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Ksenija Jakovljević
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Plant ecologist 🧡🍀🐕
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johnfen1.bsky.social
With a generous smudge of yellow, Field Pansy brightening up a damp rain lashed day on a Lincolnshire field of Barley stubble #WildflowerHour
Creamy coloured Field Pansy with a dark veined yellow lower petal against a backdrop of damp soil littered with limestone shards and barley stubble
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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heidelyn.bsky.social
In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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christhorogood.bsky.social
Today in Sumatra we found forest ghost flowers (Aeginetia sp.). This leafless, parasitic plant has no need for sunlight and blossoms unseen in the very depths of the forest.
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

AI‐based identification of Chinese vascular plants from herbarium specimens: a tool for all herbaria with Chinese holdings 🇨🇳

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70443
AI‐based identification of Chinese vascular plants from herbarium specimens: a tool for all herbaria with Chinese holdings
Documenting the geographic ranges of the World's > 350 000 named species of vascular plants requires artificial intelligence (AI) because there are insufficient experts to speedily identify dried pl...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ksenijaj.bsky.social
Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic www.biographic.com/critical-min...
Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic
Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?
www.biographic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
I spend too much time pulling this annual weed from my garden in autumn: It’s Phyllanthus urinaria. At 1st glance, it looks like a single stem with pinnately compound leaves. Look again. The axillary flowers & fruits prove these “leaves” are branches. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a small, herbaceous plant with short, indeterminate branches bearing small, elliptical leaves. The branches look like pinnately compound leaves. Small, green fruits dangle in the leaf axils, so we know these are leaves, not leaflets. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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botanicaserbica.bsky.social
Check out karyological studies and taxonomic notes for some representatives of Crocus biflorus aggregate (Iridaceae) at cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/arhiva/pdf/2... #openaccess
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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ianwaters78.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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scifri.bsky.social
What has external gills, a perma-smile, and a limb-regenerating superpower? The axolotl, of course! These salamanders are popular research subjects, but their wild habitat is down to just one lake—and the race to save them is mounting.
Inside The Race To Save Wild Axolotls
Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City is the only place where axolotls live in the wild, and they face growing threats.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
ksenijaj.bsky.social
R that I like
cborstell.bsky.social Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 17d
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")

#RStats #ggplot2
A density plot with added eyes and mouth to resemble a ghost and a title saying Happy Halloween in a spooky font
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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popsci.com
*best Nick Cave impersonation*

Release the b-b-b-b-bats!

www.popsci.com/environment/...
This tiny bat is one of the world's deadliest hunters
Lions wish they killed this well.
www.popsci.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ksenijaj.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ksenijaj.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS!

Submission deadline for the ICSE Proceedings extended to 31 December 2025

Find more details and previous issues here: sites.google.com/mie-u.ac.jp/...

#ICSE2025Kyoto #SerpentineEcology #UltramaficEcology

@ecologicalresearch.bsky.social
ICSE2025 Kyoto - Proceeding Submission (special issues on Ecological Research)
Call for Proceedings Papers issued by Ecological Research
sites.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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annbot.bsky.social
🎉🆕📰🎉: Parasitic plants show striking convergence in host preference across angiosperm lineages
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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sphagnums.bsky.social
Sphagnum strictum (green), rubellum (red) and subnitens (orange) #moss #bryophyte
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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journalofecology.bsky.social
🌳 How do Fabaceae plants allocate nutrients above vs. belowground across China? We found divergent leaf–root nutrient allometries and a dominant role of phylogeny in nutrient variation, except for leaf P & K, which were driven by climate! 🌞

Read here:https://buff.ly/7eO9fir
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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plantlifeuk.bsky.social
This tiny rare moss was believed extinct in the UK, until its rediscovery in 2003. After recent ID training in the Cairngorms, volunteers, landowners & experts found Aspen Bristle-moss populations have doubled!🌿

Read the full story - https://loom.ly/V3tHfI8

📷Gus Routledge

#NationalMossDay
Top down view of Aspen Bristle Moss green tufts. A close-up side view of Aspen Bristle Moss and its small, green leaves that taper from the base and finish with pointed tips.
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬

Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Morphology of Phlebodium pseudoaureum. (A) A fertile frond of Phlebodium with attached sori. (B) An individual sporangium. (C–L) Representative images of gametophytes at different days after inoculation onto growth medium: (C) 20, (D) 31, (E) 86, (F–J) 111, (K) 133, and (L) 129. Arrows in (G–K) indicate meristem notches. The dashed circle in (L) highlights a cluster of multiple meristems and prothalli derived from a single gametophyte body. Scale bars are 5 mm in (A, L) and 100 μm in (B–K). The gametophyte shown in (I) developed independent new meristems (arrows); the one on the left is also shown in Supplementary Fig. S2C. The images shown in (C–E) and in (F–K) are representative of at least 40 and 12 independent gametophytes observed during the developmental stages, respectively.
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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ipbes.net
🐸 More than 40% of amphibian species, like the Pickersgill's Reed Frog, are currently threatened, according to the IPBES #GlobalAssessment.

This highlights why global conservation efforts matter. Understanding and acting for our planet's biodiversity is more crucial than ever.
Close-up of a Pickersgill's Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli), a small, bright green frog with smooth skin, sitting on a brown surface. The frog has large, round, dark eyes with a golden outline. Photo credit: Nick Evans.
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ksenijaj.bsky.social
Oh, yes 🙂
October 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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journalofecology.bsky.social
🌲 Eastern Hemlock is a strikingly beautiful forest tree native to eastern North America. Sadly, it is susceptible to an insect from Japan, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Warmer winters allow the insect to survive so the outlook for this tree is poor🐛

📖Read the full article here: buff.ly/Jns3NrD
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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awallner.bsky.social
Beware of this dangerous animal! Roar! I photographed this turtle in a pond in Sofia. 😂
#photography #turtle #sofia #sony #bulgaria
A water turtle turning towards us, opening its mouth wide on a small island in the ground, barely bigger than itself, in a pond. ©Aw
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ewacat.bsky.social
nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
www.science.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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jameststroud.bsky.social
@jblosos.bsky.social and I (and, it turns out, many other lizard biologists!) kept seeing wild lizards with missing legs/hands/feet.

How do they survive? Surely natural selection would weed out these unfortunate individuals?

Perhaps not...🦎🦵

theconversation.com/3-legged-liz...
3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild
Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
🌲 We're not out of the woods just yet: Deer tick season lasts through November in much of the U.S. While there's still no human vaccine for the Lyme disease they carry, a new shot aims to stop ticks from biting in the first place.
Instead Of A Vaccine For Lyme, How About A Vaccine For Ticks?
When ticks bite us, they release thousands of proteins through their saliva. Could a vaccine for the right ones stop ticks from latching on?
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM