Luiza Teixeira-Costa

For context: abortion has been legal in the Netherlands since 1984. But, our rights are never permanent, are they?!

9 March 2026, The Hague, Netherlands.
A group of white men with a small marching band, all dressed as heralds of the middle ages, protest against female bodily autonomy.
While this continues to be treated as "personal views" and "freedom of speech", #8M will remain a day of fight and remembrance.

Gente, que perfeito esse choque de monstros culturais!

Nice text! I'll be surely looking out for your article!
I started reading about Mueller recently and most of what I've found so far is indeed blackberry related. You citing Mueller's correspondence opened my eyes to a potentially very useful resource :)

Folks who have watched the film #Sinners: can a person who dislikes horror movies and hates jump scares watch it okay? Ask for... well, me 🫣

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🐛Focus: how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, including those involving phytophagous insects, plant pathogens and more

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adoraria saber quanto dos ganhos com publicidade do grupo globo vem do agronegócio para calcular o preço dessa frase aqui:

"não é tolerável invadir propriedades e praticar vandalismo contra empresas essenciais para o êxito do pujante setor do agronegócio brasileiro."

Complementary to our work on #ClimateChange and #phenology of Lathraea squamaria #Orobanchaceae, we have now published a longer paper on the morphology and anatomy of this #ParasiticPlant across different stages of its life cycle.

The paper is under full open access for the next 50 days!

Made me think of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social and the very excellent episodes on Aesop!

#Peloria, the term used to describe an unusual change in flower symmetry. The term derives from the Greek "pelōros", meaning "monster", "portent" or "prodigy".
👀 Later this year, a book on #VegetableMonstrosity will be out - by Nathan Smith and yours, truly 😉

(the image below is from Wikipedia)

It's official: later this year, I'll join the KB, National Library for a 6-month project on how people have perceived #InvasivePlants in the Netherlands and abroad. Looking forward to the project "Foreigners we love to hate?" 🌱📚🌿

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Sure, but I'd rather do it through a private message. Can you please follow me back so I can send you a message?

Hi, I can do it! I work in Amsterdam :)

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

uma amiga teve um filho com um alemão. lá na alemanha ele é constantemente lembrado de sua condição de "meio brasileiro, meio alemão". ele mesmo achou outro jeito de se definir: "eu sou inteiro alemão e inteiro brasileiro".

uma criança capaz de entender o que governos inteiros não querem.

Snow covered back garden in a small town

To my Brazilian brain, it is somewhat mind-boggling to see snow falling during the carnaval holiday (despite being in Europe)

First they steal your history. Then they erase it.

Painting of light and dark purple blossoming ground plants growing in grass

'Purple Crocuses' by contemporary painter Cathy Rowe #WomensArt

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

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Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

Que lindo és ser #latinex

How dare a guy sing in Spanish in a place named Santa Clara.

Another cool parasitic plant today in the shape of Balanophora fungosa.

Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...

No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images.

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Highly recommended to any and all undergrads looking for research experiences with plants!
The Carnegie Museum includes a great herbariu, a beautiful forest reserve, and Mason, who's an cool person, incredibly supportive, and has with a vast knowledge about plants and their interactions.

A vida presta, e quando não presta, a arte ajuda a encarar.

Perceptual prominence comparison of shared taxa across temporal periods.

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

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by Xu et al.