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Satan

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

April 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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Satan

@s8n1.bsky.social

The fascists REALLY freak out whenever someone suggests Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

They KNOW he deserves it and so they are terrified of the idea gaining traction.

Keep pushing the idea.

It makes the monsters scream.

May 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Satan

@s8n1.bsky.social

Trump is a moron. His attempts to use the military against the American people will lead to his removal from office.

June 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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Antichrist

@poornh.bsky.social

Bluesky labeled my account as spam once again, but what kind of things have I posted that are considered spam?

January 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator

@lizzie-harper.bsky.social

Very lucky to have just been named one of the 10 top #botanicalart blogs by Feedspot. I'm delighted, and I love the company I share on this list!

bloggers.feedspot.com/botanical_ar...

#sciart #botanicalillustration of a #violet showing cordate leaves and 5 flowers with their purple petals held on the end of elegant long stems. On the far right there is an open seedpod showing the orange-ish seeds within a tripartite seed case. The rootstock , pale and overlapping, is also shown.

#botanicalillustration of #creepingbentgrass #agrostis stolonifera. One inflorescene is fully out, showing spikelets on tree-like branches. the other is still to fully come into flower, so the spikelets are help close the the rhachis. The root is at the bottom left with the grasses growing upward from a purplish flushed stem. On the far right there's details of both ligule and an individual spikelet in full colour. Below, in old fashioned hand painted purplish script, is the latin name with the english name much smaller below. Watercolour, cut to white.

Vut to white 'naturalhistoryillustration of #apple #blossom. The brown twig emerges at the bottom left, and after a bumpy leaf with crenate margins, surmounted by a tight cluster of small bufs, there's a big expanse of 4 opened flowers, pale pink and showing creamy yellow stamens, On the far left there's a bud about to open. One of these flowers is in "balloon" stage, in the process of opening, There are yellower emergent leaves at the top of the twig, and four more leaves below the blossoms. Two are folded so you can see their bumpy pale undersides.

May 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator

@lizzie-harper.bsky.social

New film out, all about the shapes and terminology of #leaves,along with links to free handouts:
youtu.be/dUSbwYRWpKk
I hope it'll be an intro for people interested in #botanicalillustration. I don’t draw or paint in this film, & Im not a botanist but hope it's useful.

#botanicalart #botany #sciart

photo of leaves of different colours and shapes in a heap

photo of me holding a handout on leaf shape and anatomy which is downloadable from the links on the youtube film

June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🎉 We’ve reached 4,000 followers on Bluesky! 🌱

A huge thank you to every one of you for being part of our growing #PlantScience community.

Your support helps us share new research, spotlight global botanists, and celebrate the diversity of the plant world.

Here’s to the next 4,000! 💚

#Botany

May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Corsiniopsis kurtzii gen. Et sp. Nov., a new fertile marchantioid fossil from the late triassic of argentina provides evidence of the evolutionary trends of fertile branches in the complex thalloid liverworts
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

May 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

Next time you see tiny thrips on a flower, remember: they might be doing vital pollination work! (9/9)
Read the full article 👉 doi.org/ph5h

#AoBpapers #Thrips #PlantScience #Pollination

Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators

AbstractBackground. Thrips (Thysanoptera) are minute plant and flower visitors in ecosystems across the world but are commonly viewed as notorious pests an

doi.org

May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🌿 The timing mismatch may give invasive plants a strategic advantage, helping explain their success in new regions. Understanding these patterns could improve how we predict and manage biological invasions. (7/7)

👉 doi.org/ppkm

#AoBpapers #InvasiveSpecies #FloweringPhenology #PlantEcology

Invasive plants have a delayed and longer flowering phenology than native plants in an ecoregional flora

AbstractBackground and Aims. Flowering phenology has been suggested as an important factor to explain invasions of non-native plant species. The success of

doi.org

May 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

📘 Understanding node-specific root responses could help develop maize varieties with better water uptake in tough environments. (8/8)
👉 doi.org/pp4c

#PlantScience #Maize #DroughtResistance #RootBiology #CropResilience #Phenomics

Node of origin matters: comparative analysis of soil water limitation effects on nodal root anatomy in maize (Zea mays L.)

AbstractBackground and Aim. Root anatomy, determining the composition and organization of root tissues, has implications for water uptake and transport, an

doi.org

June 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

📣Now Free Access: Population genomics of the Isoetes appalachiana (Isoetaceae) complex supports a ‘diploids-first’ approach to conservation
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

Golf courses (and similar recreational spaces) can support conservation if enough plants are moved and sites are close enough for pollen exchange. But protecting and managing existing wild populations remains crucial. (8/9)

June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🌺🐝 Join us at #ATBC2025 in Oaxaca for the Annals of Botany sponsored symposium: “Pollination and Plant Reproduction in the Anthropocene: threats to the tropics”

📅 Thursday, July 3
🕜 1:10–2:50 pm
📍 GS-5 – Betaza (1/2)

Flyer for an Annals of Botany-sponsored symposium at ATBC 2025, titled “Pollination and Plant Reproduction in the Anthropocene: threats to the tropics.” Includes the date (Thursday, July 3), time (1:10–2:50 pm), and location (GS-5 – Betaza), with floral background illustrations and logos from ATBC and Annals of Botany.

June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM

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Claude Monet

@monet.bsky.social

Chrysanthemums - 1897 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10676

May 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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Veeloxxy Bites

@the-episiarch.bsky.social

I've written a post about some mistletoe-on-mistletoe action.
Mistletoes are parasites of trees, but some mistletoes parasitise other mistletoes, and they gets *really* thirsty.

So when a parasite gets its own parasite, who pays the price? 🧪🌿 #botany
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/02/lysi...

<i>Lysiana exocarpi</i>

Sometimes parasites get their own parasites too, and if you think that "enemy of my enemy is my friend", then you'd think this would be good...

dailyparasite.blogspot.com

February 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Southern Poverty Law Center

@splcenter.org

Gutting programs and opportunities for historically Black colleges is a direct attack on the strides the U.S. has made toward equal opportunities for all.

We must stand with HBCUs and other diverse institutions & organizations under attack by anti-DEI efforts. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

USDA suspends scholarship program at historically Black colleges, website shows

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a college scholarship program for students from rural and underserved backgrounds who attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), according to the program website.

www.reuters.com

February 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

📚This special issue emphasizes the role of the fossil record in illuminating the events and processes of plant evolution. Original research and review papers are invited. (3/3)

For more info, please visit:
👉 botany.fyi/u30ng4

#paleobotany #plantfossils #plantevolution

October 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Gabriel Peñaloza-Bojacá and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/8)

👉 doi.org/n7pc

@stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social

Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification

February 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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Annals of Botany

@annbot.bsky.social

🎉🆕📰🎉: Thriving in a salty future: morpho-anatomical, physiological and molecular adaptations to salt stress in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and other crops

doi.org

February 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Southern Poverty Law Center

@splcenter.org

Many voters today feel disengaged from politics, but apathy is not an option.

Building an inclusive, multiracial democracy requires active participation from people, who believe in the power of collective action. Every year is an election year — stay involved and engaged! #VotingRights