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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Oxalis debilis 'Aureoreticulata' is infected with a begomovirus that gives it the gold venation. It’s one of the rare cases in which a viral infection increases the aesthetic value of a plant (cf. Tulip breaking virus). #Oxalidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a group of trifoliolate leaves. Most of the leaflets have yellow venation. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/06/2026

I just want to point out that temperatures over land (where we all live) have warmed over twice as fast as ocean surface temperatures. The latest update through 2025 is... not great 🥴 Graphic created by www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...

Line graph time series of land surface temperature and sea surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025 relative to a 1880-1920 baseline. Land areas are warming at 0.28°C/decade from 1970-2010, while sea surface temperatures are warming at 0.11°C decade. Graphic shows the linear trends over these periods. Land temperatures reached well over 2.0°C above the 1880-1920 baseline in 2025. Data is from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've got a better idea @nytimes.com. How 'bout we stop digging up and burning fossil fuels 🤔

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 20/04/2026

"Peng said the long-term goal in Taipei and New Taipei is for commuters to be able to leave an MRT station and reach their workplace without walking through long stretches of exposed pavement. He said trees should be treated as climate infrastructure, not only as landscaping."

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Taiwan plans urban forest expansion to cool cities | Taiwan News | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22

Environment minister says 10-year plan aims to add shade, reduce heat risk | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Link to article: www.int-res.com/journals/esr... Learn more about TurtleSpot Taiwan: turtlespottw.org TurtleSpot Taiwan do great work on Taiwan's sea turtle ecology and conservation, proving citizen science and conservation make great partners! #Taiwan

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Taiwan's sea turtles face many anthropogenic threats, from drift net entanglement to boat strikes. New research from TurtleSpot Taiwan co-founder Dr. Chialing Fong & Academia Sinica highlights the long road to recovery these turtles face. #conservation #Taiwan www.taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-...

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Injured Sea Turtles Spend Hundreds of Days Recovering in the Wild - TaiwanPlus

Injured sea turtles can take years to recover in the wild, prompting conservationists to urge the government to take stronger action to protect these marine animals.

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Injured Sea Turtles Spend Hundreds of Days Recovering in the Wild - TaiwanPlus

Injured sea turtles can take years to recover in the wild, prompting conservationists to urge the government to take stronger action to protect these marine animals.

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Ben Young Landis @younglandis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Friends: Do you know Taiwan-based scientists? I'm running a survey for AAAS seeking researchers, faculty, postdocs, graduate students in #Taiwan #台灣 to understand everyone's interest in #SciComm outreach to journalists and the media. Please share with your network! bit.ly/eurekatw #ScienceinTaiwan 🧪

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Excited to share my research on the drivers of spatial distribution patterns in parasitic plants - March 4th, Biodiversity Research Center of Academia Sinica, #Taiwan. Come learn about the evolution of these enigmatic plants, their spatial patterns, & their conservation outlook.

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

International coral reef symposium June 6-7, 2026 @ Kaohsiung, #Taiwan Registration is open for presentations or to just come and watch and learn and enjoy some amazing marine research!

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Aziz J Mulla @azizjmulla.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations" Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show: 🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery 🪸Later recruits failed to survive 🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations - Coral Reefs

Reef recovery following a disturbance largely depends on successful coral recruitment and the absence of chronic stressors. However, recent recovery events show increasing homogenization, with dominan...

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Crystal McRae @crystaljmcrae.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A big congrats to Botanical Wonders!

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Crystal McRae @crystaljmcrae.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Come join us in Kaohsiung June 6-7 for the 'Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs'. We have a great lineup of speakers and an array of sessions to join! Early bird registration is available until March 8th. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. tiscr2026.weebly.com

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TISCR 2026

The Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs is hosted by the Taiwanese Coral Reef Society and will be held at National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) on June 6th and 7th, 2026....

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It is an honour to have our work with Botanical Wonders recognized by the Taste Awards in the "Breakout Storytellers of the Year" category. A giant thank you to all involved in creating the series and to all who watched and loved our series - #Taiwan has so many more stories to tell! #Taiwan

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan. Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem. #Taiwan www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...

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What This Tree Means To Indigenous Culture ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube! Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily. youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...

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How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload) Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest. A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore! #Taiwan #botany #forest youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...

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How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

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Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment

Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.

