Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ludwigia fruits are bonkers 48316
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For this #FossilFriday a section of the early #fern Diplolabis from the early Carboniferous showing beautifully preserved tissues 🌿⛏️ (proposed reconstruction from doi.org/10.1016/j.re...) #Paleobotany #botany 0166
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From ice age to present: Clonal expansion & genetic variation in the world's oldest #conifer stand New #AJB research by James Marthick, Andrew Phipps, Gregory Jordan, Daiki Takahashi, Yoshihisa Suyama & James Worth doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics 066
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy to have participated to the XII EPPC in Münster, the first conference together with my two Doctoral Students, and the whole paleobotanical Senckenberg Frankfurt team! I am so proud of the great work that my students have presented! 171
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿The Conversation France @france.theconversation.com · 30/09/2026Comment les arbres ajustent activement leur posture pour rester le plus droits possibledlvr.itComment les arbres ajustent activement leur posture pour rester le plus droits possibleLes arbres perçoivent leur courbure et la rectifient activement grâce à un bois spécial dit « bois de tension », de manière analogue au contrôle postural des animaux. 11811
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Plusieurs événements sont prévus dont une exposition préparée avec des scientifiques de @isemevol.bsky.social, de @umramap.bsky.social et du CEFE Lien: echappeesinattendues.cnrs.fr/event/exposi... 154
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Given the success of the Primer series, @ijpsjournal.bsky.social has put out a new CFP with a target date of December 16 2026 for submitting proposals. You can read all the details here: (4/n) www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp... #PlantSciencejournals.uchicago.eduInternational Journal of Plant Sciences: Call for Proposals 142
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Congratulations to @arteanest.bsky.social for her New Phytologist Prize in Plant Biology for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 ATBC Annual Meeting in Xishuangbanna, China. @umontpellier.bsky.social 084
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026IAPT Grants Program 2027 www.iaptglobal.org/grants 036
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Jasmin LaBotaniste @labotaniste.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Arctostaphylos alpina glowing bright red in the autumn sunlight 🌞🍂 #wildflowers #botany 0113
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Carlos Góis-Marques @cgoismarques.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A brief photo summary of what happened last week at the XII European #Palaeobotany and #Palynology Conference in Münster, Germany. It was really nice to meet you there! :) 072
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Describing the cones & seeds of extinct #conifer species---using CT and 3D visualization---that co-existed with the dinosaurs 150 million years ago in what is today the state of Utah. New #AJB research by @mariahmhowell.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #paleobotany #fossils 1166
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It was a great week at the 12th European #Palaeobotany & #Palynology Congress, with very interesting presentations and chats. A special mention to all the excellent early career speakers in our session & the paleoart session organized by @lepidodendron.bsky.social and @palaeojules.bsky.social 🌿⛏️ 1/2 2127
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Alexis Rastier 🌿 @alexisrastier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What an extraordinary journey to Münster (Germany) for the European Paleobotanical and Palynological Conference (EPPC) 🌿 I was honored to present my research at the Early Career Symposium on a new whole-plant reconstruction of a rhacophytalean fern from Bjørnøya.🇳🇴⚒️ #Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern #EPPC 1175
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It was a great week at the 12th European #Palaeobotany & #Palynology Congress, with very interesting presentations and chats. A special mention to all the excellent early career speakers in our session & the paleoart session organized by @lepidodendron.bsky.social and @palaeojules.bsky.social 🌿⛏️ 1/2 2127
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 60 million year old angiosperm leaf impression - Dryophyllum dewalquei - from Overbroek, Belgique. On display in the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels. #FossilFriday 🌏⚒🔬🌱🌳 16110
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions. 540663
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🌿 Congratulations to two award recipients from our Paleobotanical Section! Michael Cichan Research Grant: Xiaoqing Zhang (Field Museum, Chicago) Isabel Cookson Award: Morgan Mathison (Univ. of Kansas) Two wonderful contributions to paleobotany! 👏 #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW 053
