Vegetative and floral buds on southern magnolia (*Magnolia grandiflora*).
Timothy Martin
@treephys.bsky.social
Tree Ecophysiology Professor, University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences. Trees, forests, forestry. Posts do not represent my employer. Plant ecophysiology starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
They’re gonna close down the predatory learning management system unless we put on the best dang talent show this town has ever seen!!!
For the last day of my Paleoecology senior capstone, students made PSA-style posters in class. For the prompt, I asked them, “what’s one idea from studying the past that will help us protect the future?” Here’s what they came up with.
Wildfire smoke on University of Florida campus this morning. North Florida is a tinderbox.
I normally don’t post my art (mosaics, stained glass and watercolor). But this piece was made for my husband who is visually impaired. This is a mosaic tactile piece called “Looking Up”. He loves touching redwoods so now he can go get a feel of glass bark, when we are not actually in a forest.
Hummingbirds are jerks. Sound up for the full violent effect.
Not all seeds have endosperm as their storage tissue. Some seeds store the energy needed for germination in the embryo’s cotyledons. You know peanuts: the 2 halves are the 2 cotyledons. The embryonic root & shoot are the little structures at the base. #cotyledon #Fabaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Reading one of the first publications documenting circadian rhythms in humans and it’s essentially two professors torturing an assistant prof. so i guess not much has changed in academia in 130 years 🙃
The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @aucklanduni.bsky.social - also known as Waipapa Taumata Rau in the Maori language If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
To catch a King. Om1 mkii and 50-200mm + mc14 teleconverter youtu.be/QOiHR5uwzLw?... SS1/6400 F4 ISO640
Manatee mama and baby in the run at Blue Springs State Park in Volusia County, Florida. The sign at the entrance indicated that over 450 manatees were in the spring and run that day.
Loblolly pine (*Pinus taeda*) cones. 15-year-old tree in an experiment in north Florida.
I've been trying to catch a kingfisher, but somebody else showed up by the river today
Congratulations to the 2025 AFE Award Winners! 🎉 Dr. Gavin Jones was awarded the Early Career Award and Dr. Heather Alexander was awarded the Distinguished Leader Award 🔥Read more here: https://fireecology.org/news/award-winners-25
#InkTober2025 Day 8: Reckless. Was planning to draw an eloborate scene from the time when birds ate horses. But it was one of those days and I’m glad I at least got this guy on paper, Terrorbird Titanis walleri. Based on Blue Rhino Studio’s amazing diorama, brushpen with Copic markers.
The taxodium were really looking great just downriver of Yankeetown this weekend, too!
Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.
8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.
