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Hervé Sauquet

@hsauquet.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist and botanist (he/him) living on Bidjigal country, working at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, into flowering plants, macroevolution, freediving, and all things queer!

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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
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Francis Nge @francisnge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social Article is open access and can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ
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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
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Alex Skeels @alexskeels.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky
enormous phylogeny of ~700 Grevilleoideae plants plus outgroups with major tribes and fossil calibrations highlighted
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social! #Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium
A world map showing the locations of new plant species discovered through iNaturalist. Each species is represented by a photograph and text explaining the family and year of description.
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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Science in action to support conservation 🌱 When researchers collaborated to investigate the quirky group of peas known as the "leafless bossiaea", the project bounced in more than one unexpected direction. www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and... 1/3
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Cascading questions for leafless Bossiaea | Botanic Gardens of Sydney
Working with stakeholders from different Australian states, geneticists have helped to clarify taxonomy and conservation planning for seven leafless Bossiaea species.
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Andressa Cabral @acabral-bio.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Ever wondered what explains the amazing fruit diversity in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)? See what we found: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @renskeonstein.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social, and others!
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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Interested in working with us at the Australian National Herbarium as a Curatorial Technician with a focus on eucalypts? jobs.csiro.au/job-invite/9... #herbarium #csiro
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Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
Curatorial Technician (eucalypt specialist), Australian National Herbarium
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Latest awesome output from @thebeachcomber.bsky.social PhD work: expert IDBlitzes amplify the value of #citizenscience data (such as @inaturalist.bsky.social) Out now in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... (with @tecticornia.bsky.social @julietwege.bsky.social and more)
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e... #pollinators #biodiversity
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Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published
When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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David Peris @davidperis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📢Paper alert! Fossil record is fundamental to elucidating the origin and evolution of insect pollination, as well as informing on present-day plant–pollinator interactions. Check it out in: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social #LabPaleoecology
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Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination
Plant pollination by insects represents one of the most transformative and iconic ecological relationships in the natural world. Despite tens of thousands of papers, as well as numerous books, on pol...
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Happy Mardi Gras!! 🌈 We’re right in the middle of the most exciting time in Sydney, where such massive celebrations of love, diversity, and freedom to be are more important than ever. #SydneyMardiGras #QueerInSTEM #BotanicGardens
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...
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edelinegagnon.bsky.social @edelinegagnon.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Do you work on the 87 #BigPlantGenera that include 25% of all plant species? We are putting together a special issue in @annbot.bsky.social for studies investigating Angiosperm genera with >500 species. See the link below for details: shorturl.at/dfsw4
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Amorphophallus titanum Big Bloom Bang happening right now at Botanic Gardens of Sydney! Hard to believe all the fame and hype gathered by this little plant over the past week! #Putricia #Araceae #botany
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics
Phylogenomic tree and classification of magnoliids, with photographs of representative species.
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New phylogenomic study of #Magnoliidae: so excited to see this out at last! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Finally get to squeeze some squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) IRL 🤩 The name derives from phenomenon that the ripe fruits squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a dispersal mechanism. This vid here is a slow-mo! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsciences 🧪🌾🌱🥒
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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A review of 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social, as viewed through covers by our managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social (1/8) We started 2024 highlighting our new series of occasional papers, Primers in the Plant Sciences #PlantScience
On the Cover: This issue of IJPS debuts Primers in the Plant Sciences, a series of curated reviews that cover foundational topics and serve as useful first-stop references for scientists at all career stages (see Wadgymar et al., in this issue, pp. 1–2).

Top row: Left, simple biosynthetic pathways of linear and angular furanocoumarins (one subclass of chemical defense) from the hydroxycoumarin umbelliferone; right, illustration of a complex of defensive and tolerance traits in plants and herbivores, a result of reciprocal natural selection exerted on each species by the other over evolutionary time. See “Consequences and Costs of Chemical Complexity: The Evolutionary Ecology of Direct Phytochemical Defense against Herbivores” (Blanchard and Holeski, in this issue, pp. 3–14).

