Ramón y Cajal Researcher at #UPO. #Sedge taxonomist but general naturalist at heart. #Iamabotanist #Cyperaceae #Carex #Taxonomyhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lh7phynf2i2fThe horizon from my office’s windows asked me to give another opportunity to my day 🥰02 Feb 2025 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7phynf2i2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3ldg7oe7m3c23The Christmas Sedge announces that... It's time!!!!!16 Dec 2024 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldg7oe7m3c23https://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcsbc6pagc2wBehold! Gluteus minimus, an incertae sedis fossil whose name means "tiny butt" http://bizarrecreature.blogspot.com/2014/11/creature-43-gluteus-minimus.html Let your imagination gets you to... to the Devonian!08 Dec 2024 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsbc6pagc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcsajiuhhc2wThe generalistic house sparrow drinking nectar from Strelitzia nicholai in Torremolinos during Spring 2023. Is that how bird-plants interactions may start cementing @txaverius.bsky.social?08 Dec 2024 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsajiuhhc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcpxtlr54c2sThese are not flowers. I repeat: these are NOT flowers. What you see here is the Glass Flowers collection from the Harvard Museum of Natural History, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Come with us to admire some of these stunning pieces! 👇🏼07 Dec 2024 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcpxtlr54c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcfhf3ibzs26When you can't decide if you love dogs more than the herbarium.03 Dec 2024 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcfhf3ibzs26https://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcdqrjdtjk2uWhen your toxic supervisor messed up the taxonomy and now you are in charge.02 Dec 2024 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdqrjdtjk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lccz2s2q7s2zCyperaceae are not known by their floral displays. Then one day you run into Cyperus proteus, a sedge that looks like a dandelion 😱 A striking case of mimicry to exploit insect-mediated pollination, where the anthela is modified into a colorful pseudanthium. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/163156299 [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Dec 2024 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccz2s2q7s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcbc5gl5kc2wThis is how you imagine vouchers when you are from a place with a warm climate but head north in Winter to study a herbarium collection.01 Dec 2024 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbc5gl5kc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lcak3ku22k2nWe spent this past week hunting more vouchers at the @nybg.bsky.social for the core imaging of iSedge @cetaf.bsky.social project. At this point the largest herbarium in the W Hemisphere helped us reach the incredible number of 1300 sedge species previously unavailable for www.cyperaceae.org! 😍01 Dec 2024 11:48 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcak3ku22k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbzfagzxe22fWhen you work in a herbarium but you real passion is knitting. Seen at @nybg.bsky.social28 Nov 2024 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbzfagzxe22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbwwycljhs2xSometimes when you revise herbaria you get to actually see a bit of the story behind the fieldwork (II). A voucher of Carex with a note from the colector at the end of the label 🥰😆 Seen at @nybg.bsky.social herbarium27 Nov 2024 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbwwycljhs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbt24jagac2jFor 1 week we have been at the Smithsonian NMNH in DC with iSedge project funded by @cetaf.bsky.social. We checked the entire Cyperaceae collection and set a loan of >700 species. That will boost our website www.cyperaceae.org with detailed pics of taxonomically relevant structures. Stay tuned!26 Nov 2024 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbt24jagac2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbmkpq3pyk2dThis picture is the "Great Piece of Turft", 1503, by the German painter Dürer, preserved in the Albertina museum (Vienna). It is among the earliest pieces of art representing in detail grasses and other "non-flowering" plants. I always wondered if there is an equivalent pic depicting sedges [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmkpq3pyk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbjw4bfdoc2qMapania sylvatica (Cyperaceae), the sedge that wanted to be a Trillium.22 Nov 2024 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbjw4bfdoc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbi5acsiak2sTrue color images of the monochrome sedge -Lagenocarpus alboniger, Cyperaceae-. A plant that actually is black and white 🤯21 Nov 2024 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbi5acsiak2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pjimmej.bsky.social/post/3lbfgvbxark2cSometimes when you revise herbaria you get to actually see a bit of the story behind the fieldwork. A Machaerina (Cyperaceae) collected on 1915 near Itatiaia (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), specimen from the Smithsonian's US collection @smithsonianmag.bsky.social20 Nov 2024 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:ted7suf4mrotffskzhmwplb5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfgvbxark2c