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botany One @botany.one · 18/09/2026An Unusual Plant and Its Even More Unusual Dispersers www.botany.one/an-unusual-p... Land hermit crabs and cockroaches may help disperse the seeds of Balanophora fungosa, adding another surprising twist to the unusual ecology of these parasitic plants. #Botany #PlantSciencebotany.oneAn Unusual Plant and Its Even More Unusual DispersersLand hermit crabs and cockroaches may help disperse the seeds of Balanophora fungosa, adding another surprising twist to the unusual ecology of these parasitic plants. 094
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Interesting fungal find: This parasitic plant fungus (Exobasidium karstenii) lives exclusively on bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) and makes some of the leaves much broader, and purple. The green and the purple leaves here are the same plant! #naturephotography #fungifriends 49414
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🌿 Congratulations to L. Alejandro Giraldo (Penn State), recipient of the 2026 Remy, Remy, and Winslow Award from the BSA Paleobotanical Section, for the best published paper in paleobotany or palynology! 🎉 Learn more: www.botany.org (click Awards) #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW 092
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The paper a lot of our lab (@sannie-zishanfu.bsky.social @sandyheth.bsky.social @anajusagasti.bsky.social) contributed to on the indepedent origins of the endodermis with Tom Beeckman and Xilian Yang is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comIndependent origins of endodermis in lycopsids and euphyllophyte rootsThe endodermis is a vital barrier tissue in plants, but its origin, evolution, and homologies across land plants remain ambiguous. Here, we implement … 0229
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Leslie (Stanford University), the first-ever recipient of the BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award! His work spans paleobotany, phylogenetics, & structural botany. Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW 0113
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🌿❄️ How cold is too cold for Arctic shrubs? New research led by @gmelodie.bsky.social shows how unusual “blue rings” in shrub growth rings can reveal when cold disrupts wood development, including the thermal thresholds at which different Arctic shrub species are affected. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 0103
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The programme of the 12th European #Palaeobotany & #Palynology Congress is now online for participants. 🗣️🌿⛏️ Our symposium for early career researchers has ✨33 talks✨ and will run for 1.5 day! Thanks to everyone who submitted an abstract & to the panel members who will award the prizes. #paleobotany 175
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Kelly Pfeiler @kpfeiler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our new paper is out, check it out! It is callitroid (Cupressaceae) cone from the Cretaceous of Antartica! 1125
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So marcescent leaves are a thing of desert monocots, right? Not so fast. They also occur in tropical montane habitats, which are both dry and cold. Look at the mind-blowing skirts on Dendrosenecio kilimanjari from Mt. Kilimanjaro. 📷: David Bygott CCBYNCSA2 #marcescent #Asteraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 78113
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This week, let’s look at plants with skirts. 💃 The “skirts” are the dried, dead leaves that some plants retain rather than drop. The Cuban petticoat palm, Copernicia macroglossa, is a classic example. #Arecaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 25814
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A little early for #wildflowerhour, had such a lovely day yesterday visiting these little beauties! It was wonderful to see that the Autumn Lady’s Tresses had finally emerged after all the rain, always a bittersweet moment, the last orchid of the year to flower 🥰 310511
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Late in the season, but now the rain has arrived it's time to put out some new croziers. Dicksonia antarctica #fernFriday 1173
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hydraulic function of medullary bundles in a tropical root climber New #AJB research by Sandrine Isnard, Damien Longepierre & Taylor Feild doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Melastomataceae @umramap.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Ezequiel Vera @ezequielvera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026New work on Palmoxylon stems from the uppermost Cretaceous Chorrillo Formation of southern Patagonia. Free to download for some time authors.elsevier.com/a/1njHsiVLDY... #paleobotany 072
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Fall will soon start in the Northern hemisphere and in the temperate zones deciduous plants are going to shed their leaves 🍃🍁. But how can we know about leaf deciduousness in "deep time" ecosystems, tens to hundreds of millions of years ago? #paleobotany #botany 🧪 🧵🌿⛏️ 46329
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Société Botanique de France @societebotaniquedefrance.fr · 03/09/2026L’ensemble de nos précédents webinaires, y compris ceux de Michel Boudrie consacrés aux Ptéridophytes, sont disponibles sur la playlist dédiée de notre chaîne YouTube : www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comWebinaires SBF - YouTube 043
