First they steal your history. Then they erase it.

'Purple Crocuses' by contemporary painter Cathy Rowe #WomensArt

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring: 1. Postdoc 2.PhD (UK applicants only) Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development. More info here- sites.google.com/view/root-re... #plantscijobs #plantscience

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Que lindo és ser #latinex

How dare a guy sing in Spanish in a place named Santa Clara.

Another cool parasitic plant today in the shape of Balanophora fungosa.

No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images. world.hey.com/jordanacosta...

Highly recommended to any and all undergrads looking for research experiences with plants! The Carnegie Museum includes a great herbariu, a beautiful forest reserve, and Mason, who's an cool person, incredibly supportive, and has with a vast knowledge about plants and their interactions.

A vida presta, e quando não presta, a arte ajuda a encarar.

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Xu et al.

Abstract submissions for our 2026 meeting in Montpellier are now OPEN! ethnobotany.org/home/meeting...

"Without research, we cannot have a future where people and planet thrive" An interview with BSA member @sandyknapp.bsky.social! www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

weird teenager phase in birb format Day 19 of #Birbfest2026 - Red-legged Seriema #SciArt #birds 🪶

"Uma flor nasceu na rua (...) Furou o asfalto, o tédio, o nojo e o ódio." A Rosa do Povo - Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Miao Hmong embroidery designs by the highly skilled women embroiderers of the Miao Hmong people who originated from the mountainous regions of China #WomensArt

Nice to see our paper on Pilostyles, a fascinating endoparasite, making the rounds again! #ParasiticPlants

I'll join the uprising with a talk on "Flipping the parasite spectrum: #PlantHumanities meet eco-physiology". Stay tuned for a communion among #ParasiticPlant ecology and physiology, literature, and social history!

Yes, you may feel powerless in this moment. But did you know that communities of mosses, algae and microorganisms are helping to hold up the Great Wall of China? elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-hol... 🧪

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum

Same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates is associated with ecological factors, life history and social structure, according to research in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3LBPHD0 🧪

It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century) 👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month! doi.org/10.5334/johd...

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence! With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!

CfP: Reimagining futures with #InvasiveSpecies through #STS Organized by @katiekung.bsky.social and I for the @easst.bsky.social conference, the panel welcomes contributions from different backgrounds dealing with any spp deemed invasive. More about it here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

Intensive winter showers throughout the Netherlands and temperatures that remain below zero are reason for continued alertness today and in -whole- next week. It looks like warnings from @knmi.nl (at least 'yellow') remain in force. There are also warnings for land & air traffic by RWS & Schiphol.

Explore #FloraObscura: a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology 👇 🌱 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #PlantScience

It’s almost as though colonialism never ended

Prosopanache is the tropical American answer to Hydnora of Africa. The two genera are sisters, holoparasitic & lack chlorophyll. They appear above ground only as flowers. This is Prosopanche americana, parasitic on legumes. 📷: Agustín Zarco CCBY4 #Aristolochiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

📢 The official #SEBconference 2026 pages are now live! Discover key details about the venue, scientific sessions & what awaits you in Florence next July. Ready to explore? 🔍 www.sebiology.org/resource/exp...

Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt #Welcome2026

Finally watched #JurassicWorld Rebirth. I'm a fan of the franchise and I don't subscribe to the criticizing of (sci-fi) movies as if they were "documentaries". Still, it's interesting how #monsters are often portrayed as thriving (exclusively) in tropical jungles. A bit too 18th century, isn't it?

Our Special Collection on Plant Awareness highlights diverse methodologies, including psychology, ethnobotany, arts-based research, and educational sciences: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience #PlantAwareness

Think mistletoe is just for holiday kisses? Scientists are taking it to new heights with airborne mapping. 🌿 Read the research in Botany ▶️ https://ow.ly/aX8i50XJHlu 📸 cjb-2023-0049_f3 #CSPHolidayScience

It's just in and in time for Christmas: our recently published #OpenAccess paper showing an astounding 14 YEARS of monitoring of #Lathraea, a peculiar #ParasiticPlant that shows earlier reproductive #phenology potentially following host-derived cues! doi.org/10.1002/pei3...

"You have to use AI." ...why?

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

New Post: Evergreen to ever-changing: How mountain forests rely on mistletoes for survival www.parasiticplants.org/2025/12/ever...

Guilty! 😅

Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser #yam and #teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... by Budiadi et al. Abstract also available in ID #PlantScience #biomass

Pssst: Whether you read physical books, eBooks, or audiobooks, you are a reader.

turma da manhã! ontem abrir algumas vagas para ilustrações!!! garanta já a sua arte!!!!! #commissions

It's the most wonderful Lego set of the year! A real treat for all obsessed Sherlockians 🔎

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-1693), Dutch Golden Age painter, known for richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes #WomensArt

New Post: Update: 18th World Congress on Parasitic Plants – São Sebastião, Brazil (new dates and venue) www.parasiticplants.org/2025/12/upda...