Amanda Rasmussen

Today is the last day of my two weeks annual leave, but gees what a doozie of a day it is.

RHS What to Grow for a Climate Resilient Garden As the world's climate changes, this timely book from plant expert, Dr Amanda Rasmussen, explains what we should be planting in our outdoor spaces. What t...

Learn how some plants are adapted to certain conditions...I hope it helps people choose plants better suited to changing local climates....out now! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/amand...

Me sitting behind a table with plants on it. The plants were used in medieval medicine. Blue skies outside the Camelia house windows.

Calm before the storm at Science in the park!

As a dual AU/UK citizen, with family and friends just hit by a cyclone, I've been thinking about the way each culture faces adversity...UK: keep calm and carry on; AU: hold my beer (Cracking jokes). Born into AU, that's my natural state but it's worth noting that doesn't mean we don't care...😉

Love the sound of students having fun! Best cohort yet in my third year class. It's a self-directed group work session and the majority of the class are here, talking, laughing, working.

Winter garden with bright pink and white heather flowers under a brilliant white birch tree

Looking up toward the sky along the trunk of a conifer into the twisted branches above.

Purple crocus scattered on the hillside sloping toward the waterfall.

Me at sunset with the misty trees in the background.

A few snaps from Kew Wakehurst where we're visiting the millennium seed bank for an event tomorrow @vilasjohn.bsky.social

Flowers below and bulbs above Commentary and photos by F. Curtis Lubbe and Jitka Klimešová from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Flowers belowground The belowground world can be quite surprising —…

Merry surprices: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/f...

Science under threat | Royal Society The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.

Well!
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A fossilized leaf imprint is embedded in a textured stone background. Overlaid on the image are bold white banners with black text. The top banner reads “BSA Paleobotanical Section Awards,” the central banner highlights “Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant,” and the bottom banner displays the application deadline, "March 15, 2025." The website "www.botany.org" is listed at the bottom.

🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿

Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany.

Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSAawards #IamaBotanist

What I love about teaching? Having students come back after a break in our 3 hr class telling me they were just messaging their mum to tell them about stuff they just learnt! (a 3rd yr, not a 1st yr!)

Book cover. The title is Lessons from Plants, the author is Beronda L. Montgomery. The cover is pale green with colorful drawings of plants surrounding the title.

#BlackHistoryMonth
Now more than ever, we must uplift, amplify, & celebrate Black scientists, scholars, & leaders.
Beronda Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social is a plant scientist who researchers & teaches about mentoring & culture.
Read "Lessons from Plants" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Moodle is great in educational settings. But it's not meant for collaboration. The real world, whether we like it or not, is hybrid and, (at least for the time being), globally linked. Surely essential transferable skills include both team skills and familiarity of digital collaboration platforms?

Yes that last comment was heavy with sarcasm.

My 3rd yr class uses Teams to collaborate for a semester-long project (more on my webpage)...this week a 3rd yr student told me they hadn't used Teams since secondary school....🤯..we really have reverted to preCOVID dark ages...good to know students are well prepared to use Moodle in the real world!

#PeerReview and #ScientificPublishing should focus on collaboration instead of gatekeeping.

We'll create a more inclusive environment and get better science because of it.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🧪

🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾

Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!

📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to apply_healthycrops@hhu.de

RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch

Yaye! I look forward to hearing what you think!

Thanks Sjon!!!

Thanks Mary :)

Thanks Kevin Hobbs; Connor Smith; Mandy Barber; Tijana Blanusa; Sean Hogan and Denis Dujardin; Mark Fletcher; Rosie Fairhead and all the team at Quercus!

I'm excited to share my first book! #ClimateResilientGarden Plant physiology for gardeners really! Thanks to lots of people! Especially Ana Mogus for the illustrations @quercusbooks.bsky.social

🌱 The 9th Annual Plant Science Symposium is Tomorrow!

📅 Join us on Jan 21, 2025, at 8:30 AM EST!

✨ Highlights:
✅ Inspiring talks from 10 keynote speakers
✅ FREE two-day hybrid event

👉 Event Newsletter: www.ufplants.org/symposium

See you there! 🌿

#PlantScience #PSS2025 #Botany

Undergraduate students can now apply to our Summer Studentship scheme, supported by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and the Gatsby Foundation.

For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

Georgie filming fungi growing on a fallen trunk

The major oak in winter, it's leafless branches stretching to the blue sky.

The gnarled branches of the oak

Beautiful day in Sherwood forest today! Filming with Georgie Scurfield who is making a documentary for an exhibition on the major oak that will happen later in the year at Nottingham Castle

Frozen cup of water with stones, the garden visible in the background

Mahonia leaf with white frozen frost highlighting the jagged leaf edge

Part of a fern frond, big ice crystals frosting the edges and central vein.

Brown leaf, resting on a white windowsill. Everything coated in white ice crystals.

Great rugging up to potter in the garden! Then coming in, pulling on my slippers that were warmed on the heater, sitting by the window in the sun. Hot cuppa in hand! 🌱❄️

Please re-post. Fantastic postdoc opportunities in our ERC funded project, Re-engineering symmetry breaking in development and evolution (RESYDE). Openings close soon! Read more and check job opportunities here: www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/

Lagerstroemia (crepe myrtle) ‘Natchez’ with winter sun on its gleaming orange bark

glossy deep red manzanita bark

more glossy deep red manzanita bark

now for some sexy bark 🌱

Plant Biology Education - creating a vision for the future

And that’s a wrap! What a fantastic meeting #PlantSciEd in Lancaster turned out to be! So many rich discussions, and lovely to meet new people as well as catch up with old friends. Watch this space for meeting outputs, including potential Manifesto for Plant Biology Education

Go belowground! 2025 The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 7th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…

Seventh edition of Go_Belowground course on practical assessment of moprhological and anatomical traits on belowground organs and their importancy: Go belowground! 2025 klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/go-belowgrou...