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Our new exciting #planteducation paper is out in @Ecol_Evol🌾🌵🌱! “The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness” You can read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2e4pjzn6 🧵 For a summary of content: Photos: @AGeijerSimpson

Mega exciting contest yesterday in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026, finding the 4 semifinalists - teams from Aberdeen, Cambridge, Edinburgh & Anglia Ruskin Universities. Competition for best team names by public vote still open. Use QR code to go and vote.

Need more preparation for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 ? Think about rainforests. Not all are tropical. Some types are rare; where would you find temperate rainforest? Five suggestions on the picture but which is correct?

More teams and their amazing names for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. See 'I kissed a Burl, and I liked it' (Anglia Ruskin), 'Top of the Poplars' (Bristol) and 'Durham Dendrons' (Durham)! @ARU_Biology @BristolBioSci @DurBiol

More teams Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026. Pennywort Lane team Liverpool (past runner-up, had a few years rest!), We Havn't Got A Clusia from Portsmouth, You Betula Believe It Royal Holloway (for 2nd year) & Not-So-Hot Potatoes from Southampton (also past runner-up).

Who will be asking the questions in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 in February? Dr Martin Barker, Aberdeen (team #BUC2025 winners !), Professor Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, Leeds (team new arrival #BUC2025) & Dr Karen Bacon, Galway (first Irish team, #BUC2022)

Leaves of deciduous trees change colour dramatically in autumn/fall. How? Why? Leaves contain coloured molecules needed for photosynthesis to capture light and power food supply to tree. Colder weather and shorter day length triggers changes. #BUC2025

A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day! Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️

Around 70% Earth covered in sea. Some flowering plants live in it (e. g. Neptune grass, eel grass) and not easily seen. Others live at sea edges & disperse their seeds using it (e. g. coconuts, mangrove, sea beans). #SeedDispersal #BUC2025

Seeds monocots include grasses, carbohydrates for most people on Earth. Maize/Corn (Zea mays) cultivated for 9000 yrs started Mexico now worldwide. More produced than other grains. Food for humans, animals; materials chemical industry. Needs humans to scatter seeds. #BUC2025

Looks like scenery in Jurassic Park film, but is real temperate rainforest in Australia. Ferns and tree ferns. #BUC2025

Come and join us! Great opportunity for a field ecologist to join the UK’s Sustainable University of the Year 2025, host of the CIEEM Higher Education Programme of the Year (2024) MSc Ecological Survey Skills with Placement. jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP845/l...

We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free! 22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe 7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker 10 June: Broomrapes with @thorogoodchris1 Details & booking links here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/sharpe…

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 careers.kew.org/internal/vacan…

A new study has explored how we can use competition and engagement to empower plant-aware students and prevent the "ticking time bomb" of botanical skills debt. The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@BUCBotany). Read more bit.ly/3XtNzQw

HANDMADE ART/SCIENCE BOOKS leslietate.com/2019/03/25/680… 😍🍎💥THANX 4 RTS/LIKES!❤☀😍 @SebUrbanBotany @borlan_anamaria @Schaubwrites #scienceupfirst #illustration #artist #artistic #books #BookRecommendations #BooksWorthReading

SCIENCE AS ART leslietate.com/2019/03/25/680… @Real_Chatty_Cat @EarthAardwolf @K_KalantarZadeh @MouBisw87193085 @TaniaCLarking @borlan_anamaria @ClimartU @256Solomon @SebUrbanBotany @Csvich @lydia_massiah @OttavioMCMLXI @athenamkaiman @ErlijnG @Talkles53885697 @KavalAuthorActs @jaime631

For anyone who tried to identify the #GreatIrishGrassland plants in winter, here's a handy crib sheet from the ACRES booklet. Showing leaves from blades and simple leaves to more toothed and pinnate structures

@hannah_con_bio @BUCBotany @BotanyRNG Amazing to finally have it out! Well done to us and been great fun working on this!

It has been an honour to work on this with @SebUrbanBotany and the @BUCBotany @BotanyRNG team! 🥳🌿🪻 The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students - Hall - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Late arrivals for Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 @angliaruskin @ARU_Biology and University of Leeds @SebUrbanBotany ! Also first of team pictures - Team Xylem Asylum from Clwb Phyte Club at University of Aberystwyth @ibers_aber . Many more team pictures to follow!!