Bones, Brambles, & Botanics- MT24 with OUNCS Welcome to our first termly round-up- we wanted to share what we’ve been up to and keep a record of it for the future. It’s been a busy one! We want to thank everyone who has come along to our even…

New blog post! Read here to find out some of what we got up to last term- hopefully plenty more like it to come the rest of the year 🦴🌸🎨
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OUNCS committee take on British Ecological Society 2024! We had a great time hearing about exciting conservation research taking place and meeting with the researchers behind it. Thank you @britishecolsoc.bsky.social! 🌱💚

@beamcwilliams.bsky.social @yjmosslee.bsky.social

Screen shot of thinking with moss front page.

Why moss? We embrace moss' ambiguous, downtrodden place in botanic history as a starting point for developing questions of colonial worldviews, systems of classification, and representational challenges and opportunities.

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social.

In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences.

www.thinkingwithmoss.net

BES conference schedule. Day 1, Wednesday 11th December. 10:45, Man Qi, Auditorium 1C. 11:15, Chris Terry, Room 4A. 12:15, Aryaman Gupta, Room 4A. 16:30, Sean E. H. Pang, Room 3B. 18:00, Young Jun Lee, Poster Hall. 18:00, Sarah Bull, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 2, Thursday 12th December. 12:00, Thomas Stone, Room 11B. 12:15, Oliver Spacey, Room 4A. 16:30, Sarah Sophie-Weil, Room 4A. 17:00, Alice Rosen, Poster Hall. 17:00, Jessie McLean, Poster Hall. 17:00, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Poster Hall.

BES conference schedule. Day 3, Friday 13th December. 10:00, Christina Hernandez, Auditorium 1C. 10:15, Rachael Thornley, Room 11A. 10:45, Rob Salguero-Gomez, Room 11A. 11:45, James Cant, Auditorium 1C. 13:00, Alex Gimenez-Romero, Auditorium 1C.

Looking forward to #BES2024 this week! Look out for talks and posters by members of the SalGoTeam - hope to see you there! 🎄🧪

From Worms to Flowers YouTube video by The Cultural Programme

If #WorldSoilDay left you wanting more, this video encourages viewers to appreciate the natural world, highlighting how everything, from worms to flowers, shapes our ecosystem. Designed to inspire, it educates schools & the wider public on environmental interconnectivity. @ecioxford.bsky.social

Highlights from day 2 of the IPBES Youth Workshop! Participants continued the introduction to @ipbes.bsky.social work, focusing on the assessment processes and exploring how youth can engage and contribute! 🌍🧪

#IPBESyouth24

Revealing the compositional and functional responses of mycorrhizal fungi to rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Using novel eDNA methods to understand if rewilding is also serving below-ground communities, focusing on 'keystone' mycorrhizal communities and their functions.

#Rewilding has seen success above-ground, but little attention has been paid to below-ground communities. This #worldsoilday we focus on the importance of mycorrhizal communities, through @jedsol.bsky.social research at the Knepp Wildland. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

An illustration depicting the key idea of the research project. The text in the top left reads "PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE?" in all caps. Below are two characters representing large reproductive individuals of different species of Asteraceae, and two characters representing small individuals of these species. The large individuals are drawn engaging in a fight in an argument, as well as the small individuals. However, the fight is only happening between individuals of the same life stage.

Very excited to be presenting preliminary results of my master's research with @salgoteam.bsky.social at #BES2024! Find me at the poster session on Weds (A17.10) to chat about life stage-dependent plant competition and quantitative modelling of its impact on community dynamics and coexistence 🌿📈

European mistletoe with green slender leaves and white berries in golden sunlight

It's 1st December... which means it's time for my merry #mistletoe advent calendar! One mistletoe fact a day up to Christmas (without repeating myself from last year...) 🎄🌱🧪 (1/26)