Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too!

The women who inspired these conservation science leaders | Biodiversity Council Australia To mark International Women’s Day, we asked women who have become leaders in conservation science to reflect on the women who inspired them.

Biodiversity Council Australia celebrates women’s roles in #biodiversity and #conservation 🌍

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#InternationalWomensDay

Such an awesome program supporting undergrad engagement at the annual Botany conference. And I’m so glad BSA figured out how to keep it alive. It’s not too late to apply for #Botany2026 in Tucson (1-5 Aug)!!

#plantpeopleFT

Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii

New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye

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#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Please check the latest from our lab! Root-fungus senses host nutrient status, determining its infection strategies!

Scientists tagging 10,000 bogong moths to solve mystery The project's success largely relies on citizen scientists spotting a distinct white dot on the wings of moths.

In an Australian first, a team of researchers from @westernsydneyu.bsky.social and volunteers from the self-titled "bug nerd network" have just tagged more than 10,000 bogong moths to find out where billions of them go when they leave the mountains.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

This woman, Ghanimat Azhdari, had just started her PhD at my former department in Ontario. She and 175 other people were killed when their plane was shot down by the IRGC. Her family's still grieving her loss, and now more of them could die in this stupid war.

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🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿

#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers.

More info at botany.org/home/publica...

#botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience

Maybe a paleontologist here knows about the veracity of the claim that the rise of angiosperms displaced and greatly reduced cycad populations which stegosaurs are thought to have eaten, effectively starving them. So, did flowers kill off the stegosaurs? 🦖

Moss (Physcomitrium patens) protoplasts (wallless cells) transformed with chloroplast envelope protein tagged with mGFP (green). The chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta.
The protrusions of the chloroplast envelope are called stromules.
#microscopymonday, #plantcells, #plantmicroscopy, #moss

🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

The only plant blooming on Sandia Crest NM yesterday, Potentilla hippiana (woolly cinquefoil). Still plenty of snow under tree cover up there.

So pretty!

Sure, it’s still winter-crispy, but I was really happy to meet Heuchera pulchella (Sandia Mountain alumroot) yesterday above Albuquerque at 10,600 feet.

Activating Chicana Resistance: Delilah Montoya retrospective exhibit at Albuquerque Museum. Was pretty incredible.

Pretty cool to get a tour of the University of Vienna Botanical Garden from the Director of the University of Vienna Botanical Garden, @krissaskogen.bsky.social!

#plantpeopleFTW

Always happy to talk about both of those topics — especially when I get to reflect on how incredible it’s been to teach with my Bucknell Art colleague Anna Kell and to collaborate with NYU artist/prof Erin Johnson on work inspired by #Solanum plastisexum.

#sciart #PUI #STEMeducation #STEAM

Appreciated the opportunity to give two talks at the University of Vienna, one on Australian spiny solanums and one on the integration of science and art in teaching/outreach — and both introduced by my brother-in-phenotype @reactionnorm.bsky.social

#sciart #scicomm #plantpeopleftw

We need taxonomists and real botanists 🪴🌱

Spring ephemeral dimpled trout #lily may not be vulnerable to phenological mismatch with overstory trees

New #AJB research by Melina Schopler, Anita Simha, Rebecca Dalton, Emma Wilson, Emmeline Redick, Elsa Youngsteadt & William Petry

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#botany #plantscience #climatechange

Many thanks to Andy Berger for showing us some of the magic of the 5-million-specimen #herbarium at the Natural History Museum, Vienna — including the type of the now-extinct Solanum bauerianum … as well as their oldest accession from the mid-1600s.

#plantpeopleftw

I remember handling and mounting some of von Mueller’s specimens with their characteristic blue labels & florid handwriting - noting the curly B on a downturned corner on some which meant it’d gone all the way to Kew, been examined and signed by Bentham before being sent back to MEL #botany

So cool!

TFW when you put a new identification on a specimen handled by Ferdinand von Mueller ca. 1885.

University of Vienna #Herbarium.

#Solanum #OzPlants

Pretty fascinating

Endangered cockatoos to get new nests after West Australian bushfires Conservationists are trying to put in place a plan to rehabilitate a key nesting area for endangered black cockatoos that was ravaged by fire.

Fire is a natural part of many ecological systems, but when climate change fosters fires of unusual magnitude and intensity, human intervention is sometimes needed to repair the damage. 🌍🌰

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Survey shows successful reintroduction of eastern quolls to mainland Australia Once dubbed the Australian "native cat", the eastern quoll was abundant before it was completely wiped out on mainland Australia.

The eastern quoll has been reintroduced into Australia's Victoria state. 🌍🌰

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Each spring, we host our annual Torrey Botanical Society #banquet - On Saturday, March 28 at 3pm Eastern, we'll host a #lecture by Dr. Aaron Sexton on cultivating ecological novelty in cities - and we'll have the banquet after! Details & registration here: shorturl.at/nz31I

🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 #botany

Rosemary Glos | Trapped, Poked, and Poisoned: Evidence for Defence Synergisms in a Desert Plant In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, Rosemary Glos (she/her, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mi, USA) discusses her research article ‘Separate and Synergistic Anti-Herbivore E…

👀Find out more about the research behind the cover in author Rosemary Glos' 'Behind the Paper' post!

🛼Rosemary discusses synergistic interactions between plant defence traits, using a beard-trimmer in the field, and the joys of roller derby!

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