Blood red nectar. Attracts their pollinators, geckos, who love red dots on a purple background. Birds are also attracted and steal nectar. Sanguineous allegories here we go An endangered species from Mauritius, here at the amazing Missouri Botanical Garden Nesocodon mauritianus (Campanulaceae)

“If our descendants are still around in 100 million years, I predict that they will be flower people. They will have figured out how to work in deep cooperation with flowering plants so that they and the rest of the ecosystem can thrive.”

David Haskell's new book, How Flowers Made Our World, is a great read anytime of year, but especially for spring. Highly recommended if you're into gardening, plants, Earth history and/or the weirdness of life 🌎 🧪

I had a great conversation with @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social about floral creativity, now published in edited version at @yalee360.bsky.social e360.yale.edu/features/dav...

Snorklewort (best name!), columbines, daffodils, and spring beauty in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social "Cells at the tip of the sleeping embryo keep up hormonal conversations among themselves ... Eventually the chemical whispers jolt ... wake up, let’s go!" emergencemagazine.org/essay/wildfl...

Join me for an upcoming talk! New locations added, including Seattle and the online Tricycle conference. Registration and details -- dghaskell.com/speaking/%F0...

Wild Fungarium is a must-visit in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have a wonderfully curated collection of wildlife and nature books, as well as toys, gifts, seeds. I highly recommend a long stop at this new independent bookshop. Thank you for your welcome, James!

"He is a lively writer with an appealingly light touch, but his message about ‘the astonishing creativity and productivity of flowers’ is a serious one." Delighted to read this review of How Flowers Made our World by Constance Craig Smith in @dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Nearly full, but some seats remain. Join me for tales of floral revolution 🌼 Reception celebrating Vitis and yeast following

Congrats to all the winners of @sejorg.bsky.social 2026 Environmental Journalism Awards. Check out their good work here... www.sej2026.org/awards#carmo...

A great pleasure to join Ira Flatow on @scifri.bsky.social to discuss the world-changing powers of flowers, plus the trickster nature of orchids www.sciencefriday.com/segments/flo...

What a delight and honor to join Anne Strainchamps in conversation about flowers on Wonder Cabinet, her new project with Steve Paulson. We talk about why flowers are revolutionaries, with a good dose of aromatic joy along the way. wondercabinetproductions.com/david-george...

Sen. @warnock.senate.gov at the No Kings rally in Atlanta, GA: "A wannabe king who is busy building himself and his billionaires a ballroom, who intends to use ICE as his own private army. He is not a king. This is our land, this belongs to We The People."

From March 15 through March 26 there have been... More than 100 monthly records & more than 700 daily records broken or tied. Since March 1 there have been more than 1,100 daily records broken or tied across the nation. Some record heat will remain through the weekend for areas of the Southwest.

What a delight to join Mina Kim on @kqedforum.bsky.social today. You can listen to the show here: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Stunned and delighted that The New York Times has given How Flowers Made our World a wonderfully enthusiastic and generous review, penned by Adam Nicolson. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

What is your favorite floral aroma? So many to chose from. Mine: magnolia, rose, baneberry. I'm delighted that Orion Magazine has published an excerpt from How Flowers Made our World. The mysteries and delights of floral aromas! orionmagazine.org/article/an-a...

Please join us tonight! 5pm US Pacific time, 8pm US Eastern Time. Registration is free

Can confirm it does! Reading David's new book has been a joy 🥹 Thank you for giving us this window into the world of flowers, it is truly magical!

Flowers belong at the center of our creation story. Writing this book transformed how I experience, think about, and feel the world. I hope it will do the same for you. Publishers Weekly: "deep research and lyrical prose…astonishing" www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775876...

Returning to Paris after growing up there in the 1970s is shocking. The air tastes different. The city feels oriented around human bodies.

