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Anne-Laure D 🌿
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Paleobotanist at @CNRSecologie.bsky.social & @umramap.bsky.social | (re)posts about fossil & living plants 🌲🌿🍂⛏️
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · Jul 15
New accepted paper from @thibault-durieux.bsky.social's PhD reporting various fungal remains within the stem of a fossil plant from the Permian of France 🌿🍄⛏️ #paleobotany #paleomycology
#fossil #botany
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From the paper: Wood of Sphenophyllum with some fungal hyphae in transverse section (arrows) From the paper : Detail of branching fungal hyphae within the wood of Sphenophyllum.
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 1d
I had the pleasure of taking part in The Mediterranean Researchers' Night #MEDNIGHT and organizing a workshop with
🍃Murielle Droissart @plantnet.bsky.social
🌴Anne-Laure Decombeix @aldpaleo.bsky.social
🌿Gaëlle Viennois
Grateful to Genopolys and to all who joined!🌸

#WomenInScience #Botany
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Sajad Alipour @sajadalipour98.bsky.social · 3d
Zagrosia persica (Hausskn.) Speta
Syn: Scilla persica
Asparagaceae
Iran
April 2025
Elevation 1800m
#scilla #Asparagaceae
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 5d
Just a 300 million year old fossil leaf from France to wish everyone a happy #FossilFriday ! 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany
A brownish fossil frond on a white rock
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 5d
A frond of Phlebopteris, a 230 million year old fern from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.

#FossilFriday #FernFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿
Phlebopteris frond on a grey mudstone, Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona.
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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Trinity College Dublin Herbarium
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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 9d
Another fern (Lygodium microphyllum) genome just published @pnas.org !

What a year for non-sed plant genomics!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The genome of the vining fern Lygodium microphyllum highlights genomic and functional differences between life phases of an invasive plant | PNAS
Functional and genomic studies on the differences between the gametophyte and sporophyte life phases of plants remain scarce, yet unraveling these ...
www.pnas.org
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Manuela Casasoli @manuelacasasoli.bsky.social · 11d
Do not miss it!
1st Place
2025 Small World in Motion Competition

"Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)"

Credit
Jay McClellan

🧪 #Science #SciComm #Nature #Photography
1- www.nikonsmallworld.com
2- www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 13d
I am pretty sure most people who follow my posts more or less know what bristlecone pine trees look like. There are so many iconic images from high elevation.

But at low elevation in the Rockies their form can get crazy. Here is a pic from one site I sampled a while back when I lived in Utah.
Image looks upslope showing sparse vegetation and trees and white rocks across bare red soil with a background of blue sky and clouds. A dead bristlecone tree in the foreground shows a conventional excurrent form whereas a live bristlecone tree in the foregroumd shows a decurrent form.
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 13d
Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild.

But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...
Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant
COLOMBO — In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List delivered a grim verdict on endemic Pini- Beraliya, the towering dipterocarp Doona ovalifolia (syn. Shorea ovalifolia) tree by categorizing it as “exti...
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 13d
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)

👉 doi.org/p6mt

@nicolasgentis.bsky.social @alexislicht.bsky.social
@cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @cerege.bsky.social
Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene
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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 14d
#AMAPwebinar September 25th, 14:30 (CET)
Astrid Holm ANDERSEN,PhD student, at Aarhus University in Denmark, présents
"Dark diversity"
amap.cirad.fr/fr/edit-even...
UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
amap.cirad.fr
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 14d
Matériel en préparation pour l'atelier "Les plantes dans tous leurs états: la feuille" à la Nuit des Chercheuses... Trouvez l'intrus! 🌿⛏️
Selection of rocks for an outreach event. Can you find the odd one out?
#paleobotany #fossil #botany
Several light and dark rocks, some with fossil leaves on them
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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · Sep 4
La Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025 aura lieu à Montpellier le 26 septembre avec notamment plusieurs ateliers sur les plantes et les forêts proposés par des membres de @umramap.bsky.social
🌿⛏️📱🌳🌲🔥🖥️

Infos et programme: www.genopolys.fr/evenements/n...
Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025 - Genopolys
Retrouvez la Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses le 26 septembre 2025 ! Ateliers, jeux, conférences, débats, expositions, speed-meetings et lectures de
www.genopolys.fr
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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 17d
This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane.
#paleontology #paleobotany #botany
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 19d
Prepping for the start of this year's teaching this #FossilFriday, starting with a story about Ginkgo leaves which fell in an Autumn 160 million years ago, and how the microscopic details of those fossil leaves can tell us about climate change.

⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌲💚
A slab covered in Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, inside a red plastic tray lined with bubble wrap A close-up of one of the Ginkgoites huttonii leaves, about 3cm across
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 19d
And some of the fossils have arrived in Montpellier just in time for #FossilFriday 🎉
Most of them are stems with their tissues and cells preserved in 3D. They will be prepared as thin-sections & observed under the microscope to find out what plants they belonged to 🌿⛏️🔬 #paleobotany
Fossil plants still wrapped in newspaper and bubble wrap Small fossil stem on a rock
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Hugo Bonnaudet @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social · 20d
Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive
#botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 20d
Cookie of the Day! 😍🌲💍

Huge cembran pine (>50 cm diam.) that grew in Tignes (at 2253 m asl) at a time this place was (almost) pristine! ⛰️ ⛷️

It was found in 1990 during the construction of a ski track when the digger fell into a pocket of peat! ⛏️

Lifespan: 320+ yrs between -2234 and -1914! ⏳
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 21d
JURASSIC NURSE LOG.

A 150 million year old Scottish conifer log shows the same processes of white fungal rot, insect boring, then growth of new seedlings seen in modern forests.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Research by @sandyheth.bsky.social & co-authors.
a woman is sitting in a car with her mouth open and a man is driving behind her .
Alt: Ellie Sattler is astonished in Jurassic Park
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Jenni Roche @jenniroche.bsky.social · 22d
An exciting fully-funded #PhD opportunity is available at Maynooth University on the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/defaul...
Moss-covered rock and Yew trees in an ancient woodland at Reenadinna, Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 24d
There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany
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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · 23d
Do you know what happens when you touch a carnivorous sundew plant?
If the touch is strong and large enough, a cytosolic calcium wave will spread from the site of touch throughout the whole plant, but if you only touch one tentacle (see post below), the calcium wave will be local and less intense.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 23d
With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.
Two-panel illustration showing sparse trees in a Cretaceous landscape (bottom) and densely forested Paleocene landscape.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 24d
📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰

I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!

Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍

I need your help! 🤍

To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 24d
Cysthus striatus - Fluted Bird’s Nest. I love these. 🍄📷 #FungiFriends
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