Tim Utteridge

The 12th Biannual Conference of @biogeography.bsky.social is coming to the beautiful city of Aarhus, Denmark in January 2026! Abstract submissions are now open until Sept 1. Attendance is capped at 400—submit early to secure your spot! More details below. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Curtis's Botanical Magazine - And so it begins...a Singapore Botanic Gardens special issue! Look out for more articles coming soon....

1144. Singaporandia macrophylla (R.Br. ex Hook.f.) K.M.Wong

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#SBGScience

As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement JAKARTA — Indonesia has launched a sweeping and militarized crackdown on illegal forest use, reclaiming millions of hectares of land — but civil society groups warn the campaign is displacing Indigeno...

"Indonesian authorities have reclaimed 2 million hectares of forest from illegal oil palm plantations, but critics say it disproportionately targets Indigenous communities and smallholders while sparing large corporations, deepening land inequality."

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Article from TBS News Dig. JP headline: 【トリプル台風に】台風7号、8号、そして9号発生「予想図が台風だらけ」気象庁の進路予想【雨・風シミュレーション～8月3日（日）】台風のたまご＝熱帯低気圧が発達【台風情報2025】

Typhoon numbe r9 heading toward the Ogasawara Islands

Typhoons 7, 8, AND 9 have formed simultaneously to the south of Japan, giving us a rare triple typhoon. 9 could hit Tokyo's Ogasawara Islands by the 27th. 7 could impact Okinawa and Amami, with 8 also hitting Okinawa by the 27th.

Seoul scorches at 37.8 deg C, highest early-July temperature ever recorded Other regions across the country have also set record high weathers for early July. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Seoul scorches at 37.8 deg C, highest early-July temperature ever recorded 🌡️🇰🇷 www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

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Right smack in the middle of town, and yet teeming with wildlife and steeped in history. The small ethnobotany and botanical art museums are definite must-sees!

Come along to our 2025 Heritage Festival- light show, concerts, tours, movies, orchid show, behind the scenes, exhibitions!! 44 page programme of activities for all.

This weekend is the 10th anniversary of Singapore Botanic Gardens’ inscription as Singapore’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site! Inscribed on 4 July 2015, only one of 3 botanic gardens on the WH list @unesco.org

I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.

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📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

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📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Global drivers of tree cover loss with examples from Latin America (a), Africa (b), and Southeast Asia (c).

Global drivers of forest loss at 1 km resolution from 2001 to 2022 shows that permanent agriculture causes around 35% of loss, particularly in the tropics. New paper by Sims et al. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🌐 🧪 🌏

I’ve named plants after western botanists, but the (I guess the right word is…) absurdity of it came home when trying to explain Banks, Hooker and Meissner to someone who is not a botanist and doesn’t know ‘our’ ‘conventions’ (the best way I can think of putting it…).

Feeling somewhat silly: Standing in Perth’s King’s (!) Park explaining the etymology of the Western Australian endemic ‘Banksia hookeriana Meisn.’ to my Thai wife (Thailand has never been colonised).

A quick visit and tour of the Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH) - a collection of more than 845,000 dried specimens of plants, algae, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, hornworts), lichens, fungi & slime moulds. Thanks to Juliet Wege (ex Kew ABLO) for the tour! www.dbca.wa.gov.au/science/rese...

Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
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Xanthorrhoea sp. (Asphodelaceae), Darwinia meeboldii C.A.Gardner
‘Cranbrook Bell’ (Myrtaceae), Eucalyptus youngiana F.Muell.
‘Large-fruited Mallee’ (Myrt.) and Banksia ashbyi Baker f. ‘Ashby's Banksia’ (Proteaceae), at King’s Park and Botanic Garden #Perth #Australia

King spider orchid and other orchid models; Banksia archaeocarpa (c. 40 million years old; and stuffed thylacine from the Hobart Museum in 1896. Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip #Perth

Thoughtful and sad messaging at the West Australian Museum.

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I detest open plan offices with every fibre of my being (I found a pdf of this article by searching the title on Google Scholar)

"TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 8/31/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Tu_6-13-25.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

Red and green bromeliads growing epiphytically on a mossy tree trunk in a tropical forest.

Researcher wearing glasses and a cap points to a small epiphytic plant growing on a mossy tree trunk in a forest.

For over 100 years, epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants such as orchids & bromeliads - were believed to be widespread and resilient 🌿

But our new study in Nature Plants tells a very different story 👇

We're delighted to announce the reappointment of @jwmorganecology.bsky.social and @markooiecol.bsky.social as Co-Editors-in-Chief of Australian Journal of Botany!
Their continued leadership ensures the journal remains at the forefront of botanical research in Australia and beyond 🌱 📖

The second edition of the Taxonomy Recognition Day reach out to thousands of people both physically and virtually 🧡💙💚

Enjoy a gallery of our European partners 👉 tettris.eu/gallery/

#nameittosaveit #TETTRIsEU #taxonomy #biodiversityday

@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

A synopsis of the genus Maesa (Primulaceae) in New Guinea - Kew Bulletin The genus Maesa in New Guinea is revised. Thirty-nine species are accepted in this study and a key to species (including incompletely known taxa) is presented; four new species, M. begoniifolia, M. pi...

A synopsis of the genus Maesa (Primulaceae) in New Guinea

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#taxonomy

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event