The Mad Botanist, PhD 🌲🧬🧪 🇪🇺
@rnemanya.bsky.social
🌱#iamabotanist, plant lover, lab rat, #PhD; studying 👨🔬 #chemotaxonomy & #phylogeny of 🌲#conifers & 🌼#angiosperms. Associate professor at Faculty of Biology Belgrade University
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nemanja-Rajcevic
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Only thing good about November is Parrotia persica bursting with colour! Everything else is just too depressing.
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Only thing good about November is Parrotia persica bursting with colour! Everything else is just too depressing.
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Purple Beard Orchid (Calochilus robertsonii) near Gipsy Point, East Gippsland, VIC. The flowers are fairly small at this location but they generally feature some of the bushiest beards of the local Calochilus. Only saw the one plant out this year in a dry spring #Orchids #OzPlants #InTheField
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Purple Beard Orchid (Calochilus robertsonii) near Gipsy Point, East Gippsland, VIC. The flowers are fairly small at this location but they generally feature some of the bushiest beards of the local Calochilus. Only saw the one plant out this year in a dry spring #Orchids #OzPlants #InTheField
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As it’s the season for ghostly apparitions here’s a few Epipogium spotted in France earlier this year.. oooooo 👻
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
As it’s the season for ghostly apparitions here’s a few Epipogium spotted in France earlier this year.. oooooo 👻
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Genetically engineered color-changing Arabidopsis 🧬📷- attempt #3
I think I finally nailed it with this one.
I think I finally nailed it with this one.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Genetically engineered color-changing Arabidopsis 🧬📷- attempt #3
I think I finally nailed it with this one.
I think I finally nailed it with this one.
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Nepeta glomerulosa Boiss.
Lamiaceae
Yasuj, Iran, August 2025
Altitude: 3100m
#nepeta #Lamiaceae #wildflowers #botany
Lamiaceae
Yasuj, Iran, August 2025
Altitude: 3100m
#nepeta #Lamiaceae #wildflowers #botany
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Nepeta glomerulosa Boiss.
Lamiaceae
Yasuj, Iran, August 2025
Altitude: 3100m
#nepeta #Lamiaceae #wildflowers #botany
Lamiaceae
Yasuj, Iran, August 2025
Altitude: 3100m
#nepeta #Lamiaceae #wildflowers #botany
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Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society
Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
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The new issue of CPB is online. Front page
Anacamptis × nicodemi (Cirillo ex Ten.) B. Bock nothosubsp. nicodemi, photo Vladan Djordjević
cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/2025_49_2.html
Anacamptis × nicodemi (Cirillo ex Ten.) B. Bock nothosubsp. nicodemi, photo Vladan Djordjević
cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/2025_49_2.html
October 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The new issue of CPB is online. Front page
Anacamptis × nicodemi (Cirillo ex Ten.) B. Bock nothosubsp. nicodemi, photo Vladan Djordjević
cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/2025_49_2.html
Anacamptis × nicodemi (Cirillo ex Ten.) B. Bock nothosubsp. nicodemi, photo Vladan Djordjević
cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/2025_49_2.html
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Cypripedium montanum, an orchid native to western North America where it grows in montane habitats. With a range barely including California, this species is remarkable for being one of few Californian orchids having large flowers.
#cypripedium #calflora #uvivf #glowingflowers #fluorescent
#cypripedium #calflora #uvivf #glowingflowers #fluorescent
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Cypripedium montanum, an orchid native to western North America where it grows in montane habitats. With a range barely including California, this species is remarkable for being one of few Californian orchids having large flowers.
#cypripedium #calflora #uvivf #glowingflowers #fluorescent
#cypripedium #calflora #uvivf #glowingflowers #fluorescent
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Fantastic PhD opportunity to join myself, Nicola Patron and @lichmanlab.bsky.social in uncovering the biosynthesis and function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones. 4-year fully-funded combining molecular & engineering biology, & plant pathology.
Deadline Nov 25th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline Nov 25th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The biosynthesis and immunity function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones at Gatsby Charitable Foundation on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The biosynthesis and immunity function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones at Gatsby Charitable Foundation, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Fantastic PhD opportunity to join myself, Nicola Patron and @lichmanlab.bsky.social in uncovering the biosynthesis and function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones. 4-year fully-funded combining molecular & engineering biology, & plant pathology.
Deadline Nov 25th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline Nov 25th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Discovered 2024, variety of dogbane plant from Japan, Vincetoxicum nakaianum, exudes scent of alarmed ants. This attracts flies to pollinate plant's flowers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered
Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Discovered 2024, variety of dogbane plant from Japan, Vincetoxicum nakaianum, exudes scent of alarmed ants. This attracts flies to pollinate plant's flowers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🌲Check the newly published article ‘Needle length in pines as a key trait regulating hydraulic resistance’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Giovanni Bicego and co-authors 🧵(1/8)
👉 doi.org/p4hr
#AoBpaper #PlantScience #Botany #Forests #Ecophysiology #Conifers #TreeBiology
👉 doi.org/p4hr
#AoBpaper #PlantScience #Botany #Forests #Ecophysiology #Conifers #TreeBiology
September 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🌲Check the newly published article ‘Needle length in pines as a key trait regulating hydraulic resistance’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Giovanni Bicego and co-authors 🧵(1/8)
👉 doi.org/p4hr
#AoBpaper #PlantScience #Botany #Forests #Ecophysiology #Conifers #TreeBiology
👉 doi.org/p4hr
#AoBpaper #PlantScience #Botany #Forests #Ecophysiology #Conifers #TreeBiology
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Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"
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Explore new records and noteworthy data of plants, algae and fungi in SE Europe like Solorina bispora cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/arhiva/pdf/2... #botany #openaccess
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Explore new records and noteworthy data of plants, algae and fungi in SE Europe like Solorina bispora cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/arhiva/pdf/2... #botany #openaccess
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After 160 years, scientists in Sri Lanka have rediscovered Vanda thwaitesii, a delicate tropical Asian orchid, by referring to scientific drawings to make the connection.
Conservationists caution that this rediscovery does not mean recovery and call for urgent measures to safeguard floral heritage.
Conservationists caution that this rediscovery does not mean recovery and call for urgent measures to safeguard floral heritage.
After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid
COLOMBO — In the mist-wrapped folds of Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Mountain Range, a UNESCO-recognized world heritage site, where clouds softly wrap the rugged peaks in a soft embrace, a group of scientists…
news.mongabay.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
After 160 years, scientists in Sri Lanka have rediscovered Vanda thwaitesii, a delicate tropical Asian orchid, by referring to scientific drawings to make the connection.
Conservationists caution that this rediscovery does not mean recovery and call for urgent measures to safeguard floral heritage.
Conservationists caution that this rediscovery does not mean recovery and call for urgent measures to safeguard floral heritage.
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Corn Spurrey, Spergula arvensis. Up to 50cm. Sticky-hairy. Linear, blunt leaves up to 3cm. Short, silvery stipules. Small white flowers up to 7mm. 5 styles, 10 stamens
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Corn Spurrey, Spergula arvensis. Up to 50cm. Sticky-hairy. Linear, blunt leaves up to 3cm. Short, silvery stipules. Small white flowers up to 7mm. 5 styles, 10 stamens
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A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A unified cell atlas of vascular plants reveals cell-type foundational genes and accelerates gene discovery
A cross-species single-cell atlas highlights a core subset of cell-type foundational
genes associated with major vascular plant cell types, enabling the identification
of hidden cell types and the dev...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A great example of how comparative genomics across the full range of vascular plant lineages can be used as a catalyst for gene discovery!
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Exciting new single cell datasets for gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes!
The scale of this study is really amazing!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges.
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The grave risks for science as the whole of leaving fundamental scientific infrastructure in the hands of for-profit capitalist company. Essential scholarly services should be internationally curated by value-based societies/orders/colleges.
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The stellar Ghost Orchid hunting skills of @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social on full display this afternoon in the French Alps. Within ONE minute of getting on a new site, he'd found us a flowering plant! There's nobody better at finding these elusive forest wraiths.
August 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The stellar Ghost Orchid hunting skills of @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social on full display this afternoon in the French Alps. Within ONE minute of getting on a new site, he'd found us a flowering plant! There's nobody better at finding these elusive forest wraiths.
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Good morning, and welcome to a new week!
Our featured tour this week is Orchids of Cyprus, a marvellous way to start the spring, looking for orchids (and other wildlife) on this warm and friendly island with @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social & Dave Fairhurst. (1/2)
mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
Our featured tour this week is Orchids of Cyprus, a marvellous way to start the spring, looking for orchids (and other wildlife) on this warm and friendly island with @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social & Dave Fairhurst. (1/2)
mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Good morning, and welcome to a new week!
Our featured tour this week is Orchids of Cyprus, a marvellous way to start the spring, looking for orchids (and other wildlife) on this warm and friendly island with @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social & Dave Fairhurst. (1/2)
mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
Our featured tour this week is Orchids of Cyprus, a marvellous way to start the spring, looking for orchids (and other wildlife) on this warm and friendly island with @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social & Dave Fairhurst. (1/2)
mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
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Today's fossil is a very tiny branching stem with preserved tissues - check the scale bar! 🌿⛏️🔬 It belonged to a lycopsid (= a clubmoss) that grew in what is now southern France during the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago #paleobotany #FossilFriday
Ref: doi.org/10.1016/0034...
Ref: doi.org/10.1016/0034...
August 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Today's fossil is a very tiny branching stem with preserved tissues - check the scale bar! 🌿⛏️🔬 It belonged to a lycopsid (= a clubmoss) that grew in what is now southern France during the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago #paleobotany #FossilFriday
Ref: doi.org/10.1016/0034...
Ref: doi.org/10.1016/0034...
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A few species of Passiflora are bat-pollinated. This is one of them: Passiflora mucronata from Brazil.
What? You were expecting something all black and goth? 📷: Flávio Mendes CCBYNC4 #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
What? You were expecting something all black and goth? 📷: Flávio Mendes CCBYNC4 #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
August 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A few species of Passiflora are bat-pollinated. This is one of them: Passiflora mucronata from Brazil.
What? You were expecting something all black and goth? 📷: Flávio Mendes CCBYNC4 #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
What? You were expecting something all black and goth? 📷: Flávio Mendes CCBYNC4 #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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🌱 A tiny carnivore with a voracious appetite 🧪
doi.org/pzxf
A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)
doi.org/pzxf
A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)
August 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🌱 A tiny carnivore with a voracious appetite 🧪
doi.org/pzxf
A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)
doi.org/pzxf
A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)