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Master’s thesis: 'Optimising Farmland Biodiversity Monitoring with a Virtual Ecologist Modelling Approach'.
Do you know someone studying ecology, with good programming/modelling skills? Or a programmer interested in ecology? Please share with them!
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What do people usually get wrong about plants? "That plants are useless, boring and they do not play an important part in the survival of the planet. Plants are smart and social, without them there is no life. We - science teachers, botanists - play a key role in how students and people see plants, we are botany’s business card. It is our responsibility and duty to show plants with kindness, respect and interest."
What do people usually get wrong about plants? “That plants are useless, boring and they do not play an important part in the survival of the planet. Plants are smart and social, without them there is no life...” (8/9)
We found #evolution of increased #plasticity in clonality in our #MOPGA study of 55 native and 63 invasive populations of the global #invasiveplant #knotweed from 3 continents @newphyt.bsky.social @GlobalEcologyBiogeography 🌐
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I really don't think this news has made sufficient shock waves.
Dr Katherine Calvin, NASA Chief Scientist Trump-Musk just fired, is the highest ranking American on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. She is co-chair of Working Group 3 on mitigation. This is a climate attack.
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
: Image of Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) growing in a common garden study, showing variation in floral display.
Latitudinal clines in the phenology of floral display associated with adaptive #evolution during a biological invasion
New #AJB research by Mia Akbar, Dale Moskoff, Spencer Barrett & @colauttilab.bsky.social
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The freeze of $1.2 million in federal grants has paused the work of Borderlands Restoration Network, which maintains a wildlife preserve, provides seeds for wildfire recovery and restores watersheds
From @insideclimatenews.org
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
The first-ever National Nature Assessment—which was based on significant public feedback and strove to reveal how nature loss influences climate change and impacts humanity—may still see the light of day after the Trump administration abruptly ended the ambitious project.
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🧪 @ucsusa.bsky.social also has great resources and toolkits for scientists and researchers 🚨
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The Trump administration is actively pro-pollution. Full stop.
USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.
The Oath of Office taken by me and my colleagues at the NSF -
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …”
As part of the CHIPS and Science Act in 2022, Congress mandated that the National Science Foundation appointed a diversity officer to broaden participation in science. Trump had the post eliminated. www.science.org/content/arti... 9/12
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
Gotta say I’m digging the #Botany2025 logo. Grateful to everyone who found us a new conference venue so quickly after the planned 1 fell through! @loristrong.bsky.social @hcacanindin.bsky.social Melanie, at al. #iamabotanist #botany #plantfam
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Photos & bar codes can’t do this! Herbarium collections can be used in ways the collectors never imagined. This is why natural history collections are still relevant in the 21st century. #botany 🌾🧪
This image shows the Botany 2025 logo as well as the logos of the participating societies.
The Botany 2025 symposia & colloquia have been announced & workshop submissions are reopened until Feb 1. Check out the latest details: mailchi.mp/botany.org/botany2025.
We look forward to seeing you this summer in Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025!
#Botany2025 #IamaBotanist #ItIsaDryHeat
I will keep beating this drum, loudly:
FEMA is one of those government services.
Think about what you will do if a disaster happens in your area and federal aid arrives seriously degraded, or not at all.
The GOP is already threatening California with that fate.
And the botany is messed up. Papaver somniferum technically doesn’t have sepals, but they showed 4. Why is it necessary to show sepals where there are none?
I mean, technically, there would none but they showed four!
Anyone else notice the incorrect number of sepals on the (presumably) Papaver somniferum in Wicked? #botany #botanyinfilm
That actually sounds pretty good.
Clean air is a human right.
Clean water is a human right.
Living on a habitable planet is a human right.
Great news!
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I know like plants 🪴 and plants are the basis of agriculture 🚜 so I looked up some stuff about US Exports because I also like looking up stuff 🖥️. Here's a 🧵of numbers on US imports/exports of a bunch of stuff
🍫 🍷 🍞 🍭 🚬 = 🌴 🍇 🌾 🌽 🍃 (sources at the end)
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