Megan Lynch (she/her)
@ml@ecoevo.social  路  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Welp, my thesis was finally published to ProQuest today. The Masters feels real now.

(My Google Scholar profile is updated too. The citations are for the UC Access Now Demandifesto.) #PlantMorphology#Botany#Almond#Horticulture

Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
Screenshot of Google Scholar profile. The user profile photo is of the UC Access Now logo, a parody of the University of California seal with "Let There Be Access" in place of "Let There Be Light". "Megan Lynch Masters student, UC Davis Verified email at ucdavis.edu pomology, plant morphology, botany, disability Title Cited by Year UC Access Now Demandifesto M Lynch Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands 3 2020 Ontogeny of Almond Vegetative Meristems during Dormancy M Lynch University of California, Davis 2025"
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Ash O'Kesta
@I_am_a_plant@mastodon.art  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Where are my #SciArt folks? The Wild Wonder Foundation has been hosting daily nature journalling prompts all year, and the August list is all #botany themed.

https://www.wildwonder.org/nj25#ScienceArt#inBloom#dailyArt#bloomScrolling #plants

Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Ash O'Kesta
@I_am_a_plant@mastodon.art  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Where are my #SciArt folks? The Wild Wonder Foundation has been hosting daily nature journalling prompts all year, and the August list is all #botany themed.

https://www.wildwonder.org/nj25#ScienceArt#inBloom#dailyArt#bloomScrolling #plants

Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Nature Journalling daily prompt list for August, hosted by the Wild Wonder Foundation and artist Nina Veterto. The neatly written list is surround by a border of hand drawn, watercolor leaves, each labeled with a botanical term explaining the shape the the leaf. The August Prompt List- 1. Weed Study 2. Press a Flower 3. Night Sky Haiku 4. Document 3 flowers 5. Bark Rubbing 6. Imagine an Underground Scene 7. Make Ink from Flowers 8. Draw with a Twig 9. Moongazing 10. Sound Map of Your Yard 11. Document 3 Leaves 12. Leaf Tracing 13. Seed, Bud, Flower 14. Discover Your Watershed 15. Parts of a Flower 16. Plant Family Study 17. Contour Drawing Only 18. Hammered Flower Prints 19. Tree Map of Your Yard 20. Shadow Drawings 21. Document 3 Grasses 22. Life Cycle of a Tree 23. Botany for Beginners 24. Look with a Loupe 25. Leaf Vein Patterns 26. Document a Lichen 27. Find Fungi 28. Landscape in 5 Lines 29. Color Swatch a Scene 30. Document a Daytime Pollinator 31. Document a Nighttime Pollinator
Joe Vilas
@jhv@triangletoot.party  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@autumn Can't even describe my neighbor's fig plant without sounding like Jay Mohr in the episode of "Action!" where his boss deliberately exposed himself to Mohr. All I can hope is you're familiar with the show & know the scene is *incredibly funny,* or is to me. Anyway: plant used to be like 3 sticks in the ground; now it's like a 2-car garage; I've never seen it with so many figs in my life.

Does anyone know if figs have mast years?
#figs #fruit #botany #science
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John Dal
@JohnDal@mastodon.green  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Dandelions are common as muck. Right? Well not really. There are 250ish species of dandelion in the UK, and this one is probably the rarest plant I've seen. It's the St Kildan Dandelion (Taraxicum pankhurstium) It's found only on St Kilda. It's also the easiest to identify, because it's the only species of dandelion on St Kilda. It's closely related to Icelandic species.

#PlantADay#Botany#Nature#Plant#Wildflower#BloomScrolling
John Dal
@JohnDal@mastodon.green  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Dandelions are common as muck. Right? Well not really. There are 250ish species of dandelion in the UK, and this one is probably the rarest plant I've seen. It's the St Kildan Dandelion (Taraxicum pankhurstium) It's found only on St Kilda. It's also the easiest to identify, because it's the only species of dandelion on St Kilda. It's closely related to Icelandic species.

#PlantADay#Botany#Nature#Plant#Wildflower#BloomScrolling

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Climate Jenny 2.1
@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

New horrors. The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs help. The Smithsonian Institution will end its support as of 1 Jan 2026.

This is the world's largest open-source archive for biodiversity literature and archives -- the place where you can find all the old, but still very useful, botanical literature, among other things.

Please share widely with your networks. #biodiversity#Archives #defendresearch #botany

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
Climate Jenny 2.1
@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

New horrors. The Biodiversity Heritage Library needs help. The Smithsonian Institution will end its support as of 1 Jan 2026.

This is the world's largest open-source archive for biodiversity literature and archives -- the place where you can find all the old, but still very useful, botanical literature, among other things.

Please share widely with your networks. #biodiversity#Archives #defendresearch #botany

https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Yesterday afternoon I was at the #ChristchurchBotanicGardens, with an undergrad student at #LincolnUniversityNZ who will be interning at the garden during the next teaching semester. Luke Martin, the curator of the native section of the garden, gave us a fascinating tour behind the scenes of the garden's native nursery, seed bank, and herbarium.

A lot of work is being done at the Gardens to learn about and safeguard Aotearoa New Zealand's botanical taonga. New natural history knowledge is being figured out about Canterbury's most threatened native plants so they can be kept safe in the seed bank and glasshouses, in case some of the Department of Conservation's valiant efforts in the wild fail.

Some of Canterbury's most threatened plant species only exist in the wild in patches of a few square metres in remnant vegetation on private farmland. The work Luke and colleagues are doing may prove exceptionally important for the survival of some of these species.

There's a lot more to the botanic gardens than a place to see pretty flowers.

#Christchurch#NZ #botany#ChristchurchBotanicGardens#BotanicGarden

A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.
Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Yesterday afternoon I was at the #ChristchurchBotanicGardens, with an undergrad student at #LincolnUniversityNZ who will be interning at the garden during the next teaching semester. Luke Martin, the curator of the native section of the garden, gave us a fascinating tour behind the scenes of the garden's native nursery, seed bank, and herbarium.

A lot of work is being done at the Gardens to learn about and safeguard Aotearoa New Zealand's botanical taonga. New natural history knowledge is being figured out about Canterbury's most threatened native plants so they can be kept safe in the seed bank and glasshouses, in case some of the Department of Conservation's valiant efforts in the wild fail.

Some of Canterbury's most threatened plant species only exist in the wild in patches of a few square metres in remnant vegetation on private farmland. The work Luke and colleagues are doing may prove exceptionally important for the survival of some of these species.

There's a lot more to the botanic gardens than a place to see pretty flowers.

#Christchurch#NZ #botany#ChristchurchBotanicGardens#BotanicGarden

A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a printed aerial photo of what the Christchurch botanic gardens looked like around 1935. It's amazing how many tall trees there are here, when the city was only founded in 1850 and the gardens in 1863. On the left there's a small lake with two islands in it the shape of New Zealand (that was too hard to maintain and no longer exists).
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of a thin-leaved daisy plant in a small pot on a glasshouse bench. This is the swamp Celmisia from Travis Wetland in Christchurch city. It is similar to Celmisia gracilenta but likely a new undescribed species, which will likely make it an endangered species.
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
A photo of me (foreground, older white guy with glasses) and Luke Martin (bearded younger man) standing next to a glasshouse bench covered in pots. Each pot contains a threatened NZ plant. This work is a collaboration with the Department of Conservation to prevent NZ's rarest plants from going extinct (some species are right on the edge at the moment).
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.
The native plant curator at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Luke Martin, standing next to an enormous single leaf of the (definitely not NZ native) titan arum. The leaf is twice as tall as Luke. The photo is in the tropical section of the glasshouses.