My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course c.org/VPhzVVrHPS Please consider signing

Plant mood: the emotionally withered looking black bean Peeps waiting for an email/peer review/work from me thanks for your patience, there's a lot going on right now. I will respond when I can. I’m also taking time away from here for a bit. Like this perennial black bean, I will resurface again 🖤

Lovely assemblage of early carboniferous crinoids seen on the paving slabs in Leuven train station in Belgium 🤩 #FossilFriday

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Publication alert 🚨 doi.org/10.1111/mec.... Our new study in Molecular Ecology shows dwarf birch genetic diversity has been shaped by shifting ice sheets and climate transitions over the last 2.6 million years. This history may hold clues to how tundra shrubs face today’s rapid climate change ❄️🌱🧬🌡️

#InvertFest Neverita duplicata as requested by @joxter.bsky.social it was difficult to find a good picture of the live animal. See pinned comment if you want to request a critter for the August Invert Fest

Y'all tell me why I'm seeing toothpaste costing 24 great british pounds in the supermarkets!? Prices are out of hand 😱

Woooo go Vigdis 👏🏾 Alt text for quoted image: screen shot of the IPCC website showing the page for the seventh assessment report. The background shows a nighttime city scape of skyscrapers enveloped in cloud/smog.

Devil’s-bit scabious and Common knapweed, Kilmory, Arran. #WildflowerHour

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE! "Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations" elifesciences.org/articles/106... This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

🌍 Glad to see our paper out! How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more. 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515... 🛠 osf.io/gu7v4 More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

Regular reminder to authors to please acknowledge and cite people who have contributed to your work. Yet again I find a paper that I collected data for and I’m not acknowledged. 🧪 Also see our recent paper that provides a toolkit for more just and equitable citation practices👇🏽 🔗 osf.io/qjecy_v3

Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.

Do you want to go to grad school in #paleontology 🦖, #geology ⚒️, or #biology🧪? Join the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Graduate School Application Prep Group! We’ll walk you through the application process in weekly workshops. Sign up with this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Science peeps, we need to have a conversation about the platforms we use in relation to socially responsible research given the sort of power dynamics and equity issues we see playing out. See recent news about GitHub 👇🏽 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.” osf.io/qjecy_v2

Happy #FossilFriday and #FernFriday ! This beautiful fossil leaf belongs to a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France during the late Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #fossil #botany

I can never understand why efforts to improve peer review don’t learn from the decades of educational research about how to do good, robust, constructive assessment and feedback. What would happen if we treated peer review as pedagogy? New in @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/peer-r...

Congratulations Dr Middleton. I'm very proud of bae. There were many hurdles during her PhD, but she beat them all. @saralilplants.bsky.social

Appreciating this intersection between botany and pride in Palm Springs--pride for prickly plant people, perhaps? That would fit me. #Botany2025 #PrideInSTEM

Yesterday we led a workshop at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social on “Building open data science skills in paleobiology and ecology”. Huge thanks to everyone involved for making the workshop so successful and fun! 🤩

Hello plant functional trait peeps 👋🏽 🧪 🌱 See this opportunity to submit to special feature in Journal of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Visited a cat cafe this weekend. 12/10 would recommend.

Honestly a mood given current state of things. Trying to blossom in less than ideal growing conditions. Found a teeny teasel growing out of a crack in the side walk 💜💚

Leaving my 10th BIG Event as the incoming Chair of @big-stem-network.bsky.social Not bad for someone who was told SciComm was probably ‘too competitive a career for someone like you’ 15 years ago. Here’s to the next year of BIG!

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Found a large patch of tufted vetch 💜 Photo of me for scale taken by my sister. #WildflowerHour

It’s been so hot this week that I’ve been keeping in the shade. I’ve had good company though, lots of gorgeous Broad-leaved Helleborines!!! Thankfully they haven’t been chomped by deer this year! #WildflowerHour

These super dense patches of pineapple weed looked otherworldly. The smell was delightful! #WildflowerHour

My sunflower be sunflowering 😍

I lost my job last November & am still looking for work. Please send jobs my way! Im specifically looking for things around outdoor education, internships, project management, speaking opportunities, hosting gigs, consulting. In the meantime help me out by buying some pottery EarynMcGee.com/merch

New video! After several requests I'm making some videos explaining basics of #geology for #worldbuilders such as #fantasy and #scifi writers and their ilk. Check it out and share it below. #Worldbuilding www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9gp...

Soft evening glow in the meadow 💚💜 #NaturePhotography #Plants #Grasslands

Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!

Grasses are also putting on a show at the moment! I think this might be Timothy grass. #WildflowerHour

Common centaury is started to bloom in my local area in Oxfordshire 🩷 #Wildflowerhour

Always wonderful to be in the company of a Bee orchid. #WildflowerHour

Agree! The reporting of extreme heat events urgently needs to move beyond showing melting ice creams. @climateoutreach.bsky.social have a great visual library of climate impact images which are more engaging. See examples here for extreme heat👇🏾 www.climatevisuals.org/search/?sear...

Do not ask others to be more resilient if what you mean is to suffer more quietly.

This #FossilFriday- #Juneteenth I'm celebrating the life and work of Louis R. Purnell. Started out as a Tuskegee Airman. Taught himself geology and paleontology, found a passion for nautiloids and cephalopods. He wrote a catalog of invertebrates while working with the NMNH that is still the go-to.

Let’s get a thread of support going for #Juneteenth If you’re Black, post your payment links below (paypal, venmo, ko-fi, gofundme, etc). Everybody else, pick someone to donate to and repost. 👇💕

Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave? The images you choose are critical to the story. The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...

I have the day off work today so naturally I spent a few hours in a ditch looking for cool plants 😂 Came across this pretty pyramidal orchid which matched with my outfit🩷 #Botanist #Wildflower

Question for #PlantScience BlueSky, what program are you using to assemble multi-panel figures nowadays? Trying to give guidance to authors on uploading high-res final files for one of our journal clients.

There is a lot going on in the world and small things like this fresh monstera leaf unfurling, adds a little joy to my day 💚

It’s not often you see a Common Spotted Orchid with a brick backdrop but I can include this little beauty for the #UrbanPlants challenge as most excitingly it has seeded itself in my garden! 😍 #Wildflowerhour

Y’all still not over the fact that yesterday I met and geeked out with a fellow Black woman plant scientist 🥹 This is the SECOND time in my life I have met a Black woman academic plant scientist in person. #BlackInSTEM #PlantScience

Plants are facing the #heat – from molecules to the biosphere –but predicting their responses isn’t easy. New @science.org paper w/ @mekevans.bsky.social & Jia Hu shows how plant responses to #warming can shift or reverse across #scales, and how new research can improve prediction. shorturl.at/mQB2c

We often forget that what is normal or mundane in our own field, can be new to someone outside of our field. :) So here is a photo mosaic of a really nice #Precambrian microbial mat I am working on. In the high res version you can zoom in to resolve objects ~ 50 um in size. #geology #paleontology ⚒️🧪

What a fabulous Fabaceae 😍