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Mark Hughes
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Taxonomy Research Leader (Southeast Asia) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/staff/tropical-diversity/dr-mark-hughes/
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markhughesis.bsky.social
Begonia is now up to 2200 accepted species!
padme.rbge.org.uk/Begonia/
Homepage of the Begonia Resource Centre, a database for Begonia nomenclature and specimens
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Mark Hughes
sandyheth.bsky.social
Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social
Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇
The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social
youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...
The Origin and Evolution of Botanical Spirals | Sandy Hetherington
YouTube video by Linnean Society
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December 20, 2024 at 2:09 PM
markhughesis.bsky.social
AI 10 day forecasts massively outperform numerical prediction
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GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting
Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minute
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December 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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msundue.bsky.social
"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 3, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Mark Hughes
bjenquist.bsky.social
The biodiversity data deluge is here - the equivalent of #MooresLaw but for biodiversity data? "we estimated that the total number of plant distribution records doubles every 17 years and the number of spatially unique records doubles every 21 years." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌎🧪🦋🦫
patial and taxonomic coverage of terrestrial plant occurrence data. Georeferenced plant observations, as illustrated by observation dates in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; the largest biodiversity informatics infrastructure), have increased exponentially over the past 200 years (panels a, b), though the number of species recorded in these databases is reaching saturation (panel c). By integrating additional data sources compiled by Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN; i.e., non-GBIF sources comprising ~15 million records; panel d), the georeferenced plant observations in GBIF can be expanded by an additional ~4 million spatially unique records (panel e) and ~20,000 species (panel f). Still, the gaps in plant distributions warrant our attention: areas in Russia, central Asia, and northern Africa (red colour in panel g) are missing publicly available occurrences. The grey colour in panel (g) represents the presence of plant data, and the black colour represents ice-covered areas
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by Mark Hughes
ashish-malik.bsky.social
I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network.

e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
Trees in an upland valley in Scotland, UK
November 25, 2024 at 11:15 AM
markhughesis.bsky.social
This beautiful triptych of Sabal mexicana has taken over from the titan arum in the foyer of the botanics recently. Wonderful to see this on the way to ones office 😍
www.rbge.org.uk/news/article...
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A large triptych of a palm tree, Sabal mexicana, in watercolour
November 25, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Mark Hughes
anonopin.bsky.social
Houseplants as Warhammer 40k units:

HQ: begonias
Troops: pothos
Elite: Philodendron
Fast attack: calathea
Heavy support: monstera delicosia.
November 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Reposted by Mark Hughes
alanelliott.bsky.social
The WFO Consortium welcomes engagement by the international taxonomic community to create and join TENs.

Find out more about existing and how to form new TENs.
about.worldfloraonline.org/tens
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November 12, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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petermoonlight.bsky.social Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · Nov 13
Time to revive the #BegoniaOfTheWeek from the heyday of twitter. Each week I'll tweet a Begonia species, with no agenda. Whatever species caught my attention that week.

This is Colombian cloud forest endemic Begonia ferruginea. Giant (probably) hummingbird pollinated flowers. What more do you want?
Pistillate inflorescence of Begonia ferruginea Staminate inflorescence of Begonia ferruginea Staminate flower of Begonia ferruginea, with one tepal removed to show the stamens Staminate inflorescence of Begonia ferruginea
November 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM