Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social! #Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium

Science in action to support conservation 🌱 When researchers collaborated to investigate the quirky group of peas known as the "leafless bossiaea", the project bounced in more than one unexpected direction. www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and... 1/3

Ever wondered what explains the amazing fruit diversity in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)? See what we found: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @renskeonstein.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social, and others!

60 million-year-old seeds reveal that dinosaur extinction paved the way for grapes www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/s...

Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts? jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/9... #herbarium #csiro

Latest awesome output from @thebeachcomber.bsky.social PhD work: expert IDBlitzes amplify the value of #citizenscience data (such as @inaturalist.bsky.social) Out now in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... (with @tecticornia.bsky.social @julietwege.bsky.social and more)

In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e... #pollinators #biodiversity

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢Paper alert! Fossil record is fundamental to elucidating the origin and evolution of insect pollination, as well as informing on present-day plant–pollinator interactions. Check it out in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology

Happy Mardi Gras!! 🌈 We’re right in the middle of the most exciting time in Sydney, where such massive celebrations of love, diversity, and freedom to be are more important than ever. #SydneyMardiGras #QueerInSTEM #BotanicGardens

We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...

Do you work on the 87 #BigPlantGenera that include 25% of all plant species? We are putting together a special issue in @annbot.bsky.social for studies investigating Angiosperm genera with >500 species. See the link below for details: shorturl.at/dfsw4

Amorphophallus titanum Big Bloom Bang happening right now at Botanic Gardens of Sydney! Hard to believe all the fame and hype gathered by this little plant over the past week! #Putricia #Araceae #botany

Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics

New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Finally get to squeeze some squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) IRL 🤩 The name derives from phenomenon that the ripe fruits squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a dispersal mechanism. This vid here is a slow-mo! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsciences 🧪🌾🌱🥒

A review of 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as viewed through covers by our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social (1/8) We started 2024 highlighting our new series of occasional papers, Primers in the Plant Sciences #PlantScience

Freycinetia cumingiana has pseudanthia comprised of showy bracts surrounding the spikes of tiny, unisexual flowers. These pseudanthia are visited by birds, who are the likely pollinators. #Pandanaceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱

AusTraits floras workshop at Botanic Gardens of Sydney: so thrilled about how it all went!! We invited reps from each Australian state/territory to discuss how online floras could be expanded to display data from a broad range of traits (including ecological, morphological). #austraits #floras

We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 https://buff.ly/41hpKym

Updated herbarium starter pack! Send me deets for others to add. go.bsky.app/J3orEaP

Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !

New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist.bsky.social records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.

A macadamia that isn’t Macadamia: A new species of Lasjia (Proteaceae) from Sulawesi: Lasjia griseifolia Utteridge & Brambach rdcu.be/d1VtF [Posting some recent published things, just for people who may not know me so well…apologies if you’ve seen (and read, yes?!?) already]

🌳 Uvariodendron fuscum (#Annonaceae) – a hidden marvel of African rainforests in #Cameroon and #Gabon with large flowers and leaves! Pollinated by large beetles! Learn more about this genus with 18 species from tropical Africa #openaccess): doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :) go.bsky.app/GCP9Um

Tangled webs & spider-flowers: #Phylogenomics, biogeography & seed morphology inform the evolutionary history of #Cleomaceae New #AJB research by Theresa Saunders, Isabel Larridon, William Baker, Russell Barrett, Félix Forest, Elaine Françoso, Olivier Maurin, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Last night was very very special. This was the first official IBC Pride in history!! The venue was completely packed by more than 200 queer botanists and their allies and the atmosphere was electric. I feel so proud of what we achieved!! #IBC24 #iamabotanist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌵🌴🌱

This photo at #IBC24 means the World to me: surrounded by the most influential colleagues, mentors, and friends who have shaped my career on flower macroevolution. L to R: Susana Magallón (me) Peter Endress Maria von Balthazar Jim Doyle Jürg Schönenberger #eFLOWERproject

A small sample of the very many wonderful colleagues from all over the World who have contributed to the eFLOWER project and/or PROTEUS database over the past 13 years! #IBC24 #eFLOWERproject

#IBC2024 has opened in Madrid. Most of the chatter has been on Twitter. Who knew there was so much interest in African taxonomy? botany.one/2024/07/chan... Quoting @molino_sonia on Twitter and @indigofera.yt on Threads.

This thing will be stuck up at poster board D4 at #Evol2024 and I'll be standing next to it in Poster Session 1 on Friday the 27th. Come say hi and chat about plant biogeography and phylogenomics 🌿🌏🧬... or... online here alexskeels.com/posters-2/

Daniela Boanares: “We Need to Understand Plants if We Want to Thrive on this Planet” #Botany botany.one/2024/05/d...

Tomorrow (17 May) is #IDAHOBIT International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We're acknowledging this important day in the LGBTIQA+ communities today & tomorrow - today we're going to provide some guides, tools, and resources and tomorrow we're going to share your stories. 🧵👇

Today, we have an interview with Dr Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social, a queer scientist interested in the #evolution of flowers, the structures that give its name to the most diverse groups of plants nowadays: the flowering plants botany.one/2024/05/herv...

Kelsey Byers: “See the world through the plant’s perspective!” #Botany botany.one/2024/05/k...

🌿 Join our 2.5-year postdoc at the Meertens Institute! Explore historical bias & perception in botanical citizen science. Uncover societal shifts & cultural impacts in botany 🌼 🔗 Vacancy: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... 🔗 Project website: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/

The evolution of body size in terrestrial tetrapods link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries! #angiosperms #phylogenomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don't miss this Botany360 event about International Fieldwork! It is TODAY at 3pm EST. To register, visit: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #research #academia #llms #chatgpt #scichat

It’s magnollid Xmas down under!! Nothing could have delighted me more than seeing Eupomatia laurina in full bloom at Yandel’ora (Mt Annan) yesterday, complete with its unique pollinator weevil! I’m in love 💕

Wind pollination is rare in the Ericaceae but Ceratiola ericoides, another SE USA endemic, is a prime example. The species is dioecious. These are female flowers. #anemophily #SEUSA #windpollination #pollination #Ericaceae #endemic #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

if only they would capitalize it so we know BASAL means: Branch Adjacent to Species Abundant Lineage

#OpenAccess essay in #AJB! #ArtificialIntelligence #HerbariumSpecimen label transcription

Excited to share the latest from the #eFLOWERproject: a morphospace study of angiosperm flowers led by Andrea López-Martínez and Marion Chartier! Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hi World! I have joined this new universe at last and I'm excited! Quick intro: Evolutionary biologist and botanist (he/him) living on Bidjigal country, working at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, into flowering plants, macroevolution, freediving, and all things queer!