Tim Utteridge
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Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity.
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Trees of New Guinea: - Guide to all 693 tree genera - Fully illustrated with photos and line art - PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X)
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🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 🛰️ The strongest storm so far in 2026,
#Sinlaku
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#landfall
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#Saipan
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#Tinian
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#typhoon
of Cat.4, with winds at 233 km/h.In Saipan, about 43000 people are without power and reported widespread damages ⬇️#Sentinel3 view of April 14
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Retracing the centre of origin and evolutionary history of nutmeg Myristica fragrans, an emblematic spice tree species url:
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Retracing the centre of origin and evolutionary history of nutmeg Myristica fragrans, an emblematic spice tree species
Abstract. Identifying the centres of origin of cultivated plants is important for conservation and sustainable management, since this is where these specie
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2069/20251734/481347/Retracing-the-centre-of-origin-and-evolutionary
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The International Biogeography Society
13 days ago
Position of interest for plant evolutionary biologists: two assistant professorships are now open in the System Earth Science (SES) department at Maastricht University! Interested? See the details here, or visit the QR code:
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Venlo-As...
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At lunch in the Gardens today, under a Podocarpus, it was 31°C, rather warm, and I’m watching and listening to … an Arctic Warbler, waiting to fly north (where they can call it a ‘Tropical Warbler’)
#bird
#Singapore
#migration
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Gardenwise, the magazine of Singapore Botanic Gardens - a new bumper issue has gone online. Tributes to Dr Chew Wee-Lek (1932–2026) and Ruth Kiew (1946–2025), plus - Digitisation - Ethnobotany in Singapore's desserts - Botanical Art - SBG Archives
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
12 days ago
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CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
about 2 months ago
📣The CETAF Scientific Research Working Group is organising an upcoming live webinar: "What Defines a Species in the Molecular Age? Delimitation and Diagnosis with DNA Barcodes" 📅 13 May | 14:00–16:00 CET 👉Registration is now open:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#Taxonomy
#Systematics
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Nature Plants
2 months ago
"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face." "I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."
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Singapore Botanic Gardens team at Flora Malesiana 12 ‘Celebrating the World’s richest island flora’ - in Manokwari on the island of New Guinea. Lots of talks by the team, and SBG is the secretariat of the Flora Malesiana Board too.
2 months ago
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Wanderings in the forest of Gunung Meja, Manokwari with canopy emergents of Pometia, Inga, Palaquium and Pimelodendron on uplifted coral.
#SBGScience
#NewGuinea
#Indonesia
#Papua
2 months ago
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Alex Wild
4 months ago
I know that everyone loves iNaturalist and racking up observations from photographs. But there really is no substitute for physical specimens, so many species are not easily identified from photos.
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David Tan
4 months ago
All of my genus and family-level fly and ant observations on iNaturalist would agree.
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Le Monde
4 months ago
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
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Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Le dendrologue, spécialiste des forêts tropicales et de l’architecture des arbres, avait réussi, grâce à ses talents de pédagogue et à ses dons de dessinateur, à capter l’attention et la sympathie du grand public. Il est mort le 31 décembre.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/01/02/francis-halle-botaniste-et-infatigable-defenseur-des-arbres-est-mort-a-l-age-de-87-ans_6660346_3382.html
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Heading slow and steady into 2026 like this chunk from Poring, Borneo. Happy New Year!
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Spencer Wells
4 months ago
Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific 🐖⛵️🌏
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific
A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific region.
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-genomic-reveals-people-pigs-pacific.html
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Durian and panettone going cheap in Singapore (surplus Xmas stock…I’m not complaining!)
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Taxonomist post at the Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens.
www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_u...
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Find A Job | Careers@Gov
https://www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/ZGERCFA004/index.html#/JobDescription/16906430/005056a3-53e2-1fd0-b7bc-2701fb8bb3de
4 months ago
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Orangutan Land Trust
4 months ago
The Sumatra floods are a reminder that deforestation isn't merely an environmental concern. It's a public health issue, an economic issue & a security issue. Forests regulate water flows, filter pollutants, reduce disaster risk & support rural livelihoods.
www.thestar.com.my/news/environ...
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Planetary Health Matters: Sumatra floods are a wake-up call for Malaysia
Nature is speaking more loudly each year, and Malaysia must listen for the sake of future generations.
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/environment/2025/12/24/planetary-health-matters-sumatra-floods-are-a-wake-up-call-for-malaysia
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Phang-Nga Bay. To Phuket for Christmas
#Thailand
4 months ago
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Go Green
4 months ago
They just cannot get rid of these endangered Tapanuli orangutans fast enough Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans, threatening the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...
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Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans
JAKARTA — Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already c...
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapanuli-orangutan-devastated-by-cyclone-now-faces-habitat-loss-under-zoning-plans/
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Honoured to have been invited to FRIM, Kepong as a member of the 2025 Research Advisory Committee to discuss and help guide their excellent range of research into the future. Very pleased to meet all the FRIM staff and make new connections with specialists from across Malaysia.
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Kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn., Dipterocarpaceae), when growing together and the same age (ie usually plantation) is famous for “crown shyness”. Fruiting heavily today in FRIM, Kepong. The bright pink radicle (seed root) jumped out from the leaf litter.
4 months ago
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Natalie Cooper
4 months ago
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
FREE online here!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...
Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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Orangutan Land Trust
4 months ago
Devastating news for the Tapanuli orangutan. "The destroyed areas would have contained some 35 orangutans, and considering the violence of the destruction it wouldn't surprise us if they are all dead. That's a major blow to the population."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tapanuli orangutans: Fears grow that world's rarest apes were swept away in Sumatran floods
A carcass thought to belong to a Tapanuli orangutan, the world's rarest ape, has alarmed conservationists.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4q1l0ly7wo
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Kew Gardens
5 months ago
Registration is NOW OPEN for our State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium, 29 June - 1 July 2026! 🌍 The theme will be 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation' & will follow the release of the next State of the World's Report 🌱🍄 Learn more & register here 👉
https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
5 months ago
🌍 Almost USD 35,000 raised — from supporters in 35 countries! 🌏 Your global support is helping
#GiveBHLWings
as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026.
#BHLTransition
🌱 📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide. 💚 Donate:
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL...
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Tropical Treats & Sweets! Coming soon to the Centre for Ethnobotany, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Featuring plants that make up our treats, and a wall of fame (with far too many of my cendol pics!)
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/our-gard...
#Singapore
#dessert
#puddings
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Flora of Thailand continues heading to the finish line…vol 16 just arrived 450 pages! (with my extremely tiny contribution - 7 species of Pittosporum)
#flora
#Thailand
#botany
#SBGScience
5 months ago
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Rob Marchant
5 months ago
#Rice
and
#Maize
cultivation cheek by jowl with montane rainforest in northern
#Thailand
- choices to be made around
#biodiversity
stores,
#carbon
,
#water
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#air
regulation vs food production. DoiTung has been developing a model to support ecosystems AND livelihoods.
@mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
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Flying Rhamnaceae fruits - the day Daniel Cahen and I tested the aerodynamics of Ventilago fruits in Wing B of the Kew Herbarium. There’s a cool x-over physics/botany project there…
#physics
#flying
#botany
(No specimens were harmed in the making of this movie!)
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Expanding Ventilago to incorporate Smythea: new combinations in Ventilagineae (#Rhamnaceae) based on novel sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. Kew Bull (2025).
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Ventilago lanceata Tul. and Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
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Two new species of Tapeinosperma (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae) from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Kew Bull (2025).
doi.org/10.1007/s12225…
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IAPT’s Research Grants support research in systematics, nomenclature, and floristics of algae, fungi, and plants.
www.iaptglobal.org/grants
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IAPT | Grants
The IAPT provides competitive grants for research on the taxonomy, systematics and nomenclature of plants, algae and fungi and to support botanical collections.
https://www.iaptglobal.org/grants
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Rare Rafflesia haseltii Blooms Repeatedly in Bengkulu
en.tempo.co/read/2070894...
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Rare Rafflesia haseltii Blooms Repeatedly in Bengkulu
The blossoming of the very rare Rafflesia species in Bukit Balai Tanjung Gelang confirmed that Bengkulu is the home of Rafflesia hasseltii.
https://en.tempo.co/read/2070894/rare-rafflesia-haseltii-blooms-repeatedly-in-bengkulu
5 months ago
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arifsky
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Include Aceh, north Sumatra, west Sumatra
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Floods in
#Indonesia
. The animation shows the impact of severe inundation in the northeastern part of
#Sumatra
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#Copernicus
#Sentinel2
images from Aug. and Dec. 1, 2025. Relentless monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have devastated parts of Asia.
#ClimateEmergency
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Reuters
5 months ago
Deadly Sumatra flooding triggers memories of Indian Ocean tsunami
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Deadly Sumatra flooding triggers memories of Indian Ocean tsunami
For fisherman Effendi Basyaruddin, the deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Aceh province over the past week have triggered traumatic memories of the day 21 years ago when he ran for his life as the ocean rose like a cliff face and smashed through his hometown.
https://reut.rs/48TMDLl
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Watching over my bird books…
6 months ago
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It's International
#OpenAccessWeek
! At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
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Publications
https://www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/publications
6 months ago
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Nicole Kearney
6 months ago
Ben Scott
@nhm-london.bsky.social
shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity.
#LivingData2025
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social
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Nicole Kearney
6 months ago
📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎
#LivingData2025
#OpenAccess
#ILoveBHL
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‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
6 months ago
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Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne.
#Australia
6 months ago
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David Tan
7 months ago
This is always a major target on many visitors' needs lists, which is always funny since this bird is easily found in one of the most accessible parks in the country: the car park.
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Nicole Kearney
7 months ago
I'm excited to be speaking at
#LivingData2025
about the future of BHL. I'll be sharing a critical update on our transition toward a sustainable, global & community-governed future. 🧪 📖 🌱 🗓️ Info:
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
🌎
#BHLTransition
news:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition
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Spencer Wells
7 months ago
Learn to work with Singapore’s archaeological finds at new heritage centre in Jalan Sultan ⛏️🇸🇬 Very cool.
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/le...
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Singapore's new archaeology & heritage centre
Discover ArCH Square, Singapore's new heritage centre, offering public access to archaeological finds and intangible cultural heritage practices. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstim...
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/learn-to-work-with-singapores-archaeological-finds-at-new-heritage-centre-in-jalan-sultan
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Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery.
#herbarium
7 months ago
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IPBES
7 months ago
Latin America’s feline species are losing their habitat and becoming trapped in small patches. Researchers say biological corridors are vital for their conservation. 🐆 Read more w/
@mongabay.com
:
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/
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Prof Francis Hallé speaks at Singapore Botanic Gardens - “New insights into plant architecture.” A real privilege to hear him talk through the different models so succinctly and accurately illuminated with his illustrations.
#SBGScience
7 months ago
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Ryan P. O’Donnell
8 months ago
Will phylogeny for food
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Ryan P. O’Donnell
8 months ago
Thanks to everyone who came along/tuned in to my PhD exit seminar! What a thing to do at the end of almost four years. So close to submitting, just need to tidy up this last chapter and I’m done! PS does anyone need a mycology/botany genomics/systematics postdoc? 👀
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