The best thing about it is everything is listed in Thai and French, and so is a great way to learn French insect vocabulary. Les Sauterelles sound like a fancy wine or something you'd get in a fancy patisserie

This ain't Mashad, this is the Takia Yokhin Mosque just south of Ayutthaya. The oldest mosque surviving the period of Persian residency, pilgrims still come to burn incense and drink holy water at ttomb of a venerated Muslim aristocrat named Chaokhun Takia or Sheikh Amad Maimum

The shrine and bridges are all that remain of the original Indo-Iranian quarter on the island of Ayutthaya. Now completely covered by the Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University campus

This ain't Isfahan, these are the Wanon and Dinso bridges in the old Indo-Iranian quarter of Ayutthaya close to the Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad.

We made it to the end of #ICG20 and Huanming Yang is talking about what next year should cover. Maybe this isn’t going to be the last meeting after all!

Another genome project filling the evolutionary and taxonomic gap, Qin Song presented on spirulina algal genomics #ICG20

Now up is plant biotechnology pioneer Marc Van Montagu talking about awaking life in the desert #ICG20

Make room for the mushrooms. Interesting factoid - China has 1789 edible and 798 medicinal mushroom species. Producing 80% of the world’s mushroom output #ICG20

Now up is Fuqiang Yu from KIB on a new project, the 10K Macrofungi Omics Initiative. Very under sampled. There are 2.2-3.8M fungi, but only 150K mushrooms and other macrofungi #ICG20