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David Moscato @dmos150.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

At long last, @paleolorax.bsky.social gives us her Plant-Based History of the Earth!

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Leaf It To Us Podcast @leafittouspod.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Episode 3 - What's Inside a Pinecone? Out now! Featuring an animated discussion about these CT-scan images from the Regents of the University of Michigan.

CT-scan image of a pinecone, showing the internal structure and positions of seeds within.

CT-scan image of a pinecone, showing the external structure.

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Leaf It To Us Podcast @leafittouspod.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Episode 1 - Sex-Changing Plants! Nora brings along some surprising news about trees that spontaneously changed sex, and Aly explains how plant sex works and what makes a tree suddenly swap from male to female. leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/episode-1-...

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Episode 1 - Sex-Changing Plants | Leaf it to Us

Nora brings along some surprising news about trees that spontaneously changed sex, and Aly explains how plant sex works and what makes a tree suddenly swap from male to female. Support us on Patreon: ...

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Leaf It To Us Podcast @leafittouspod.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Episode 2 - Houseplants vs Housepets Why are so many of our favorite houseplants so dangerous to our pets? Nora and Aly investigate the antagonism between plants and animals and share some of their favorite stories of plants vs pets. leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/episode-2-...

A close up of a houseplant on a desk whose leaves have a bunch of little holes in them that are roughly the size and shape of cat teeth. Text says "I wonder how these holes got here?"

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Common Descent @commondescentpod.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨 New Podcast Alert! 🚨 If you - like Nora and Aly - feel that we don't talk enough about plants, we've got great news!

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Leaf It To Us Podcast @leafittouspod.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hello! Leaf it to Us is a podcast about the science of plants and their importance to us humans! Leaf it to Us is a descendant of @commondescentpod.bsky.social. They don't talk enough about plants, so we have BRANCHED off and said "Leaf it to Us!"

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'll be giving a free public lecture tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the Botanical Club of Wisconsin. The lecture is online and open to anyone; join us at the zoom link below if you're interested in learning more about oaks! 16 Apr 2025, 6:30 PM Central Time (US / Canada) uwmadison.zoom.us/j/91623580182

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Common Descent @commondescentpod.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We’re proud to announce a new podcast, Leaf it to Us, hosted by Nora Spurling and Aly Baumgartner! As a special preview, the pilot episode and its accompanying bonus episode are both now out on the Common Descent podcast feed! Take a listen and let us know what you think!

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James Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In celebration of my monograph being accepted for publication, here's some images of everyone's favourite New York state fossil, Eurypterus, for #FossilFriday! Even among these standard compression fossils, the detail on the cuticle is exceptional. ⚒️🧪

A photograph of Eurypterus, a pretty good eurypterid known from many fossils. This fossil preserves the head, upper body, and some of the legs, including a spiny leg on the left and the broad paddles at the back. The fossil is a dark grey on a light grey rock, and is speckled with dark patches of cuticle and yellow patched of pyrite.

A closeup of the head of a fossil of Eurypterus, preserved as a red-brown. The median eyes can be seen as little round dots, with the bean-shaped lateral eyes either side. The outline of the ventral plates, which open up to allow the animal to molt, can be seen underlying the carapace.

A closeup of the view of a paddle of Eurypterids, preserved as a red-brown cuticle on a cream-coloured rock. The intricate joints of the appendage are shown, along with some darker lines of scales.

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is a pro honey locust account

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in #herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation New #AppsPlantSci research by Ariouat, Sklab, Prifti, Zucker & Chenin bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ird-fr.bsky.social #botany #DeepLearning

Composite image showing herbarium specimen segmentation and heatmaps indicating key regions influencing plant trait identification. The segmented image (bottom left) improves model focus, leading to more accurate classification results (bottom right). Image credit: Hanane Ariouat and Youcef Sklab.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The first mistake the girl makes is to be herself. The second is to cower.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

top four deranged Australian plants, a thread: 1. the tree that kills you instantly by dropping a 5kg/11lb cone on your head (Araucaria bidwelli) www.botanicgardens.org.au/discover-and...