Bottom row: Left, examples of successive developmental stages of the flower Grevillea banksia R. Br. (Proteaceae), including flower bud, pollen-presenting (“male”) phase, and receptive (“female”) phase; center and right, Campanula sp. (Campanulaceae), showing a pollen-presenting phase and a nonvisited flower in the receptive phase. See “Pollen Transfer within Flowers: How Pollen Is Secondarily Presented” (El Ottra et al., in this issue, pp. 15–31). Flower photos by J. H. L. El Ottra.
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Freycinetia cumingiana has pseudanthia comprised of showy bracts surrounding the spikes of tiny, unisexual flowers. These pseudanthia are visited by birds, who are the likely pollinators. #Pandanaceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the inflorescence of this species. The strappy green leaves are visible. The spikes of tiny flowers are subtended by broad, orange bracts.
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
AusTraits floras workshop at Botanic Gardens of Sydney: so thrilled about how it all went!! We invited reps from each Australian state/territory to discuss how online floras could be expanded to display data from a broad range of traits (including ecological, morphological). #austraits #floras
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 buff.ly/41hpKym
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Angela McDonnell (she/her) @angelajmcd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Updated herbarium starter pack! Send me deets for others to add. go.bsky.app/J3orEaP
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
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Thomas Mesaglio @thebeachcomber.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + @inaturalist.bsky.social records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A macadamia that isn’t Macadamia: A new species of Lasjia (Proteaceae) from Sulawesi: Lasjia griseifolia Utteridge & Brambach rdcu.be/d1VtF [Posting some recent published things, just for people who may not know me so well…apologies if you’ve seen (and read, yes?!?) already]
Lasjia griseifolia. A habit, note the number of leaves per whorl and the grey adaxial surface; B abaxial leaf surface, note the persistent ginger-brown matted hairs; C, D axillary conflorescences and creamy-white perianth. PHOTOS: FABIAN BRAMBACH.
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Thomas L.P. Couvreur @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🌳 Uvariodendron fuscum (#Annonaceae) – a hidden marvel of African rainforests in #Cameroon and #Gabon with large flowers and leaves! Pollinated by large beetles! Learn more about this genus with 18 species from tropical Africa #openaccess): doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
Photo of a flower from African rainforests, in particular Cameroon and Gabon. It is a big flower with cream petals and dark wine red at the base on the inner side.
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@rubyecology.bsky.social
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Darren Crayn @dcrayn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :) go.bsky.app/GCP9Um
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Tangled webs & spider-flowers: #Phylogenomics, biogeography & seed morphology inform the evolutionary history of #Cleomaceae New #AJB research by Theresa Saunders, Isabel Larridon, William Baker, Russell Barrett, Félix Forest, Elaine Françoso, Olivier Maurin, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
Examples of the range of seed shape and ornamentation from across Cleomaceae.
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Last night was very very special. This was the first official IBC Pride in history!! The venue was completely packed by more than 200 queer botanists and their allies and the atmosphere was electric. I feel so proud of what we achieved!! #IBC24 #iamabotanist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌵🌴🌱
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
This photo at #IBC24 means the World to me: surrounded by the most influential colleagues, mentors, and friends who have shaped my career on flower macroevolution. L to R: Susana Magallón (me) Peter Endress Maria von Balthazar Jim Doyle Jürg Schönenberger #eFLOWERproject
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
A small sample of the very many wonderful colleagues from all over the World who have contributed to the eFLOWER project and/or PROTEUS database over the past 13 years! #IBC24 #eFLOWERproject
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Botany One @botany.one · 22/07/2024
#IBC2024 has opened in Madrid. Most of the chatter has been on Twitter. Who knew there was so much interest in African taxonomy? botany.one/2024/07/chan... Quoting @molino_sonia on Twitter and @indigofera.yt on Threads.
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Changing Times in Botanical Communication at Madrid Congress
The 20th International Botanical Congress is underway in Madrid, and an early decision has caught the press’s eye.
