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Tim Utteridge
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Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity; sometimes observations on food, music and gardening (now on a balcony).
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Tim Utteridge @timutteridge.bsky.social · Apr 7
Trees of New Guinea:

- Guide to all 693 tree genera
- Fully illustrated with photos and line art
- PDF available here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Watching over my bird books…
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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It's International #OpenAccessWeek!
At Singapore Botanic Gardens, all of the (old, new and future) papers in Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore, our magazine, Gardenwise, as well as books like the Flora of Singapore, are openly available through our websites www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...
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www.nparks.gov.sg
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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nicolekearney.bsky.social
Ben Scott @nhm-london.bsky.social shares how his team has extracted trait data from species descriptions on BHL. Result? 706,842 trait terms & the largest trait database in the world. BHL = the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. #LivingData2025 @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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nicolekearney.bsky.social
📣 Calling all biodiversity institutions! Meise Botanic Garden is supporting the continuation of BHL by auditing/cancelling non-Open Access journal subscriptions & diverting all saved funds to BHL. Patricia Mergen encourages other institutions to do the same 🧪 🌱🌎 #LivingData2025 #OpenAccess #ILoveBHL
A person presenting on a stage in front of a slide featuring text and two pages of an historic publication. A person presenting on a stage in front of a slide featuring text and a logo.
October 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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‘Bark salon’. The remarkable bark painting room at the NVG Australia, Melbourne.
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Doryanthes palmeri A.W.Hill (Doryanthaceae), giant spear lily, endemic to eastern Australia, flowering below Flinders Street Station along the Yarra River, Melbourne. #Australia
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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mangrovepitta.bsky.social
This is always a major target on many visitors' needs lists, which is always funny since this bird is easily found in one of the most accessible parks in the country: the car park.
biodiversitypix.bsky.social Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · Oct 11
🍒 The birds of Singapore Island..
Singapore: Printed at the Govt. Print. Office by W. T. Cherry, Govt. Printer, 1927..

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Historical illustration titled "The birds of Singapore Island" depicting two Malayan Pygmy Woodpeckers (Dryobates nanus auritus) perched on the branches of a tree. The birds are shown with detailed brown and white striped plumage and distinct facial markings. One woodpecker clings vertically to the trunk looking upward, while the other is positioned on a lower branch with wings slightly spread. The background features muted green foliage, emphasizing the birds. The image is signed by artist G. A. Levett-Yeats and printed by W. T. Cherry, Govt. Printer, in 1927.
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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nicolekearney.bsky.social
I'm excited to be speaking at #LivingData2025 about the future of BHL. I'll be sharing a critical update on our transition toward a sustainable, global & community-governed future. 🧪 📖 🌱
🗓️ Info: www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
🌎 #BHLTransition news: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition
A screenshot of a Powerpoint slide: "A new future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library". The background is an historic illustration of a Bald Eagle on a rock, claws deep in a large catfish.
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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spwells.bsky.social
Learn to work with Singapore’s archaeological finds at new heritage centre in Jalan Sultan ⛏️🇸🇬 Very cool. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/le...
Singapore's new archaeology & heritage centre
Discover ArCH Square, Singapore's new heritage centre, offering public access to archaeological finds and intangible cultural heritage practices. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstim...
www.straitstimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Digitising the Singapore Herbarium: the equipment now nearly set up and all on view in a public gallery. #herbarium
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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ipbes.net
Latin America’s feline species are losing their habitat and becoming trapped in small patches. Researchers say biological corridors are vital for their conservation. 🐆

Read more w/ @mongabay.com : https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/conservation-corridors-provide-hope-for-latin-americas-felines/
Illustrated artwork showing five different wild cat species in a tropical setting. From largest to smallest: a brown mountain lion (puma), two spotted jaguars, an ocelot with distinctive orange-brown markings, and a small spotted wildcat. The cats are arranged in a naturalistic scene with palm fronds, red flowers, and other tropical vegetation in the background. The composition shows the relative size differences between these feline species native to the Americas.
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Prof Francis Hallé speaks at Singapore Botanic Gardens - “New insights into plant architecture.” A real privilege to hear him talk through the different models so succinctly and accurately illuminated with his illustrations. #SBGScience
September 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Will phylogeny for food
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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rpodonnell.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who came along/tuned in to my PhD exit seminar! What a thing to do at the end of almost four years. So close to submitting, just need to tidy up this last chapter and I’m done! PS does anyone need a mycology/botany genomics/systematics postdoc? 👀
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Gynostoma sp, a member of the Casuarinaceae - the she-oaks, flowering plants with equisetoid foliage and cone-like fruits.

powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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ecowarriorss.bsky.social
No its not rude - its simple fact that if you destroy one of the lungs of the Earth you put life on this planet in peril
September 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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theobrominated.bsky.social
Hutu (Ascarina lucida) is the first New Zealand native plant shown to have heterodichogamy (explained in ALT) and also the first report of it for Chloranthaceae. Most heterodichogamoous plants are wind pollinated and monoecious. Details in latest @ijpsjournal.bsky.social (see above post)
Two leafy shoots with (slightly) different-looking inflorescences. The leaves are bright green and toothed. On the left hand shoot the female flowers have presented their stigmas but the male flowers are still green. On the right hand shoot the male flowers' yellow anthers are about to dehisce. They stay like this for a few weeks, then pause flowering. When they flower again later in spring, the sex roles are reversed. This kind of dimorphic serial hermaphroditism is called heterodichogamy.
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social
The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon!

The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025.

For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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echinoblog.bsky.social
oh crap. MNHN-the Paris Natural History Museum paralyzed by cyber-attack! If you've been unable to access their database, website or other resources, here is why.. www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/in-p...
Paris: cyber-attack hits Natural History Museum, cancels exhibition
The massive cyberattack that has paralyzed the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris's 5th arrondissement since late July 2025 has forced the institution to cancel the "Tropical Autumn: Palms,...
www.sortiraparis.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social
With the Tapanuli Orangutan Population Down to 577–760, KI and BRIN are Pushing for the Strengthening of Ecological Corridors.

Both corridors play an important role in restoring the connectivity of the Batang Toru forest.

esgnow.republika.co.id/berita/t2bny...
Populasi Orangutan Tapanuli Tinggal 577–760, KI dan BRIN Dorong Penguatan Koridor Ekologis |Republika Online
Kedua koridor berperan penting dalam memulihkan konektivitas hutan Batang Toru.
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September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Do you love interesting things in jars? Do we have the opportunity for you!

We are hiring a Spirit Store Project Assistant to help us prepare the fluid preserved collections held at the Museum for transport to the collections storage facility.

oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/spirit-store-project-assistant
September 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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financialtimes.com
Russian air strike kills Ukrainian pensioners on.ft.com/42oWZ2b
Russian air strike kills Ukrainian pensioners, says Kyiv
Civilians including retirees waiting to collect benefits killed in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities
on.ft.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Octopus chief says ‘enormous amounts’ of public money spent on technology should be saved: on.ft.com/3KbdOHy
UK should stop investing in carbon capture for power, government adviser says
Octopus chief says ‘enormous amounts’ of public money spent on technology should be saved
on.ft.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Rifle Range Nature Park, Gaharu Trail, very secondary forest, but a crystal clear stream and some large trees (Alstonia and Ficus). #Singapore
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM