Yes folks it's a #Moss. It's Dawsonia superba the world's largest self supporting moss. This thing grows over 20inches tall & has a vascular-like structure for moving water around - not what you thing of when you think of a moss huh? (found by us in the Waima forest #NewZealand)

The website for our EMBO workshop is live now. Don't miss this opportunity to join us in a meeting that aims gathering all experts working on multicellularity. We will welcome you in the nice Barcelona in October! EMBO Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo meetings.embo.org/event/25-multi…

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out nature nature.com/articles/s4158… 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 🫎🦋🐝🪲 Unprecedented #synthesis of >2000 studies shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/4

The May 2025 issue is now fully online, with a cover highlighting the cell wall of ferns, from: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/enhGp

New Article: "Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations" rdcu.be/eoSkA Marine Charophyceae fossils from the Upper Ordovician confirm that morphological innovations key to the evolution of terrestrial flora predate emergence of land plants.

In this week’s issue: we thought five mass extinctions shaped our planet - but maybe they never happened. Grab a copy in shops now or download our app for digital editions.⁠ newscientist.com/issue/3546/

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq

New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.

Check out this amazing special issue of Current Biology . The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and there are some spectacular reviews from many mycologists. I am glad to have been part of this, including in the 'MyShroom' section! cell.com/current-biolog…

The genome of giant waterlily provides insights into the origin of angiosperms, leaf gigantism, and stamen function innovation by Chris Thorogood and colleagues June featured research article from #PlantCommunications (Molecular Plant & Plant Communications) hubs.li/Q03rDdTr0

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵

New Editorial: "Naming is caring" rdcu.be/esS4x We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.

407-million-year-old fungal sporophore (?) observed today

We have been tracking sequenced plant genomes for many years now not least for our denki.bsky.social activities at plabipd.de/pubplant_main.…. We have now with about 2000 species finally published this resource doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2…

I am super happy to see our dog rose's paper featuring the cover of the July 3rd issue of nature read more here: tinyurl.com/dog-rose

Resurrection plants: The drought-resistant 'zombie plants' that come back from the dead (BBC) bbc.com/future/article…

Lavender baking in the sun Summer's scent lingers in stillness #Lavender #Flora

Floating on the breeze, summer borders come alive with the delicate charms of scabious The Royal Parks #Scabious #InBloom #Flora

Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood | Nature Ecology & Evolution nature.com/articles/s4155…

Interested in video games? Interested in plants? Follow the QR or the link to my BSc students project survey "Evaluating plant awareness through video games" Thanks! tinyurl.run/cM8WPo