The Week in Botany March 30, 2026
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This week: the strange love lives of flowers, how healing may cause harm, connecting plants and humans, and more.
#Botany #PlantScience
Very happy to see this fellow on my morning run along the River Dee, evening if it's only a rubbish phone photo! #Curlew #Wildbirds
Full of the #joysofspring. Wood anemones on Cardiac Hill, Durham today @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A hex sticker with a text that reads Hello Data Science with green, yellow and pink scatterplot points in the background. There is a web address www.hellodata.science
📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇
🔗 www.hellodata.science
#rstats #datascience #tidyverse
We have an open POSTDOC position to explore Marchantia immune receptor biology that is closing on the 18th of Jan. Apply using the link below, and/or email me for more details. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...
Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community!
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
This looks incredibly useful! 👇
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
I would’ve loved this job, back in the day
he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens, plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems. The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors. Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
I’m just back from a wonder fortnight in the Chiquibul forest reserve in #Belize - what a place! heatherkelly.blog/2025/09/22/p...
In last day: Pakistan flood deaths passed 270, Turkey hit 50C & Tampa 100F for first time, study found climate change will increase UK food prices at least 25% in 25 years. Meanwhile, Tories & Reform planning to scrap climate action.
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
Still new species for find in our wanders around Pontresina - this time in the lovely Val Roseg. Masterwork, Field Gentians and Chalkhill Blue butterflies in abundance #NaturePhotography #Switzerland
Lucky enough to be teaching on an Ecology field course with #DurhamUniStudents at the moment….
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Can't think of anything lovelier than the mix of garden and wild flowers (aka weeds) growing around my pond at the moment #wildflowers #wildlife gardening
Saves nothing. Costs everything.
📣 Calling all nature lovers!
Join TNC as we take on the City Nature Challenge from April 25–28. Download the iNaturalist app to snap photos of the plants, animals and insects you see, then upload these observations to your city’s iNaturalist project. 📱🦋🌼
Get involved here: nature.ly/3RyIy61
We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
"For more than six weeks, no shipments of food, medicine, tents or any other form of aid have entered the Strip. It's not Hamas members who are paying the price, but rather hundreds of thousands of children, mothers, the elderly and the poor."
gift link: www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
More #SignsOfSpring in High Wood, Durham. I suspect they'll be finished by Easter, when we get back from China, so making the most of them now @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The lovely bursts of sunshine which are Coltsfoot, at this time of year #SignsOfSpring
Very happy with how the front 'lawn' is looking right now 👌
