I'm stoked to talk about this (and some other cool things these plants do) Tuesday at 10:45 in the Sex Across Origins complementary session in B113 at #SICB2026.
#PlantsAreCoolToo #SICBplants #PUI #SICBPUI
Screenshot of an orchid "arrangement" to be purchased from Walmart for $47.69. The flower petals have been artificially dyed blue ("just add ice!" Is in the description). Added are fern leaves and pine cones to make it look...more planty? More festive? No clue, tbh
Today my students learned: how to make a botanist cry #WTF #thinkofthechildren #iamabotanist #botanymatters #plantsarecooltoo
Happy Halloween… and happy THIRTEENTH anniversary of this especially silly episode of #PlantsAreCoolToo!
#iamabotanist #halloweenbotany
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Steve Weller, Mike Moore, Ann Sakai, Warren Wagner.
#TeamSchiedea (in part) let me crash their lunch…. but only because we made this video about their work: youtu.be/Y1zNfODhM4o?...
#Botany2025 #plantsarecooltoo #plantpeopleFTW
And if you want to see Cheyenne's bee-yoo-tiful field sites on the Allegheny River, check out this associated episode of #PlantsAreCoolToo.
#scicomm #iamabotanist #womeninstem
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Students in my BIOL 201 class watching Plants are Cool, Too. On screen is shot of Mike Moore and myself walking at White Sands National Monument.
Mike Moore pointing at the sticky yellow ring at the base of an Anulocaulis flower stem.
Blackboard with 5 possible pre-zygotic barriers to gene flow, 3 possible post-zygotic barriers, and a choice between allopatric or sympatric speciation. Students choose their preferred options through discussion after watching the video.
How I use our #gypsum adaptation episode of #PlantsAreCoolToo (starring @gypsumbotany.bsky.social) in class: What barriers to gene flow are likely at play re: 2 ringstem species we show + what type of #speciation can be hypothesized?
#evolution #Anulocaulis #STEMeducation
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Let’s go plants! (And birds.)
#plantsarecooltoo #iamabotanist
Probably not the full length of the class, but @tmariewms.bsky.social and @martinebotany.bsky.social have a new #plantsarecooltoo video out on their Wamula work!
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At 12 years old, this 2-minute video is now firmly in its tween years... but it's still younger than an old-man cactus.
#halloween #plantsarecooltoo #scaryplants
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Six potted plant stuffed animals/plushies. The pots have faces and legs. It looks like a cactus, sunflower, euphorb, crassula, and lily are represented. Along with one unknown pink flower.
Why didn't they have plant plushies when I was growing up?! 😭😂 Picked these guys up as future student prizes in plant tax, but tempted to keep them for me 😁 Pretty good representation of taxonomic diversity too! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsarecooltoo
#PlantsAreCoolToo sponsored a prize at this year’s Lewisburg Sidewalk Chalk Festival, which went to Aliana Ayala for her awesome frog. The “mystery” #Solanum was a non-entry.
Stingray, bingray. Know what I’m saying?
#plantsarecooltoo
Smart squirrels sneak snacks in shade. #boisdarc #osageorange #maclura #plantsarecooltoo
#internetfamous #plantsarecooltoo #Botany2018 @MartineBotany
#Myrmecologists hit me up! /end/ #antsarecool #plantsarecool #plantsarecooltoo #antsandplants #ecology #fieldnotesfriday
@MartineBotany just realized I've been conflating #PlantsAreCool and #plantsarecooltoo tags. Swear I'm not crazy. Just distracted! Props for the great vids, tho. 👏👏
Des origines du manque de représentation de la biologie végétale dans les médias de science grand public. #PlantsAreCoolToo https://x.com/botanyone/status/910612289409208320