Mirror-image flowers, or enantiostyly, refer to plants with left- and right-handed flowers. Usually, this is genetically fixed, but in some cases, a plant has both L & R flowers. Rhuthuparna solved this pattern in her PhD on Didymocarpus podocarpus. TrEE lab, IISER Bhopal @newphyt.bsky.social

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Morph bias reduces opportunities for geitonogamy in a monomorphic enantiostylous species Rhuthuparna and Gowda @vinitagowda.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZGTZH6...

🌺 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring how bract colour polymorphism influences pollination and reproduction in the nocturnal ginger Curcuma caulina. Full #openaccess doi.org/rf6q @saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @vinitagowda.bsky.social #PlantScience

#conservation #sciencecommunication 6/6 Urban habitats impose an “urban penalty." Implication: Designing wildlife-friendly cities is essential for sustaining urban bird populations. 💚 @vinitagowda.bsky.social 🌍 Also read our work featured here: india.mongabay.com/2026/02/urba...

Rare turquoise gem #ginger #plant species described in @phytokeys.pensoft.net See: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.272.171221 Long-term collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and Indonesian botanical institutions resulted in the discovery of #Hellwigia opalina only found in #Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social Possible three projects: plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology. Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾 phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in

Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social Possible three projects: plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology. Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾 phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in

This already happened but super thanks to @trishg.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for starting this trend. This was also the first collab between #associationOfTropicalBiologyandConservation (ATBC) DEI and BES. Its time different societies and researchers work united! 💪🏾✊🏾

Erola Fenollosa@erolafenollosa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Next tuesday I’ll be contributing to the Gender and Quantitative Ecology Panel Discussion! hosted by @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org with the beautiful minds: @vinitagowda.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @trishg.bsky.social @biolliegist.bsky.social 💚💜🌈

🔥 Hot out of press 🧵 The high price of urban living in house sparrows doi.org/10.1111/btp.70… We studied sex-based differences in parental care across rural and urban habitats and their implications on the reproductive success in sparrows. @Biotropica @theATBC @agnesFrancila

Another lovely article this week, this time by #alejandraJaramillo et al., especially for those who want to learn more about what can university botanical gardens do? Definitely read and send it to university policy makers... doi.org/10.1002/bod2...

The Educational Garden: Exploring the Multifaceted Roles of University Botanic Gardens Through History

University botanic gardens, rooted in Renaissance humanism and medicinal teaching, have evolved into dynamic hubs for education, research, conservation, and well-being. Tracing global histories and m....

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New article! 🚨 Recognized Indigenous-managed forests in the Amazon can prevent fire-related and zoonotic and vector borne diseases in humans, especially in highly forest-degraded municipalities. Collaborative work led by Paula Prist and Julia Barreto www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment

Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence...

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Why living near a forest matters... You probably will live longer, especially with good health. @farahcarrasco.bsky.social

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New article! 🚨 Recognized Indigenous-managed forests in the Amazon can prevent fire-related and zoonotic and vector borne diseases in humans, especially in highly forest-degraded municipalities. Collaborative work led by Paula Prist and Julia Barreto www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Understanding mass flowering/flowering synchrony on a laterite plateau from the Western Ghats. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @sukhrajkaur.bsky.social #DhargalkarRahul & #najla 3 master's students & countless years! @biotropica.bsky.social #ATBC #iiserbhopal

Mass Flowering and Flowering Asynchrony Characterize a Seasonal Herbaceous Community in the Western Ghats

In a three-year study on the Kaas plateau (Western Ghats, India), we quantified flowering phenology across 76 herbaceous species and introduced two novel synchrony indices (SItemp and SIabd) to disti...

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@brodieecology.bsky.social @vinitagowda.bsky.social @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social @flamontano.bsky.social @biotropica.bsky.social

The ATBC Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics have been published as announcements at Biotropica. Both codes result from collective efforts involving ATBC DEI Committee members and ATBC Council and Leadership members. Code of Conduct: lnkd.in/dRDhwDsM Code of Ethics: lnkd.in/dHE93NSe #ATBC

There was the fantastic #atbc2025 in #oaxaca and then there was the botanical garden in Oaxaca city! Here’s the wild maize (#teosinte), #burseraceae (highest endemicity and diversity in Oaxaca!! Me for reference, look at those peeling barks!), and #ceiba #iAmABotanist

Ornamental Yucca filamentosa #flower in #Ithaca, NY (considered somewhat native) ... Rob Raguso says #yucca #moths have been moving North, here they are! In a tense #mutualism relationship, moths pay with active #pollination and purloin with seed #predation (larvae eat ovules). #NaturalHistory

Swept Away Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy #art

Reviewers stop with these statements.. ...I would like to see whole genome data or more genome data, although you have already presented it and I understand that it will not be possible for you to generate it... Me- I did not realise that a review is where one self-talks !!! #getALife

a man in a green sweater is looking at himself in a mirror

ALT: a man in a green sweater is looking at himself in a mirror

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This... 💯 true for any region... NOT supporting anti-free speech obviously, but let's improve our schools and universities, and be better.

@stovedoorkosen.bsky.social · last yr.

I believe in science

Students: Reading is not a project. Definitely not a summer project. That's what students do. Just like breathing is what living organisms do. @treelab.bsky.social there are no reading projects, but you can borrow books, or we can direct you to the aisle in the #iiserbhopal library.

Congratulations @jyotilkdave.bsky.social on receiving ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award, 2025 to study sunbirds... @eseb.bsky.social @treelab.bsky.social #iiserbhopal

Congratulations to the two TrEElets for receiving the Bill Dahl graduate student award @botsocamerica.bsky.social @rhuthuparna.bsky.social is studying #enanstiostyly in gesneriads, and, @sanikagoray.bsky.social is studying polymorphism + species limitations in a few plant species from W.Ghats.

Congratulations @hemantbisht.bsky.social for the William R Anderson student #ASPT grant to study the ecology & evolution of Indian #Pedicularis. Thanks @plantingscience.bsky.social for encouraging young botanists who tackle a difficult terrain and a complex evolutionary story. @treelab.bsky.social

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The Capacity Building Committee is inviting ATBC members to a webinar that will examine what careers are available outside academia... A great line of speakers and 2 amazing moderators. Join the #ATBCWebinar on May 22 Experts from 3 continents and a subcontinent...Don’t miss it! "

Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...

In our latest @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social preprint, we describe our approach to use PacBio HiFi reads to detect somatic TE transposition -- good enough to detect rare events that are present in only single cells. Led by Andrea Movilli. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

Also on 🌎 Day.. Two of my amazing @treelab.bsky.social students launched #ScienceOnBananaLeaf A Malayalam science blog! ❤️👏🏾 Great job @aleenaxavier.bsky.social and @rhuthuparna.bsky.social scienceonbananalea.wixsite.com/scienceonban... scienceonbananalea.wixsite.com/scienceonban...