🌱🌾🌍🌺🌿🌲🌴Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Who was the first woman botanist elected #FRS to Royal Society? Agnes Arber - in 1946! Royal Society started 1663. Botany was major area of science. How many other women should have been elected over the centuries. Much wasted talent!

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I will take no further questions

Techniques and challenges in studying photosynthetic diversity in freshwater aquatic vascular plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.677520v1

Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Urban wildlife of south east London

shoppe is back open for the spooky season! ✨🌿🎃 nooskaart.etsy.com

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Two new species of the diatom genus 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎 have been discovered in Lake Qinghai, northwestern China. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

"Rhizanthella gardneri is not only the world's rarest orchid, it is also one of the most mysterious. It's the only known plant that flowers underground. It also grows, germinates and sets seed totally underground, and is thought to be pollinated by termites." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

🌿 Pteridophyta und Anthophyta / Wien: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1908. [Source]

A new species in the orchid genus 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚 is described and illustrated from the cloud forests of northwestern Ecuador. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Coming tomorrow! Now with added physics! My #sciart collab post with @drskyskull.bsky.social

My newest tattoo is based on the first field excursion of my lab at SU when I started it up in 2021. As part of my MS student Zach Crum’s thesis project on the diet of invasive blue catfish, we collected some big fish. Literally the first one cut (47 pounder) had a whole wood duck in its stomach 🐟🐡🦆

IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself. Guessing I am not alone. #iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We will build a new society with no memory of mankind

Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza, one of my happiest places 🇨🇴🌼⛰️❤️.

“Pesto” and “pestle” share a linguistic ancestor: “pinsere,” which is Latin for “to crush.” This is a great time to harvest all your basil and think about your enemies.

It's a shame no one will probably ever write about 2012-2022 Science/Academic Twitter and all the ridiculousness. Who could forget Water buckets/mosquitos, fake profiles (sciencing_bi being perhaps the most known), and so many others. It's a real missed sociological opportunity.

🧪 Taxonomy can tell bigger stories 🌎 This new revision by @moopellegrini.bsky.social of gem-fruited dayflowers names Commelina sugariae for Rebecca Sugar and C. almandina for Garnet, recognising how inclusive storytelling helps people see themselves in science and nature. 💎🌼 ow.ly/3lOp50X3fU4

Morning walk

I thought it might be fun to show you a little behind the scenes of creating a fish scientific illustration from sketch to painting to publication. 🐟 🐡 #evolutionarybiology #thereisnofrogfishemoji

Love this, Marco! A gorgeous fusion of taxonomy and pop culture. Huge congrats on Commelina almandina and C. sugariae, celebrating Garnet, Rebecca Sugar, and the power of queer love in science. More of this, please 🌸✨

Huge congratulations on two new dayflowers, C. almandina and C. sugariae. A creative nod to Steven Universe that champions inclusion while advancing botanical knowledge 🌿

300 million year old Neuropteris foliage, on display in Wollaton Hall, Nottingham's natural history museum. Specimen is about 20cm across, locality is Clay Cross, Derbyshire. #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿

Sacha Coward’s Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters has been picked up by Manchester University Press following the collapse of crowdfunding publisher Unbound earlier this year 👇 #BookSky

The The Sedge-Rush that’s actually more a Grass but it still its own thing, confused yet? 😂 #Ecdeiocolea monostachya is part of its own family Ecdeiocoleaceae, a family of 2 genera and 3 species that are sister to the Poaceae!

This paper resolves longstanding taxonomic confusion by confirming 𝐴𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 as the correct name for plants previously misidentified as 𝐴. 𝑝𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑎 and 𝐴. 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Look at the Pontederia sagittata and Nymphaea cf. alba!

What an adorable silly little crab 🦀

I can't solve all the problems of the world But I can treat some students to dinner every once in a while, and maybe some days, it's enough to solve the problems of just a few folks

The live collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social offer myriad opportunities to learn more about plants. Dr. Mónica Carlsen shared her botanical scent research in #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. She conducted headspace/scent trapping to gather data about the variety of tropical plants.

Very excited to have this opportunity!

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence! Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild. But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...

This is such a great story!

Some unusual items in Kew’s Library and Archives include 26 wax orchids by Sir William Thiselton Dyer, Director of Kew (1885-1905), and artist Edith Delta Blackman (model shown of Vanda coerulea). These lifelike models are hard to tell apart from living specimens! #KewLA

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Heidi Meudt & I will give a FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching #Wikipedia, #Wikidata & #WikiCommons. Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST. Register to get link: tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦘 Beiträge zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1915-. [Source]

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼 Stacked scattering: The key to bright #flowers lies in the mesophyll By Larissa De Paola, Thomas Veldhuis, Marjan Kraaij, Doekele Stavenga, @kiratiedge.bsky.social, Casper van der Kooi doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

#botany people does anyone have a PDF quick overview to the different sections of Taraxacum by any chance?

I'm thrilled to share my newest publication on dayflowers ( #Commelina, #Commelinaceae, #Commelinales). This article has a #SciComm and #PopCulture twist, where we honour @rebeccasugar.bsky.social and #StevenUniverse to highlight the importance of diversity (1/6) t.co/5r7ONgczYU

Make sure you tune in (or attend in person if you're around) to watch the amazing and lovely Dr Krich Art-han! #ImABotanist #grasses #Monocots #AsianFlora

In person event funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social June 24th at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30 @thebotanics.bsky.social or online via teams: Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5 Passcode: Yq3je9Jo

The Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium is proud to present Dr Watchara Arthan speaking on 'Andropogoneae a key but overlooked lineage of savannas– A case study from Heteropogon and Themeda'. Join in person @thebotanics.bsky.social or online June 24th! 🌐🌏 #savanna #ecology #grass #biogeography

Paul Sintenis https://bionomia.net/Q2688176 collected the holotype POACEAE: Melica persica subsp. schischkinii (Iljinsk.) W. Hempel in Türkiye https://gbif.org/occurrence/3029006816 #TypeSpecimenToday

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