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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW

@martinebotany.bsky.social
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President, Botanical Society of America. #PUI Prof + Herbarium Director Doc Martine and the Botaneers www.chrismartine.com #PlantsareCoolToo: tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w #iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany #plantpeopleFTW

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duckweed-uk.bsky.social @duckweed-uk.bsky.social · 14h
After years of studying root development, I was drawn to duckweeds, as many species have lost roots. In this Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social , we explore other plants that have independently evolved rootlessness. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PYNXFP....
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Chokes
Sunchokes
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An incredible essay on how the Indigenous knowledge of controlled burns transformed the pre-contact landscapes of Native North America and how it will change forest management in the years to come, evidence from fire scars in tree rings #envhist Archived link: archive.is/202610121154...
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Holy cow
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fall 2026 Martine Lab, heading into Fall Break. #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell
Current 8 members of the Martine Lab at Bucknell
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
APG V, the 5th community-based classification of flowering #plants, is now available! This revision of the APG #classification marks a shift from mainly #plastid-based classification to nuclear-#genome-informed #systematics. 🆓 doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social
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Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V
This revision of the APG classification considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of the APG classificat...
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's official: no more Phrymaceae, monkeyflowers are now in Orobanchaceae!
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology
Poster for the new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG V) plant classification. It presents the current phylogenetic relationships among angiosperms, along with flower images representing all families
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fall 2026 Martine Lab, heading into Fall Break. #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell
Current 8 members of the Martine Lab at Bucknell
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Field Botany and the Botany Bus after a chilly but sunny morning in Montandon Marsh. #bisonflowers #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell
Class of students around an omnibus in a meadow
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"We had a wave of precipital deprecation," said Chris Martine, Bucknell University. time.com/article/2026...
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When Is the Best Time to See Peak Fall Foliage?
Climate change is making it harder to predict the best timing for leaf peeping.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, it took 10 years of rain or shine fieldwork to take the cover off my favorite #wildflower guide … but now it’s again good as new. #iamabotanist
Covers worn offAll taped up!
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Course prep. Might skip this part of the “trail” in class tomorrow.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just looking at this Dianthus pic I took yesterday and how did I miss the tiny bird? Quick, someone call The Auk!
Dianthus flower cluster with a fruit (?) resembling a small bird
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large-scale #phenology labeling for #herbarium specimens New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, Rob Guralnick, et al. doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @floridamuseum.bsky.social @usa-npn.bsky.social #botany
The heading reads: "Historical flowering data unlocked for over 2.9M herbarium specimens". The background image is a digitized herbarium specimen. In the center of the image is a bar chart showing the number of flowering records across the decades, from 1800 to 2020. The text at the bottom of the image reads: "Integrated in Phenobase", with the URL phenobase.org
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First-year CURE students heading into the weekend like
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ludwigia fruits are bonkers
Ludwigia alternifolia
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UF Biology is searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology, pass it along explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/search...
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University of Florida - Search Results
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just over two weeks left to apply! I may be biased, but it’s hard to imagine a better place to do plant evolutionary biology.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Annual re-creation of the 1912 Bucknell botany class photo at the “Gundy’s Farm” cliff site, where our students have been visiting the same Heuchera population for at least 120 years. #plantpeopleFTW #raybucknell
comparison group photos from 1912 and 2026
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First-year CURE class getting down to business on their semester-long greenhouse experiments.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Field Botany at the Mohn Mill Ponds Wild Plant Sanctuary, key locality for the recently de-listed Scirpus ancistrochaetus.
Students in forest
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Field Botany course prep in the rain with Budha and Zen at Mohn Mill Natural Area…. Where the vernal pools are atypically full for September. #bisonflowers #iamabotanist
Wet botanist Wet neuroscientist and his dog
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Awesome day wading in Buffalo Creek with Field Botany. Cold feet (and legs.. and one whole body oops), warm smiles, and cool aquatic plants. #bisonflowers #raybucknell #plantpeopleFTW
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Little bit rainy this morning for our collecting foray to the Forrest D. Brown Conference Center in Cowan, but this intrepid crew gathered #herbarium specimens for more than 90 species in just 2.5 hours. That’s some real #plantpeopleFTW stuff right there. #fieldbotany #raybucknell #bisonflowers
With pressesPlants spread out Plants spread out Presses on drier
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White snake root
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White snake root
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you missed @martinebotany.bsky.social and pal’s musical debut , it’s not too late and don’t forget it’s #sciartseptember here’s a birch #tree decorative #painting from our office staff to celebrate not only plants but a month of #sciart🙌
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🌼 The 2nd season of the BSA's podcast—A Botanical Podcast!—is now available! 🌼 In this episode, BSA President Chris Martine discusses his love of plants & the people who study them—and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2446995/epis... #botany #plantscience #PlantPeopleFTW @martinebotany.bsky.social
Promotional thumbnail for A Botanical Podcast by the Botanical Society of America, featuring guest Chris Martine. Text reads: "A Botanical Podcast. Plant People for the Win! with Chris Martine. A Botanical Podcast: Season 2, Episode 2."
