Tim Utteridge
@timutteridge.bsky.social
Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity; sometimes observations on food, music and gardening (now on a balcony).
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Trees of New Guinea:
- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Durian and panettone going cheap in Singapore (surplus Xmas stock…I’m not complaining!)
December 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Durian and panettone going cheap in Singapore (surplus Xmas stock…I’m not complaining!)
Taxonomist post at the Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens. www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_u...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Taxonomist post at the Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens. www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_u...
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The Sumatra floods are a reminder that deforestation isn't merely an environmental concern. It's a public health issue, an economic issue & a security issue. Forests regulate water flows, filter pollutants, reduce disaster risk & support rural livelihoods.
www.thestar.com.my/news/environ...
www.thestar.com.my/news/environ...
Planetary Health Matters: Sumatra floods are a wake-up call for Malaysia
Nature is speaking more loudly each year, and Malaysia must listen for the sake of future generations.
www.thestar.com.my
December 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Sumatra floods are a reminder that deforestation isn't merely an environmental concern. It's a public health issue, an economic issue & a security issue. Forests regulate water flows, filter pollutants, reduce disaster risk & support rural livelihoods.
www.thestar.com.my/news/environ...
www.thestar.com.my/news/environ...
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They just cannot get rid of these endangered Tapanuli orangutans fast enough
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans, threatening the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans, threatening the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans
JAKARTA — Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already c...
news.mongabay.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
They just cannot get rid of these endangered Tapanuli orangutans fast enough
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans, threatening the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans, threatening the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan.
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...
Honoured to have been invited to FRIM, Kepong as a member of the 2025 Research Advisory Committee to discuss and help guide their excellent range of research into the future. Very pleased to meet all the FRIM staff and make new connections with specialists from across Malaysia.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Honoured to have been invited to FRIM, Kepong as a member of the 2025 Research Advisory Committee to discuss and help guide their excellent range of research into the future. Very pleased to meet all the FRIM staff and make new connections with specialists from across Malaysia.
Kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn., Dipterocarpaceae), when growing together and the same age (ie usually plantation) is famous for “crown shyness”. Fruiting heavily today in FRIM, Kepong. The bright pink radicle (seed root) jumped out from the leaf litter.
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn., Dipterocarpaceae), when growing together and the same age (ie usually plantation) is famous for “crown shyness”. Fruiting heavily today in FRIM, Kepong. The bright pink radicle (seed root) jumped out from the leaf litter.
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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Devastating news for the Tapanuli orangutan.
"The destroyed areas would have contained some 35 orangutans, and considering the violence of the destruction it wouldn't surprise us if they are all dead. That's a major blow to the population."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The destroyed areas would have contained some 35 orangutans, and considering the violence of the destruction it wouldn't surprise us if they are all dead. That's a major blow to the population."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tapanuli orangutans: Fears grow that world's rarest apes were swept away in Sumatran floods
A carcass thought to belong to a Tapanuli orangutan, the world's rarest ape, has alarmed conservationists.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Devastating news for the Tapanuli orangutan.
"The destroyed areas would have contained some 35 orangutans, and considering the violence of the destruction it wouldn't surprise us if they are all dead. That's a major blow to the population."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The destroyed areas would have contained some 35 orangutans, and considering the violence of the destruction it wouldn't surprise us if they are all dead. That's a major blow to the population."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Registration is NOW OPEN for our State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium, 29 June - 1 July 2026! 🌍 The theme will be 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation' & will follow the release of the next State of the World's Report 🌱🍄
Learn more & register here 👉 https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
Learn more & register here 👉 https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Registration is NOW OPEN for our State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium, 29 June - 1 July 2026! 🌍 The theme will be 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation' & will follow the release of the next State of the World's Report 🌱🍄
Learn more & register here 👉 https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
Learn more & register here 👉 https://ow.ly/CuNg50XFOH1
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🌍 Almost USD 35,000 raised — from supporters in 35 countries! 🌏
Your global support is helping #GiveBHLWings as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026. #BHLTransition 🌱
📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide.
💚 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... 🧪
Your global support is helping #GiveBHLWings as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026. #BHLTransition 🌱
📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide.
💚 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... 🧪
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🌍 Almost USD 35,000 raised — from supporters in 35 countries! 🌏
Your global support is helping #GiveBHLWings as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026. #BHLTransition 🌱
📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide.
💚 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... 🧪
Your global support is helping #GiveBHLWings as BHL prepares for independence on 1 Jan 2026. #BHLTransition 🌱
📖 Let’s keep biodiversity knowledge open & accessible worldwide.
💚 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/GiveBHL... 🧪
Tropical Treats & Sweets! Coming soon to the Centre for Ethnobotany, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Featuring plants that make up our treats, and a wall of fame (with far too many of my cendol pics!)
