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Lynda Delph

@ldelph.bsky.social
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Long-time researcher of dimorphism and other things evolutionary. Field biologist at heart. Faculty at Indiana University

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking
An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please share! Our lab at Colorado State University is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2027. We are broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...
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Sloan Lab
Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pretty early in the night yet, but this has the makings of another half a billion night! #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds
BirdCast map showing 415.3 million birds in flight at 9pm EDT on September 13. The Sun is still setting to the west and migration is concentrated at the moment in the east to Midwest.
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
House fly proto-Y chromosomes differentially affect courtship success regardless of social context and female type www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Isn't evolution wonderful!
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Keely Brown @keelybrownphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'll be recruiting both Master's and PhD students, so if you know anyone that might be interested in integrating genomics and phenomics to understand evolution in barley and macroalgae, send 'em my way!
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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE in beautiful Montpellier. Deadline soon, don't be shy, apply, theory is exciting! 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Both where meiosis happens in plants, and the fact that meiosis makes spores NOT gametes; plant gametes are made by mitosis (in angiosperms by the pollen and ovules). It takes a while for many students to see that difference from animals, I think in part because it’s obscured by botanical terms
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rava @rava.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You guys wanna see an old quilt? (Everyone cheers) My great grandma sewed and quilted it, my grandma stitched the designs, and this summer mom and I finished it
old blanket with stitched floral designs and hand quilting
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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How crazy is this!? A plant mimicking the smell of ants injured by spiders to fool kleptoparastic flies into performing pollination 🤯 Plant shenanigans is an endless source of wonderful biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Olfactory floral mimicry of injured ants mediates the attraction of kleptoparasitic fly pollinators
Mochizuki reports a plant that lures pollinating flies by imitating the scent of ants injured by predators. This study reveals the first known case of ant mimicry in flowers and uncovers previously un...
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973
a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.
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Lauren Frankel @laufran.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wanna hear about introgression and pollination syndromes? Boy, do I have a talk for you! I'll be presenting my last dissertation chapter in the Cooley Award session on Monday, 8:45am in room Tucson C-D! #botany2026
Title slide of talk with bold text: "Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)"
Author list: "Lauren Frankel, Ana Maria Bedoya, Katherin Arango-Goméz, Nicholas Brigida, Laura Lagomarsino, Cécile Ané"
and colorful floral photos of Neotropical bellflowers lining the bottom of the slide.
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My great technician is leaving the lab, and I'm trying to replace her. Are you or someone you know interested in evolutionary genomics research that combines animals experiments (with flies!) and molecular biology? Come work with me! Application info at the link evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
Delighted to see Duncan Munro's brilliant design work on my book recognised in the short list of the PANZ Book Design Awards.
The cover of my book He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers. The cover is black, with five rows of five flowers in shades of white, pink, orange, red, yellow, purple, and green.
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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Everyone should grow a vegetable garden
Photo of my vegetable garden
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
PhD Position at Uppsala University. Sophie Karrenberg’s Lab. the project is about sex chromosome evolution in plants. Come join us! Deadline 22 July. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD position in evolutionary genomics - Uppsala University
PhD position in evolutionary genomics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology
The photo shows a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. Likely made by an early neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) population or an alternative Middle Pleistocene hominin species (H. heidelbergensis s.l.). The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to seemingly retain the shell in a central position. The shell’s central display has often been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. A recent study (“The West Tofts handaxe: A remarkably average, structurally flawed, utilitarian biface” by Emily Flanders and Alastair Key) concluded it was likely ‘an average utilitarian tool’ in the eyes of its Acheulean maker, and that the aesthetic intent is assumed by the present-day beholder, and not supported by objective evidence.

Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm. Weight 0.375kg. 

Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Pre pollen Pantaloon Pantaloon bee before it has scraped pollen all over its legs for carrying back home. @nikoneurope Z9 and 105mm macro SS1/2500 F8 ISO3200 #macro #bee #entomolgy #insectstudy #insects
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
4th of July parade, downtown Bloomington, Indiana. Low-key, parochial, and oddly moving.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 02/07/2026
share to save a life
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Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our lab is looking to hire a RA to contribute to experimental evolution studies on anaerobic & aerotolerant bacteria! This is a great opportunity for recent grads looking to gain experience before perusing graduate training. Info at this link: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Technician - Term Biological Sciences - Behringer Lab
The TERM Research Technician is part of the Behringer Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University and is a key member of the research team responsible for supporting the rese...
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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴, the bicycle paths have sensors to trigger the traffic light the lights to change. That means no stopping to press the beg button. Amazing! 🤩🚲 #yycBike #Stavanger #Norway
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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's a marketing scheme--feeding into our insecurities about reach and impact for their products. 🤨😑
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/06/2026
"I know there's a lot of concern about the proliferation of journals, slop in the in the literature — the best way to combat this is to publish in society-owned journals." — @asn-amnat.bsky.social President @beckyfuller82.bsky.social preaching the Gospel #Evol2026
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A great loss of a truly extraordinary scientist and human being.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're pleased to sponsor this week's Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics conference (#PEQG26) in Asilomar, CA, USA. genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Eriospermum titanopsoides (📷: Vera Frith CCBYNC4) doesn't have crazy enations, but it has the most amazingly undulating margin, giving more edge area for fog interception & dew condensation. The photographer’s fingertip shows just how small these plants are. #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up of a small geophyte with a single leaf, the margin of which is highly undulate.
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has a super creative special exhibit of coral reefs, created by crochet and knitting. Follows a progression from healthy (colored yarn), to bleached (plastic bags), to dead. Powerful!
Part of the display room in the museum with healthy coral reefs represented by colorful yarn elaborately crocheted and knitted, to a bleached reef made from plastic bags.Coral reef of sooo many colors and an ancient diver covered in reef animals.
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P. David Polly @pdpolly.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Indiana University, not the UD Department of Agriculture, ordered the Inness lab to be locked down. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry
The Trump administration has spent months investigating the lab after a Chinese postdoc was charged with smuggling biological material into the country.
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Listen to Matatuhi Foundation Best First Book Illustrated Non-Fiction winner Philip Garnock-Jones talking with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about his stunning honoured book He Puawai @theobrominated.bsky.social #theockhams www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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The award-winning book showing off NZ flowers in full bloom
He Puawai, A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers by Emeritus Professor of Botany Philip Garnock Jones won the Judith Binney Prize for Illustrated Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ...
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is a long shot, but is anyone willing and able to review a micropublication (i.e., short and sweet) about how senescent-associated β-galactosidase accumulation influences the lifespan of a particular species (a fish, if it matters)? We can't find a reviewer and we've tried so hard. 🧪
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Tom Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Two big things for talks: 1. use the mic, and 2. use a bigger font. No, bigger than that.
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Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin @wiko-berlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Fellow 2014/15 Steven A. Frank is the winner of the 2026 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences - congratulations! www.amnat.org/announcement...
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2026 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences
<p>Congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, <b>Steve Frank</b>!</p><br/>
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A really special occasion. Not to be missed 🍾🎉 💯 You’re cordially invited to Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall Kirsty Young presents David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth on Friday 8 May on #iPlayer and BBC One Full details 👇🏻
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David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth to air on Friday 8 May on iPlayer and BBC One
The live event will take audiences on an extraordinary journey through a century of exploration and discovery in the natural world, seen through the prism of David’s remarkable life and work
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Joelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 My very first postdoc paper is out! 🐠 We show that the Y chromosome of the swamp guppy (Poecilia picta) has rapidly degenerated, losing genes, shrinking, and filling up with transposable elements, while the X responds by exporting key male genes to autosomes. 🧵⬇️ 1/6 📷Joëlle Lafond
Figure showing the paper's title: Structural and Functional Divergence of the Poecilia picta Sex Chromosomes.

It includes artistic drawing of the male fish of this study, Poecilia picta, on a background with DNA helixes.
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Patrick Goymer @patrickgoymer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Vale Peter Raven, champion of plants and biodiversity. 'In one of his lectures, he described biodiversity as “the whole business”—the sum of organisms, their variations and the communities they form. It was a plain phrase for a concept of considerable scope.' news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...
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Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
#TansleyReview: Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation Zhang et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 Evolutionary roles of recombination suppression.
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Got to go wade fishing with two of my favorite people, and I caught 3 kinds of fish (6 total) and kept one. Lovely way to end the day.
A person wade fishing in Apalachicola Bay as the sun is setting.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/04/2026
Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw
Graphic announcing the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call. It shows the opening date (9 April 2026), closing date (9 September 2026), and a budget of €399.05 million. The design features scientific visuals such as cells, a leaf, and lab elements on a dark background, with the European Commission logo at the bottom.
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just out scaring up the rays.
Front of a kayak on the water with sandy beach with pine trees in the left.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!
A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Man Who Lost 6 Months Of Work To Unlabeled Tubes Sure It Won’t Happen Again
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Placing eight identical Eppendorf tubes into a freezer box in a precise row, research associate Daniel Osei, who lost six months of work in 2023 after failing to label an…
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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It’s redbud time in Bloomington IN. Millions of these will be out in force this week, giving meaning to the name of the city.
Two flowers on a redbud branch. In spite of the name, the flowers are a purplish pink color.
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