Mike Barker · @MikeBarker
1249 followers · 519 posts · Server ecoevo.social

We have a new paper in 's upcoming issue: GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data with Emily Sessa, Rishi Masalia, @arrigon, and Jessie Pelosi

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

#AppsPlantSci #bioinformatics #geneontology #iamabotanist

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cassi · @cassi
451 followers · 112 posts · Server urbanists.social

not some tropical locale, but an invasive phragmites thicket in Chicago

#botany #iamabotanist #invasivespecies #phragmites #chicago

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
9 followers · 3835 posts · Server mastodon.world

RT @M_Gostel
Do you dream of a career in ?

Have you applied for this position?

If not - what are you waiting for!? Get your application in by April 15 to ensure it’s reviewed at the end of this month!




twitter.com/m_gostel/status/16

#plant #conservation #botanyjobs #conservationjobs #iamabotanist #STEMcareers

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Jesse Miller · @texosporium
193 followers · 69 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Early spring wildflowers are blooming in the gorge. Crocidium multicaule, Olsynium douglasii, and Lomatium columbianum photographed at Catherine Creek in Klickitat Co, WA

#floraofwashington #iamabotanist

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Chuixiang (Tree) Yi · @TreeYi
10 followers · 1559 posts · Server mastodon.world

RT @koticneutralDNA
Hello science Twitter!

Please share with undergraduates that the @MortonArboretum's NSF 2023 REU application is LIVE! We have so many opportunities for undergraduates that want to be involved in plant science and advance tree science. Please share widely!

#iamabotanist

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
874 followers · 596 posts · Server mindly.social

7, 1877
Margarete von Wrangell, Baltic German Agricultural , is born.

She loved & .

Her career highlights include working w/ Marie , becoming the 1st female full at a German University, & running Germany's Institute for Plant Nutrition.

Her grave is inscribed:

I lived with the .
I put my ear to the ground
& it seemed to me as if the plants were to be able to share something about the of their growth.

#january #otd #chemist #plants #botany #curie #Professor #happy #secrets #iamabotanist

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
667 followers · 532 posts · Server mindly.social
Brian J. Enquist · @bjenquist
1245 followers · 445 posts · Server mastodon.social

RT @Botany_Bob@twitter.com

Deliciously long article on through the Cretaceous. Amazing discoveries by Else Marie Friis, a Swedish . Well known mentioned include @soltislab@twitter.com and others.
newyorker.com/science/elements

πŸ¦πŸ”—: twitter.com/Botany_Bob/status/

#angiosperm #evolution #paleobotanist #botanists #womeninstem #iamabotanist

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James Common · @CommonByNature
244 followers · 45 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

An interesting today with this wee patch of Small Nettle (Urtica urens) on a churned up road verge in the centre of NewcastleπŸŒ±πŸ”Ž

#WeekdayWeed #iamabotanist #nature #wildflowers

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Emily Rollinson · @ejrollinson
513 followers · 96 posts · Server spore.social

Just moved over to spore.social, so a new ☺

Hello!

I am a plant ecologist and an associate professor of biology at ESU, where I teach , , and . I post about , , and .

I work on a variety of topics in plant ecology, with a broad focus on community ecology, plant-insect interactions, and invasive species.

#introduction #intro #ecology #botany #stats #rstats #plants #research #education #iamabotanist

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UTK Herbarium · @utkherbarium
8 followers · 1 posts · Server ecoevo.social
James Common · @CommonByNature
226 followers · 42 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

A fantastic (if a tad chilly) seaside walk with this lovely bunch today. A cheeky practice for the BSBU . We didn't find too much but it was nice to see Wild Cabbage and some new faces! πŸŒ±πŸ”Ž

#NewYearPlantHunt #botany #iamabotanist #nature #wildflowers

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
507 followers · 438 posts · Server mindly.social

15, 1908
Joyce Winifred Vickery, , is born.

In 1960 a lottery was held to pay for the construction of the . After Bazil Thorne won 100,000 pounds, his eight-year-old son Graeme was kidnapped & murdered.

Joyce identified two on the boy's clothing that belonged to a & a Smooth outside the suspect's home.

#December #otd #australian #forensic #botanist #sydneyoperahouse #landscape #plants #false #cypress #arizona #planted #botany #gardening #garden #gardener #iamabotanist #forensics

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
468 followers · 386 posts · Server mindly.social

10, 1855
Henry Nicholas Ridley, , , & , is born.

The first Director of the , Henry single-handedly pioneered Malaya's industry. He encouraged to rubber & devised ways to for without harming the .

By 1920, produced over half the world's rubber.

And to think it all started with Henry collected from 22 ...

#December #otd #english #botanist #geologist #naturalist #singapore #botanicgarden #rubber #farmers #plant #trees #ingenious #tap #latex #tree #malaya #seeds #plants #iamabotanist #industry

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
466 followers · 383 posts · Server mindly.social

10, 1903
Howard Scott Gentry, American , is born.

The world's leading authority on , Howard went to every year to collect & traveled via .

The pursued & to make .

Howard once said:

I refused several times to become a desk man for USDA. It was a chance to cut out all the , but I told them,
"No, not me. I want to work with , not people. People are problems."

#December #otd #botanist #agaves #mexico #specimens #mule #usda #agave #wild #yam #family #arthritis #medicine #travel #plants #iamabotanist

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James Common · @CommonByNature
206 followers · 38 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

A pretty nifty now and I was chuffed to spot this Blue Fleabane (Erigeron acris) still in flower today on a crumbly local wall πŸŒ±πŸ”Ž

#WeekdayWeed #wildflowers #iamabotanist #nature

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James Common · @CommonByNature
206 followers · 38 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

A bit of a panic find for today's but here's a lovely patch of Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) overtaking a messy old planter...

🌻

#WeekdayWeed #wildflowers #nature #iamabotanist

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
436 followers · 337 posts · Server mindly.social

6, 1894
Jeremiah Bernard Brinton, & , died.

He loved & died in his in his called the .

On his last night on , he discussed a called "Good Night" & had a .

Good night thy now
And 'morrow a day comes round.

Once more, then let us
A & .
The shines over the housetops,
Our keeps us in sight.

#December #otd #quaker #doctor #botanist #botany #favoritechair #botanical #workroom #den #earth #poem #heartattack #heart #sleep #whisper #goodevening #goodnight #moon #lord #iamabotanist #poetry #garden

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
428 followers · 310 posts · Server mindly.social

4, 1893
John Tyndall, experimental , died.

In 1859, he discovered the effect - 3 years after the American , Eunice Foote.

Tyndall is for learning why the is : scattering through suspended in the creates the , which is sometimes referred to as .


#December #otd #irish #physicist #greenhouse #scientist #remembered #sky #blue #light #molecules #atmosphere #color #tyndall #gardening #garden #gardener #gardenersofmastodon #blueskies #trueblue #bluesclues #nature #flowers #botany #iamabotanist

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Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
427 followers · 308 posts · Server mindly.social