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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

A weed is simply “a plant in the wrong place.”

On weeds, borders, and belonging.
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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, Bulbostylis paradoxa is clonal! Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas - Fontenele - 2025 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · Sep 5

my new book wherein ocean creatures give you life advice is on preorder sale for members at barnes + noble today www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leaving-th...

Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake: Life Lessons from Sixty Sea Creatures|Hardcover

Sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer affirmations for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment—drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world.If you sometimes wis...

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 1d

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...

Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 2d

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:

Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.

plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 3d

New on the Belowground blog: Winter harvest of aboveground biomass help to decrease nutrient load in wetlands plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/w...

Wintertime cattail harvesting: Is this method enhancing treatment wetland performance?

Research by Margit Kõiv-Vainik and Kuno Kasak from University of Tartu in Estonia. The photo above shows an ice-covered wetland with the aboveground biomass of macrophytes. Photo by Jürgen Sarjas. …

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 7d

#Leaf #evolution: integrating #phylogenetics, developmental dynamics, and genetic insights across #land #plants

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#TansleyReview by Hokuto Nakayaman and Neelima R. Sinha

@WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Simplified regulatory models and predicted origins of gene families.

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Dr. Elise Gornish @restorecal.bsky.social · 9d

Supporting dryland restoration success with applied ecological forecasting of seeding outcomes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Supporting dryland restoration success with applied ecological forecasting of seeding outcomes

Dryland restoration seeding is challenging in large part because landscape heterogeneity and interannual variability contribute to highly variable plant establishment, leading to uncertainty about th...

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Jon Drori @jondrori.bsky.social · 12d

Proud to announce international publication of my first book for children, The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of, about the things we make with plants. My proceeds to Kew and WWF. More here: jondrori.co.uk/ssmo #botany #plantscience #history #folklore #kidsbooks #kidsreads #STEM #STEMfun #booksky

Author Jonathan Drori holding copy of his first book for children, The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of (The things we make with plants). September 2025.

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Annals of Applied Biology @annalsapplbio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our latest issue is out!

Full of fantastic science including this paper from Mwangi et al on population dynamics of stubby root nematodes associated with ‘Docking disorder’ of sugar beet
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Explore the full issue now👉 buff.ly/moK9Bi2

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 10d

New on the Belowground blog: The biosocial and cognitive significance of tubers in indigenous cultivation systems plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t...

The biosocial and cognitive significance of tubers in indigenous cultivation systems

Recent research by Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza from the University of Milano-Bicocca Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa” in Milan, Italy. The illustration above …

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 11d

Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 15d

📰Published📰Rooted disruptions: belowground herbivory drives contrasting natural enemy foraging for hosts and prey🚇

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Rooted disruptions: belowground herbivory drives contrasting natural enemy foraging for hosts and prey

Kayleigh C. Hauri, Sujay M. Paranjape, Jared G. Ali, and Zsofia Szendrei This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Insects locate prey or ho…

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 15d

🎉🆕📰🎉: Primary and secondary growth of Pinus halepensis are more sensitive to inter-annual drought variability than to 14 years of rainfall exclusion in a Mediterranean forest
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 16d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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VědaVýzkum.cz @vedavyzkumcz.bsky.social · 17d

Tři mladé vědkyně včera převzaly cenu L'Oréal-UNESCO Pro ženy ve vědě.

🧬 Jitka Viktorová z VŠCHT
🩹 Markéta Hujerová (Klíčová) z TUL
🌱 Pavlína Modlitbová z AV ČR

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 17d

New on the Belowground blog: Look at those spacers! A little digging in the forests of New England plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/a...

A little digging in the forests of New England

Commentary and photos by Jitka Klimešová and F. Curtis Lubbe from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The photo above features Jitka Klimešová drawing plants in a sun room (ph…

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 21d

The final day of the #GoBelowground course on plant belowground #traits consisted of students´ miniprojects on #rooting depth, #bud bank, plant #age structure, fine #root traits and #clonal growth organs. See you next year!
Thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for the support

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Yuanshu Pu @yuansoup.bsky.social · Sep 11

First PhD paper out!🎉
Dive in here to see how past frugivores and present human pressure jointly shape seed size distributions on Madagascar: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Huge thanks to Alexander Zizka and my supervisor Renske Onstein @renskeonstein.bsky.social
. Excited to keep going on this journey!

Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure

Using structural equation models, we show that Malagasy assemblages with higher human pressure have smaller maximum seed sizes, especially through downsizing of extant frugivores. Furthermore, among ...

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 22d

🌷The fourth day of the #GoBelowground course was dedicated to #bud #traits and bud bank, fine #root traits with @joanabergmann.bsky.social and participants' presentations. Thanks to @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #clonality #functional #ecology #course #morphology #phenology

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 22d

It is difficult to send anything to US now due to taxes... but I can send high-resolution scan. We can discuss details by e-mail

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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 23d

🌱Budding plant architects 🌱
@hugobonnaudet.bsky.social
exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺
@umontpellier.bsky.social
@umramap.bsky.social

#PlantArchitecture #Botany

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 23d

#Carbohydrate #storage, #analytical #methods of carbohydrate storage, sweet tasting and #plant #belowground organs hunt were the program of the third day of the #GoBelowground course 🌷🌿🪻
@czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 24d

The second day of the #GoBelowground! The course on #plant #belowground #functional #morphology was about the fine #roots and #anatomy of #storage #organs. We are grateful to @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for the support, and to all participants for their enthusiasm! #ExFuMo 🌱🌴🌷

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