I think it's incredible infographic day on the internet because this is excellent

I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer. #InsectApocalypse www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...

Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

I only just heard of What’s Eating Your Collection? and it’s so fascinating. Unless you’re a collections manager, you have no idea the constant effort required to conserve what’s placed in a museum’s care.

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...

I'm looking forward to looking at my study areas in New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda islands when this comes out

It's been a great week for weird biology: ants defying the species concept, fluorescing birds of paradise and now forehead teeth in ratfish

So this ant...can give birth to male clones of its own species AND of a different species... then mates with the male clones of the other species to produce hybrid workers...and mates with males of its own species to produce new queens... 🐜 Yo these ants are wildin' 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blackberries and maybe Hieracium as well 😂

Very good piece on the ableism of 'nature cure' memoirs

I am obsessed with this plant. A species of cucumber, it fruits up to 90cm UNDERGROUND. Why does it do this? Because the only animals known to eat them are AARDVARKS 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT, THIS IS AN AARVARK CUCUMBER. And I got my hands on a specime for the @perfect-specimen.bsky.social 🌿🎙️🧪

Historians as a profession are facing the same crunch as journalists and other professions in the digital age where there is plenty of demand but an economic model that remunerates the people who do the final repackaging for the public while funding for the production of original work dries up.

The de-extinction company is back at their nonsense

I had heard of the Mauritius Pink Pigeon which survives to this day, but there's a lost Blue one too!

Interesting new paper on Critically Endangered species, 60% of those assessed are plants. Indonesia is very visible on the map, but I think the lack of assessments is clear for Sulawesi, New Guinea and LSI www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There are few things wrong with the Ciaran Hinds-Amanda Root Persuasion, but one of them is that this man does not know how to scythe

It's a weird tree anyway and then it's also a Eugenia in a Syzygium majority area

It's so beautiful I want to cry 🦋

I detest open plan offices with every fibre of my being (I found a pdf of this article by searching the title on Google Scholar)

For over 100 years, epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants such as orchids & bromeliads - were believed to be widespread and resilient 🌿 But our new study in Nature Plants tells a very different story 👇

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃 Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @newphyt.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

Woohoo! Publication Day! It’s finally hitting the streets, just like the plants it features. From walls to pavements, fallow waste ground, the grassy bits and street trees, it’s a celebration of urban botany and I really hope you enjoy it! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...

I really want to see a velvet worm one day so I had a look on iNaturalist to see if there were any records from north-west New Guinea, and there's only one (what a beauty). www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I AM DEATH. SMOL, SPARKLY, RELENTLESSLY CUTE DEATH.

Join Laura on a research adventure in New Guinea on #BiodiversityDay! 🌿✨ Collecting plant specimens lets us build a clearer picture of how species are distributed across important darkspot regions like New Guinea, and appreciate the scale of biodiversity yet to be fully understood! 🔎🌱

propaganda we're not falling for: - there's no nature in cities/urban areas - we already know everything about plants & animals - nature photography requires expensive camera equipment - you need a degree to contribute to science - you need to travel far to see interesting species

I'm always going to re-post a thread that features Vavilov

This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

They certainly did radiate in a big way in SE Asia. Piper at the species level is one area I hope rapid DNA analysis eventually becomes cheap enough to help with ID because they are very tricky.

Best Indonesian vocabulary I've learned this week

This is one of my favourites of Natee's work

I am not really the target audience for the Tank Museum (in Dorset), but one small thing that moved me was this case of items Ukrainian families now in the UK took with them when they evacuated (read @lucygobag.bsky.social for importance of personal effects)

How I feel when I see a really good moth

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

I often visit National Trust houses (my spouse is staff, so free entry), and have gone to so many they are starting to blur together. For next time I have made NT bingo.

A charitable read on de-extinction efforts is that it excites investors, so you can use their money to make advances in gene editing and reproductive technologies. Just stop pretending it’s for ecology or conservation purposes, especially with long-extinct animals (their niches are gone!)

The flowers are coming out! I'm very excited to announce my latest nature-inspired LGBTQ+ pride pin: a white flower that changes colour to show the 🏳️‍🌈 flag in sunlight! Please share! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1885...

A delightful thread, including Lycomorpha's art. All moths are good moths, salute to the Moth Promotional Board.

Every spring I miss the Lake District and forget that I left because of the rain, long winter and low pay / lack of opportunities. When it's sunny it's like nowhere else though.

Intro post: I am a botanist at Kew working on plants in West Papua with partners from BRIDA and UNIPA. I am interested in how to conserve endemic and threatened plants as part of Kew's Tropical Important Plant Area program #TIPAs