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

Elf orpine... growing in solution pits on blazing hot rock. They're a winter annual, waiting out summer as seeds When conditions get tough, flowering plants respond with extraordinary blooms Arabia Mountain, GA

Each chapter of How Flowers Made our World opens with artwork by the amazing @lucytsmith.bsky.social. The image featured here is from the Rose chapter, one of the "Roses de Mai" whose delicious aromas grace so many perfumes. More on her work here: www.lucytsmith.com Flowers book here: dghaskell.com

"A complex and gorgeous tapestry." Thank you, Michael Ray Taylor, for this thoughtful review of How Flowers Made our World in Chapter 16 chapter16.org/a-complex-an...

Thank you, @nytimes.com for featuring How Flowers Made our World Pre-orders are open if you want to get yours hot off the press. Huge thank you, too, to the great team @vikingbooks.bsky.social whose work causes the book to germinate and bloom.

Please join me for this free online event. Book launch! March 24th, 5pm PT/8pm ET Register for the event with the marvelous @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. While you're on their site, you can order a copy of my book or others from their amazing collection. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...

I enjoyed my conversation with Viviane Callier, an edited version of which is now in @nautil.us. Why we're "grass apes", the role of beauty in education, and the creativity of flowers... Interview: nautil.us/how-flowers-...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

UK friends: I'll be in London on April 2nd, bringing tales of floral creativity to @linneansociety.bsky.social. I hope to see you there! Register here: members.linnean.org/events/69614...

Please join me for this free online event. Book launch! March 24th, 5pm PT/8pm ET Register for the event with the marvelous @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. While you're on their site, you can order a copy of my book or others from their amazing collection. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Enjoyed this interesting @nytimes.com piece on fake AI videos of animals being improbable. But really it isn't a new phenomenon. COME WITH ME BACK TO 1903. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

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Flowers revolutionized the world through cooperation, beauty, and a good measure of illusion. I'll be sharing a few of these stories on the road in the coming months. I'd love to see you at one of these upcoming events. 🌻💚 I'll post details as a thread

Thank you, @nytimes.com for featuring How Flowers Made our World Pre-orders are open if you want to get yours hot off the press. Huge thank you, too, to the great team @vikingbooks.bsky.social whose work causes the book to germinate and bloom.

🚨 Republican Attorneys General sued Vanguard—in reality the world’s biggest holder of coal equity—for supposedly conspiring to drive the coal industry out of business And RAGA won. Vanguard has signed an agreement that “blocks [it] from supporting efforts to fight climate change.” WTAF

Featuring visits from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social, @tempestwilliams.bsky.social, @dghaskell.bsky.social, @robertmoor.com, Helen Whybrow, and more. Our events calendar can be found here: ptreyesbooks.com/upcoming-eve...

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Rusty blackbird habitat, thanks to recently arrived beavers. Legacy Park, Decatur GA. Rusty blackbirds have declined 75% since the 1960s. They absolutely love the wet woods and mud at the edge of beaver ponds.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Dino juice. Climbing back into the family tree of flowering plants at the supermarket

Cyclamen: they carry the memory of home (N Africa, E Mediterranean). Bloom in wet season, retreat into tuber in summer. Also: bury your kiddies

Perfume, plant sex, human gender. Can we stop boxing both flowers and ourselves into narrow imaginary spaces?

"Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"

Flower sex, human gender, and opening symbolic possibilities. With awesome aromas 🌿👃🌹

Had a lot of fun this morning recording the preface and afterword of How Flowers Made our World. I hope that the gesticulations will come through in audio 😂 The marvelous Cassandra Campbell will record the main parts of the book. Pre-orders are open, and the book is published on March 24th 🌻

TACO sticking in your craw? Wash it down with French wine. Something mapley for dessert.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Flower aromas use beauty to interweave plants, insects, and humans. There's more than enough hard stuff in life, especially now, so let's accept the flowers' invitations when we can 💚💔 Wishing everyone a few moments of interconnected beauty this weekend, wherever you are. #breadandjusticeandroses

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