YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)
@yeewenlow.bsky.social
Malesian botanist based in 🇸🇬, enjoys gardening, coffee, wine and music; started cycling, birding and a big fan of Paphiopedilum and Pekingese dog. *All posts are personal*
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YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)
@yeewenlow.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Hello 👋👋👋 I’m a new user of 🦋 and is slowly migrating from X to this wonderful platform 🌈
Congrats to @maxfontaine.bsky.social and teammates from @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for winning the Botanical University Challenge 2025 🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉 WELL DONE ABERDEEN ✋
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Congrats to @maxfontaine.bsky.social and teammates from @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for winning the Botanical University Challenge 2025 🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉 WELL DONE ABERDEEN ✋
Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔
August 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔
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Clever ecological strategies
📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Clever ecological strategies
Reposted by YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)
It's a weird tree anyway and then it's also a Eugenia in a Syzygium majority area
📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
June 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's a weird tree anyway and then it's also a Eugenia in a Syzygium majority area
📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
June 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
“Caring, empathy and compassion are evolutionary advantages that compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism.” - Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist (Nov 2004)
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Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist: ‘Empathy and compassion compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism’
The American researcher talks to EL PAÍS about how walking upright was the starting point for our brain enlargement and our pro-social nature
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December 3, 2024 at 12:56 AM
“Caring, empathy and compassion are evolutionary advantages that compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism.” - Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist (Nov 2004)
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Reposted by YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)
Two #ultramafic species of #Syzygium #Myrtaceae from the #Phillipines described as new to science by researchers from University of the Philippines Los Baños and Diliman #OpenAccess #EJBotany @RBGE_Science today: rbge.cc/3Vdaoa3
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Two #ultramafic species of #Syzygium #Myrtaceae from the #Phillipines described as new to science by researchers from University of the Philippines Los Baños and Diliman #OpenAccess #EJBotany @RBGE_Science today: rbge.cc/3Vdaoa3
Hello 👋👋👋 I’m a new user of 🦋 and is slowly migrating from X to this wonderful platform 🌈
November 25, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Hello 👋👋👋 I’m a new user of 🦋 and is slowly migrating from X to this wonderful platform 🌈