I think we've all been thinking this - a nice summary of the lost art of incorporating thinking time into scholarly work... nature.com/articles/d4158…

🍃 Congrats to our Restore & Renew Knowledge Infrastructure Team - finalists for this years' Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Excellence in #BotanicalScience. 👏 @MRossettoEvoEco, @jasongbragg, Samantha Yap, Marlien van der Merwe & Peter D. Wilson! 👉 bit.ly/3WoOWPk #EurekaPrizes

Calling all ESA members: Travel grants for our annual conference are now live! Whether you're a student, new to the field, or need a boost, we want to help you get there. Apply via the link: tinyurl.com/EcolSocAus 🔗 Hurry, spots are limited #Ecology #STEM #Grants #UrbanEcology

Come along if you happen to be in Gunnedah, Wee Waa or Tamworth!

Would you like to publish your next article as #OpenAccess at no cost to your research budget? #AusJBotany has a growing number agreements in place with libraries that pre-pay your #OA charges. View the list and see if you are eligible:  publish.csiro.au/bt/forauthors/…

Germination success of tussock grass #Themeda triandra, a keystone species in many #grassland #ecosystems is hampered by variable seed quality and a lack of standardised germination protocols, according to Marne Durnin and colleagues from @uniofadelaide doi.org/10.1071/BT24011

#openaccess Elizabeth Wenk and colleagues from UNSW and Western Sydney University present the Australian Plant Census, an #r accessible database of plant traits, growth form, life history and woodiness for > 29,000 Australian plant species doi.org/10.1071/BT23111

While Australians are busy sipping flat whites and long blacks, wild coffee plants (Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora) are thriving in the shade of tropical forests, contributing to biodiversity and supporting countless species. #InternationalCoffeeDay #CoffeeBotany

Following a fire in 2023 at Ankafobe Forest #Madagascar, experimental dense direct sowing of Trema orientale seeds in small holes has resulted in a layer of young trees (up to 2 m tall) protecting soil and providing shade for underplanting of a wider array of native tree species

Opening of #ESAus2024 by John Morgan yesterday and a beautiful welcome to Wurundjeri Country by Perry Wandin. The added benefit of the smoke ceremony? Smells like fieldwork every time I go into that room to see a talk #fireecology

For those who saw Tom Le Breton's talk about #fire and threat mitigation to #ozflora at #ESAus2024 on Day 1 and are interested to know more, here's the paper. And track him down for a chat at the conference! doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

Hey plant people! Australian Journal of Botany has its own new handle ⁦Australian Journal of Botany⁩ Please follow to get all the latest highlights. Fun fact: ⁦John Morgan⁩ and I (here looking out to AJB's bright future😊) are the Editors-in-Chief. Come say hi at #ESAus2024

New Year, new paper. We're half way through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 - 2030), and fittingly, Jamie Kirkpatrick (requiescat in pace) and colleagues report on 50 years native vegetation change in Hobart's urban parklands َ🧵 doi.org/10.1071/BT24042

#openaccess Biocontrols manage invasive plants & can impact related, non-target species. Stephanie Chen & colleagues from Parks Australia CSIRO use molecular analysis to determine whether the rare daisy fleabane (Erigeron conyzoides) might be at risk doi.org/10.1071/BT24047

#openaccess No increase in detections although greaster sampling of sentinel host species needed to monitor Phytophthora cinnamomi disease progression in southern Sydney. Tanya Mason and colleagues Ecosystem Science doi.org/10.1071/BT24037

Good news for authors in lower income countries wishing to publish #OpenAccess. Through our partnership with Research4Life we are now able to waiver Author Processing Charges for authors from eligible regions for most of our journals. Details: publish.csiro.au/journals/lower…

#openaccess Heat from fire triggers germination of golden top wattle seeds (Acacia mariae) - particularly following very severe, intense fires, writes Boyd Wright & colleagues Uni of New England UQ News doi.org/10.1071/BT24023

#openaccess Eucalytpus regnans confirmed the tallest flowering plant in the world, following survey of Tasmanian wet forests. Brett Mifsud & colleagues @utas_ UW SEFS 🌲 doi.org/10.1071/BT23088

#openaccess Understanding seed lifespan is allowing seedbanks like Kings Park to prioritise seed collection for wild species conservation, writes Sundari Balasubramaniam & colleagues from Murdoch University Research UWA Aarhus University doi.org/10.1071/BT24065

Another Advanced Field Biology field course completed up at the Smith's Lake field station for ⁦UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences⁩ students. We looked at the impacts of different fire histories on plants, caught and identified bats and other critters and generally got out into the wild 😊