The hidden history behind every rose blooming this summer
Roses don’t look beautiful by accident - humans and nature have shaped them.
"As roses fill gardens and hedgerows this season, there is a story, millions of years in the making, unfolding beneath their petals."
Whether you're a gardener or just a lover of roses, here's their hidden history, from @alexmcbowles.bsky.social 👇
theconversation.com/the-hidden-h...
21.07.2025 12:45 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Join @jameswclark.bsky.social and I at #ESEB2025 to discuss the latest research on 'Reductive evolution across the tree of life' - Symposium 32.
We have two exciting invited speakers @rosafernandez.bsky.social and #SvenGould - looking forward to welcoming you in Barcelona
@eseb2025.bsky.social
11.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Great to speak with @biology.ox.ac.uk about my journey to @ox.ac.uk and research on plant evolution
'By studying the plants of the past, we can better understand those of the present and make informed predictions about plants of the future'
31.03.2025 10:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoctoral Researcher @Cambridge University, Dad of a beautiful daughter.
Head gardener and neglectful allotmenteer in Aberdeen, Scotland. Knits and sleeps a lot. She/her.
Associate Professor at UGAs Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. Lead of the Plant Biopolymers Group. Plant biochemist, gardener, and cat enthusiast with a focus on plant cell wall biology.
Junior Research Fellow @TrinityOxford @OxfordBiology.
Interested in photosynthesis, evolution, and synbio ☀️ 🌱 (and Leicester Tigers) 🏉
Assistant Professor @uarizona; macro-evolution, data science, and some ecology; Lab website: https://datadiversitylab.github.io/; Blog: https://ghost.cromanpa.synology.me/
Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
Studying, appreciating, recording & conserving wild plants across Britain & Ireland.
Supporting the botanists who care about our wild plants
https://bsbi.org/
#NewYearPlantHunt
#PlantAtlas2020
#WildFlowerHour
The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci
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Exploring the evolutionary diversity of plant-pathogen interactions
Professor of Evolution | Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden | Co-Director of the Connections-Collections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative
a capella scientist
http://patreon.com/acapellascience
Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity; sometimes observations on food, music and gardening (now on a balcony).
Plant genetics and epigenetics @ University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences
The Plant Journal is a leading and authoritative journal for the plant sciences, co-owned by SEBiology and WileyGlobal
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1365313x?journalRedirectCheck=true
Writing a book about horizontal gene transfer and non treelike evolution. Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology. Pangenomes. Chair in Evolutionary Biology. 🇮🇪 http://github.com/mol-evol/panGPT
Promoting the study of systematics, general biology and evolution since 1937.
