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Hervé Sauquet
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Evolutionary biologist and botanist (he/him) living on Bidjigal country, working at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, into flowering plants, macroevolution, freediving, and all things queer!
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · Feb 21
We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora.
iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...
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fontikar.bsky.social
Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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alexskeels.bsky.social
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
enormous phylogeny of ~700 Grevilleoideae plants plus outgroups with major tribes and fossil calibrations highlighted
July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social!

#Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium
A world map showing the locations of new plant species discovered through iNaturalist. Each species is represented by a photograph and text explaining the family and year of description.
May 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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csiropublishing.bsky.social
Science in action to support conservation 🌱

When researchers collaborated to investigate the quirky group of peas known as the "leafless bossiaea", the project bounced in more than one unexpected direction.

www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and...

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Cascading questions for leafless Bossiaea | Botanic Gardens of Sydney
Working with stakeholders from different Australian states, geneticists have helped to clarify taxonomy and conservation planning for seven leafless Bossiaea species.
www.botanicgardens.org.au
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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acabral-bio.bsky.social
Ever wondered what explains the amazing fruit diversity in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)?
See what we found: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@renskeonstein.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social, and others!
April 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
60 million-year-old seeds reveal that dinosaur extinction paved the way for grapes
www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/s...
Mónica Carvalho can be seen holding the newly discovered earliest grape from the Western Hemisphere at the dig site in Colombia She has the biggest smile as she's holding the rock to the camera on a hillside.
July 2, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social
Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts?

jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/9...
#herbarium #csiro
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
jobs.csiro.au
March 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
hsauquet.bsky.social
Latest awesome output from @thebeachcomber.bsky.social PhD work: expert IDBlitzes amplify the value of #citizenscience data (such as @inaturalist.bsky.social)

Out now in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

(with @tecticornia.bsky.social @julietwege.bsky.social and more)
March 19, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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jeffollerton.bsky.social
In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e...
#pollinators #biodiversity
Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published
When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…
jeffollerton.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
hsauquet.bsky.social
Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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davidperis.bsky.social
📢Paper alert!
Fossil record is fundamental to elucidating the origin and evolution of insect pollination, as well as informing on present-day plant–pollinator interactions.
Check it out in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination
Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world. Despite tens of thousands of papers, as well as numerous books, on pol...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
hsauquet.bsky.social
Happy Mardi Gras!! 🌈
We’re right in the middle of the most exciting time in Sydney, where such massive celebrations of love, diversity, and freedom to be are more important than ever.
#SydneyMardiGras #QueerInSTEM #BotanicGardens
February 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
hsauquet.bsky.social
We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora.
iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...
February 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Do you work on the 87 #BigPlantGenera that include 25% of all plant species? We are putting together a special issue in
@annbot.bsky.social
for studies investigating Angiosperm genera with >500 species. See the link below for details: shorturl.at/dfsw4
February 20, 2024 at 5:52 PM
hsauquet.bsky.social
Amorphophallus titanum Big Bloom Bang happening right now at Botanic Gardens of Sydney! Hard to believe all the fame and hype gathered by this little plant over the past week!
#Putricia #Araceae #botany
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids

New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics
Phylogenomic tree and classification of magnoliids, with photographs of representative species.
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
hsauquet.bsky.social
New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last!

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
January 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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minyaaa.bsky.social
Finally get to squeeze some squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) IRL 🤩 The name derives from phenomenon that the ripe fruits squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a dispersal mechanism. This vid here is a slow-mo! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsciences 🧪🌾🌱🥒
January 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ijpsjournal.bsky.social
A review of 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as viewed through covers by our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social

(1/8) We started 2024 highlighting our new series of occasional papers, Primers in the Plant Sciences

#PlantScience
On the Cover: This issue of IJPS debuts Primers in the Plant Sciences, a series of curated reviews that cover foundational topics and serve as useful first-stop references for scientists at all career stages (see Wadgymar et al., in this issue, pp. 1–2). Top row: Left, simple biosynthetic pathways of linear and angular furanocoumarins (one subclass of chemical defense) from the hydroxycoumarin umbelliferone; right, illustration of a complex of defensive and tolerance traits in plants and herbivores, a result of reciprocal natural selection exerted on each species by the other over evolutionary time. See “Consequences and Costs of Chemical Complexity: The Evolutionary Ecology of Direct Phytochemical Defense against Herbivores” (Blanchard and Holeski, in this issue, pp. 3–14). Bottom row: Left, examples of successive developmental stages of the flower Grevillea banksia R. Br. (Proteaceae), including flower bud, pollen-presenting (“male”) phase, and receptive (“female”) phase; center and right, Campanula sp. (Campanulaceae), showing a pollen-presenting phase and a nonvisited flower in the receptive phase. See “Pollen Transfer within Flowers: How Pollen Is Secondarily Presented” (El Ottra et al., in this issue, pp. 15–31). Flower photos by J. H. L. El Ottra.
December 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
Freycinetia cumingiana has pseudanthia comprised of showy bracts surrounding the spikes of tiny, unisexual flowers. These pseudanthia are visited by birds, who are the likely pollinators. #Pandanaceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the inflorescence of this species. The strappy green leaves are visible. The spikes of tiny flowers are subtended by broad, orange bracts.
December 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
hsauquet.bsky.social
AusTraits floras workshop at Botanic Gardens of Sydney: so thrilled about how it all went!! We invited reps from each Australian state/territory to discuss how online floras could be expanded to display data from a broad range of traits (including ecological, morphological). #austraits #floras
December 6, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 https://buff.ly/41hpKym
December 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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angelajmcd.bsky.social
Updated herbarium starter pack! Send me deets for others to add. go.bsky.app/J3orEaP
November 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
December 2, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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thebeachcomber.bsky.social
New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist.bsky.social records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.
December 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM