🌺 In-depth @biographic.bsky.social article by @toughcitywriter.bsky.social on #pollen banking for plant #conservation; fun, thoughtful, with voices of 3 pollen bankers worldwide. 🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity. www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...

👨‍🎓 Student research alert! 🌱 John Steinhorst's MSc work now published in @ashs-hort.bsky.social #HortScience! 🌺 Capparis sandwichiana (Maiapilo) seeds have physiological dormancy. This knowledge will help stakeholders in the conservation of this endemic Hawaiian species. doi.org/10.21273/HOR...

Honored to be featured in this article!

The full programme for this year’s ISSS Conference is now available! Take a look at the exciting line-up of talks and workshops planned for what promises to be one of the year’s top events in hashtag#SeedScience. More information on the following link: lnkd.in/evaVjrRg

🥀 The Journal of Lost Species (JLS) is a #peer-reviewed record of the ongoing mass #extinction event. 🆓 All articles will be freely available with no publication charges. 📃 We are recruiting articles for the first issue! For info on the journal & article types visit; www.journaloflostspecies.org

🌺 @ntbgarden.bsky.social 's #Amorphophallus titanum ( #Araceae) named Pua Pilo ("stinky flower") featured on @hawaiinewsnow.com 🖌️ We will pollinate with collaborator #pollen, bank and reciprocate Pua Pilo's pollen. 🌱 #Metacollection in action! www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/17/m...

We're hiring! 🌱for positions in #Hawaii and #Florida. Interested in joining the NTBG team? Browse job opportunities at ntbg.org/about/jobs/ #Miami #Kauai

🌊 Out now in #Oecologia, Sensitivity to elevated salinity in coastal dune plants! 🌱 Despite growing near the ocean, Hawaiʻi’s coastal plants are highly variable in salinity tolerance, emphasizing the need for urgent conservation actions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Honored and elated to receive the 2025 Center for Plant Conservation Star Award. Read more about the award and watch the video that brought tears to my eyes in the June 2025 CPC Newsletter; saveplants.org/2025-star-aw... Contributing to Hawaiian plant conservation is the honor of a lifetime.

Meet the botanist, Karolina Heyduk. She works at the University of Connecticut, where she investigates photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. So why would she in the lab at midnight? wp.me/pdRZhH-lY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

My new book is in press! Due out later this year (August 2025; CSIRO Publishing) but you can pre-order... www.publish.csiro.au/book/8151/#a...

🌿 Out now in @bioone.bsky.social American Fern Journal we explore #herbarium specimens as a potential source of viable spores for #conservation of rare #Hawaiian #ferns. 🔬 Germination occurred in 24 specimens representing 8 of 9 included species. @ninaronsted.bsky.social doi.org/10.1640/0002...

⭐ I am honored and humbled to receive the 2025 Center for Plant #Conservation Star #Award. 🌺 This award honors those who demonstrate the concern, cooperation, and personal investment needed to conserve our imperiled native plants. 🌟 Learn more and watch the video at; saveplants.org/about-us/cpc...

🌱 #Postdoc opportunity in the #Conservation and Sustainable #Horticulture Lab (myweb.fiu.edu/akhoddam/res...) within the International Center for Tropical Botany at the Kampong (environment.fiu.edu/ictb/) @fiu.bsky.social ✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.

🗞️Check out my popular article in "The Bulletin: The Newsletter of the @ntbgarden.bsky.social" 🌱I discuss a multi-strategy approach to conserving Hawaiian seeds by highlighting 5 different groups of species; #Metrosideros, #Pritchardia, #Hibiscus, #Melicope, #Campanulaceae. ntbg.org/stories/savi...

🦎 Are you a master's or PhD student ? 🎓 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025

Laulea Miike's #pollen #conservation #internship @ntbgarden.bsky.social helps preserve the endangered plant species, Ochrosia kauaiensis ( #Apocynaceae ), on Kauaʻi! news.willamette.edu/library/2025... @willametteu.bsky.social

Probit analysis is key to modelling seed viability loss over time. A new Methods paper in #SeedScienceResearch led by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social provides R code for fitting survival curves and assessing seed longevity under different storage conditions! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Contrary to popular belief, pollen is quite alive. Dr. Wolkis explains this and other botanical misconceptions while documenting his journey from apothecary to seed conservation. Read more:

Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

My new book, The Forbidden Garden is out in the US this week. It’s the true story of the botanists who worked at the world’s first seed bank during the siege of Leningrad. A lovely review from the NYT today describes it as ‘ethically haunted’: t.co/risSuDm2Qt

Be sure to check out this interview with NTBG's very own @dustinwolkis.bsky.social on his passion for seed conservation and research. Great interview!

