🍃 Science out of the lab and into the night 🌙
Honoured to present our research on plant diversity at #MEDNIGHT !

#PlantDiversity #PlantScience #PublicEngagement #ResearchOutreach

You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿

One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.

Just back from the Sino-French International Research Network on Biodiversity (SF-IRN-B) Summer School held in Yunnan, China🌿
Huge thanks to CAS, @cnrs.fr, & organizers for this exceptional event! Congrats to all participants for your curiosity!
#Biodiversity #Yunnan #SummerSchool #ClimateChanges

When it's been a really long day of parenting...

You're doing a great job, Mama 🧡

Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏

If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪

Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD

I had the pleasure of taking part in The Mediterranean Researchers' Night #MEDNIGHT and organizing a workshop with
🍃Murielle Droissart @plantnet.bsky.social
🌴Anne-Laure Decombeix @aldpaleo.bsky.social
🌿Gaëlle Viennois
Grateful to Genopolys and to all who joined!🌸

#WomenInScience #Botany

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive
#botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae

🌱Budding plant architects 🌱
@hugobonnaudet.bsky.social
exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺
@umontpellier.bsky.social
@umramap.bsky.social

#PlantArchitecture #Botany

#EBDSeminars

🔸Camila Benavides-Frías (Social-Ecological Systems Institute SESI)

🔹Food comes from agroecosystems: the role of agriculture for the reproductive of life

📅Thursday, 18th September. 13h CEST

Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGf...

Very proud of @yuansoup.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter published- a synthesis that started due to travel restrictions from COVID-19 but turned out to be very insightful, highlighting the botanical consequences of defaunation 🦜🦣🥑🥭

Did you know that wild plant harvesting is an ancient practice that remains vital—from medicine to food and cosmetics? 🌿
Yet its ecological impact is overlooked. In a new study, we assessed 692 species in France (12% of the flora) to uncover drivers and conservation gaps.
#WildPlants #Conservation

New paper online by @vincyane-badouard.bsky.social et al. @umramap.bsky.social in Agriculture and Forest Meteorology: "Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.