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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Had an amazing time in Glasgow for Euro Evo Devo 2026! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Back to Oxford feeling inspired — so much cool work being done, especially in plants 🌱 Thank you to all the organizers #eed2026

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The 8th characeaen species I’ve found in Oxford so far — a biodiversity hotspot 🌱 🔥 This one is Nitella flexilis, one of the more common Nitella species. Fun fact: this was 1 of 4 characeaen species established by Linnaeus.

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Some work from my PhD was featured in New Scientist! We found that fungus-farming ants capture atmospheric CO2 and convert it into a biomineralized armor. 🐜 🪨🛡️

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Bed of Chara hosting a frogspawn in an Oxford pond

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

First collections of 2026! Chara hispida (?, left) and Chara contraria (right) collected in Oxford, England.

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Happy to share this newly published work from my PhD, which I co-led in collaboration with the @lingjun2025.bsky.social lab, published in @pubs.acs.org. And our cover art was accepted! 🧵1/5

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

“O Christmas stonewort, o Christmas stonewort” Season’s greeting from the Characeae 🎄

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Characeae-inspired architecture (maybe): Spiraled columns of Norwich Cathedral…. Inspired by (perhaps) Chara axis cortication.

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Chara vulgaris collected in Oxford, UK

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Fertile male of the dioecious Chara rusbyana The orange spheres are the male reproductive structures (“antheridia”) They are protected by intricately crafted “shield cells” (transparent outer layer), which unfold prior to mating

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fertile male of the dioecious Chara australis Check out the intricate patterns on the antheridium (male gametangium) #phycologyfriday

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Chara globularis collected this weekend in Oxford Is it me or do the oogonia look like SpongeBob’s home?🍍

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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢 The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀

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Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land

The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

#PhycologyPhriday Fertile branchlet whorls of a british Chara species (hispida?). Can you spot the tiny oogonia?

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#phycologyphriday Got to examine some beautiful Chara hispida vouchers, one collected by G.R. Bullock-Webster Thanks to the Oxford Herbarium for the tour

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JoJo Sardina @jojosardina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Chara rusbyana (?) culture in Madison, WI

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