Super excited to see Atlas of Botany in print!!! A pleasure to work with the wonderful team from DK and the @thebotanics.bsky.social I wrote the Ancient Biomes section covering some of my favourite stories about plant evolution from the last 500 million years! @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Happy Fascination of Plants Day to my fellow plant peeps! plantday18may.org Here's a pic of me getting all excited about being in the company of monkey and lady x monkey hybrid orchids recently. Thanks @geologyjohnson.bsky.social for capturing my plant joy!

White clover looking lovely in the early evening glow 🤍 #WildflowerHour

My veggie babies are coming along nicely 🥹 First time growing aubergine and I'm excited to see what happens🤞🏽

This part right here. In my whole educational and work career thus far I have had only ONE Black leader, a teacher in secondary school. I've lost count the number of times I've experienced racial (+ gender and disability) discrimination related to my "productivity" in work and learning spaces.

What free text to speech apps do people recommend? I really need something to help me with reading academic papers. #adhd #audhd #dyslexia

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Some lovely peas for this weeks #carrotsandpeas challenge see ALT text for details. #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Yellow rattle starting to emerge in the meadow in my local area 💛💚 #WildflowerHour

A lovely ivy-leaved toadflax spotted while bus stop botanising. #WildflowerHour

What do you get when you cross a Fly Orchid with a Bee Orchid? This little cutie, that’s what! 😍 So excited to see the Fly x Bee hybrid this weekend! #Wildflowerhour

Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers The fabrication rate increased more than 12 times between 2023 and early 2026. Possible causes: Paper Mills, AI use etc www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Such a devasting loss 💔 If you are able to, consider donating to support Adriana's family 👇🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Today @geologyjohnson.bsky.social and I saw a slow worm!!! It was a beautiful accidental encounter towards the end of our hike. It was extra special for me as it was my first time seeing one 😍

I mean a lot of words I write have the red squiggle under (wooo dyslexia), but one word that I have particular trouble with is interdisciplinary.

The Herb-paris colony in Old Sulehay Forest (VC32) is now in full flower, brought on by a week of sunshine. It's always exciting to find this rare, ancient-woodland species... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hawthorn blossoms looking absolutely delightful the other evening 🤍 #HedgerowChallenge #WildflowerHour

#Cretaceous #Kaiju battle inspired by the recent giant #octopus paper. #SciArt #Paleoart #Paleontology #Invertebrate

Our new report with @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social is out! Drawing on the lived experiences of disabled doctoral students, it sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled PGRs across the UK HE sector 1/6 research.open.ac.uk/news/report-...

It's been a week.... Went outside and touched grass and looked at plants. It helped a bit.

When trees compete, they don’t all respond the same way: they become more similar aboveground, but more different belowground. Our new paper shows that these opposite trait shifts can both ease competition and help species coexist. 🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Some gorgeous little members of the fabulous Fabaceae from Sinah Common, Hayling Island today. Spring Vetch (Vicia lathyroides), Toothed Medick, (Medicago polymorpha), Subterranean Clover (Trifolium subterraneum) and Birdsfoot (Ornithopus perpusillus). #WildflowerHour

Red clover growing on an uncut central reservation in town. Yes drivers do look at me a bit funny. #WildflowerHour

Bean blooming season begins! Bumped into this lovely vetch the other evening 💜 #WildflowerHour

Saw my first bugle of the year today 💜💚 #WildflowerHour

I love how fuzzy crossworts are 😍 Also messes with my brain a bit that they are in the same plant family as coffee. #WildflowerHour

For #FossilFriday, since I'm in the field with second year undergrads in Scotland, here is a lovely fossil plant root we found in Upper Carboniferous sediments. Plus a coral, and some amazing bioturbation on the underside of a bed! ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Interesting new preprint: Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science’ f1000research.com/articles/15-...

First British orchid of the year for me - a perfect Early Purple-orchid in its usual location at Bedford Purlieus NNR - it gave much joy to my trainee botanists who'd never seen one before :) #WoodlandPlants #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Found a wonderful dense patch of ground ivy 💜💚 Side note: I recently learnt that ground ivy was used as a bittering agent in beer before hops! #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

How should I publish my digital fossil? Recommendations for the publication of comprehensive 3D datasets in palaeontological studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @daniajinn.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social @dfg.de @datadryad.bsky.social #FossilFriday

When I put this on tumblr a few years ago, someone complimented me on the accurately drawn plantain (the weed not the banana) and thb I'm still riding that high

Nice. This should be useful for teaching. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Toothwort #wildflowerhour

Surprised to bump into this single cowslip in flower on one of my early evening walks 💛 This area has only recently dried out after being submerged most of the winter. #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour

The bluebells are ringing loud and clear. #WildflowerHour

Lovely to see the delicate cuckoo flowers dancing in the breeze earlier in the week. #WildflowerHour

Guzmania! I adore bromeliads.

Happy autism day! To my fellow auties: 💧Reminder to hydrate, stim and stay weird! To my non-auties: 🗣️ Call out ableism/misinformation on autism when you see it. 🕸️ Remember autistic identities and experiences intersect with race, gender, sexuality, socio-economic status, etc. 💬 Let us infodump.

It's #TransDayOfVisibility! Feels weird to post about it this year considering how visible I've had to become to drive my fundraising. Being visible is a mixture of joy and absolute terror but, more than anything else, it's necessary for me right now 🏳️‍⚧️

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌴🍂🌳🐝🪳🧪 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 - UK and Ireland's quiz and festival for degree students enthusiastic about plants. Currently seeking financial support!

Garlic mustard spotted on one of my walks this week. 🤍💚 #WildflowerHour

A large blueberry the size of a small blueberry 🫐

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/...

FYI peeps who use GitHub, there are changes to their AI training policy. Context: www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/g... Sidenote: Even more of a reason not to store sensitive info on GitHub even on private repos! Alt text: screenshot of GitHub privacy page showing permissions for AI model training.

So cool to see the Academic Wheel of Privilege (AWoP) being used in trainings! In our article we focused on the use case for authorship order decisions but the applications of the AWoP framework are many! osf.io/preprints/me...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Practice #4 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Collective, collaborative or communal authorship. "Collective authorship practices allow the demonstrably communal nature of authorship to manifest as an open and collaborative process..." #OpenResearch #AHSS

In these turbulent times in academia of funding cuts, job insecurity, rampant harassment/discrimination, uncritical use of genAI, etc., I find myself returning to my favourite book. My fellow educators, what are we doing!? How are we resisting and reimagining in small and big ways? ✊🏾