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Wendy Valencia-Montoya

@wendyssae

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows | Evolutionary biology | 🌿🐞 | 🇨🇴
Cambridge, MA Joined October 2014
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Wendy Valencia-Montoya @wendyssae
I’ve never organized a GoFundMe before, but my cousin needs help finishing her PhD in the face of funding cuts to science, and your support can make a difference!!!
Every contribution counts. You can donate as little as $5

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Wendy Valencia-Montoya @wendyssae
Science Magazine Verified account @ScienceMagazine Dec 11, 2025
Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings in Science offer new insights into what shaped the earliest eras of plant-animal coevolution.

Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4iVZtfM
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Wendy Valencia-Montoya @wendyssae
My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!

Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
www.science.org Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal Color and scent are well-known pollinator cues. Some plants also produce heat, but its role remains unclear. Here, we report that plant-generated thermal infrared radiation serves as a pollination...
Science Magazine Verified account @ScienceMagazine Dec 11, 2025
Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings in Science offer new insights into what shaped the earliest eras of plant-animal coevolution.

Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4iVZtfM
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