Robyn Powell

@mightyeiky @KingstonUni @RoyalSocBio Wow! Well done! Congratulations 🎉

I am delighted to have been awarded the Top Project Award at @KingstonUni from the @RoyalSocBio for my bioscience project. 🥳

Poaching and illegal trade is a major challenge to succulent plants in South Africa. As plant lovers, the #BotSoc community CAN do something about this. Join us for our fourth #BotSocSA plant #conservation #webinar, 'Save our succulents', & register here: bit.ly/ConservationWe…

The types of advisors as depicted through Disney characters: a thread.

So, realised today that my cameras have been out recording post-fire dune recovery for a whole year. So, for anyone interested, here's a year of plants doing what they do (after being burnt to the ground) in 3.5 minutes: youtu.be/q4sKSQQqaoo

Dioscorea elephantipes (elephant’s foot) - unique plants of the succulent Karoo. This one is long living and used medicinally plus it has a history of being used for making bread. #medicinalplants #indigenousknowledge #PlantsofSA #iamabotanist @BlkBotanistsWk #plantsarecool

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden was established in 1913, and was the first botanical garden in the world to be devoted to the indigenous flora of a single country #BiodiversityForLife

Biome stability is the strongest predictor of diversity; an example from the Cape of South Africa. @KewScience @BiologyatYork @UCT_news @SANBI_ZA @TZBirder @ResAltwegg pnas.org/content/early/…

Great job @CamUnivMuseums: "opportunity for an early-career researcher with an interest in public engagement... exploring the legacies of empire and colonialism within our collections... opening the history to interrogation from a range of perspectives" jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26503

@drklglenno @vinita_gowda Oh thanks! It was nice to see it published 🤓 been expanding on it and including a comparison to Crassulaceae with my MSc student @botanythingy 😬 some very interesting results 🤔😉

@drrobynpowell @vinita_gowda Unrelated - but congrats on your endopolyploidy paper that just came out (or at least across my desk), Robyn! We've added it to our lab meeting line up 👍😁

THIS is something!!! Which ivory tower did we tweet this from?

Two competing version of #PAFTOL's #Plant Tree of Life graphic! The original (L) and a radical re-design (R) by @mossMatters. Which do you prefer?! Vote in poll below and tweet us why! #Botany2020 #Angiosperms353

@drklglenno @vinita_gowda Yes! This is particularly true during the ‘postodocing’ years as I have been at several institutions in the past few years, so have ended up using my gmail account so that I can keep track of all the correspondence!

@vinita_gowda Right? I still can't believe that. What if your uni email fills up with an email with more than one attachment? There are so many reasons why folks wouldn't use their institutional email.

If Rosalind Franklin had been male, she'd be remembered not as someone who was screwed over by colleagues who stole her data, but as the co-discovered of the structure of DNA and co-winner of the Nobel Prize.

"One lesser known threat facing South Africa’s flora is poaching, something normally associated with the illegal killing of animals such as rhinos and elephants. Plant poaching may be for medicinal use, the horticultural trade or any other purpose..." 😡 overbergrenosterveld.org.za/plundering-bio…

PlantZAfrica was started in 2000 and now contains over 1850 Plant of the Week articles, with two new Plant of the Week articles added every week. pza.sanbi.org

Very excited to be part of @The_RHS Careers in Horticulture, showcasing the diversity of roles out there! 👨🏾‍💻🌿 rhs.org.uk/education-lear… With so many ways plants bring joy to our working lives, it's no better time to be a botanist! 👩🏽‍🌾 #RHSTattonPark #MyGreenOffice

I always get messages from young black students worried that science isn’t for them as they don’t know any scientists that look like them. If you’re a black scientist, a mathematician, a physicist, an engineer, in STEM, then comment below. I want to amplify your voice! 🧬🔬👩🏽‍🏫

@ravenscimaven reminding me of youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5… :)

Threats to #Renosterveld include: agricultural development, invasive alien species AND also, #poaching. How has this become a problem? And what can we do to help the conservation community combat plant poaching? bit.ly/3g0ULMx

Please be on the lookout! It's happening right in front of your eyes! Collecting wild plants or animals without permission, is a crime and it is happening everywhere. You can help us to prevent this and protect our biodiversity. Read more at bit.ly/2Cpt3uk #CapeNature