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Alex Skeels @alexskeels.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
This thing will be stuck up at poster board D4 at #Evol2024 and I'll be standing next to it in Poster Session 1 on Friday the 27th. Come say hi and chat about plant biogeography and phylogenomics 🌿🌏🧬... or... online here alexskeels.com/posters-2/
Poster entitled "Expansion of dry biomes in Australia and the incendiary radiation of an iconic plant group".
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Botany One @botany.one · 15/05/2024
Daniela Boanares: “We Need to Understand Plants if We Want to Thrive on this Planet” #Botany botany.one/2024/05/d...
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Daniela Boanares: "We Need to Understand Plants if We Want to Thrive on this Planet"
Botany One interviews Dr Daniela Boanares for Fascination for Plants Day and learn more about her quest to unravel the mechanisms behind foliar water uptake in megadiverse ecosystems.
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QueersInScience @queersinscience.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Tomorrow (17 May) is #IDAHOBIT International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We're acknowledging this important day in the LGBTIQA+ communities today & tomorrow - today we're going to provide some guides, tools, and resources and tomorrow we're going to share your stories. 🧵👇
Queers in Science branded image tile that features the words IDAHOBIT - International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia 17 May
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Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra @caordonezparra.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Today, we have an interview with Dr Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social, a queer scientist interested in the #evolution of flowers, the structures that give its name to the most diverse groups of plants nowadays: the flowering plants botany.one/2024/05/herv...
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Hervé Sauquet: Never Looking at Flowers the Same Way
Botany One interviews Dr Hervé Sauquet for Fascination for Plants Day and learn more about his mission to understand the evolution of flowers.
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Botany One @botany.one · 13/05/2024
Kelsey Byers: “See the world through the plant’s perspective!” #Botany botany.one/2024/05/k...
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Kelsey Byers: "See the world through the plant's perspective!"
Botany One interviews Dr Kelsey Byers for Fascination for Plants Day and learn more about her research on the evolution of floral scent.
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
🌿 Join our 2.5-year postdoc at the Meertens Institute! Explore historical bias & perception in botanical citizen science. Uncover societal shifts & cultural impacts in botany 🌼 🔗 Vacancy: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... 🔗 Project website: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
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Marcio Pie @marciopie.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
The evolution of body size in terrestrial tetrapods link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Evolution of Body Size in Terrestrial Tetrapods - Evolutionary Biology
Body size is a fundamental trait in evolutionary and ecological research, given that it varies allometrically with several relevant features, such as life-history and physiological traits. Although pr...
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Our Big Flowering Plant Bang paper is now out in Nature!! So excited to have been part of this massive collaborative effort led by the team at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, involving 279 co-authors from 27 countries! #angiosperms #phylogenomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Don't miss this Botany360 event about International Fieldwork! It is TODAY at 3pm EST. To register, visit: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This is a flyer for the Botany360 event entitled, "International Fieldwork." For more information, visit: https://www.botany.org/calendar/display/date/20240422/viewtype/event/eid/46
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #research #academia #llms #chatgpt #scichat
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ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges - BioData Mining
The introduction of large language models (LLMs) that allow iterative “chat” in late 2022 is a paradigm shift that enables generation of text often indistinguishable from that written by humans. L...
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Hervé Sauquet @hsauquet.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
It’s magnollid Xmas down under!! Nothing could have delighted me more than seeing Eupomatia laurina in full bloom at Yandel’ora (Mt Annan) yesterday, complete with its unique pollinator weevil! I’m in love 💕
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Wind pollination is rare in the Ericaceae but Ceratiola ericoides, another SE USA endemic, is a prime example. The species is dioecious. These are female flowers. #anemophily #SEUSA #windpollination #pollination #Ericaceae #endemic #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Photo of several upright shoots bearing small, linear leaves like rosemary. In each leaf axil is a small flower lacking any discernable perianth but bearing a large stigma.
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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
if only they would capitalize it so we know BASAL means: Branch Adjacent to Species Abundant Lineage
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Amy McP @aemcp.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
#OpenAccess essay in #AJB! #ArtificialIntelligence #HerbariumSpecimen label transcription
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