It's gift-giving season! Why not give the gift of plant knowledge? Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite. Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan) @jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book) @razda5.bsky.social 💚 @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍 Novels too!

Super stoked to see work from our lab on BBC tonight! tree cuttings prepared by Vaishali Panwar, one of my PhD students, were CT scanned by Brian Atkinson and Craig Sturrock in the hounsfield facility were shown on Gardeners World this evening! watch it on iPlayer!

The AAB Applied Tree and Forest Biology group is hosting ‘Creating Canopies II’ at the grand Crown and Mitre hotel in Carlisle. 🌳 Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies

The Scottish Forestry Trust is proud to have once again supported the Association of Applied Biologists' Travel Grants for early-career professionals attending the Creating Canopies II Conference. #AABCreatingCanopies web.cvent.com/event/7e93d2...

Fantastic D1 #AABCreatingCanopies with great talks, stimulating discussion and a successful (dry) forest walk!

D2 morning includes trees from the urban environment in Toronto and then plenty about Ash! 👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk! #AABCreatingCanopies

Also had a very proud supervisor moment as my PhD student Vaishali gave a wonderful talk today about her tree cuttings #AABCreatingCanopies

Apologies my account wouldn't load but it's been a fabulous 2 day meeting with #AABCreatingCanopies thanks to @aabiologists.bsky.social and all our funders. Thanks to everyone who came along! Thanks to Ted and the wonderful volunteers who took us around Coombs wood yesterday!

Our first keynote, Chris Quine introducing forests and forestry, preparing the context for our meeting #AABCreatingCanopies

Kicking off with #AABCreatingCanopies Ted introducing us to Carlisle and the forest surrounds! @aabiologists.bsky.social

Today is the last day of my two weeks annual leave, but gees what a doozie of a day it is.

Learn how some plants are adapted to certain conditions...I hope it helps people choose plants better suited to changing local climates....out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/amand...

Calm before the storm at Science in the park!

As a dual AU/UK citizen, with family and friends just hit by a cyclone, I've been thinking about the way each culture faces adversity...UK: keep calm and carry on; AU: hold my beer (Cracking jokes). Born into AU, that's my natural state but it's worth noting that doesn't mean we don't care...😉

Love the sound of students having fun! Best cohort yet in my third year class. It's a self-directed group work session and the majority of the class are here, talking, laughing, working.

A few snaps from Kew Wakehurst where we're visiting the millennium seed bank for an event tomorrow @vilasjohn.bsky.social

Merry surprices: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...

Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿 Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany. Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

What I love about teaching? Having students come back after a break in our 3 hr class telling me they were just messaging their mum to tell them about stuff they just learnt! (a 3rd yr, not a 1st yr!)

#BlackHistoryMonth Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders. Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture. Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

My 3rd yr class uses Teams to collaborate for a semester-long project (more on my webpage)...this week a 3rd yr student told me they hadn't used Teams since secondary school....🤯..we really have reverted to preCOVID dark ages...good to know students are well prepared to use Moodle in the real world!

#PeerReview and #ScientificPublishing should focus on collaboration instead of gatekeeping. We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪

🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾 Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice! 📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected] RT & share! 🌱 #Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch

I'm excited to share my first book! #ClimateResilientGarden Plant physiology for gardeners really! Thanks to lots of people! Especially Ana Mogus for the illustrations @quercusbooks.bsky.social

🌱 The 9th Annual Plant Science Symposium is Tomorrow! 📅 Join us on Jan 21, 2025, at 8:30 AM EST! ✨ Highlights: ✅ Inspiring talks from 10 keynote speakers ✅ FREE two-day hybrid event 👉 Event Newsletter: www.ufplants.org/symposium See you there! 🌿 #PlantScience #PSS2025 #Botany

Undergraduate students can now apply to our Summer Studentship scheme, supported by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and the Gatsby Foundation. For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

Beautiful day in Sherwood forest today! Filming with Georgie Scurfield who is making a documentary for an exhibition on the major oak that will happen later in the year at Nottingham Castle

Great rugging up to potter in the garden! Then coming in, pulling on my slippers that were warmed on the heater, sitting by the window in the sun. Hot cuppa in hand! 🌱❄️

Please re-post. Fantastic postdoc opportunities in our ERC funded project, Re-engineering symmetry breaking in development and evolution (RESYDE). Openings close soon! Read more and check job opportunities here: www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/

now for some sexy bark 🌱

And that’s a wrap! What a fantastic meeting #PlantSciEd in Lancaster turned out to be! So many rich discussions, and lovely to meet new people as well as catch up with old friends. Watch this space for meeting outputs, including potential Manifesto for Plant Biology Education

Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...

Thanks @plantpollinator.bsky.social Kelsey Byers for sharing knowledge about accessible fieldwork & a link to a useful guide created by Chloe Stevens. Take homes include bidirectional communication and trust, and improving accessibility helps EVERYone!! #PlantSciEd www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

Enrique Lopez-Juez from Royal Holloway talked about the importance of practicals (👍👍👍👍👍 agreed). The SEB has a portal with same practicals for higher education, see below. #PlantSciEd www.sebiology.org/outreach/bio...

“Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.” www.nber.org/papers/w33289

Happy new year everyone!! So do we have a term for peeps on bluesky??? Skeet is not an appealing term...and skeeters sounds like the Aussie word for mosquitoes! Flutterers maybe🦋??? What are people using??

This is an amazing resource for ECR, please consider adding your grant apps!

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Merry Christmas and enjoy enjoy our focus issue in @plantphys.bsky.social! 🎄🌊 #plantscience

Hi! I finally had enough of the other platform so here I am trying out bluesky! I look forward to rebuilding my network in here! Merry Christmas everyone!