Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

🌸 UPDATE: Last week I put out a call for help continuing a 1,200 year long dataset of peak cherry bloom records.

I am glad to announce the search is over! We've been in touch with Dr. Genki Katata, a researcher and former collaborator of Prof. Aono, who is continuing this dataset.

📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.

After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... really glad to see this dataset is continuing!

Eeee!!!! So, good news: me and @lepidodendron.bsky.social will be co-hosting a symposium at EPPC this year looking at plant Paleoart!!!!! This has been a long time coming, so I'm incredibly excited that we can finally announce it! #paleoart #paleobotany #conference #FossilFriday #botany

A great article!

From Jurassic Park kid to dinosaur expert in what was ‘a gentleman’s science’ Natalia Jagielska, dinosaur researcher, illustrator and scientific consultant, explains how women are under-represented in her field.

I guess I'm Hong Kong famous ✨ interview with South China Morning Post

And oh, how self conscious I am regarding smiling in public (aaaah)

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Fixed-Term) Across history, plant propagation has been essential for both medicinal and food production practices. The UK boasts a rich tradition of plant cultivation dating back to medieval times, where gardens ...

Really cool postdoc job here at Nottingham for someone interested in plants and historical documents, with @razda5.bsky.social. Fixed term until March 2028. Deadline is Friday!

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.

A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

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I can also ask people I know at the botanics in Edinburgh, I'm sure I can find some contacts there!

I don't have a contact but I think emailing directly should be fine!

Have you contacted the Botanical Society of Japan?

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa Oviparity was likely the plesiomorphic reproductive condition for non-mammalian Synapsida, the stem-mammal group. Yet, despite nearly two centuries of research, no definitive fossil eggs of late Palae...

First-Ever Egg of a Mammal Ancestor Discovered!
Research by myself, Julien Benoit (Wits) and Vincent Fernandez (ESRF) presents the first-ever egg of the therapsid Lystrosaurus, finally answering the question: Did the ancestors of mammals lay eggs? Yes, they did!
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The beautiful Holy Island of Lindisfarne, just as the sun rises.
We have some lovely places to visit in Northumberland…..

POV: The last things you see as a succulent mid-Cretaceous fern

Nice. This should be useful for teaching.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

Excellent article from @gsoh31.bsky.social on how management consultancy (a parasitic industry at the best of times) is aiding and hastening the destructions of UKHE

www.ft.com/content/5032...

Do you know the Heidi anime

I posted about this on my Facebook page, but I'm heartbroken about the God Squad's recent decision to allow oil and gas companies to harm Rice's Whales. You can learn more about these whales here: www.ourgulfwhale.org

Photo of a wood understory with a fern with unfurling scaly fronds and right in front of it bright purple toothwort flowers emerging from the ground

Unfurling fern for #FernFriday, eclipsed by bright flowers of purple toothwort (Lathrea clandestina), who parasites the roots of surrounding trees 🌿
#botany

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China Animal diversification across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was a crucial event in Earth history, fundamentally altering our planet and its biosphere. However, Ediacaran fossil assemblages show li...

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jonathan the Tortoise, who did NOT die

Thrilled to see a leading journal run a special issue on null results — good practice for science, and especially important for conservation where what works should matter more than whether it makes a splashy and positive paper

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨
Two Post Doc Opportunities:

PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029.

Please spread the word!

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬

We sequenced the genome of 'desert ginseng' (Cistanche deserticola) - a leafless parasitic plant that gave up photosynthesis - and found it lost huge chunks of its own genome…but started stealing genes from its host!

Thanks to my collaborators Prof Huang + her talented team👏🏻

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This would be a great way go show Prototaxites ascending to heaven when it went extinct (RIP)