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/our-gard...
#Singapore #dessert #puddings
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#Singapore #dessert #puddings
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tropical Treats & Sweets! Coming soon to the Centre for Ethnobotany, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Featuring plants that make up our treats, and a wall of fame (with far too many of my cendol pics!)
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/our-gard...
#Singapore #dessert #puddings
www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/our-gard...
#Singapore #dessert #puddings
Flora of Thailand continues heading to the finish line…vol 16 just arrived 450 pages! (with my extremely tiny contribution - 7 species of Pittosporum) #flora #Thailand #botany #SBGScience
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Flora of Thailand continues heading to the finish line…vol 16 just arrived 450 pages! (with my extremely tiny contribution - 7 species of Pittosporum) #flora #Thailand #botany #SBGScience
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#Rice and #Maize cultivation cheek by jowl with montane rainforest in northern #Thailand - choices to be made around #biodiversity stores, #carbon, #water and #air regulation vs food production. DoiTung has been developing a model to support ecosystems AND livelihoods. @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#Rice and #Maize cultivation cheek by jowl with montane rainforest in northern #Thailand - choices to be made around #biodiversity stores, #carbon, #water and #air regulation vs food production. DoiTung has been developing a model to support ecosystems AND livelihoods. @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
Expanding Ventilago to incorporate Smythea: new combinations in Ventilagineae (#Rhamnaceae) based on novel sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. Kew Bull (2025).
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Ventilago lanceata Tul. and
Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
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Ventilago lanceata Tul. and
Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Expanding Ventilago to incorporate Smythea: new combinations in Ventilagineae (#Rhamnaceae) based on novel sequence data and phylogenetic analysis. Kew Bull (2025).
rdcu.be/eTrK6
Ventilago lanceata Tul. and
Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
rdcu.be/eTrK6
Ventilago lanceata Tul. and
Ventilago novoguineensis Cahen, Utteridge & Henry Mill. nom. nov.
Two new species of Tapeinosperma (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae) from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Kew Bull (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12225…#taxonomym#botanyn#Primulaceaea#Ardisiai#PNGN#SolomonIslandsd#Pacificic
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Two new species of Tapeinosperma (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae) from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Kew Bull (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12225…#taxonomym#botanyn#Primulaceaea#Ardisiai#PNGN#SolomonIslandsd#Pacificic
IAPT’s Research Grants support research in systematics, nomenclature, and floristics of algae, fungi, and plants.
www.iaptglobal.org/grants
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IAPT | Grants
The IAPT provides competitive grants for research on the taxonomy, systematics and nomenclature of plants, algae and fungi and to support botanical collections.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
IAPT’s Research Grants support research in systematics, nomenclature, and floristics of algae, fungi, and plants.
www.iaptglobal.org/grants
www.iaptglobal.org/grants
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Include Aceh, north Sumatra, west Sumatra
At least 1,200 people dead and a million displaced in a week due to Asia's lethal floods.
“The influence of human-induced climate change on the intensification of heavy precipitation is well established, and this is a key element in the reported floodings.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“The influence of human-induced climate change on the intensification of heavy precipitation is well established, and this is a key element in the reported floodings.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal
Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive storms
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Include Aceh, north Sumatra, west Sumatra
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Floods in #Indonesia.
The animation shows the impact of severe inundation in the northeastern part of #Sumatra, comparing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 images from Aug. and Dec. 1, 2025.
Relentless monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have devastated parts of Asia. #ClimateEmergency
The animation shows the impact of severe inundation in the northeastern part of #Sumatra, comparing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 images from Aug. and Dec. 1, 2025.
Relentless monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have devastated parts of Asia. #ClimateEmergency
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Floods in #Indonesia.
The animation shows the impact of severe inundation in the northeastern part of #Sumatra, comparing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 images from Aug. and Dec. 1, 2025.
Relentless monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have devastated parts of Asia. #ClimateEmergency
The animation shows the impact of severe inundation in the northeastern part of #Sumatra, comparing #Copernicus #Sentinel2 images from Aug. and Dec. 1, 2025.
Relentless monsoon rains and tropical cyclones have devastated parts of Asia. #ClimateEmergency
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Deadly Sumatra flooding triggers memories of Indian Ocean tsunami reut.rs/48TMDLl
Deadly Sumatra flooding triggers memories of Indian Ocean tsunami
For fisherman Effendi Basyaruddin, the deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Aceh province over the past week have triggered traumatic memories of the day 21 years ago when he ran for his life as the ocean rose like a cliff face and smashed through his hometown.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Deadly Sumatra flooding triggers memories of Indian Ocean tsunami reut.rs/48TMDLl
Watching over my bird books…
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Watching over my bird books…
It's International #OpenAccessWeek!
At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It's International #OpenAccessWeek!
At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
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Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social