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gradually piecing together a new music video for #PlantPeopleFTW with performance footage. Here’s a live clip from last week at the Brasserie Louis with an audience of great peeps. Shot by @devanijolman.bsky.social. #docmartineandthebotaneers
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#SICB's @martinebotany.bsky.social is now adding #songwriter to his resume! with #Plant People FTW by Doc Martine & the Botaneers. Chris is a former SICB Division of #Botany Chair & released this fantastic song🙌 Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/4yDP3q... Apple: music.apple.com/us/album/pla...
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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A lovely article about some of the amazing Australian women that have dedicated their lives to creating exquisite botanical (and entomological) illustrations of our wonderfully unique biodiversity 🌿 🌺 🦋 #ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #sciart #botany #botanicalart www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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The female artists who shaped botanical illustration in Australia
Female botanical illustrators have translated the science of our landscapes for centuries, today the craft is as important as ever.
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David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The song, Plant People FTW, now streaming thanks to @martinebotany.bsky.social and his botanico-musical friends
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW song cameo #11 features this enthusiastic audience at the AdkinsArboretum, Shore_Lit, and OxfordCommunityCenter (Maryland). Filmed by @dghaskell.bsky.social, who was presenting on his latest great book #HowFlowersMadeourWorld. That's David saying, "You all rock." And he ain't wrong!
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tour went long. 🤣
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Mason Heberling @jmheberling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Opened up a random cabinet during a tour to show example specimen and look who it is! @martinebotany.bsky.social alongside another from Bartram’s garden. No shortage of things to talk about/tour went long.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW song cameo #7 features this gang from the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University! Hear ‘em all: Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers now streaming. #iamabotanist #botany2026
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW cameo #6 features the Min Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign! Hear all 25 by streaming/downloading Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers wherever you get your music! #iamabotanist #botany2026 @minyaaa.bsky.social
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW cameo #5 features the awesome staff of the @botsocamerica.bsky.social coming to us from the streets of St. Louis, MO. Hear all 25 by streaming/downloading Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers wherever you get your music! #iamabotanist #botany2026 @aemcp.bsky.social
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW cameo #4 features Bismarck Ofosu-Bamfo’s forest ecology team at the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana. Hear all 25 by streaming/downloading Plant People FTW by Doc Martine and the Botaneers wherever you get your music! #Botany2026 #iamabotanist
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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New paper by grad student Jordan Argrett on the role of hemiparasitic Castilleja in plant community diversity! He surveyed over 400 plots across multiple sites, spp, and growing seasons. With gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations by an REU coauthor! 🌍🌱🌿 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Fig. 3 of this paper, which is an illustrated table of 4 Castilleja species and their probable hosts determined using 3 different methods.
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John Hodge @jghodge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As someone a bit earlier on in their career I gotta say I can’t thank the #botany2026 committee (and the @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social and D&S subsections) for letting me lead a symposium, it was a fantastic opportunity and I feel like a lot of great conversations were had (and connections made!)
Conference room showing me leading off the Eco-Evo-Devo symposium
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can you believe that #Botany2026 is already over? There were so many fantastic student presentations! Today we will be recognizing the winners of our student presentation awards! Make sure to check them all out on our page! #bsaecophys #physfam
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s really good.
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#PlantPeopleFTW features audio from 25 groups of plant peeps who submitted clips. Here’s #3, sent by some of the botany/herbarium gang at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Full track by Doc Martine and the Botaneers now available for streaming/download everywhere! #iamabotanist #botany2026
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Plant People FTW” includes audio from 25 groups of plant peeps who sent me video clips. Here’s the 2nd of 25, sent by the Morrow Farm at Bucknell University. Full track by Doc Martine and the Botaneers now available for streaming/download everywhere! #plantpeopleFTW #iamabotanist #botany2026
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Plant People FTW” includes audio from 25 groups of plant peeps who sent me video clips. Here’s the 1st of 25, feat. the @kheyduk.bsky.social Lab at the UConn. Full track by Doc Martine and the Botaneers now available for streaming/download everywhere! #plantpeopleFTW #iamabotanist #botany2026
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Blue Beehive Studio @bluebeehivestudio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you #Botany2026! Our donation-post-conference tradition continues! $300 went to A4TE (Advocates for Trans Equality), and $100 went to the The Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter & Sanctuary in Tucson, AZ. Please visit their sites to learn more about what they do! #sciart #PlantPeopleFTW
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Campbell Hauschild @ca-haus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Had the privilege of attending #Botany2026 last week to present the last of my work with Mentzelia! Got to connect with current and former members of the #LagoLab, as well as some old friends from OU! So excited to be joining such an outstanding community of researchers at LSU!! #plantpeopleFTW
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