Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mesmerising. The music and editing are clearly from 1963, but the visuals seem older, especially the workmen shovelling snow (no gloves!). 011
Reposted by Laura JenningsRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/ 15605454
Reposted by Laura JenningsAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A little pinch of the crabs in our collection 🦀 🦀 Bronze box in the form of a Crab, 16th or 17th century, northern Italy. Bronze, 15.5 cm x 12.8 cm. WA1947.191.174 🦀 Study of a Velvet Crab, 1870, by John Ruskin (1819–1900). Bodycolour over graphite on blue wove paper. WA.RS.ED.199 311242
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Cool new parasitic plant, looks to me like a cute angry owl 020
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Seems like something vital, I assumed this would already exist for such a well-researched group as birds 020
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Natee's skills are next level (look at the fluffy scales on the butterfly!) 1151
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Which TV series names survive contact with my spouse's odd brain? ❌️ Smallville = Muscle man ❌️ Big Bang Theory = Space Junk ❌️ Game of Thrones = Lord of the Thrones ❌️ The Good Place = Afterlife ✅️ Friends ✅️ Brooklyn 99 = 99 (close enough) 020
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Does anyone know why this is? It seems to be common but I don't understand where it comes from 110
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I'm at a conference with a disappointing number of AI infographics and I'm compiling a collection called "AI thinks data is cylindrical" 231
Reposted by Laura JenningsBotany One @botany.one · 29/06/2026The Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and data www.botany.one/the-ecology-... From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive. #Botany #PlantSciencebotany.oneThe Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and dataFrom seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive. 094
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I do not think enough non-essential things are being cancelled during the red warnings! If you would cancel for red warning of a flood or storm you should cancel for heat! [brought to you by my spouse's meeting 1.5 hrs drive away still being on] 022
Reposted by Laura JenningsDave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's now forecast to be 40 degrees here on Thursday. Our average daily high temperature for this time of year is 18. So angry for all of the people who're going to be unnecessarily harmed by this. So angry for our ecosystems that have not remotely evolved for this. 66915
Reposted by Laura JenningsVeeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The Secret Life of Lathraea: I've written a post about the common toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a parasitic plant which parasitises deciduous trees and is mostly found in alluvial and ravine forests. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/06/lath...dailyparasite.blogspot.com<i>Lathraea squamaria</i>When it comes to parasites, for most people it is a case of "out of sight, out of mind", and that especially applies to holoparasitic plants... 25318
Reposted by Laura JenningsAlison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026After studying with friends the other day, I want to know... what are some of the mnemonics you've used when studying another language (any language)? (Mine) Spanish: Llevar: LeVar Burton sure could Carry me Llegar: if you Go somewhere, you will Arrive there Llenar: Nar thanks, I'm Full 222
Reposted by Laura JenningsDan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition. 17561143
Reposted by Laura JenningsBirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026FOUND! 🔍 Indonesia’s Blue-fronted Lorikeet 🦜 Hidden in the remote highlands of Mount Kapalatmada in Buru, Indonesia, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet has re-emerged after missing for more than a decade. 👀 Learn more here👉 www.birdlife.org/lorikeet-red... @abcbirds.bsky.social @rewildorg.bsky.socialbirdlife.orgIndonesia’s Blue-fronted Lorikeet found in unexplored forestNew records provide proof that the lost bird Blue-fronted Lorikeet persists in Buru’s highlands. 0298
Reposted by Laura Jenningsda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20/05/2026GARBAGE - dashare.zone ADMIN 01423515
Reposted by Laura JenningsSwearyMess @swearymess.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This is SO important. www.euansguide.com/safertoiletseuansguide.comEuan's GuideMaking the world more accessible one review at a time. 17220
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Aw yeah paint / pigment chemistry! With a side of 'chemicals' does equal bad, and 'natural' does not equal harmless. 000
Reposted by Laura JenningsJoshua Lüdtke @joshualudtke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Worst thing about this post is that everyone in academia is aware of at least one case in the past and one case in the present. The systemic nature of the offensive activity is truly sinister. 2116
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Haha I had no idea an old tamagochi looked like a buff shark with a moustache 010
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I have enjoyed getting to know Jakarta a little bit but this is definitely needed, it's a terrible place to be a pedestrian. OP's other post talks about the improvement in train coverage since 2015. 000
Reposted by Laura JenningsCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 18/04/2026Deforestation in Indonesia surged 66% from 2024 to 2025, when more than 433,000 hectares were lost, according to the NGO Auriga Nusantara. The country reached historic low deforestation in 2021, when around 230,000 hectares were cleared. By Hans Nicholas Jong for @mongabay.com:buff.lyIndonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025A sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara.… 02111
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Even in the super touristy islands of Bali and Lombok there are plant species which haven't been collected for over 100 years. Our new checklist highlights all the plants found in the Lesser Sundas (southern Indonesia and Timor-Leste) and nowhere else in the world. 1163
