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Life stages

​​Coffee in hand, feet up on the outdoor cushions, the sound of the fountain dominates my consciousness. A touch of coolness still hangs in the air ahead of what promises to be a warm summery...

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Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Satellite data show trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape herbivores - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree response...

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Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

Being a supervisor is: exciting and daunting at the start, filled with concern when life throws them curve balls, frustrating when they don't understand my point (because I'm always right and always clear...Or not!!!), joyous for each win they have, exhausting reading their thesis chapters.....

I have created a new blog site! arplants.weebly.com A place for me to muse about plants generally as the whim takes me! Could be an "interesting" ride! First blog posted! For my professional research... that's not here 😉 (look for arlab.co.uk yes I need to update that over the summer too!)

AMANDA'S PLANT MUSINGS

I'm Amanda, an amateur gardener and big time plant geek. In fact I'm so passionate about plants that my life is centred around plants! My day job involves teaching students (often about plants) and...

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Really cool postdoc job here at Nottingham for someone interested in plants and historical documents, with @razda5.bsky.social. Fixed term until March 2028. Deadline is Friday! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Fixed-Term)

Across history, plant propagation has been essential for both medicinal and food production practices. The UK boasts a rich tradition of plant cultivation dating back to medieval times, where gardens ...

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Evaluating nitrogen uptake: Methods and applications for plant research A new #AppsPlantSci review by Pierce, @razda5.bsky.social, Huddell & @erinsparks.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @danforthcenter.bsky.social #botany #plantscience #nitrogenfertilization #nanoSIMS

It's gift-giving season! Why not give the gift of plant knowledge? Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite. Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan) @jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book) @razda5.bsky.social 💚 @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍 Novels too!

Super stoked to see work from our lab on BBC tonight! tree cuttings prepared by Vaishali Panwar, one of my PhD students, were CT scanned by Brian Atkinson and Craig Sturrock in the hounsfield facility were shown on Gardeners World this evening! watch it on iPlayer!

The AAB Applied Tree and Forest Biology group is hosting ‘Creating Canopies II’ at the grand Crown and Mitre hotel in Carlisle. 🌳 Kicking off w Chris Quine and Ruth Mitchell #AABCreatingCanopies

The Scottish Forestry Trust is proud to have once again supported the Association of Applied Biologists' Travel Grants for early-career professionals attending the Creating Canopies II Conference. #AABCreatingCanopies web.cvent.com/event/7e93d2...

Fantastic D1 #AABCreatingCanopies with great talks, stimulating discussion and a successful (dry) forest walk!

D2 morning includes trees from the urban environment in Toronto and then plenty about Ash! 👏 Well done Scarlet Maguire for a great first conference talk! #AABCreatingCanopies

Also had a very proud supervisor moment as my PhD student Vaishali gave a wonderful talk today about her tree cuttings #AABCreatingCanopies

Apologies my account wouldn't load but it's been a fabulous 2 day meeting with #AABCreatingCanopies thanks to @aabiologists.bsky.social and all our funders. Thanks to everyone who came along! Thanks to Ted and the wonderful volunteers who took us around Coombs wood yesterday!

Our first keynote, Chris Quine introducing forests and forestry, preparing the context for our meeting #AABCreatingCanopies

Kicking off with #AABCreatingCanopies Ted introducing us to Carlisle and the forest surrounds! @aabiologists.bsky.social

Today is the last day of my two weeks annual leave, but gees what a doozie of a day it is.

Learn how some plants are adapted to certain conditions...I hope it helps people choose plants better suited to changing local climates....out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/amand...

RHS What to Grow for a Climate Resilient Garden

As the world's climate changes, this timely book from plant expert, Dr Amanda Rasmussen, explains what we should be planting in our outdoor spaces. What t...

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Calm before the storm at Science in the park!

As a dual AU/UK citizen, with family and friends just hit by a cyclone, I've been thinking about the way each culture faces adversity...UK: keep calm and carry on; AU: hold my beer (Cracking jokes). Born into AU, that's my natural state but it's worth noting that doesn't mean we don't care...😉

Love the sound of students having fun! Best cohort yet in my third year class. It's a self-directed group work session and the majority of the class are here, talking, laughing, working.

A few snaps from Kew Wakehurst where we're visiting the millennium seed bank for an event tomorrow @vilasjohn.bsky.social

Merry surprices: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...

Flowers below and bulbs above

Commentary and photos by F. Curtis Lubbe and Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Flowers belowground The belowground world can be quite surprising —…

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Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

Science under threat | Royal Society

The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.

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🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿 Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany. Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

What I love about teaching? Having students come back after a break in our 3 hr class telling me they were just messaging their mum to tell them about stuff they just learnt! (a 3rd yr, not a 1st yr!)

#BlackHistoryMonth Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders. Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture. Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

My 3rd yr class uses Teams to collaborate for a semester-long project (more on my webpage)...this week a 3rd yr student told me they hadn't used Teams since secondary school....🤯..we really have reverted to preCOVID dark ages...good to know students are well prepared to use Moodle in the real world!