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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am so excited for this omg. The End of Everything was amazing (if not existentially crisis inducing) Definitely preordering :)

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Don't miss the BSA Incoming President's Special Lecture by Chris Martine at 6pm in Tucson E-F! "When it comes to community, it's #PlantPeopleFTW" — we couldn't agree more! #Botany2026

Group photo of past and present individuals who have worked in Chris Martine's lab.

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Big #Botany2026 Monday for the lab: great posters by @botanicalbecks.bsky.social and Maria Aguilar (her 1st!) and awesome talk by new Burpee postdoc @devanijolman.bsky.social on her PhD work at ODU. #plantpeopleFTW

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Turns out I got busy and forgot about posting for a while! Have a beetle! Lucanus capreolus, the reddish-brown stag beetle (love some accurate description), is commonly found in the eastern US. Watercolor, first time using the good arches paper, and wow, what a difference. Plants to come soon :)

Watercolor illustration of Lucanus capreolus, the reddish-brown stag beetle. The beetle is a rich mahogany color with dark, horned mandibles and illustrated like a pinned specimen on a white background

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I love unexpected natural history! I noticed my Penstemon were trapping flies on their inflorescences, looked it up, and found that someone who appeared to have done a PhD in retirement wrote a whole dissertation on this and used radioactive fruit flies to show N/P transfer from flies to the seeds!🌍

Photo of horticultural variety of Penstemon digitalis in my back yard. Each flower has 1-5 tiny flies trapped by hairs on the outside of the pale pink inflorescences.

Screenshot of dissertation title page "The function of insect-trapping by Penstemon digitalis and Cirsium discolor" by Patricia Ann Thomas, who notably received her BS in 1950, MD in 1953, and submitted this dissertation to the Dep of EEB at UIUC in 1988.

Screenshot of a section of the dissertation abstract. My highlighted passages read "studies using radioactive fruit flies revealed digestion, uptake, and transport of nutrients from fruit flies on the sticky traps" and "The amounts of N and P in the captured insects were sufficient to supply most (80-100%) of the N and P in the seeds of P. digitalis"

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I had a lot of fun working on this piece! Thank you for the chance to share a little of my story :)

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We are so glad you presented at #SICB Portland & we hope everyone stays tuned this week on the @sicbjournals.bsky.social (ICB) blog for your #Art in Bio blog 🙌 ( @martinebotany.bsky.social lab) #botany #artist

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thank you! I'll be presenting an updated version at Botany this year, which will include work from my upcoming field season in May. I've loved reading your Penstemon work! I've fallen so hard for this study system, and I've been excited to work on my little northeast penstemon group :)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's sort of crazy to think that six years ago, almost on a whim and with lots of support from Zach, I decided to go back to school to study plants after being a pretty uninspired student through high school. Here's to continuing to great things! ((Illegal photo from Botany))

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am so, so excited and honored to announce that my poster was selected as the winner of the Best Student Presentation for a Poster for the Division of Botany at the SICB 2026 conference this past January.

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ok bluesky, we're introducing students to data visualization this and next week. Can I see your best data viz comics? :)

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Judith Monroe @judithmonroe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

When everything feels uncertain, I look to the rhythms of the land. They teach me to trust what I can’t yet see. Pause for a moment today. Notice what’s quietly growing around you, and within you. #hopeinthewaiting #payattention #gentlerhythms

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The susquehanna is gorgeous today. Look at those formations

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Not sciencey or nature adjacent like I typically post here, but a piece I finished yesterday. Sometimes, I feel cold and invisible, and I just want to be warm Watercolor and gouache

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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 23/01/2026

If you still have TikTok and haven't agreed to the new terms yet, they are now collecting data on immigration status, gender preference, orientation and such. That's what got me to uninstall it, although I should have done it much sooner! Shout-out to @jessmaddox.bsky.social for breaking it down

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 22/01/2026

People are mad about the variability of the weather storm predictions as if the government didn't just absolutely gut the National Weather Service

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Its the first day of spring semester at Bucknell! What's blooming in the Museum collection greenhouse?! We've got orchids(That Oncidium 👀), camellia, begonia,...

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The world is big, frustrating, and angry right now. I've decided I'm fighting this year with creativity. I'm going to relish in my work and try to put some good things forward into the world while finding ways to protest and fight back. I got Poscas for the first time, though, so for now: memes

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Rudbeckia sp. in Prismacolor pencils. Colored pencil hard haha. First fully colored traditional piece of the year, minus my fun conference doodles I did over the week at SICB in Portland. To many more!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Thank you!!! I wanted to experiment with visual design with a friend of mine and I'm very happy with this iteration :)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That is such a compliment, I love them haha

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today at @sicb.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social told us bulbs were the worms from tremors so I had to do a quick lunch doodle (seriously neat talk thought)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Come stop by P40 and chat with me about an east coast Penstemon species - Penstemon canescens! I'll be presenting the early stages of my masters thesis and would love to bounce morphology research methods off people!

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm stoked to talk about this (and some other cool things these plants do) Tuesday at 10:45 in the Sex Across Origins complementary session in B113 at #SICB2026. #PlantsAreCoolToo #SICBplants #PUI #SICBPUI

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The males in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of boldness and aggression! This was inspired by their next steps slide where they theorized if it could be due to factors such as resource limitations, spatial patchiness, or natal environment. Or maybe the aggressive birds prefer burned habitat

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I'm actually a botany ms student who dabbles in art :) im so excited to see what the invited artists come up with!

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Bluesky pls enable post editing so I can fix my phone typos 😭

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today at SICB I listened to a fabulous talk about how Juncos behavioral plasticity in post-wildfire coniferous forests by Yiran "Ryann" Su and I've had this image stuck I'm my head all day inspired by their finding that birds in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of aggression

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Had so much fun making this with Ryan! Almost all of the species are Oregon natives! :) Penstemon ovatus, Bombus huntii, Melanerpes formicivorus - Acorn woodpecker, Umeces skiltonianus - Western skink, and Megalodacne heros - native oregon The rest are special to us :)

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Some highlights from lab cookie decorating night, including the @botanicalbecks.bsky.social cryptid corner.

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

1 year since my goofy Muppet girl, Hettie, followed us home during a cold and rainy evening walk. Thank you cat distribution system :) she's a happy, fluffy, round indoor kitty now

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Zach (derogatory) @writerbynight.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

One whole year with Hettie! She followed us home a year ago and never looked back (okay, she looked back once, but came running home after she realized it was cold and she liked free food). Happy Gotcha Day, Hecate :) Day 1 vs. Day 365

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

They are! I love working on this east coast group, I'm counting down the days to field season!

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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Good visit to the Penn State #Herbarium with @botanicalbecks.bsky.social. Checking out Penstemon and dropping some gift specimens. Thanks to Sarah Chamberlain for hosting. #iamabotanist

Two botanists, one sign for PAC Herbarium

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My really happy, exciting find of the day :) Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar on Spicebush!

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I just think they're beautiful Penstemon seeds under my dissecting scope

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Field day with my favorite assistant @writerbynight.bsky.social at Raystown Lake :)

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Today's new greenhouse flowers (and cones!) !

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Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Native pollinator appreciation at the garden :)

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Personate flowered Penstemon hirsutus (top) and a closely related species with open flowers, P. smallii (bottom).

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Aidan William Short @aidanwshort.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

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