Very happy to have contributed to this important piece. Andreas threat provides a great summary! @bucbotany.bsky.social
@drmgoeswild.bsky.social
@thebotanist.bsky.social
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
How do you connect disparate, disconnected student botanists? 🌱🌿🌳🧪🔬
In our new paper, we show how Botanical University Challenge - a quiz contest - is building an engaged community of plant-aware students, in the UK and beyond.
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#botany #plantscience
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... out today! It's great to write about an area of #Botany that is growing. @seburbanbotany.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Good article, though interesting that so few of those quoted in it would be named on public record. Well done Beccy Speight for speaking out.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A survey on why people want to study and work with plants: please participate and share <3
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#PlantSciEd Group photo! 🌱🎉
Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
And a resource for ways to slip plants into the biology curriculum
www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/g...
#PlantSciEd
Plant Biology Education - creating a vision for the future
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
Screengrab of article linked in post text. It shows some sort of deer among soya bean crop.
🌱🌳🌾🌿🌷🏵🌎 Interesting strips of native plants placed among corn & soya beans of Iowa, Missouri & Illinois, USA. Initial trials show reduces soil erosion & nutrient run-off substantially. Also habitat for birds, animals and insects. Now federal USDA funding, 2018 Farm Act. #BUC2025
🌱🌾🌳🌺🌍Very readable & interesting account of successful conservation projects in UK. Needs long-term commitment. Work over decades. Also understanding of life histories & interactions. Plants, soils, water, more plants, a few animals, more plants, and time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pictures of ginger plants, one from a herbal, the other of live plants, and of a slice through a rhizome, the edible bit.
🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺Several plants in the Zingiberaceae (Ginger) family are edible. Underground stem (rhizome) of Zingiber officinale is used fresh or dried as the spice ginger. Originates in SE Asia, domesticated and selected for flavour. Exported to Europe for over 2000 years. #BUC2025
🌿 What if the species we don’t see hold the key to conservation? In our latest paper (led by Serena Turton-Hughes with @georgeholmes.bsky.social), we discuss "shadow diversity", a new way to think about biodiversity we don’t know exists yet 🌌. Join us on a journey into the unknown 🌍 🧪 🧵
Title page from Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life, by Andrew L Hipp, illustrated by Rachel D Davis, with forward by Béatrice Chassé. Title page features a Hill's oak leaf (Quercus ellipsoidalis) illustrated in pen and ink with watercolor wash by Rachel Davis. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
I'll be giving a free webinar Thurs, Dec 5, 7 p.m. Central time for the Minnesota Native Plant Society on the topics of #oak reproduction, #species, #hybrids, & #phylogeny / #treeOfLife, from my new book (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...).
Join us, and pls share!
us06web.zoom.us/j/6977108818...
Want to turn #BlackFriday into #GreenFriday?
Why not look for #wildflowers blooming in your local area & share pix during #WildFlowerHour on Sunday 8pm!
Still fancy a discount?
Code GreenFriday50 gets you 50% off any of our eBooks or bundles until Monday night!
Check out our titles: bsbi.org/ebooks
Peter Marren's 'Rare Plants' is out now, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social
Peter is one of our amazing #BSBImembers! Fellow members can claim a 20% discount when ordering their copy.
For sample pages of the book & info on how to claim, go to: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/11/rare...
A rubber tree plantation on the island of Hainan in China has been trashed following a cyclone. Trees are bent and several have been snapped.
Hurricanes cause tremendous damage to forests, whether natural or plantations, but we know very little about what actually happens to trees during high winds (for obvious reasons). In our latest work we have the answer... 🧵👇🧪🌏 1/12
I know some of you are interested in our audit of ecological features on housing estates.
It's looking like it will be released on 12 December. I will post a link on here, but the best way to get an early copy is to join Wild Justice's mailing list
wildjustice.org.uk/newsletter/
Great day at @bsbibotany.bsky.social annual British and Irish Botany Conference -inspiring talks, fabulous people! Botanists are the best ❤️🌱
Omphalotus nidiformis is a bioluminescent mushroom from Australia. Although not native to Europe, they are available as brood online and quite easy to grow.
was great to meet you and hear your excellent presentation. Some thought provoking content and looking forward to seeing the report (or not perhaps considering the content).
