Vinita Gowda
vinitagowda.bsky.social
Vinita Gowda
@vinitagowda.bsky.social
🇮🇳Accidental scientist.
🦋treelab.wixsite.com/tree @iiserbhopal #PlantEvolution #BOTANIST #curingPlantBlindness #CancerSurvivor #GWU #NMNHBotany #NParks #ಪುತ್ತೂರು #ગુજરાત
Also, check out the abstract in Tamil by using the toggle option!

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A small step towards makin#sciencece more accessible

@vinita_gowda @TrEE_La#ScienceForAlll#BirdResearchch
Read: researchmatters.in/news/urban-str��� to deep-dive!
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Paper flowers. #Mescal in grande size ONLY! Everyday invasive is a native somewhere.
The red walls highlight the contrast in colors at #Mitla
#Mictlan in #Nahuatl probably from #cochineal that live on #Opuntia & are the source of #carmine !!!
#amazingZapotecs #IKS #IndigenousKnowledgeSysrems
July 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
There was the fantastic #atbc2025 in #oaxaca and then there was the botanical garden in Oaxaca city! Here’s the wild maize (#teosinte), #burseraceae (highest endemicity and diversity in Oaxaca!! Me for reference, look at those peeling barks!), and #ceiba

#iAmABotanist
July 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Congratulations @jyotilkdave.bsky.social on receiving ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award, 2025 to study sunbirds...

@eseb.bsky.social
@treelab.bsky.social #iiserbhopal
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Congratulations to the two TrEElets for receiving the Bill Dahl graduate student award @botsocamerica.bsky.social
@rhuthuparna.bsky.social is studying #enanstiostyly in gesneriads, and, @sanikagoray.bsky.social is studying polymorphism + species limitations in a few plant species from W.Ghats.
May 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Congratulations @hemantbisht.bsky.social for the William R Anderson student #ASPT grant to study the ecology & evolution of Indian #Pedicularis.
Thanks @plantingscience.bsky.social for encouraging young botanists who tackle a difficult terrain and a complex evolutionary story.
@treelab.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The Capacity Building Committee is inviting ATBC members to a webinar that will examine what careers are available outside academia...
A great line of speakers and 2 amazing moderators.
Join the #ATBCWebinar on May 22
Experts from 3 continents and a subcontinent...Don’t miss it! "
May 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Two positions in the @TrEE_Lab
Looking for students who are interested in genomic work & have basic training in handling genomic data. If you have a penchant for coding, writing scripts, & an interest in solving population genetic patterns in plants, apply! April 15th deadline.
April 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
February 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
To the ones in the pictures and the ones I am missing in the pictures: three cheers to the emerging TrEE lab women in STEM. It may not be easy, but we choose to twinkle and shine. Wishing the best to all girls and women in Science and thanks to the critical male support too...
#WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Environmental and Social Initiative Club @Esic_iiserb #ESIC brings two online events for @iiserbhopal community as part of its annual spring festival #Mahua2025 #Mahua is also vernacular name for #MadhucaIndica #sapotaceae native to India and known for its fragrant flowers.
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Winters @iiserbhopal is truly quite a pleasant time.
The @treelab.bsky.social 's current cohort looks look this and we do miss our alumni and here's to more birthdays and getting wiser while doing a PhD... Celebrating @rhuthuparna.bsky.social
with a mean chocolate cake "Under the #jujube tree!" 🤤
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
1. #WinterFood
Its time for #cicer bouquets in Central India.
The single seedpods are separated from the feathery plant & dry toasted in a pan. The peas are to be shelled post-toasting.
A toasted addiction of mine from the wintery days - sweet chickpeas and blackened fingers.
#iAmABotanist
#legume
January 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
And with a snap of a few years Dr. Ritu Yadav is here to take the world!!!
Congratulations to the newly minted Doc from @treelab.bsky.social !!!
Thanks to the reviewers and all who have watched her grow...
November 29, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Want my first post on blue sky to be about amazing #plants and I have a great news!!
@rituYadav defends her doctoral work on the #globba - dancing doll of the Ginger world & one mesmerizing plant!
She asks:why do some species show obligate selfing? Yes, you heard it right. No sexual reproduction!
November 25, 2024 at 1:12 PM