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There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Saw my first primrose of the season in Staithes, N Yorkshire this week 💛💚 #WildflowerHour

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Have you been enjoying the academic articles, art, reviews, and poetry from our first two issues? Then read this thread, donate and/or share with your network to keep Plant Perspectives #OpenAccess Please share widely! As always, find the link in our bio 🌿

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The deadline to apply for the 2025 PLANTS grants is coming soon on March 1, 2025! The PLANTS grant is a travel award for underrepresented undergraduates to attend #Botany2025. It offers special programming and includes registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

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One for the echino-nerds this #FossilFriday This nice ~10 cm #crinoid stem from the lower #jurassic Cleveland Ironstone, N Yorkshire, UK. #geology #paleontology

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Found some beautifully preserved horsetails from the Whitby plant beds! Ravenscar group Middle Jurassic (aalenian stage) #FossilFriday #paleontology #paleobotany #geology

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If you're struggling to understand how eugenics impacts daily life right now, I recommend going back to the historical records to see how the eugenics movement took off 100 years ago. We need to be able to recognize it when we see it, so that we can push back and resist. 1/20

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Always lovely to see gorse in flower and extra lovely when near the sea 💛 Enjoyed today's chilly beach walk in Scarborough. #WildflowerHour

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A thread on the RainDrop #LongTermExperiment. This is an important #LTE because we helped it set up. The goal is to investigate how calcareous grassland will respond to #ClimateChange. As a key event in our history, you can read about it in @jwsilvertown.bsky.social's blog: bit.ly/415X2ji 🌎

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Went to check up on the cute little colt's-foot I saw two months ago in Whitby. It's still there and so many more are popping up along the beach!

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Another cute middle #jurassic plant frond #fossil from yesteryear #geology #paleontology

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#fossilfriday this massive plant fossil in the middle #jurassic Ravenscar group, N Yorks. Longest branch is ~1.5 m long. #geology #paleontology

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This fossil plant is hands down the best fossil I've come across in the wild 🌿 Both @geologyjohnson.bsky.social and I squealed with excitement at this fossil find! Look at the detail 😍 Whitby plant beds, Ravenscar group Middle Jurassic (aalenian stage) #FossilFriday #paleontology #geology

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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

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Welcome to our Bluesky account! For those of you who don’t know us, watch this video to learn more bit.ly/ECTLongView & subscribe to our newsletter bit.ly/ECTNews For the familiar faces, see our starter pack go.bsky.app/SvajZFx Do you want to be added to it? Message us🌍

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My first attempt at a paleoplanet. This is Earth around 3.2 billion years ago. The rocks I study are from the Moodies group which was being deposited on the edge of Vaalbara which is the lower continent. The other continent is called Ur. Some artistic license taken. #Geology #Paleontology

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Late one afternoon this week we were surprised by an expanse of Snowdrops! Is there anything more joyful than a Snowdrop carpet, especially when it was unexpected 🥰😍 #WildflowerHour

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Happy #NationalSnowdropDay 🤍💚 Did you know that the organic compound Galantamine was first extracted from snowdrop bulbs about 80 years ago and is used to treat Alzheimer's disease?

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🌱🌺🌳🌾🌿🍄‍🟫🌍 What are the prizes in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 ? The best one, available to all who take part, is the Third Student Botany Festival in August at Cambridge University Botanic Garden @camplantsci.bsky.social See the video about last year's. youtu.be/OMl0bHKXvxs?...

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How I'm currently coping with the state of the world, flare up, caring responsibilities and a big work deadline 🫠 Trying to find the small joys in colourful things 🧡

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Scientists: are you talking to your lab groups, students, trainees? Cuz they are not OK. It seems we need to go back to the basics… journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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This is such a cool plant environmental history project! Herbarium specimens hold so many plant stories of the past that can be used track changes of plant life, understand the environmental history of an area and build stronger people-plant connections. news.leeds.gov.uk/news/museum-...

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Lovely to see the snowdrops starting to emerge 🤍 #WildflowerHour

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The Lye Valley, in the heart of East Oxford, England is a fen and internationally rare habitat. It's home to rare plants and insects, and its peat acts as a huge carbon store. Find out more here: www.friendsoflyevalley.org.uk/index.html #WorldWetlandsDay 🌍 📷 Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)

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Spectrum 10k has been permanently halted. A historic win for autistic communities, which will likely have a significant impact on how research funding is allocated in the future. Nothing about us without us! (ht/ @drstevenkapp.bsky.social) www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/spe...

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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

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Alright so to brighten the mood... Who's ready for another iteration of 28 Days, 28 Black Plant Scientists/Botanists? 💪🏾🌱 For those that want more background here's a link from last yr. While I search through names myself, I'm happy to hear any nominations via DM/email! plantae.org/2024-black-h...

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In other library news, they have a new piece of art on the stairs! 🐡 I very rarely see any signs of science locally, which was one of many reasons why it was particularly lovely to see

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Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Results of our 14th #NewYearPlantHunt are out! >3K hunters, 647 wild & naturalised species in bloom, c25K records: plans afoot to extend the Hunt across rest of year. Huge thanks to all plant hunters! Summary/ press release here: bsbi.org/download/45297 Longer report here: bsbi.org/download/45290

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Book of choice for me today.

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If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!

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So I see Cheltenham Science Festival is sponsored by multiple arms companies... wonderful stuff. Just what we need from a charity meant to serve the public good.

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Ready to level up your skills in 2025? Join the “Pathways to Open Science” series by @official-bweems.bsky.social, Black in Marine Science & Openscapes, starting next Thursday! Build data science skills, community, and more! Register (free) openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-... 💻✨ #OpenScience

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I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

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#PortfolioDay I'm Brooke. A scientist who studied billion year old mud and fossils, and does natural history, science fiction, horror, and fantasy illustration. brookejohnsonillustration.carrd.co

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I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I’m not really one for New Year resolutions, but since Christmas I’ve been inspired by #WildflowerHour to take a little time, most days, to paint a small flower I’ve seen in bloom during the week. I just finished my first page and it’s so satisfying and colourful 😍🌺

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Cold reflections. Partially frozen flood water in Port Meadow, Oxford.

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