My latest interview for @botany.one features the amazing work by @dustinwolkis.bsky.social in Hawaiʻi. By working on seed germination and conservation, Dustin aims to fulfil his personal duty of preserving one of the most diverse islands worldwide #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 botany.one/2025/03/dust...

🎨🔬The intersection of #art & #science gives me #PlantJoy! 🌱We are using Bidens torta (#Asteraceae) seeds to test hypotheses about speciation and loss of dispersibility. 🖌️Botanical Illustrator Veronica Fannin drew seeds to showcase native Hawaiian seed diversity. earthartmagic.love #SeedScience

I am elated and honored to work @ntbgarden.bsky.social where women are represented at the highest levels of leadership including; CEO, CFO, Philanthropy Director, Science & Conservation Director, Limahuli Garden Director, HR Director, Nursery Mngr Horticulture Mngr, and many more at all levels.

"I looked up at the trees. Each one was enormous, hundreds of years old, and every trunk and branch supported its own community of vines, ferns, orchids, mosses and lichens. I was awed by the sight..." #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

🌴 Botanical #internship! 🌿 @ntbgarden.bsky.social announced their 2025 Fall Internship Program! It's like "Botanical Garden 101" in Hawaii where the flora is 90% endemic and extremely endangered. Learn #conservation, #science, #horticulture, etc. Deadline = 30 April 2025 ntbg.org/education/co...

🌺 For rare species the # of seeds per collection is often limited. Ever wonder how these small accessions should be used for viability testing? 🧮 In our new paper we use math to aid in this decision making. 🌱 We hope the equations will improved management of ex situ seed collections. #SeedScience

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

We suspect the best time to collect pollen for ex situ #conservation is shortly after anthesis. But when do flowers open? Ochrosia kauaiensis (Hōlei; #Apocynaceae) is Critically Endangered on the #IUCN Red List. We used the ntbgarden.bsky.social Living Collection to capture this time-lapse video.

💼 Job alert!!! 🌺 Endowed Chair in Botany at the University of Hawaiʻi! Continuous recruitment until position is filled – application review begins March 17,2025. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

🌻 Hesperomannia lydgatei is a Hawaiian endemic #Asteraceae assessed as Critically Endangered on the #IUCN Red List with 20 individuals in the wild. A recent expedition resulted in 5 achenes. Embryo excision aids #conservation efforts dependent on minimal seed resources by enhancing germination 🌱

The ISSS has curated a starter pack with seed scientists working on a wide variety of #SeedScience topics, from molecular biology to ecological restoration. If you want to be part of the starter pack or know another fellow seed scientist, please leave us a comment bellow! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy

The incidence of fire in Hawaii is increasing and although we collectively curate nearly 100 million seeds, we still fell short of seed that would be compatible with post-fire restoration after the devastating 2023 Lahaina Fire, highlighting the need for more seed to achieve management objectives.

🌱 New resource for understanding #seed longevity! 🌱 This new paper published #OpenAccess in Seed Science Research by @cambridgeup.bsky.social demonstrates a method for modeling seed longevity using the free software R. 👨‍💻 Full codes are provided. doi.org/10.1017/S096... #rstats #rstudio #positron

🌱Two botany scholarships now open @ntbgarden.bsky.social!! 🌸Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship Tropical Horticulture and Landscape Architecture; ntbg.org/loy-mccandle... 🌺Garden Club of America Tropical Botany Fellowship for tropical field research; ntbg.org/tropical-bot... @ntbgarden.bsky.social

🌻 Out now our paper, "Pollen banking is a critical need for conserving plant diversity" in @natureplants.bsky.social 🌴 🌺 We argue that pollen banking is an essential tool in the plant conservation toolbox that urgently needs focused research attention and resources. 🌸

Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss New in #AppsPlantSci by Bruce Baldwin, Susan Fawcett & Dustin Wolkis bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uofcalifornia.bsky.social #PlantConservation #SeedBank #Asteraceae #botany #PlantJoy

Share with🌿 plant-y & plant curious undergrads 🌾, including seniors! 🌴 Apply to be a PLANTS Scholar and receive a travel award for BOTANY 2025 in Palm Springs, CA (Jul 26-30, 2025), including mentorship from peer and experienced mentors! botany.org/home/awards/... 📆 Apps open now thru March 1st

Aloha BlueSky! 🌟 Looking forward to meaningful conversations and a community that values respect and inclusivity. Excited to share stories about plant and seed conservation biology! 🌱 🌺