Hervé Sauquet
@hsauquet.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist and botanist (he/him) living on Bidjigal country, working at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, into flowering plants, macroevolution, freediving, and all things queer!
We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social Article is open access and can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social! #Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium
Science in action to support conservation 🌱 When researchers collaborated to investigate the quirky group of peas known as the "leafless bossiaea", the project bounced in more than one unexpected direction. www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and... 1/3
Cascading questions for leafless Bossiaea | Botanic Gardens of Sydney
Working with stakeholders from different Australian states, geneticists have helped to clarify taxonomy and conservation planning for seven leafless Bossiaea species.
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Ever wondered what explains the amazing fruit diversity in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)? See what we found: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @renskeonstein.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social, and others!
Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts? jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/9... #herbarium #csiro
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
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Latest awesome output from @thebeachcomber.bsky.social PhD work: expert IDBlitzes amplify the value of #citizenscience data (such as @inaturalist.bsky.social) Out now in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... (with @tecticornia.bsky.social @julietwege.bsky.social and more)
Thomas Mesaglio@thebeachcomber.bsky.social · last yr.New paper open access in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset
In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e... #pollinators #biodiversity
Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published
When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…
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Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
📢Paper alert! Fossil record is fundamental to elucidating the origin and evolution of insect pollination, as well as informing on present-day plant–pollinator interactions. Check it out in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination
Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world. Despite tens of thousands of papers, as well as numerous books, on pol...
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Happy Mardi Gras!! 🌈 We’re right in the middle of the most exciting time in Sydney, where such massive celebrations of love, diversity, and freedom to be are more important than ever. #SydneyMardiGras #QueerInSTEM #BotanicGardens
We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...
Do you work on the 87 #BigPlantGenera that include 25% of all plant species? We are putting together a special issue in @annbot.bsky.social for studies investigating Angiosperm genera with >500 species. See the link below for details: shorturl.at/dfsw4
Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics
Finally get to squeeze some squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) IRL 🤩 The name derives from phenomenon that the ripe fruits squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a dispersal mechanism. This vid here is a slow-mo! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsciences 🧪🌾🌱🥒
A review of 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as viewed through covers by our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social (1/8) We started 2024 highlighting our new series of occasional papers, Primers in the Plant Sciences #PlantScience
Freycinetia cumingiana has pseudanthia comprised of showy bracts surrounding the spikes of tiny, unisexual flowers. These pseudanthia are visited by birds, who are the likely pollinators. #Pandanaceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱
AusTraits floras workshop at Botanic Gardens of Sydney: so thrilled about how it all went!! We invited reps from each Australian state/territory to discuss how online floras could be expanded to display data from a broad range of traits (including ecological, morphological). #austraits #floras
We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 https://buff.ly/41hpKym
Updated herbarium starter pack! Send me deets for others to add. go.bsky.app/J3orEaP
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist.bsky.social records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.
A macadamia that isn’t Macadamia: A new species of Lasjia (Proteaceae) from Sulawesi: Lasjia griseifolia Utteridge & Brambach rdcu.be/d1VtF [Posting some recent published things, just for people who may not know me so well…apologies if you’ve seen (and read, yes?!?) already]
🌳 Uvariodendron fuscum (#Annonaceae) – a hidden marvel of African rainforests in #Cameroon and #Gabon with large flowers and leaves! Pollinated by large beetles! Learn more about this genus with 18 species from tropical Africa #openaccess): doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
