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Dr. Melanie Link-Perez
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Educator, botanist, reader.
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Dr. Catrina Adams, Botanical Society of America Director of Education, steps up last minute to give our plenary address. YOU are a role model and absolute icon! Thanks for this, and for all you've done to get PlantingScience K-12 outreach to 20 years! Here's to the next 20! #Botany2025
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July 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes

By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci

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The Pteridophyte Collections Consortium logo. On the left side, "Pteridophyte Collections Consortium" is on a green background. On the right side, there are two columns of 0's and 1's, with an image of a fern fiddlehead composed of 0's and 1's on top.
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there!

More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org

#Botany2025
Graphic promoting Botany 2025 in Palm Springs, CA, taking place July 25-31, 2025. The tagline reads "Botany Without Barriers" against a bright blue sky with tall palm trees. Logos of supporting societies are displayed along the bottom, including the Botanical Society of America, American Fern Society, ASPT, Society of Herbarium Curators, IAPT, and ABLS.
December 20, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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We have an important announcement about #Botany2025: due to unforeseen site renovations at the planned location in Tucson, the conference will have a new location---but the same dates, July 26-30, 2025!

For more details, see mailchi.mp/botany.org/b...
The Botany 2025 logo.
November 27, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Members of the Natural Science Collections Alliance Board of Directors have penned a Viewpoint article in BioScience about the #Duke #Herbarium decision.
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Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution
Natural history collections form the foundation of a comprehensive biodiversity infrastructure that supports research on the natural world. Like libraries,
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April 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Please take our 3-5 minute survey #SeeingPlants and repost widely! Thanks! #Botany #IamaBotanist #PlantJoy
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April 8, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Please take our 3-5 minute survey #SeeingPlants and repost widely! Thanks! #Botany #IamaBotanist #PlantJoy
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April 8, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Are you an early-career botanical scientist who is interested in the interface of science and public policy?

The BSA Public Policy Award supports attendance to the Congressional Advocacy Event, April 15-17 in Wash, DC.

Visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

Deadline is Feb. 1, 2024
A group of people can be seen standing in front of the capitol building in Washington, DC. Text: 2024 BSA Public Policy Award. Funding early-career botanists to attend the Congressional Visits Day in Washington, DC. Apply today. Share your botanical story with your elected members of Congress! Due 1 February 2024
December 15, 2023 at 3:12 PM
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On my way to Grand Rapids for the site visit and planning meeting for #Botany2024
October 12, 2023 at 11:46 AM
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Don't miss your opportunity to submit symposia, colloquia, and workshop proposals for #Botany2024!

Symposia/Colloquia Deadline: October 1, 2023
Workshop Deadline: November 1, 2023

To learn more visit:
botanyconference.org
September 21, 2023 at 9:48 PM
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Unveiling the logo for #Botany2024
September 12, 2023 at 10:42 PM
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“We found that after only 1 year, the 12 plant species that were planted during the greening actions supported an estimated 4.9 times more insect species than the two plant species comprising the pre-greening vegetation on site"
Large positive ecological changes of small urban greening actions
Urban greenspaces are known to mitigate the detrimental effects of urbanisation and support functionally diverse ecological communities, yet evidence of the ecological outcomes of urban greening rema....
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August 27, 2023 at 8:29 AM