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Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

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Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Neobartsia mutica is another hemiparasite. It has a broad distribution across South America (I recently saw it in the Andes of Peru). Like so many of these hemiparasites, it has showy flowers. This one may be adapted to hummingbird pollination. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a hand grasping a small, leafy plant with reddish leaves and terminal racemes of pink, tubular flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC4.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

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Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative

Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.

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How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It blows my mind that red-&-black fruits and seeds are attractive, but red-&-black insects are repellent (aposematic). In dispersal, as in life, context is everything! 📷1: Ripe fruits of Pinanga malaiana (#Arecaceae). 📷2: red-spotted stink bug, Jose Amorin CCBYNCSA2. #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a cluster of black palm fruits (drupes) hanging on red, dangling stalks.

A close-up photo of a bug climbing on a plant shoot. The bug is all black with red spots.

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Gary Sands @yangguizi.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Of the reported cases, 50 people were “disappeared” after entering China, 19 were detained and 119 had their movement restricted in some form, the MAC said on social media on Wednesday. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

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Nine Taiwanese a month vanish or held in China - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Kolas Yotaka @kolas-yotaka.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Without clear planning and sustained coordination with the US, Taiwan will struggle to keep pace with China’s advances and regional stability will suffer. More critically, failure by Taiwan to skillfully manage internal political contradictions will weaken Taipei’s credibility and reputation abroad.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/09/2025

President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post

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Trump Halts $400 Million in Taiwan Military Aid, Post Reports

President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post.

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What This Tree Means To Indigenous Culture ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

And so we choose to do battle against the forces of darkness,
#ghting back against a malevolent movement that represents all that
is bad in the world— fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny,
and bigotry— a movement that uses antiscienti#c disinformation as
its preferred weapon. We do this not because our success is guaranteed.
Given the forces mobilized against us, we are clearly the underdog.
And no white wizard will come to our rescue. But we have truth
and justice on our side. And the stakes simply couldn’t be greater. We
#ght for a livable planet, for us, our children, and future generations.
Because it’s worth #ghting for.8

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We're excited to see that #ScienceUnderSiege has broken the top 1000 on Amazon. Please consider purchasing from e.g. @barnesandnoble.com or your local independent bookseller (or ask your local library to acquire). Thanks!

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

New BOTANICAL WONDERS episode on YT: Paper mulberry Used for food (leaves, fruit), rope (bark, roots), tool handles (wood), ..., throughout the Pacific, recent work has shown that - just like Austronesian languages - it too has an "out of Taiwan" history! youtu.be/i235W7_arqg?... #Tawan

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This Tree Is Culturally Significant. Here's Why. ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 04/09/2025

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New Episode on YT: Taiwan Sugar Palm! Found in the understory of Taiwan's forests, 'Arenga engleri' is a palm species with multiple important roles in Taiwan. In this episode of Botanical Wonders we explore it's ecology & its role in hunting and fishing! youtu.be/opgJjoxQtkY?... #Taiwan #ecology

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How This Plant Links Culture and the Land ǀ Botanical Wonders

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 02/09/2025

China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone – The Guardian: ‘However, there is no sign of the Taiwan government having responded to it, despite frequently enforcing its EEZ elsewhere.’

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China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone

Exclusive: Experts say the move could be part of Beijing’s ‘greyzone’ grab for disputed territory

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Going, going, almost gone...

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Cauliflory (nothing to do with the vegetable) Often flowers (which become fruit) grow from positions on branches, often as individual flowers of various forms of flower clusters. In some trees, the flowers grow directly on the trunk, like Baccaurea sp. (left) and many figs (Ficus; right)

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

New Episode: Botanical Wonders Coastal forests are a unique ecosystems where ocean meets land & land meets ocean. Globally, these forests have faced severe decline. However, the species that call this enigmatic ecosystem home can teach us about resilience & innovation. youtu.be/SIDNLVZR25A?...

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How These Plants Protect the Coastline | Botanical Wonders

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Forest treasures: If you slow (and look!) down, there are captivating stories unfolding all over the forest floor. Names of these mycological treasures: Marasmiaceae, Amanita, Cryptotrama, Unknown [infecting fruit of Barringtonia sp., probably racemosa] #vietnam #mycology #fungi

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish. I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).

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Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

How to eat a tree (and other woody matter): Digesting lignin/cellulose in woody material is tough. To make them consumable, termites evolved 2 main strategies. Internal digestion (most termites): gut bacteria digests External digestion (Macrotermitinae): cultivate fungi to digest it for you!

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