That's the way, boys! Grateful to our travelling fans, you're key 👏🏻 Thoughts have already turned to the next step QPR FC 🔵⚪️

Jimmy Dunn Goal of the season QPR 2-1 Birmingham

JIMMY DUNNE THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS 😲 The centre back with an astonishing winner in the 92nd minute! QPR FC | EFL

AND. BREATHE! 😅

Nervously checking the 3pm scores? 😬 No, us neither.

Some Kenilworth Ivy (Cymbalaria muralis) around Winchester. #botany

Botanising at Lydford Gorge in Devon. #bryophytes #ferns Kate Newby.

Fantastic collection of carnivorous plants at Musee & Jardin Botanique in Lausanne, Switzerland. Alastair Culham .

What happened to flowering plants 66 Mya at the K-Pg mass extinction? If you want to hear about what phylogenies and fossils say, and the work @LabSpiritu and I have done, I am doing a Royal Society Publishing seminar in a few weeks. Chaired by Prof Chris Venditti cassyni.com/events/EJXN1Vm…

Lots of cancer drugs are plant derived. But can ethnobotanical knowledge and phylogenies guide the discovery of future cancer drugs? Our study suggests potential, and we discuss areas for future research. Work with Julie Hawkins in Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.1…

What drove the diversification of cacti? We built a phylogeny of >1k species and a dataset of 39 variables, and used ML to identify the most important forces. Abiotic forces and size are powerful, and aridity is weak. Complexity should not be ignored. 🏜️ nature.com/articles/s4146…

QPR are not messing around! 😲 A brilliant header from Michael Frey 💥

Last year, @labspiritu and I published findings showing little macroevolutionary impact of the K-Pg mass extinction (ME) on flowering plants. I.e. lineage survival, despite rampant species loss. Here, we reply to an opinion piece critiquing our work: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

📢Go Belowground! 2024-the course on belowground functional ecology-has just started 🎉1url.cz/2ziQz Day 1 - Plant Form and Function, From Theophrastus to Plant Economics Spectra, Clonality, Plant Hunt 🌵🌱 Thanks to Konza Prairie LTER Dept. of Agriculture Botanický ústav AV ČR/Institute of Botany CAS Czech Academy of Sciences #GoBelowground

Mind is blown seeing my work on cactus evolution in New Scientist! It's a very nice piece UoR BioSci Milner Centre for Evolution

Stunning northern lights in Hertfordshire. Not what you would typically see.

🌱 Plant systematist with a PhD from Uni of Reading, skilled in phylogenetics (plastome and nuclear), and biogeography. Field experience in Spain, Greece, Peru, and Nepal. Looking for a new research position—let’s connect! 🌿 #PlantScience #Taxonomy #BotanyJobs

🌿Undergrad interested in plant phylogenetics? Summer research placement now open! 🌍 Work on a project tied to World Flora Online + Mediterranean geophyte evolution. Apply here 👉 lnkd.in/eiiq4Mex #PlantScience #Phylogenetics #SummerResearch #Botany Alastair Culham

So happy to announce that a few weeks ago I was offered a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship! And they picked my proposal title to promote the scheme. 🌵 Looking forward to working on new questions, with new methods and even bigger data than before. Thank you The Leverhulme Trust

New database of traits and other variables for the cactus family 🌵this involved an awesome team, lots of work, and funding from the BCSS. We hope that CactEcoDB will facitliate future macro scale analyses of evolution and ecology in cacti 🏜️