This is really worth supporting! (I did, and so can you if you have some extra dollars, if not, that is fine). ‪@sarahmackattack.bsky.social is doing great work for biodiversity, education, and society...

Heads up for academics - I just got a notification of a data breach linked to Highwire Press, a host for 100s of journals. Looks like it's mostly just emails/locations/affiliations being sold on the darkweb but be super alert to anything phishy smelling in your inboxes list of journals in link below

Adriana Romero-Olivares: "Fungi Are Both Charismatic and Mysterious" www.botany.one/adriana-rome... Botany One interviews Dr Adriana Romero-Olivares, who is intrigued by fungi and the key role they have for ecosystem functioning. #Botany #PlantScience

The Invasive Species Message That's Missing Its Audience www.botany.one/the-invasive... Tell gardeners not to plant alien species and they shrug. Give them practical advice about problem plants and they listen. #Botany #PlantScience

One of the things I get to do is work with the Historic Fruit Tree Working Group of North America and help put names to mystery heritage apples. This is not one of the varieties planted in the islands but its rediscovery is an inspiration to visit more orchards and take care of all the old trees!

The Safest Place in the Pyrenees Is a Cliff Face www.botany.one/the-safest-p... Century-old photographs reveal that a Spanish national park's most treacherous terrain is doing more for rare plants than a hundred years of protection. #Botany #PlantScience

Smells Like Green City? www.botany.one/smells-like-... Scientists reveal that the mix of plant scents and pollution in city parks shifts with location and weather, quietly shaping the benefits of a simple walk outdoors. #Botany #PlantScience

How wonderful that Cambridge University is offering a botany course based on Henslow's original materials! #Darwin #Cambridge #botany

The Week in Botany April 6, 2026 www.botany.one/the-week-in-... This week: the marks of footprints on lichen, difficult seeds in Chile, native knowledge adding a fizz to the drinks industry, and more. #Botany #PlantScience

Tulipa cypria www.botany.one/tulipa-cypria/ A plant that lives in a small part of time and space. #Botany #PlantScience

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-6/ 🇬🇷 A trip through some of the flora of Crete #Botany #PlantScience

🌿 PhD opportunity in forest molecular ecology! Study how trees and their microbiome respond to climate stress in the ECOSENSE forest 🌳 🧬 RNAseq | qPCR | Fieldwork | Interdisciplinary research 📅 Deadline: April 20, 2026 @uni-freiburg.de

Sudoku Garden www.botany.one/sudoku-garde... 🇸🇳 Happy Birthday Senegal #Botany #PlantScience

In my latest #MeetingPlantScientists post, I interview @alexmcbowles.bsky.social, who is tackling one of the most fascinating questions in plant science: what drives the extraordinary diversity of plants and algae? @botany.one #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 www.botany.one/alex-bowles-...

Reading this article & saw “... the botanist Otto Degener struck out the name of his Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) collaborator Henry Wiebke from his specimen labels (Shih 2025), after a falling out between the two.” Is Wiebke in #Wikidata? Yes! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119459...

The Ecological Experiment 2000 Years in the Making www.botany.one/the-ecologic... Thousands of megalithic jars in Laos were carved for burial rites. Two millennia later, they're miniature ecosystems, and ecologists have started taking notes. #Botany #PlantScience

How does fire break seed dormancy? www.botany.one/how-does-fir... Fatty acid composition in seed coats is not the mechanism #Botany #PlantScience

Lots of aroids do this. :) Some can get quite hot indeed! www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2018/6/... They have special metabolic pathways evolved to burn energy so fast. Philodendron bipinnatifidum consumes oxygen equivalent to a hummingbird and, using a fat-burning pathway, has hit up to 46°C!

In my latest post for @botany.one, I present promising research mapping species with recalcitrant seeds among Chile’s tree flora, revealing that one in five cannot be stored in traditional seed banks. doi.org/10.1017/S096... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 www.botany.one/not-all-seed...

Alex Bowles: on the Ordinary yet Extraordinary Life of Plants www.botany.one/alex-bowles-... Botany One interviews Dr Alexander Bowles, an evolutionary botanist interested in the processes that have driven plant and algae diversity #Botany #PlantScience

ASHS Career Center Horticulturist https://ow.ly/sgMJ50YApfj State Master Gardener Coordinator https://ow.ly/atzt50YApfn Assistant Extension Professor/Director, Crosby Arboretum https://ow.ly/T0jp50YApfo https://ashscareers.careerwebsite.com/jobs/ #plantsciencejobs

It's hot and smells like rotting flesh. Clever early Spring strategy to attract flies for pollination.

