The True Pollinators of the Amazon’s “Purple Gold” www.botany.one/the-true-pol... A study reveals that native stingless bees drive pollen flow in açaí crops, highlighting why standing forests are vital to agricultural yields.
Luiza Teixeira-Costa
@l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social
Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities. Brazilian. She/Ela https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/ 📚 🌱 🌈
"For nothing was simply one thing" applies just as well to people.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d agoCorita Kent, a US Roman Catholic nun, peace activist and Pop art screenprinting artist who helped shape the Pop Art movement and was also friends with Andy Warhol #WomensArt
And as usual, there are some interesting changes regarding #ParasiticPlants
juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 7d agoThe new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology
Postdoc opp; the Katherine Esau Fellowship @UC Davis funds 2–3 years of work on plant structure and function. Curious how plant structure shapes plant-microbe interactions? Get in touch! Due Nov 1, international applicants welcome. www-plb.ucdavis.edu/about/fellow...
Department Fellowships
The Department of Plant Biology offers fellowships that support research, scholarship and professional development for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty. These awards recognize exce...
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"Suicide Prevention Month cannot only be about stopping death. It has to be about supporting life. Not theoretically. Materially. A society cannot endlessly tell struggling people that every life is precious while rationing the things people need to remain alive."
Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one
I want to organize a transdisciplinary workshop for next year's @eseh.bsky.social conference in Salzburg, #Austria. The idea is to use #newspaper articles to discuss communication strategies about #InvasiveSpecies. Any #journalists interested in co-organizing this with me?
Histology has always been the cornerstone of plant anatomy. And as it is much cheaper than other lab-based methods, it is often practiced in countries like Brazil and India, for example. In these places, protocols and techniques are passed along with the care and simplicity of family recipes [1/2]
Chris Ritson, “Mushroom Picture” (2022), live fungus and sawdust, 20 × 14 inches www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/span...
I want academics to understand that a person working in a job different than their major (esp STEM fields) is OK, 1) it's their life, and 2) it is not a "waste" for a person's pov to be shaped by stem but working a non-STEM job. We need interdisciplinary & more holistic thinking now more than ever
Men are more likely to accept invitations to review a paper in Ecology and Evolution when the *editor* inviting them is male. Women’s response rate is unaffected onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing” - Camille Pissarro
Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...
New paper by grad student Jordan Argrett on the role of hemiparasitic Castilleja in plant community diversity! He surveyed over 400 plots across multiple sites, spp, and growing seasons. With gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations by an REU coauthor! 🌍🌱🌿 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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New water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea - Communications Earth & Environment
Comprehensive accounting for consumptive water uses in the Colorado River Basin, United States indicates that irrigated agriculture consumes half of all river flows; nearly two-thirds of agricultural ...
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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
Helen Ahpornsiri, an artist who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flora and foliage #WomensAr
Hemiparasitic #Castilleja presence is correlated with increased plant #biodiversity across montane plant communities New #AJB research by Jordan Argrett, Makena Lang, Anders Hastings, Y. Anny Chung, Nina Wurzburger & Charles Williams doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
It’s magical and quirky and free if it’s your birthday or your name is Isabella. #museums #museumfromhome #museumlover #boston mainlymuseums.com/post/665/isa...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵
