Nick Schultz

@EllesOrchids @PhyloPic @DuckSwabber ooooh yeah

@PhyloPic @DuckSwabber Ping @nschult2

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@EllesOrchids Field work...

I just found out that my sister thought there was a specific field I went to whenever I said I was "in the field". I've been going to this same field for the past 17 years. This field contains my honours sites, phd sites,landcare sites... it never occurred to me she thought that!

Well played, KK.

@anna_kosovac instagram.com/mount_stitch_u…

Does anyone on here have any recommendations for Melbourne-based artists that do visual art with environmental/climate change themes?

@SMWadgymar In my course it is 'How have plants adapted to their environments?'

@dnug Bugger. Is there much refuge in surrounding areas at the moment?

Very wet years are bad news for grassland species that need space between grass tussocks, inc Plains-wanderers and dunnarts. Recent flooding rains have triggered huge amounts of weedy annual grass growth, shifting large expanses of habitat into dense, unsuitable states

@Tom_Swann @megcevans Just call your extinction offset broker

@EllesOrchids Noooooo

Maybe I shouldn't have played this while sitting at my research desk. "Impact of inbreeding versus random mating on the mean fitness of a population" - Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations, Frankham et al.

@Lagomarsino_L They are also cute and cool and threatened by changing climates.

@Lagomarsino_L They are also important for primary succession - I.e. the formation of ecosystems from scratch (after a volcano or glacial retreat), to start the process of soil formation etc, so the future of the planet will at some stage depend on lichen.

I've been tasked to hype up lichens to a funding agency— this is a bit out of my comfort zone, so I turn to you, #Botany and #Lichen Twitter, for inspiration: why are lichens the absolute best and can studying them make the world a better place?

Was lucky enough to see Nick Cave at Hanging Rock tonight. Pretty amazing show.

@kyliesoanes @gusgoswell @RosGleadow 16 cells undergoing meiosis give rise to 64 spores. Don't know why I like that detail. I think cos it takes what you can see with your eyes down to the cell level.

@kyliesoanes @gusgoswell @RosGleadow Yes for sure Kylie. It's a fern and each circle is called a sorus (plural sori). Each sorus is a bunch of smaller sporangia. Each sporangium will (ideally) produce and relase 64 spores.

@R_C_OConnor @Gerard_Sapes @danielleemarias @inkscape I love this for when you are presenting the same correlation but for different taxa... Include the vector image and save the reader from reading the figure caption or labels. more of it for us visual learners please.

When making a conceptual diagram for a manuscript, where do y'all get plant/tree images from? Or do you draw/make your own? #plantphysiology #plantecophys #ecology

@RachelJStandish @danielleemarias @seanmhoban I second Ian (which always makes me laugh). It's probably low tech, but i then put my diagrams together in powerpoint. Works for me.

@danielleemarias @seanmhoban ian symbol library is a fantastic freely available resource ian.umces.edu/media-library/…

@unAustraliana @alicektg @evelynaraluen Foe by Coetzee is in this category too

Before you all leave twitter: what proportion of novels about writers and writing are actually good? Excellent exampes welcome, so are terrible ones.

@loveyou_leafyou @DragnetGlobal @joeatkinsonii If only! Haven't been up that way in a while, but hoping to get as far as Scotia soon. Your site looks like a great addition to DRAGnet

@nschult2 @DragnetGlobal @joeatkinsonii Fantastic landscape through there. Recommend a drive up North

Fun day setting up our @DragnetGlobal site 🥳 after lots of planning and effort to get all our equipment 1200km inland, nice seeing it done. Looking forward to coming out here for another 5yr

@tanya_cheeke @CarrotWarrior_ Would love to read that!

Congratulations to ⁦@CarrotWarrior_⁩ for her fantastic seminar today - she passed her MS thesis defense with flying colors! Keep an eye out for her manuscript to come…

@loveyou_leafyou @DragnetGlobal @joeatkinsonii Amazing. Spent a lot of time around Nyngan-Cobar-Wilcannia. Haven't been up that way though.

@nschult2 @DragnetGlobal @joeatkinsonii Far NW NSW, about an hour north of Broken Hill at the Fowlers Gap Research Station 🤗