Been so impressed with our first years’ botanical drawings today. So much willingness to try, try again, and improve their skills. And I reckon they might be able to tell a monocot from a dicot (hopefully!) #botany

Check out my paper on Ochna holstii! Including a new species Ochna mchanga from the Rovuma centre of endemism. #botany #systematics

#PrideMonth but make it mushroomy If there isanything in the world that is Queer as fuck, its fungi: totally screwing with your binaries, your ciseries and notions of biological sex-eries. Brace yourself from some Fungal Queerness on the tweetiverse this month.

On the second half of the first day of this very informative course! Learning lots and thinking about whether I could apply some aspects to DR orchids🤔🤔

Ready for day 2 of Olivier Gimenez 🖖🦦 @cefemontpellier population dynamics workshop

What pollinated the ancestral flower? 🪰?🪲?🐝?🦋?💨?🌊?🦜?🦇? Our latest research led by @rubyecology shows that insects most likely came first, before many lineages turned to wind, water, or vertebrates. Final version now out in New Phytologist: doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…

Go Claire Lamb Congratulations! Look at the talent oozing from our PhD office 😘😘

If you would like to learn more about Matt Knorr and other parasitic diseases visit our Parasite group stand at the Great Exhibition Road Festival this weekend inside the Natural History Museum. Meet freshwater snails that are vectors for parasites and observe worms under a microscope.

Abandoning ship with the rest of twitter, follow me on threads: CharlottePhilps_Science I may post even less than I do on here, which I don't think is possible...

Excited to be speaking at 11:10am at the Festival of Doctoral Research - come along to learn about how we discover plastic-degrading enzymes! 🔍🦠

Interesting talks from across the university today

What a figure! 😍

Come and do a PhD on the history of fire regimes in Britain with Mark Hardiman and I! Deadline 19th January for October start port.ac.uk/study/postgrad… SEGG, University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth

We can’t wait! 🌿🌿🌿Natalia Przelomska

Daffodil season is starting! Fancy doing a PhD looking at the evolution of Narcissus flowers? Fully-funded, 4-year PhD between UoP, SoCoBio DTP and RHS. With Drs. John David and Kálmán Könyves from the RHS. Pls repost and send me any Qs. Deadline 1 March. tinyurl.com/2n3a993e

The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate Bureš et al. BotZool MUNI Biological Sci UCT KewGardens UNEP-WCMC 📖 ow.ly/Latq50QtYBo

Extremely happy to share our latest New Phytologist study on the origin and evolution of the #orchid family! Using the largest ever orchid tree, we revisited prev. hypots on the birthplace of the orchid’s MRCA + global patterns of speciation and spp richness 1/n nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Lovely and intriguing time-lapse photos of flowers opening.