partially submerged in bright green duckweed, with only its head and eyes above the water. Text on image: “Inform invasive species management. Sequencing invasive amphibians, like the American bullfrog, helps track introductions, spread, and rapid adaptation.” Alt ES: Imagen de una rana toro americana grande, verde y marrón, parcialmente sumergida entre lentejas de agua verde brillante, con la cabeza y los ojos sobre la superficie. Texto en la imagen: “Informan la gestión de especies invasoras. Secuenciar anfibios invasores, como la rana toro americana, ayuda a rastrear introducciones, expansión y adaptación rápida.”
Alt EN: Image shows a smooth, legless caecilian lying on wet soil and leaf litter in a forest floor setting. Text on image: “Fill major gaps in the Tree of Life. Amphibians remain underrepresented in genomic databases. Sequencing them strengthens phylogeny and comparative research across vertebrates.” Alt ES: Imagen de una cecilia lisa y sin patas sobre suelo húmedo y hojarasca en el suelo del bosque. Texto en la imagen: “Llenan grandes vacíos en el Árbol de la Vida. Los anfibios siguen poco representados en las bases de datos genómicas. Secuenciarlos fortalece la filogenia y la investigación comparativa en vertebrados.”
🧩 From #salamanders with some of the largest, most complex genomes to #invasive species like the American #bullfrog, #amphibian genomics is pushing #sequencing forward — while filling major gaps in the #vertebrate Tree of Life.🧬💻
Big thanks to @crawfordaj.bsky.social for helping shape this post! 🧬✨
Dems scapegoating again rather than taking a good long look in the mirror. Or looking at data 📊
like # of Dems that voted Green vs # of Dems that voted Republican in Florida in 2000. Dig it.
Responsible publication of your research!
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Emailing details now …. 🙏🏻🐸
Reeeeaaallllyy …. 🤩
Wanna illustrate a new species (MS in prep) currently in USNM (Suitland) ???
🤩👐🙏🏻🐸
1995: “Man Getting Hit by Football” (S6, E18).
2025: “Man kicks self in groin with mocap”
How far we’ve come in 30 years.
Human-AI interactions in 2025 summed up in 5 seconds. 🤣
What further wonders await us in 2026? 🥹
@parismarx.com
That’s still true today … depending on what country you live in ;-)
AI … I’m not all that intuit.
I’ll show myself out 🚪
… plus all-steel dashboard and no seatbelts.
As my old friend w a ‘56 Belvedere used to say:
In case of accident, just wipe it down and sell it the next guy.
“Dictador” (or ‘dictator’ in English) brand rum from Colombia— this variety is labeled ‘Orange’.
Could it be that the popularity of the Orange Dictator brand is falling sharply?
🍹 cheers.
Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...
A gran day out: The salt mines and natural history museum of Nemocón, Cundinamarca, Colombia.
#LeShow
@harryshearer.bsky.social
Apple podcasts seems to think Le Show is every 2 weeks 🙃
Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
That was paper #1 of Prof. David B. Wake’s ‘reader’ for his famous class on Evolution at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
👍🏽
Drawing: Dante goes astray in a dark wood (Gustave Dore, 1870).
“Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
— Dante Alighieri (Longfellow translation)
704 years on, I suspect this opening connects with more people than ever.
(1/2) 🧬 The African BioGenome Project 🌍 is training the next generation of genomics experts through groundbreaking, hands-on workshops across 50 African countries—laying the foundation for innovation and discovery across the continent.
🚀📖 Read the 2025 publication: go.nature.com/40INiek
That frog in the photo is the famous Red-eyed Tree Frog (_Agalychnis callidryas_) from the Caribbean side of Costa Rica — yet no one (!) is currently working on a reference genome 🧬 for this 🐸. However, we have a group of researchers trying to make this happen. If you’d like to help out, DM me. 🤗
Damn the fascist and complicit GOP.
“We've gained notoriety
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.”
Farewell to the master satirist and lyricist.
🕊️… ☠️
¿Named in honor of the flying Luck Dragon 🐉 in Never-ending Story?