Reposted by Laura JenningsSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones 203995688
Reposted by Laura JenningsLaura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New paper! A checklist of the plants endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands (S Indonesia and Timor-Leste). For conservation we need to know where these plants are and if they are threatened, and we know so little about either. 51 species haven't been seen in >120 years! doi.org/10.3897/phyt... 054
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New paper! A checklist of the plants endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands (S Indonesia and Timor-Leste). For conservation we need to know where these plants are and if they are threatened, and we know so little about either. 51 species haven't been seen in >120 years! doi.org/10.3897/phyt... 054
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026While space is in the news: A City on Mars is a fun and accessible read about the biological (and legal) realities of humans space flight 143
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This thread and the Zachary Taylor paper mentioned here are great reads (link in case you have access / can find elsewhere doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... ) 011
Reposted by Laura JenningsCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107643880
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I think "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" every time I see a mushroom 020
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Maybrat is in the central Bird's Head and the whole area is gazetted for logging. If they're finding undescribed mammals imagine how many plants / beetles / fish there are. 0158
Reposted by Laura JenningsJosh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 05/03/2026"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua." Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMarsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New GuineaThe chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says 214375
Reposted by Laura JenningsWerewolven Daughter @wolvendaughter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer 3689224
Reposted by Laura JenningsJosh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 16/02/2026oh yeah this is actually a really interesting case about not only who owns the data in these museums, but what happens when one government goes into a public-private partnership the Belgian museum wants to digitise and openly publish this data themselves, but the private company maybe less so... 0126
Reposted by Laura JenningsDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything. 14643204
Reposted by Laura JenningsDr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 01/02/2026TLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology 03614
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 13/01/2026It's a 'science publishing is broken' story but I am really in support of a quality acronym 1122
Reposted by Laura JenningsSuz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Drought is often omitted from IUCN Red Listing assessments as it is difficult to quantify. But our study has found that >95% of threatened species will be exposed to longer and more frequent droughts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comExposure and sensitivity of threatened plant species to changing drought regimes: A global analysisClimate change is driving substantial impacts on plants, including widespread increases in drought frequency, duration, and intensity. Changes to thes… 174
Reposted by Laura Jenningsandrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025This “Biotech” has raised more than half a billion USD. Imagine what real conservation work that could fund. 0229
Reposted by Laura JenningsTeresa Rose Osborne @trosborne.bsky.social · 24/12/20252025 was a year of progress & discoveries for akaleha' tree snail conservation here in the CNMI 🐌 Akaleha' are tree snails in Family Partulidae native to the Mariana Islands🇲🇵🇬🇺 To count down the new year, Here's our Top 10 Akaleha' Conservation Moments of 2025 #InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs 37717
Reposted by Laura JenningsMarc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 24/12/2025Okay, I need your help. If everyone buys my book on Kindle today (for 99p), it could push it back to number one on the Music chart and I'd HAVE A CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE. I would really, really, really like that for Christmas. 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Christ...amazon.co.uk 21010
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 20/12/2025This is so great! Especially the stylised lettering, even though I don't know what it says 020
Reposted by Laura JenningsNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 23/12/2023"You saved me," he said. "Not just from the Mouse King - from a terrible curse, too. Will you do me the honour of accompanying me to my home, the Land of Sweets?" They travelled by swan over gold-flecked oceans & silver-edged cities. 4/ #ArtAdventCalendar #NHPNutcracker 522548
Reposted by Laura JenningsEvolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth. 828487
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Green turtle Magnificent Bird of Paradise Purple Spotted Swallowtail Rothschild's giraffe Tawny Hermit Crab 051
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 26/11/2025The number of natural history specimens collected has fallen off a cliff in the 21st century. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGlobal sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature CommunicationsNatural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr... 0102
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 15/11/2025This is beautiful but my first thought was pandan cake 170
Laura Jennings @botanistlaura.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I enjoyed this, it's always great to hear people enthuse about plants (this one's Dactylanthus, Balanophoraceae), the NZ accents are also lovely 051