Herbaria are invaluable resources and now even more so! There is so much unexpected information we can gather from them like genetic or phenological information, pests presence, and much more. Is a huge mistake for a university to get rid of them.

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended www.botany.one/herbarium-sh... When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake. #Botany #PlantScience

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

@forbes.com picking up the recent work by @carlbergstrom.com & Kevin Gross in @plosbiology.org on the future of peer review. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Variability in pollen production within individual plants and their effects on pollinator visitation. New paper just out! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

It looks like I need to write a blog post about how sex works in fruit trees. I keep seeing people passing around the myth that only male trees are planted to prevent people from having access to fruit.

Why Would the Plant Next Door Smell Different? www.botany.one/why-would-th... Two populations of the same plant, just 4 km apart in the Italian mountains, produce different perfumes and attract different pollinators. Why? #Botany #PlantScience

Evergreen. Block and ignore. Also—and I hate that I have to add this—if someone DMs you with weird rumours, don’t respond. Block them. Trolls spread disinformation through unverified claims. Smear campaigns thrive in secrecy. If you want clarification, ask the subject of the rumours directly.

The Week in Botany March 30, 2026 www.botany.one/the-week-in-... This week: the strange love lives of flowers, how healing may cause harm, connecting plants and humans, and more. #Botany #PlantScience

Buxbaumia viridis www.botany.one/buxbaumia-vi... It's rarely seen, but is it rare? #Botany #PlantScience

Please consider sharing your research with us in our #PlantStress #Special_Issue ✅ Looking forward to your contributions 🖇️ www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @abioticstress.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @botany.one @sebiology.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social @molplantsci.bsky.social👆

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-5/ 🇺🇸 What could be springing up in California? #Botany #PlantScience

Sudoku Garden www.botany.one/sudoku-garde... 🌱 We welcome weeds #Botany #PlantScience

When Beetles Take the Lead in Orchid Romance www.botany.one/when-beetles... A rare South African orchid reveals that beetles can be refined partners in one of nature’s most intricate pollination systems. #Botany #PlantScience

Introducing Hot Botany www.botany.one/introducing-... Wondering what plants might be visible near you? There's a tool for that. #Botany #PlantScience

It was a pleasure to be interviewed for Botany One and tell some tales about plants and people and plants.

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the Notes From Nature community: Natural History at ROM Revealed! Read about it: blog.notesfromnature.org/2026/02/17/w... Try it out: bit.ly/4bVH15v

Luiza Teixeira-Costa: Strange Lives of Plants and Their Human Stories www.botany.one/luiza-teixei... Botany One interviews Dr Luiza Teixeira-Costa, a Brazilian botanist working in the integration of botany and environmental humanities. #Botany #PlantScience

Healing at What Cost? The Conservation Status of Britain’s Herbs www.botany.one/healing-at-w... Researchers reveal that while few herbal ingredients are officially endangered, most remain conservation question marks in a growing global trade. #Botany #PlantScience

A spring cartoon for @newscientist.com

What if a Flower Never Needed a Pollinator at All? www.botany.one/what-if-a-fl... New research shows that one small mountain orchid secures reproduction before its flowers even open and may fare better selfing than crossing with its neighbours. #Botany #PlantScience

Recently I've been thinking about things I could create beyond pins to fundraise for my transition. There's a limit to what I can make and store in my flat though so I'm going to be refining a few designs for products on Redbubble... Say hello to the tree identification mug!

✍️Applications for the Young Leadership Programme (YLP) 2026 are now officially open. Centred in Joensuu, Finland, this year’s programme explores how innovation and futures thinking can add local value in a changing climate. 🔗 Learn more and apply: efi.int/ylp-2026

New #plantandsoil #ecology #PhDposition available at the #ANU #FennerSchool led by the great Claire Foster. fennerschool.anu.edu.au/research/res...

The Week in Botany March 23, 2026 www.botany.one/the-week-in-... This week: Notes From Nature - Natural History at ROM Revealed, controlled environment agriculture, endangered plants in Brazil, bizarre floral scents and more. #Botany #PlantScience

Symplocarpus foetidus www.botany.one/symplocarpus... Eastern Skunk Cabbage turns impatience into a virtue, bringing Spring early. #Botany #PlantScience

Plant Hunt www.botany.one/plant-hunt-4/ 🇸🇬 What's around in Singapore? #Botany #PlantScience

Secrets of the Living Library www.botany.one/secrets-of-t... You can be the key to unlocking natural history #Botany #PlantScience