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Thanks to @scishow.bsky.social for their new video covering our research on Prototaxites, really great work here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gFg...youtube.comThose Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After AllYouTube video by SciShow 22214
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Impresentable @kathdrib.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Publicamos este trabajo super lindo sobre unos helechos del Triásico de San Juan #Paleobotany #paleontology #PaleoSky #Botany www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 085
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Wiley Ecology, Environment and Sustainability @wileyecology.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Apply for the @newphyt.bsky.social #TansleyMedal! 🏆 The award recognises an outstanding contribution to #PlantScience by an early career researcher. Are you eligible, or do you know someone who is? Find out more and apply 👇 bit.ly/4xqJ5u6 Deadline: 1 November 2026! 022
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We are getting VERY close 13,000 silhouettes! www.phylopic.org/imagesphylopic.orgAll Silhouette Images on PhyloPicBrowse all the free silhouette images in PhyloPic. 210835
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a cute little fossil fern for this #FossilFriday. This picture was taken by illuminating the fossil with light in the visible spectrum and capturing the infrared radiation emitted from the specimen! 0277
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Open Palaeontology @openpalaeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Open Palaeontology has a new look 💜 Our brand-new website is live! Same mission as ever: Diamond Open Access palaeo research — free to publish, free to read, for everyone. Come explore ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org #PaleoSky #OpenAccess #Palaeontologyopenpalaeo.orgCahiers de l'ILTPOpen Palaeontology is an international Diamond Open Access journal promoting open science in palaeontology 1138
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Sajad Alipour @sajadalipour98.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Lathyrus formosus (Steven) Kenicer = Pisum formosum (Steven) Alef. Fabaceae Mazandaran, Iran June 2026 Elevation 2880m #Fabaceae 2469
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Double Claw is the apt common name for the fruit of Proboscidea parviflora. When green, the fruits look like okra, but the epicarp is shed & the two carpels separate, forming a double claw that hooks onto passing legs & feet. 📷: Franck Carey CCBYNCSA2 #Martyniaceae #epizoochory #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 14310
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · 25/08/2026🌿 A new lycophyte species, Didiclis pseudobisulcata, has been discovered and described from northern Thailand and southwest China: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.278.204624 052
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The fruits of Uncarina grandidieri are diabolical. Each stout prickle has, at its tip, backward-pointing teeth, like fangs (zoom in to see ‘em). Once this fruit attaches to an animal, it’s not coming off easily. 😳😱 #Pedaliaceae #epizoochory #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 34812
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Alex Quinlan @fervorforferns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Maybe sharing that I've finally published my masters research will get me to use bluesky more often? A good #fernfriday for the proof to come out! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...academic.oup.comFerns on ferns: gametophyte assemblages on tree ferns reveal associations with accidentally epiphytic fernsAbstractBackground and Aims. Tree ferns are substantial hosts for epiphytes, often hosting distinct communities that are considerably different from other 0155
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Ellie Loew-Mendelson @ellliieee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Are your plants CAM suspicious?!?! If you've ever wondered if your plant friends are using CAM... now could be your time to find out 🍀 -- 🍀 we're screening plants for CAM and would love your input for places to look! Respond here: forms.gle/kUsRPqmaBMtc...forms.gleAre your plants CAM suspicious?Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin... 052
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A 145 million year old Cycadeoidea, the trunk of a bennettite (extinct seed plants superficially similar to cycads). From the Portland Dirt Bed, and in the "museum" of Queen Victoria's children at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday 🔬🌱⚒🌏🌴🦕🍦 0276
Reposted by Anne-Laure D 🌿Martin Bouda @boudalab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New PhD opportunity with Bernd Berauer and myself within the @greenrobust.de cluster @unihohenheim.bsky.social ! 3-yr funded position to measure and model gas exchange at leaf, plant, and canopy scale. Applications can be submitted until *September 15*, at: jobs.uni-hohenheim.de/jobposting/2... 067
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A beautiful section in a stem of the seed plant Calamopitys embergeri, from the early Carboniferous of France 🌿⛏️ The section shows the central vascular tissues (wood etc., V) and the cortex (C). See alt-text for more details. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamop... #FossilFriday #paleobotany 0268