Heidi and I have written a blog post about the botanical Wiki outreach we and several of our Wiki colleagues have been undertaking. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/02/11/wiki-for-botanists-why-thematic-engagement-matters/ #Botany #Botanists #Wikipedia #Wikidata #WikimediaCommons

How do field biologists in dense tropical forests photograph the fruits and leaves of very tall trees from the ground?
#fieldbiology #fieldbiologists #botany #botanists #photography #naturephotography #plantphotography #wildlifephotography #photographers #plantsurveys #telephotolenses #tropicalforests #trees #rainforests

Was lucky and am very proud to collaborate with three colleagues Heidi Meudt, Sabine von Mering and Joaquim Santos to produce a paper on #Wikidata and #botanists A blog about our collaboration can be found here. https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/07/14/the-power-and-potential-of-wikidata-for-botany/

@glyph

Repost your post with the second paragraph turned into #hashtags

#biophilia #biology #biologyGeek #Botanists #entomologists #mycologists #whereAreYou

no algorthms on mastodon except hashtags, nothing is steered to your eyes, nothing takes your posts to biologists, except hashtags.

and boosts.

boost a lot, be the algorthm, hashtag a lot, its the #mastodon system

A paper I collaborated on has just been published! The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70050 #Women #Botanists #Wikidata

Hey #botanists of Fedi - tell me about the COOLEST sounding plant deceases that you know of because I heard there are some really awesome shit you have decided to call these things!

I mean the stuff that could be straight out of a druid's spell book, thank you!

#plants

Scientists Uncover #NewSpecies of Sunflower in Big Bend National Park, Texas https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/california-academy-of-sciences-and-partners-uncover-new-sunflower-species-in-big-bend paper by Debra Manley et al. https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/137624/

"The 'wooly devil' is the 1st new plant genus discovered in a US national park in ~50 years... The plant was first observed by park volunteer Deb Manley, who promptly uploaded the unknown species to #iNaturalist, where an international community of #botanists assembled to identify the mysterious flower"

#Plants #CitizenScience #Bloomscrolling

"In 1941, as Nazi forces laid siege to #Leningrad, a group of #SovietBotanists faced an unthinkable choice: eat their life’s work, a rare seed bank, or starve to death. This is the dilemma at the heart of #SimonParkin’s story about the world's first seed bank and its dedicated #botanists."

#EurasianKnot welcomes the author of #TheForbiddenGarden
https://soundcloud.com/euraknot/ek057

#SiegeOfLeningrad #WWII #SovietHistory #SovietScience #SeedBanks #biodiversity #NikolaiVavilov #books @bookstodon @histodons

Played my 1st game of #Botanists and I really loved how movement and tile collection and placement was handled. Lots of tough and interesting decisions but I think the scoring seemed a little dry somehow. Might be something that can be fixed with a small expansion or a minor house rule. I gotta play it again. #bgstats

#Botanists Stumble Upon Unique #Exotic #Flower in the #Philippines

https://scitechdaily.com/completely-new-to-science-botanists-stumble-upon-unique-exotic-flower-in-the-philippines/

#Botanists of Mastodon: I am interested in doing a survey of a shrub here in Pōneke, in order to publish on it status; no one has surveyed it in this area since 1986. I am unfamiliar with best practices for doing a botanical survey.

Anyone have any good books or guides on how to do this well and thoroughly? Specifically, in two small parks - how do I lay out the ground, count plants, etc.

RT for reach if your followers are #academics or botanists.

#Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/01/kew-botanic-gardens-study-33-dark-spots-plant-species-identification-unknown-biodiversity- paper: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20024

"From a palm tree in #Borneo that flowers underground to a Malagasy #orchid that spends its life growing on other #plants, researchers are still making dozens of #NewSpecies discoveries every year... a new project led by #KewGardens is highlighting parts of the world where botanists should be concentrating their search."

The national flower of #Sweden is the Campanula rotundifolia. In England we know it by its common name of Harebell, but in Sweden it is the Liten Blåklocka, or Little Bluebell. Found these on a forest walk near Uppsala. Botanising in a different country really highlights how Linnaeus’ system of classification revolutionised #botany, as #botanists from all over the world can now be confident that they are talking about the same plant, no matter what it is called in their own locality.
#WildflowerHour #BloomScrolling #Sverige

A #Climate #Story Through #Thyme : Medium

Many plant names are offensive: #Botanists will vote on whether to change them : Nature

How incredibly simple tech can #Supercharge the race to net zero : New Sci

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

#Botanists vote to remove #racist reference from #plants’ #scientific names

https://ground.news/article/hundreds-of-racist-plant-names-will-change-after-historic-vote-by-botanists_69bd35?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

#Botanists attending the International Botanical Congress are invited to our #Wikidata workshop on Sunday 21st July from Noon, Colón room, at IFEMA Madrid. You can no longer register on the website.
BUT, if you are interested, JOIN US ANYWAY!
We welcome Wikidata curious conference participants. #IBC2024

The Guardians of Earth’s Most Grotesque Flowers
https://atmos.earth/rafflesia-guardians-give-endangered-corpse-flower-new-life/

"A motley crew of #Rafflesia enthusiasts are racing against the clock to save the #CorpseFlower—the largest flower in the world—from #extinction... Each species smells different—#botanists don’t know why—and each #flower is either female or male and needs to bloom simultaneously with its counterpart to reproduce in 24 hours before it starts rotting. Nobody can predict where, when, and if it’ll bloom again after that."

_The Evening Post_, 4 Feb 1924:
                  PERSONAL MATTERS
…
Mr. G. H. Cunningham, of the Biological section of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, has accepted an appointment in the Department of Agriculture of Ceylon.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240204.2.81
Biography in the DNZB https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4c47/cunningham-gordon-herriot
Obituary with a note about Ceylon (p. 22) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1964.0002
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Scientists #Botanists #PlantPathologists #Mycologists #NewZealand

Life in the wild has important factors to botanists
#life #science #botanists #tourism #tourists
https://www.mtemwapoetry.blog/2024/01/a-beauty-who-lives-in-middle-of-forest.html

An international team of researchers around #botanists at the University of Vienna, Austria, has now analyzed the morphological diversity of #fossilized #flowers and compared it with the diversity of living species.
#Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/12/bio12142302.html