Watching over my bird books…

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...

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

📣 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

‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.

Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne. #Australia

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.

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

Learn to work with Singapore’s archaeological finds at new heritage centre in Jalan Sultan ⛏️🇸🇬 Very cool. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/le...

Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery. #herbarium

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/

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

Will phylogeny for food

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? 👀

Gynostoma sp, a member of the Casuarinaceae - the she-oaks, flowering plants with equisetoid foliage and cone-like fruits. powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

No its not rude - its simple fact that if you destroy one of the lungs of the Earth you put life on this planet in peril

Hutu (Ascarina lucida) is the first New Zealand native plant shown to have heterodichogamy (explained in ALT) and also the first report of it for Chloranthaceae. Most heterodichogamoous plants are wind pollinated and monoecious. Details in latest @ijpsjournal.bsky.social (see above post)

The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon! The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025. For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

oh crap. MNHN-the Paris Natural History Museum paralyzed by cyber-attack! If you've been unable to access their database, website or other resources, here is why.. www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/in-p...

With the Tapanuli Orangutan Population Down to 577–760, KI and BRIN are Pushing for the Strengthening of Ecological Corridors. Both corridors play an important role in restoring the connectivity of the Batang Toru forest. esgnow.republika.co.id/berita/t2bny...

Do you love interesting things in jars? Do we have the opportunity for you! We are hiring a Spirit Store Project Assistant to help us prepare the fluid preserved collections held at the Museum for transport to the collections storage facility. oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/spirit-store-project-assistant

Russian air strike kills Ukrainian pensioners on.ft.com/42oWZ2b

Octopus chief says ‘enormous amounts’ of public money spent on technology should be saved: on.ft.com/3KbdOHy

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Rifle Range Nature Park, Gaharu Trail, very secondary forest, but a crystal clear stream and some large trees (Alstonia and Ficus). #Singapore

New R-package alert! 🚨 With tabs it has never been easier to reconstruct altitudinal shifts of biogeographical systems over time. Whether in the ocean 🏝️, shallow seas 🪸 or mountains ⛰️; tabs can project spatial configurations shaped by climatic conditions. ➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

The Leibniz Institute for Biodiversity Change is hiring a tenure-track Scientist in molecular biodiversity research in Hamburg. Apply by Sept 30, 2025. More info: https://8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2025-14-Scientist-in-molecular-biodiversity-research-(m_f_d) #job

Breaking: The UK's deputy prime minister has admitted that she underpaid stamp duty on an £800,000 seaside property on.ft.com/4nhxqbz

A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short 🧵 (1/16)

Indonesian finance minister’s home looted as unrest spreads on.ft.com/4lX7yRc

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Enjoying some Symplocos (?cochinchinensis) fruits…

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

One of the world’s largest and most inaccessible stretches of rainforest, the upper Amazon has today become a superhighway for the export of cocaine to Europe, its fastest-growing global market. on.ft.com/4lxxhPG

It is time to feed @bsky.app with some #Thismia😁 Please meet #Thismia dasyantha and T. velaris from Sarawak, north Borneo. Published today in #Phytotaxa, read for free here phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v... #newspecies #mycoheterotrophy

A brief history of Singapore Botanic Gardens From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine ‘Singapore Botanic Gardens special issue’ doi.org/10.1111/curt...

This updated checklist of the vascular plants of Myanmar consists of 14,020 species in 2,701 genera and 292 families. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Tools of the trade. Trying the Staedtler for the first time. Particularly like the Blackwing pencils with replacement erasers. Really useful for #curation ‘on the fly’. #herbarium #identification #SbgScience

"Without urgent course correction... Papua risks losing more ecosystems that cannot be restored" nusantara-atlas.org/farming-the-...

The 12th Biannual Conference of @biogeography.bsky.social is coming to the beautiful city of Aarhus, Denmark in January 2026! Abstract submissions are now open until Sept 1. Attendance is capped at 400—submit early to secure your spot! More details below. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Curtis's Botanical Magazine - And so it begins...a Singapore Botanic Gardens special issue! Look out for more articles coming soon.... 1144. Singaporandia macrophylla (R.Br. ex Hook.f.) K.M.Wong onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SBGScience

"Indonesian authorities have reclaimed 2 million hectares of forest from illegal oil palm plantations, but critics say it disproportionately targets Indigenous communities and smallholders while sparing large corporations, deepening land inequality." news.mongabay.com/2025/07/as-i...

Typhoons 7, 8, AND 9 have formed simultaneously to the south of Japan, giving us a rare triple typhoon. 9 could hit Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands by the 27th. 7 could impact Okinawa and Amami, with 8 also hitting Okinawa by the 27th.

Seoul scorches at 37.8 deg C, highest early-July temperature ever recorded 🌡️🇰🇷 www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

Right smack in the middle of town, and yet teeming with wildlife and steeped in history. The small ethnobotany and botanical art museums are definite must-sees!

Come along to our 2025 Heritage Festival- light show, concerts, tours, movies, orchid show, behind the scenes, exhibitions!! 44 page programme of activities for all.

This weekend is the 10th anniversary of Singapore Botanic Gardens’ inscription as Singapore’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site! Inscribed on 4 July 2015, only one of 3 botanic gardens on the WH list @unesco.org

I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.