Begonia is now up to 2200 accepted species! padme.rbge.org.uk/Begonia/

Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇 The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...

AI 10 day forecasts massively outperform numerical prediction deepmind.google/discover/blo...

"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The biodiversity data deluge is here - the equivalent of #MooresLaw but for biodiversity data? "we estimated that the total number of plant distribution records doubles every 17 years and the number of spatially unique records doubles every 21 years." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌎🧪🦋🦫

I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

This beautiful triptych of Sabal mexicana has taken over from the titan arum in the foyer of the botanics recently. Wonderful to see this on the way to ones office 😍 www.rbge.org.uk/news/article... stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/37173

Houseplants as Warhammer 40k units: HQ: begonias Troops: pothos Elite: Philodendron Fast attack: calathea Heavy support: monstera delicosia.

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