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5 kilogram nuts come crashing down at Australia’s largest botanic garden | Botanic Gardens of Sydney

Summer heralds the sounds of loud thuds at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, as the Bunya Pine begin to drop their cones.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

OK it actually seems pretty isolated, re NSF panel cancellation. Currently, only four panels in the next few months are listed as cancelled. new.nsf.gov/events/propo...

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Proposal Review Panels

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

BIG NEWS: Violet Lichen and Apex Book Company are launching a new annual anthology! 🥂📚🍄 ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Eco-fiction, will showcase a collection of standout ecofiction published within the previous year. Story nominations open January 27th! Check the attached post for details!

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The map's form: leaves – small It shows: comparative Its purpose: to speculate

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Literati Bookstore @literatibookstore.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes, we are open today. Yes, we have the new Rebecca Yarros. Yes, we are a good place to go if you want to decentralize your shopping because you’re tired of billionaires determining our society. Yes, bookstores are the original Book Tok. Yes, books can make us feel better.

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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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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Textbooks claim that the boreal region is species poor. This is FALSE. There is a tremendous amount of cryptic biodiversity in the moss and lichen species that literally blanket the north. We just need to slow down and respect the fairy forests.

Image of Polytrichum moss sporophytes that rise above green moss and white lichen.

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The map's form: heat map It shows: subspecies Its purpose: to be relative

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

She is worm-sturdy.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The house, like the girl, is an object of admiration to frogs.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The map's form: mushroom It shows: species Its purpose: sacred

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Dr. Aly Baumgartner @paleolorax.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’d just like to talk to Past Me about all the things on my calendar in January. It’s A LOT.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The map's form: model It shows: species Its purpose: allegorical

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Only one team beat Alabama twice in 2024… Go blue, baby ! What a way to bookend a year 💙

Michigan beats Alabama in the Rose Bowl Jan 1 2024 - JJ McCarthy is muggin 🌹

Michigan beats Alabama in the who gives $@!# bowl on Dec 31 2024 - a bunch of second stringers take down the tide 😆

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Apparently K-Pg mass extinction also had a significant impact on plants "plant communities experienced major restructuring, that is, changes in relative abundance and unseating of dominant groups..even though no major..plant groups went extinct" doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology

Rarefaction curves of plant fossil species diversity from three formations: HC (Cretaceous), TM1 -immediately after extinction. TM2 - recovery.

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The map's form: fossilized It shows: terrain Its purpose: to pursue

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The map's form: lichen It shows: buildings Its purpose: a quest

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Chris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Thanks to @rommel5patton.bsky.social, this screen grab of a Dwarf Tapir skull from the Gray Fossil Site and used in Indiana Jones will go into all of my talks about "unforeseen benefits of museum digitization"

Fossil tapir skull on a stand in a creepy blue light

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Dr. Aly Baumgartner @paleolorax.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Alright y’all, no botanical emergencies until after the new year, okay?

The grey door of the University of Michigan Herbarium. A sign says “Please make sure this door closes behind you … or the plants might escape..” beside decorative “escaping vines”. Another sign says “The herbarium will be closed from December 24th through January 2nd”.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

alt text: a mural of a large blue beetle with darker blue spots, with the slogan in red "impressive bug for you to admire". it is indeed impressive, and i do very much admire it.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The map's form: membrane It shows: plants Its purpose: cartomancy

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The map's form: guidelines It shows: plants Its purpose: to warn

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The map's form: fossilized It shows: subspecies Its purpose: a quest

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of my favorite #insects. Draeculacephala inscripta the water lettuce leafhopper. Look at that amazing #Dracula face on the scutellum. You can't unsee it when you spot it. #horror #hemiptera #insectwonders The genus name translates to Dracula head

Close-up of leafhopper scutellum which markings resemble the face of Dracula

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Dr. Aly Baumgartner @paleolorax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I like to joke that VP-3 is the love of my life and the bane of my existence. Such a beautiful mosasaur but dealing with that exhibit is a NIGHTMARE.

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Phenology-on-a-map, by the amazing May Theilgaard Watts, 1943, The Morton Arboretum.

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