Rebecca Beneroff
@botanicalbecks.bsky.social
Botanical ecologist in training! | Biology Master's Student & Botany research assistant, The Martine Lab, @Bucknell | Aspiring sci-commer | Casual artist | Amateur Photographer | Ologies Aspirant | AuDHD 🏳️🌈 Catch me fist-fighting R (affectionately)
I am so excited for this omg. The End of Everything was amazing (if not existentially crisis inducing) Definitely preordering :)
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterdayI am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
Don't miss the BSA Incoming President's Special Lecture by Chris Martine at 6pm in Tucson E-F! "When it comes to community, it's #PlantPeopleFTW" — we couldn't agree more! #Botany2026
Big #Botany2026 Monday for the lab: great posters by @botanicalbecks.bsky.social and Maria Aguilar (her 1st!) and awesome talk by new Burpee postdoc @devanijolman.bsky.social on her PhD work at ODU. #plantpeopleFTW
Turns out I got busy and forgot about posting for a while! Have a beetle! Lucanus capreolus, the reddish-brown stag beetle (love some accurate description), is commonly found in the eastern US. Watercolor, first time using the good arches paper, and wow, what a difference. Plants to come soon :)
I love unexpected natural history! I noticed my Penstemon were trapping flies on their inflorescences, looked it up, and found that someone who appeared to have done a PhD in retirement wrote a whole dissertation on this and used radioactive fruit flies to show N/P transfer from flies to the seeds!🌍
I had a lot of fun working on this piece! Thank you for the chance to share a little of my story :)
SICB journals@sicbjournals.bsky.social · 4mo agoICB's #art in #bio April's featured #artists/ #scientists featured to celebrate #creativity persisting: Marieke Van Der Maelen – art can be found on Instagram at @House_Of_Paidia & Rebecca Benneroff, @martinebotany.bsky.social lab. integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/fine-art-ame...
We are so glad you presented at #SICB Portland & we hope everyone stays tuned this week on the @sicbjournals.bsky.social (ICB) blog for your #Art in Bio blog 🙌 ( @martinebotany.bsky.social lab) #botany #artist
Rebecca Beneroff@botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 6mo agoI am so, so excited and honored to announce that my poster was selected as the winner of the Best Student Presentation for a Poster for the Division of Botany at the SICB 2026 conference this past January.
I am so, so excited and honored to announce that my poster was selected as the winner of the Best Student Presentation for a Poster for the Division of Botany at the SICB 2026 conference this past January.
Big congrats to Bucknell's Rebecca Beneroff for winning Best Student Presentation for a Poster in the Division of Botany at the #SICB2026 conference!! @botanicalbecks.bsky.social www.chrismartine.com/lab-news/ben...
Beneroff wins best student presentation — Martine Botany Lab
Rebecca Beneroff MS ‘27 has been announced as winner of the Best Student Poster in botany at the 2026 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Portland, OR. Her poster, “Co...
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Ok bluesky, we're introducing students to data visualization this and next week. Can I see your best data viz comics? :)
When everything feels uncertain, I look to the rhythms of the land. They teach me to trust what I can’t yet see. Pause for a moment today. Notice what’s quietly growing around you, and within you. #hopeinthewaiting #payattention #gentlerhythms
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
The susquehanna is gorgeous today. Look at those formations
Not sciencey or nature adjacent like I typically post here, but a piece I finished yesterday. Sometimes, I feel cold and invisible, and I just want to be warm Watercolor and gouache
If you still have TikTok and haven't agreed to the new terms yet, they are now collecting data on immigration status, gender preference, orientation and such. That's what got me to uninstall it, although I should have done it much sooner! Shout-out to @jessmaddox.bsky.social for breaking it down
Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
People are mad about the variability of the weather storm predictions as if the government didn't just absolutely gut the National Weather Service
Its the first day of spring semester at Bucknell! What's blooming in the Museum collection greenhouse?! We've got orchids(That Oncidium 👀), camellia, begonia,...
The world is big, frustrating, and angry right now. I've decided I'm fighting this year with creativity. I'm going to relish in my work and try to put some good things forward into the world while finding ways to protest and fight back. I got Poscas for the first time, though, so for now: memes
Rudbeckia sp. in Prismacolor pencils. Colored pencil hard haha. First fully colored traditional piece of the year, minus my fun conference doodles I did over the week at SICB in Portland. To many more!
Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.
Today at @sicb.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social told us bulbs were the worms from tremors so I had to do a quick lunch doodle (seriously neat talk thought)
Come stop by P40 and chat with me about an east coast Penstemon species - Penstemon canescens! I'll be presenting the early stages of my masters thesis and would love to bounce morphology research methods off people!
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
PhytoKeys@phytokeys.pensoft.net · 7mo ago🐜 Observations of #ants collecting nectar from the newly described 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 at its type locality in Australia’s Tanami Desert suggest a plant-animal #coadaptation resulting in defense against #herbivory. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt... @martinebotany.bsky.social
Today at SICB I listened to a fabulous talk about how Juncos behavioral plasticity in post-wildfire coniferous forests by Yiran "Ryann" Su and I've had this image stuck I'm my head all day inspired by their finding that birds in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of aggression
Had so much fun making this with Ryan! Almost all of the species are Oregon natives! :) Penstemon ovatus, Bombus huntii, Melanerpes formicivorus - Acorn woodpecker, Umeces skiltonianus - Western skink, and Megalodacne heros - native oregon The rest are special to us :)
SICB Student Postdoc Affairs Committee (SPDAC)@sicb-spdac.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur 3rd place winners are... Rebecca Beneroff (@botanicalbecks.bsky.social) and Ryan Fisk with this beautiful design! Please come see our booth in Portland to get this sticker! SPDAC representatives will be there during morning and afternoon breaks and during poster sessions. @sicb.bsky.social
Some highlights from lab cookie decorating night, including the @botanicalbecks.bsky.social cryptid corner.
1 year since my goofy Muppet girl, Hettie, followed us home during a cold and rainy evening walk. Thank you cat distribution system :) she's a happy, fluffy, round indoor kitty now
One whole year with Hettie! She followed us home a year ago and never looked back (okay, she looked back once, but came running home after she realized it was cold and she liked free food). Happy Gotcha Day, Hecate :) Day 1 vs. Day 365
