Great to have @drmgoeswild.bsky.social & Lauren Baker at #BIBConf25 talking about how @bucbotany.bsky.social is transforming & reinvigorating student botany!
Check out the recording of their talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0bK...
And get ready to support #BUC2026!

Last Saturday was @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 but in 1965 BSBI conference was in Birmingham. Found report in Amnesty bookshop! JL Fyfe of PBI Cambridge talked about Lucerne, Sickle Medick and hybrids 🤗 Alas no references ☹️
#Botany #Medicago
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Kicking yourself that you didn't make it to #BIBConf25 yesterday?
Don't worry!
We recorded the talks for you & they'll be up on our YouTube channel very soon.
We also have some great online winter talks & webinars lined up for you in the coming months!
Check them out:
bsbi.org/take-part/ev...

Lovely to see you at #BIBConf25 yesterday @rogerhorton.bsky.social (and at the after-party!), thank you so much for coming!
Glad you made it back in time for a walk in the woods :-)

I worried that @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social might be feeling a bit flat after the excitement of yesterday's #BIBConf25.
But today @markavery.bsky.social announced that Trevor's #UrbanPlants is his 2025 #BookoftheYear! markavery.info/2025/11/30/t...
Congratulations Trevor, we're so happy for you!

It was a long haul back from @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill Ormskirk to Cambridge but just managed a walk in the setting sun. Sleep well! 🌇😴
(Wandlebury Woods #Cambridge)

Lovely to catch up with these two botanical superstars at yesterday's #BIBConf25!
@naturelark.bsky.social (on left) and @botanybeck.bsky.social, the driving force behind @wildflowerhour.bsky.social!
Looking good, #wildflowerhour ladies!

Oh @dunnjons.bsky.social & @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social - you two are incorrigible!
But we love you and it was such a treat to see your exhibit at #BIBConf25 yesterday & hear all about your programme of upcoming @mariposanature.bsky.social orchid tours.
Hope to see you again soon!

What a pleasure to meet @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social at yesterday's #BIBCONF25
Trevor's 5 minute presentation on Welsh Groundsel sounded like it would make a fascinating full length presentation at a future conference.
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@bsbicymru.bsky.social

Wonderful to catch up with our friend @ambroisebaker.bsky.social at yesterday's #BIBConf25.
He brought some Mentha spp (mints) with him - both live plants and pressed specimens.
Ambroise's mission is to help us love mints and learn to identify them correctly.
#WildflowerID

Thanks to all my plant friends, old and new, for making time at the #BIBConf25 so much fun!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicountries.bsky.social

British & Irish Botanical Conference 2025 organised by the BSBI: Edge Hill University, November 29 2025 Fantastic time at #BIBConf25, catching up in person with BSBI friends, making new botany friends, hearing from early career people, listing to interesting talks and debates, ... 150% BSBI fun with a full range of exhibits, talks and posters, ... well over 100% on the account that there was sooo much to see and learn! I was fortunate to be allocated exhibit no 8 and brought information about mint (genus Mentha) and I got lots of tips from people on how to develop this work. The poster I presented can be downloaded from here.

British & Irish Botanical Conference 2025 organised by the BSBI: Edge Hill University, November 29 2025

Fantastic time at #BIBConf25, catching up in person with BSBI friends, making new botany friends, hearing from early career people, listing to interesting talks and debates, ... 150% BSBI fun…

Thanks for organising a wonderful #BIBConf25 to:
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@moschatel.bsky.social
@bsbicountries.bsky.social
…et al.
…and good night Ormskirk #Lancashire!

Fascinating insights from Professor John Rodwell, giving a us “A botanist’s view from South Yorkshire at the #BIBConf25. Including early influences such as his professor Irene Manton

Pete Stroh @bsbibotany.bsky.social on the newly published GB Red List for vascular plants at #BIBconf25 a standardised assessment of conservation status. Fascinating hearing about the challenges of using the IUCN criteria developed on mammals for plants. bsbi.org/learn/public...

Amazing that 1600 people have taken our FiSC botanical skills assessments since 2023. Chantal Helm @bsbibotany.bsky.social Training Coordinator update at #BIBConf25

Great to welcome Alys Fowler to #BIBConf25 today.
She picked up the BSBI/ Wildflower Society Presidents' Award for her book Peatlands, judged the most useful contribution this year to our understanding of British and Irish Botany. Congrats Alys, very welll-deserved!

Congratulations to Alys Fowler for her wonderful book ‘Peatlands,’ winner of @bsbibotany.bsky.social and The Wildflower Society Presidents’ Award presented today at #BIBConf25

Great talk from @bucbotany.bsky.social at the #BIBConf25. What an amazing thing. I wish this had been around when I was at uni!

Paul Ashton presenting

“Guerrilla Botany” - putting field and botany modules into university courses. The #BIBConf25 kicking off to an exciting start with @bsbibotany.bsky.social President Paul Ashton on the role of botany in the 21st Century.

Oliver Cromwell is alleged to have been late for the battle but here he is right on time for @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill (a totally different place). 😉

Superb garden of hosts near Ormskirk prior to #BIBConf25 tomorrow.

Polypody fern catching the evening sun in a South Lancashire wall at Aughton ahead of @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill tomorrow. #FernFriday

Really looking forward to Saturday’s British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25. I’ll be part of a panel discussing the use of AI in botany. Apparently, this is what AI thinks we look like, so I expect everyone to dress entirely in green (with a weird BATHIMAND logo) @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Our friendly orchid tour leaders @dunnjons.bsky.social & @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social will be at the #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill University tomorrow - they're looking forward to chatting orchids with everyone there!

Can't wait to catch up with our friends Jon & Richard from @mariposanature.bsky.social at Saturday's #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill University.
We're so proud to have Mariposa as a #BSBICorporateSupporter!
Bookings for the Conference have closed but there's a waitlist: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

Also at #BIBConf25, a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence: the good, the bad & how best to approach it as a botanical community.
On the panel:
@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social;
Olaf Kranse (Univ Cambridge);
Alice Kershaw @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Stuart Desjardins (Univ. Leicester)

The fabulous @bsbicountries.bsky.social will be at #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill University on 29 November.
This is your chance to talk to James about British & Irish endemic plants inc Whitebeams & to buy a copy (if you haven't already) of his book 'Endemic'.
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

Behind-the-scenes tours of the fernery & the Electron Microscopy Suite are just 2 of the extras on offer at #BIBConf25 on 29 November!
With 8 talks, a panel discussion, 40+ exhibits, #WildFlowerID quizzes & a pop-up bookshop, maybe we're giving people too much to choose from? Better than not enough!

Aw, such kind words from our friends @mariposanature.bsky.social - we're delighted they're a #BSBICorporateSupporter!
@dunnjons.bsky.social & @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social from Mariposa will be at #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill University on 29 November with an exhibit about their fab botany & butterfly tours!